Stop see alt's everywhere you look!
Lol, nice title change. Okay, maybe I'm being a bit paranoid and seeing ghosts myself. Considering all the trolling and spam in the lending board the last year or so, I might be a bit quick to jump the gun. Regardless, I'm sure most of it is attributable to one person with a shitton of alts. The behavior follows a similar pattern.
From what I recall elmanchez was much more persuasive, smooth and mild-mannered in his forum dealings scammings, although I know DireWolf - one of the most stand-up users I've ever met here - isn't the type to make these types of claims without good justifications for doing so.
I got the impression that he felt like he was part of the community at one point, and behaved himself after TMAN started helping him with some honest earnings. Before that he was a bit touchy, and reverted back to that insolence once he got caught impersonating escrow agents.
Yeah nobody should be giving anybody any kind of personal documentation here, but I don't see that being requested by CC in his loan thread. In the original unedited thread he said,
Of course only for trusted members that can show proof of some sort of income or that they have money on the way.
Tell me your story and we see.
which could be interpreted as possibly asking for KYC docs... hard to know for sure. To me it looks just like a loan service that was executed by a newbie not very familiar with the forum and what kinds of scum it attracts to the Lending section, but who knows, I'm not an expert.
The fact that a newbie lender is dealing in PMs with mostly newer members doesn't present the best optics, either.
Really I don't know why any of you continue lending to any member less than Hero rank. Even then, scams still happen. Its an incredibly risky venture and I'd be surprised if a single lender is in profit in their lending venture.
All it takes is one default to erase years of earnings or worse. I know from personal experience.