fandoms beware

[threeplusfire]

Those scary evil people who caused so much hell in the LOTR fandom are back, and now they are moving into HP territory. If you live in LA/Hollywood and you see these people, beware. They are psycho psycho psycho in the worst way.

Exhibit A: General information

Exhibit B: Potential wank explosion on JournalFen

Exhibit C: Words straight from Turimel, who has chronicled the entire frightening saga

Comments

[sammka.livejournal.com]

That's all just so surreal...

I can't quite figure out how they managed to scam Turimel out of so much money, though... what went on there?

[roadnotes.livejournal.com]

Friendship, trust, need. It's sometimes really hard to tell a good friend, who claims to be doing this for good causes, "No, I don't trust you, and won't put any money behind you."

Also, a lot of the projects sounded plausible to me, and I've got twenty years of con-running and event planning in my history. Including a history of working with/for a guy in the vampyre scene who is a major con artist, when I should have known better -- which is another possibility: Turimel might have gotten into the projects because they sounded good, useful, plausible, and then didn't want to leave other good people in the lurch as the projects went down.

[sammka.livejournal.com]

Ah, see, at the time that I commented, I hadn't found the part about the con. Friends rarely ask for that kind of money out of the blue, but if there were a con going on, I can totally understand that.

That's seriously scary.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

They were involved with this supposed charity and the organization of a convention, and that's where all the money nonsense happened. Instead of sending money to the charity, it all apparently went into their pockets.