This has been a cruddy day for me, especially online, including here on the discussion board of this wiki.
First on Deviant Art I fell for a scam. Someone joined Deviant Art and sent me a note telling me the DA team chose me to win a 100 dollar gift card. Well this is what I was told:
"Hi WillM3luvTrains! Our DeviantArt team chose YOU for a $100 gift card (yay!) from post Ermine toy. Go here: (Link Redacted) P.S: If you do not collect within 24 hrs we will give it to another user. Enjoy!" And guess what, I was stupid enough to fall for that! I clicked on the link to claim my "prize" and was told to do other things like take surveys. Then I was told my gift card was reserved for me but I had to do other things like complete other deals. I was even offered an Amazon gift card, well that was one of the things I was offered but I chose Amazon since my mother and I use that. Then I was offered a Pizza Hut gift card, boy do I love Pizza Hut and I just had some a few days ago https://www.deviantart.com/willm3luvtrains/art/Meatlovers-Pizza-827206521
Getting to the point, I don't have a lot of money, and this month I had less money than usual and last year Social Security took most of my mother's money away from her and is making her pay her back some money, so I cannot afford to do a lot of stuff anymore. I also was out of a computer for almost three months! There's more to this story but I won't share it. And I could have easily got back out of a computer again because my computer got locked, all because I let myself be duped by phony prize offer that I should have known was too good to be true!
Anyway I had to do the same things with those gift cards, answer questions and complete other deals. I did get a funny feeling about what was going on but I kept going. And like I said, my computer got locked. I also decided I wanted back out and cancelled the whole thing, so if I have gift cards, which I doubt I do and now hope I don't, I ain't gettin' them! (thankfully I never gave my social security number.) I also had to unsubscribe to the websites I joined and try to close my account to them.
And as it turns out, I was not the only one who fell for this mess! When I Googled that site I was sent, I found out others have reported this too. I'll give you three examples, all of which I commented on
https://www.deviantart.com/higuymytry/art/Most-likely-a-scam-825672433
https://www.deviantart.com/rustypete12/journal/Big-ticket-scam-alert-827656335
https://www.deviantart.com/lali-lilou/journal/SPAMMERS-827172479
I confronted the Deviant Artist, who had the audacity to watch me, and ordered him not to contact me again. Thankfully that account got deactivated and good riddens!
But still how can I be so danged stupid and so danged blind to fall for that bull-crap! If I won anything it's a hard lesson and learning I didn't win any gift cards and am still as broke as I am now!
And now I come to find out my idea of "Which Loud Girl is Livin' La Vida Loca" was downright stupid. https://theloudhouse.fandom.com/f/p/3284127348425225077/r/3284250593853978014 The first people to comment didn't understand what that meant and I assumed they would but oops, not everybody understands Spanish and I SHOULD HAVE known! Then I find out it's a song about a seducest (please forgive my misspell) getting a man drunk! That was supposed to be an innocent, well-meant post. I did not mean for the Loud sisters to be depicted as girls who get people drunk and do stupid, inappropriate stuff to them. I just wanted to know for fun which of the Loud Girls did you think was the craziest, using Ricky Martin's song.
I have pretty much done stupid stuff today and did a lot of damage to myself, to my computer and to other people!
So as of right now, I am banning myself from the discussions board for at least one month! I am not allowed to participate in any of the discussions or start any new ones after this one, but I'll come back and answer questions you have for me but that's it! Maybe I'm being unnecessarily harsh on myself but my mind is made up and at least I'm smart enough to know I did wrong so others don't have to point it out to me and these are not the first super freaking stupid things I did in my life or the first time I highly upset and weirded out and annoyed other people! SO I'm not allowed to participate on this board for at least a month.
Matter fact, BLOCK ME FOR ONE MONTH OR SO FROM THIS WIKI!
I'm just angry right now, at myself and at that scammer but mostly at myself, I should have known better!
This son-of-a-gun, that's me, has to go, now! Good bye! >:-(