So um. holy shit, actually, i never thought i'd have to make a bulletin like this--but today bee and i found out that someone made a fake toyhouse account posing as me and effectively scammed people by telling them they won the jester vtuber adopt bid. https://toyhou.se/DunkIeJesse it would appear they used a capital i to serve as the l and copied my pfp and everything, so it was near impossible to tell it wasn't me contacting them :(

the account is closed now, but i am SO incredibly sorry to those who were contacted/scammed by this user. they contacted various previous bidders telling them they won when that wasn't the case.

going forward (specifically for the vtuber adopts), mchoneybee is the one who handles all the payment info and transactions. we share a paypal account, and it will NEVER be me contacting the winners. we also will never ask for f&f payments, as that lacks buyer protection--so always insist on paying through business so you can file a chargeback if someone scams you like this. also be sure to keep an eye on the official post for the adoptable, as the bidding will always be updated there and bee will have responded to the winner announcing that they won!! she or I will never contact through dms first.

in the case of my own adoptables, i'll always respond through comment first. don't trust any paypal accounts that don't have bee's name attached or use any language other than english.

again, i'm so sorry to those who were affected by this 😭 i had zero idea there was someone going around posing as me, which is honestly horrifying, especially because you wouldn't have known it wasn't me unless you looked at the account. bee has also been using discord for sending the vtubers to the winners, so if you have that it might be safer to go that route than through toyhouse dms.

EDIT: the paypal the scammer used was [email protected]