Report: Kickstarter Scammer ‘Encik Farhan’ – UPDATED — The Beat

I’m still drowning in reblog notifications.  Thank you everyone who helped spread my story, especially those who left outrageously angry comments lambasting Mr. Farhan. Those were hilarious. <3

Yesterday afternoon, his profile was deleted from Kickstarter.  I’m going to assume that it was Kickstarter doing the deleting, since they forwarded my message to their Trust and Safety team, and hopefully they just outright banned his IP address, so that he can’t make a new account and do the same thing again.

While it’s a start, Kickstarter and Amazon ultimately need to develop a policy and measures to combat this sort of practice that doesn’t leave project creators with the short end of the stick.  As Megan put it so well yesterday, it’s not like we can prevent a backer from pledging even if we know that they’re going to do something like this.

A lot of kind folks asked what they could do to help me out if I end up losing the money, and I just want to say thanks.  As I said in the interview above, I’m extremely privileged to have a wonderful support system of family and friends who will be able to help me out, so I’m not in a dire situation.  But if you really want to do me a favor, go check out my comics, and if you like them, share with others.

In the meantime, I hope Amazon does the right thing and my appeal turns out in my favor.  I will let you guys know how it turns out.  Thank you again!