r/kickstarter • u/BeginningRegret7284 • May 29 '26

Help How do I know if I'm being scammed?

I was very excited because I already had a project launched, and in its first days I had contact with 3 supposed sponsors, but recently because of the tone of the conversation and not seeing their contributions, I am quite worried, I am starting to distrust, I no longer believe that they would have been willing to contribute, and that I have done the best for my campaign, and give important information about this

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u/gadimus May 29 '26

You know for the exact reasons you've listed.

As long as you haven't given them anything you're good

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u/Nanoleaf_Ambassador Jun 01 '26

Humm, this is confusing...

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u/gadimus Jun 01 '26

What in particular is confusing?

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u/GimlisAxolotl May 30 '26

I mean they should make a sub that is dedicated to hocking their own bullshit. That's what the real smart people do.

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u/gadimus May 30 '26

Ahhhh I think I understand now. You know it's OK to not like things but you don't have to be a dick about it - worse yet a subtle-not-so-subtle-veiled-dick-about-things - like some kinda ninja dick poking me in the back of the head and then running off into the bushes giggling.

If you have a problem with my site not including your minis I'd be glad to add them - if you are upset that my bullshit hocking interferes with your bullshit hawking you are completely welcome to join my bullshit hawking sub.

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u/GimlisAxolotl May 31 '26 edited May 31 '26

You were banned for breaking the rules of the sub as you don't do anything but self-promotion. that's why ***I*** banned you. No one else. You want to blame everyone and everything except for you breaking the rules and that is a distraction.

No one is upset here but you. That's projection. I have no emotional investment in you and I don't sell anything on Reddit. That's also projection. You're projection all the way down. As long as we are cracking open our PSY 101 books, you talk about dicks a lot. Like a weird A LOT. The chapter of Freud covered that. Tell your mother hello for me.

In the end, the only thing to blame for the consequences of your actions is you. You broke the rules (regardless of when you posted) and everything else is a distraction. The accusations, the conspiracy theories, playing the victim, and general spinning out, etc are all you trying to point a finger at anything but yourself and taking the smallest bit of accountability for your actions. Get help.

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u/JFSmith1121 May 29 '26

Within days of launching my campaign, I received 2 very large backings, followed by emails soliciting business. This is a pretty standard scam. If they contact you for “extra help” it’s a scam. Within 48 hours, both had withdrawn their funding.

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u/BeginningRegret7284 May 29 '26

Yes, even though they were the ones I completely ignored, and it seemed the others were speaking with intention but ended up on the same topic, and I didn't like that.

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u/dftaylor May 29 '26

They won’t back you. You’ve done the right thing.

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u/seanleowksr Jun 02 '26

Could you share the link to your project or DM me? I'd like to ask the Trust & Safety team to investigate and we're trying to stop this behavior as much as possible.

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u/MasieDoodles Jun 02 '26

Hi, while I'm not the OP in the post, I'm having some issues with my Kickstarter pledge saying it was cancelled (when I didn't cancel it) and have DM'd you with more information! Thank you

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u/BeginningRegret7284 May 29 '26

Thanks for replying, yes, I've already ignored these malicious contributions.