FabSwingers.com forum: Beware

By *ommando4 OP Man
over a year ago

South Co. Dublin

I just had an RTE investigative journalist contact me on Kik looking to expose the dangers of online dating / swinger sites and social media apps like Kik. Be very careful folks what photographs you share in particular face pics as it appears they are planning some form of programme on the topic and are fishing for personal details.

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over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I just had an RTE investigative journalist contact me on Kik looking to expose the dangers of online dating / swinger sites and social media apps like Kik. Be very careful folks what photographs you share in particular face pics as it appears they are planning some form of programme on the topic and are fishing for personal details."

Thanks for the warning......

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Jesus

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Have pics changed to friends only thanks op

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By *etmebeurfantasyWoman
over a year ago

My town

Jesus

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Oh fook

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Did they really give you all that information?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Looking to expose wat dangers? As in look at these ass and titts photos... now there are many of perverts that would try to take advantage of this lady?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Or maybe it was someone posing as or pretending to be an investigative RTE journalist. Just a thought.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Or maybe it was someone posing as or pretending to be an investigative RTE journalist. Just a thought."

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By *evil_u_knowMan
over a year ago

city

They cant show your face or anything that would identify you on irish tv.

If they expose you as a swinger, even if its true, it wont matter, the liable laws in Ireland would say it is not news worthy and you would get a couple of hundred grand.

I have been contacted by "rte" people on various sites saying they were going to do a story, and it always ended up being true.

RTE uses footage of me before, they changed my voice and blured everything out, I sounded like some mad egg.

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By *ommando4 OP Man
over a year ago

South Co. Dublin

Did they really give you all that information?"
I quote from what they said verbatim:

'Btw I’m a reporter for RTE´ I’m doing a follow up to the the report on Kik and amazing how a face can be traced .' & 'Online dating is a massive industry, and its to show people the dangers and red flags to online dating'&'I can search your face to see who you are perfectly legal , I can change name and make picture blurry . No need to worry. Honestly just very interesting culture.' & 'Look I wish you the best but if you ever think of doing an anonymous interview.....my colleague Colm O Mongáin is our male reporter.'

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Appreciate the heads up, thanks OP x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Have i slept for a month is this april fools day

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By *ord Willy McFuck-BucketMan
over a year ago

newcastle

As I am super famous and a friend to the stars maybe its time I left because they are bound to be interested in me

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

U are safe fellow fabber u do not have any pics or meets up

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We're always careful with sharing pics, not because of "investigative journalists" but because of whackjobs, trolls and people who haven't the foggiest notion of the meaning of discretion

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Thanks for the warning OP. It's good to get a reminder every now and then, we can all get a little complacent at times.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Omg

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By *ustful desiresCouple
over a year ago

Thank you for the heads up

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Did they really give you all that information? I quote from what they said verbatim:

Was this someone from fab you were talking to on kik?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Oh shit that’s scary

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By *arkseductionMan
over a year ago

Drogheda

They can not use any pictures or details from your profile without your consent. We still have privacy laws in this country. So unless it’s a case of national security I think our fun sexy naked pics on this site is in good hands. But pictures sent via KiK is another whole ball game. be careful who you send pics to on kik.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Just to add to that folks. Check your kik and FB settings. We've chatted to people only on fab or kik and they have appeared on FB on who you might know...

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By *oghunter33Woman
over a year ago

on the hill NordWest of

"Just to add to that folks. Check your kik and FB settings. We've chatted to people only on fab or kik and they have appeared on FB on who you might know..."

That happens when you allow kik access to your phone book and your phone number linked to Facebook.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Just to add to that folks. Check your kik and FB settings. We've chatted to people only on fab or kik and they have appeared on FB on who you might know...

That happens when you allow kik access to your phone book and your phone number linked to Facebook. "

We haven't allowed kik to access them... I had to go in and check again when someone name & pic came up

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Checked mine and permission on tks for that tip off now

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Was this someone from fab you were talking to on kik? "

Is the important question.

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By *ommando4 OP Man
over a year ago

South Co. Dublin

Was this someone from fab you were talking to on kik?

Is the important question.

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I don't know....they contacted me direct on Kik saying they were from fab.. admittedly my Kik address is on my fab profile

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By *etergemmaCouple
over a year ago

South Dublin Area

Relax. Sensationalism. I suppose attempted child snatching bs season is almost upon so they need something to bridge the gap until that starts..

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By *hocko87Man
over a year ago

dublin

Can they not leave us alone . Nothing else to write about

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

How did he or she get your kik

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By *auraLucyLuLuWoman
over a year ago

Dublin

How did he or she get your kik"

It's on his profile...

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By *ichael McCarthyMan
over a year ago

Lucan

Woohoo! Fame at last!

God I hope I get to meet Claire Byrne!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

How did he or she get your kik

It's on his profile..."

Ahhh I see. Mmmmmmm

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By *r_sunny_south_eastMan
over a year ago

wexford

Had a weird message the other night someone asking me lots of questions including where I worked. Creeped me out a bit and definitely seemed like something like this.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Thanks for the heads up. Aren't we lucky that there is nothing else news worthy in Ireland to report on like maybe a housing crisis

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"They can not use any pictures or details from your profile without your consent. We still have privacy laws in this country. So unless it’s a case of national security I think our fun sexy naked pics on this site is in good hands. But pictures sent via KiK is another whole ball game. be careful who you send pics to on kik.

I make you wrong there my friend. Anything that appears on the internet can be reproduced, copied or transmitted as long as it is done in a fair way and is not slanderous, malicious or intended to harm. Trademark and copyright laws protect individuals and companies. That shite of Sydney University means nothing, same as some shite I saw on a profile that said if someone used one of their pics, they would be invoiced €25k and by using the photo, they accepted that condition. Absolute rubbish. If you log out of Fab and do a google search for Fab and see how much information is available to see for free on Fab. You don’t even need to sign up to Fab or be a member, paying or not to see it.

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By *otwife Stag CoupleCouple
over a year ago

Waterford

Thanks for the warning

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By *ienDePlusCouple
over a year ago

dublin

You’re mistaken on various points and you confuse Privacy Laws with IP laws to draw wrong conclusions. There is a significant argument to be had whether content in a paid site is ‘public domaine’ or not but having pictures on here certainly doesn’t waive your right to privacy when it comes to being identified in a publication. Being identified and using your pictures are two different matters.

Furthermore one imagines Fabs terms and conditions contains a form of limited licence over the use and reproduction of pictures. Most amateur sites do for this very purpose. It allows fabs to stop its content appearing on picture board services or recycled in sex sites. Protecting its customers is very vital to a site like fabs surviving.

Thats not to say people shouldn’t be careful - sadly ‘sex sells’ and places like The Vanilla Club are going to be very attractive to the news industry. People in the lifestyle are as much part of the problem - they will demand venues stop other people having their phones / handbags etc but they themselves want their own phone / handbag. It’s always ‘other people’ who are the security risk.

The Sydney university thing is an urban legend - any website owner will tell you they would rather not have it on profiles simply because text is data and thats data that dosen’t need transmitted. There is no Sydney survey and there is no legal point arising.

The 25k constitutes an offer to treat and if the vendor can prove that the newspaper were aware of the terms (ie could show they have visited the page) those terms would be binding. At the very least one imagines the purpose it to make a journo think twice about using those particular pictures. Newspapers legal departments have taken a hit recently over several lifestyle related cases.

The simplistic answer is - don’t buy newspapers that deal in sex stories (the Sunday World, The Sunday Life) and don’t watch RTE when they have ‘exposes’.

As regards the OP - why would the person contacting you give another journalists name and not their own? It sounds fishy rather than accurate (RTE Expose - find out how journalists find out stuff about people’) but I’d be concerned you were talking to somebody even making up that shit. Those are the people to worry about. Lots of lifestyle people in Ireland have suffered both at the hands of the press and at the whims of some less stable members of this site.

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By *evil_u_knowMan
over a year ago

city

"As regards the OP - why would the person contacting you give another journalists name and not their own? It sounds fishy rather than accurate (RTE Expose - find out how journalists find out stuff about people’) but I’d be concerned you were talking to somebody even making up that shit."

That is exactly how RTE contacted me, it was an intern trawling through the internet while the journo did fuck all. I was able to find the intern though.

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By *evil_u_knowMan
over a year ago

city

"I make you wrong there my friend. Anything that appears on the internet can be reproduced, copied or transmitted as long as it is done in a fair way and is not slanderous, malicious or intended to harm."

Not true, in fact exactly the opposite. Nothing on the internet can be reproduced or copied unless the author specifically says it's okay. Nothing on the internet is Public domain unless it says so.

However a journalist can break copyright law if it is in the interest of the public. For example if a politican was using this site a journalist could claim in court that it was in the public interest that a politican who campaigns for porn censorship was using a site like this.

For me and you ordinary people, the judge will say the journalist had no right to copy your info or publish it. None of it was in the public interest.

Also fabswingers might own the copyrights of the photos on here, I am not sure. However liable and privacy laws kick in to make that point moot.

In ireland if the story can do you harm IT HAS TO BE IN PUBLIC INTEREST, or else it is slander. It does not matter if the story is 100% true and they have video. They can not run your idenity on irish tv without you getting a couple of hundred grand.

What is public or private on the internet matters little.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Be careful people !!

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By *ommando4 OP Man
over a year ago

South Co. Dublin

Not true, in fact exactly the opposite. Nothing on the internet can be reproduced or copied unless the author specifically says it's okay. Nothing on the internet is Public domain unless it says so.

For me and you ordinary people, the judge will say the journalist had no right to copy your info or publish it. None of it was in the public interest.

Also fabswingers might own the copyrights of the photos on here, I am not sure. However liable and privacy laws kick in to make that point moot.

What is public or private on the internet matters little."
. Thanks....some very useful info there...hope I wouldn't need it but good to know.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

That was one of the best reads on here in ages.

Feel free to refer any journo to our profile, we've been very naughty and are in need of a good exposing.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

OP it's good to have a reminder that there are many strange folk out there and to be careful. It does sound like a prankster or jealous nobster though so I wouldn't worry too much.

Maybe look to see how they got your kik. Is it linked to fab in any way or to your contacts and fb. Change it if it is. Keep it separate.

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By *owdyBoobyMan
over a year ago

limerick

Only people who need to be worried here is lads cheating on their wives.

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By *eductively_SweetWoman
over a year ago

wexford

"Only people who need to be worried here is lads cheating on their wives.

ah here thats so old school women cheat too..

maybe its those with kids that worry

or those with jobs in the public eye or could it be just ppl in general as they like their personal lives to remain private and not want aunty nelly or grandad pete to find out on the fecking telly...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Only people who need to be worried here is lads cheating on their wives.

Or their long-term girlfriends/boyfriends.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Only people who need to be worried here is lads cheating on their wives.

ah here thats so old school women cheat too..

maybe its those with kids that worry

Yes definitely

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Only people who need to be worried here is lads cheating on their wives.

Or anyone in a profile job, or dealing with the public, in the justice system, a public face or.... there are many...not to mention with children.

Was it not 2 yrs ago a reporter got into Swingfield and took candid pics which went over the Sunday world and then the Internet. One single mother from England had her young son show her a photo of her in the act that someone sent to him on his phone.

So really many can loose a lot more than your what your comment suggests.

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By *uietman1964Man
over a year ago

carlow

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By *oghunter33Woman
over a year ago

on the hill NordWest of

"OP it's good to have a reminder that there are many strange folk out there and to be careful. It does sound like a prankster or jealous nobster though so I wouldn't worry too much.

Maybe look to see how they got your kik. Is it linked to fab in any way or to your contacts and fb. Change it if it is. Keep it separate."

Op's kik name is on his fab profile....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Bring them on, those dirty laundry detectives . I think there are more important topics to be covered than online dating or swinger lifestyle , ffs

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By *easingTimMan
over a year ago

Loughlinstown

"Bring them on, those dirty laundry detectives . I think there are more important topics to be covered than online dating or swinger lifestyle , ffs"

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If so, maybe we should all turn the camera around and highlight some of the shenanigans that go on in RTE

and report back here on Fab...

If this is true, RTE's a sinking ship and nothing more than a ratings whore...

"PEOPLE HAVING CONSENSUAL SEX"

Den Den Den

Who gives a Fab fook about them???

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

This happened before a few years back, about 12-15 i think, a social i was at from another site was infiltrated ( sounds v james bond lol ) by sunday world reporters , i had left early with a meet , they printed photos and done a few pages on it , the whole scene/concept was very new here back then

Thank you for the heads up "

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By *ommando4 OP Man
over a year ago

South Co. Dublin

Thank you for the heads up "
You're very welcome....we need to look out for each other in this community so keep safe and be careful out there

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

cheers for the warning

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By *ommando4 OP Man
over a year ago

South Co. Dublin

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Not the first 'expose' - won't be the last.

Plenty of folks have had their profile photos used in the rags purporting to be 'newspapers' - with text from mails, chatroom and forum quoted verbatim - and nothing to prevent the ensuing carnage to personal and professional lives.

If you don't want to see it printed - don't put it online - anywhere. There is feck all anyone can do to get back their dignity and respect once it's carved up by toe-rags earning their crust from these 'exposes'.

And - it's not new that these vermin have well-verified profiles on ALL the adult sites, proving that they mix with regular folks in the lifestyle on a daily basis, with cameras being used at Meet-And-Greets and other parties of all types.

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