For over a decade, I’ve worked as one of the leading MILFs in the adult industry.
There’s a sentence that I didn’t expect to read.
I have witnessed over and over again my friends and I losing our social media accounts
If someone robs my home, I have insurance. If someone takes my social media pages, I lose tons of future revenue. You can’t insure your Instagram account as an OnlyFans creator.
I don’t use Instagram or OnlyFans. But I’d bet that they have some form of two-factor authentication.
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OnlyFans does have two-factor authentication. Sounds like a time-based one-time-password.
https://onlyfans.com/help/1/5/29
Two step verification is recommended and encouraged to keep your OnlyFans account secure.
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- Click the toggle near “Two step verification” on the security page.
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If you’re really worried, get a dedicated smartphone, and never connect it to the Internet or a phone network, and use that as your physical authentication token. Back up your key in a safe deposit box or something.
Maybe OnlyFans should have some kind of different policy, like forcing use of two-factor authentication or something once revenue on an account rises above a certain point. Like, expecting random adult entertainer to evaluate the security of various authentication options they provide maybe isn’t reasonable.
But that really seems like it should avoid people simply “losing” their accounts.
The quote you highlighted suggests it was an issue with Instagram, not OnlyFans…but Facebook has all kinds of account protection options, so I’m guessing Instagram does too.
I may be very wrong, but it sounded to me like the problem isn’t the account getting hacked - the problem is the account getting suspended or removed by the platform itself. So 2FA etc will not help at all.
In some cases, the scammers apparently have a way to get the suspension reversed, which makes you wonder whether they actually work at Meta/OnlyFans, and are suspending accounts for no reason, in order to ransom them back to the owners.
Or… we don’t blame the victim for wearing that short skirt.
This is really more like blaming the victim for leaving their car unlocked
And? It’s not their fault for getting robbed. That’s why the person who robs them gets arrested and they aren’t penalized.
Being careless- or, in this case, not computer-savvy- does not make you not a victim of a crime.
I didn’t say it was their fault. You used a sexual assault metaphor for what was essentially a robbery. I thought that was a braindead level of poor taste so I suggested a better metaphor. You’re like the last person on earth I need a morals lecture from, so spare me the self righteous indignation.
You’re like the last person on earth I need a morals lecture from
Are you under the impression that I’m a serial killer or something?
Right, but unfortunately we don’t live in a perfect world with no thieves, so you should do at least the bare minimum to protect yourself. If you don’t, you tend to lose people’s sympathy.
No it’s their fault for leaving their car unlocked. Why do victims get absolved of responsibility for their own actions when it leads to negative results?
Play stupid games…you know the rest.
No it’s their fault for leaving their car unlocked. Why do victims get absolved of responsibility for their own actions when it leads to negative results?
So if the person who robbed them gets caught, they shouldn’t get arrested or charged or anything, right? After all, it was the person they stole from’s fault.
It’s really hard to find any sympathy for people whose entire business model is to leach money from young impressionable men. It’s almost like their asking “Please stop extorting us, so we can continue extorting our own clientele in peace.” And don’t tell me that all those men are giving up their money voluntarily. It’s like saying the gambling addicts put their money in the slot machine volutarily, therefore it’s not a problem. No self-respecting individual in their right mind would or should enter his card information and buy naughty pictures of some rando, while there’s a backlog of billions of them online for free. Rub one out and get in with your day.
They can themselves “sex workers” while there is literally zero sex in their work. Imagine thinking that posting pictures of “yourself wearing short skirts” ads any value to society. Actual sex workers at least provide physical and social comfort, even if it’s just an act, it’s still a professional form of commitment.
Do those women ever stop and think why there is no one stepping in for them and preventing this scam from happening? Almost like what they do has zero value to people with the actual power to do so.
Maybe take a long hard look at yourself and see your accounts being suddely deleted as an opportunity to freshen up that resume of yours and get a real job with taxable income.
Also the fact that this is happening to the 0.0X% of highest earners, is ironic. Usually, it’s the lower end that gets scammed the most.
