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Originally Posted by jerryscuba
Well, you may have given this information privately to one of your forum friends. I know from my own experience that some of the people who PM are trolls who are not who they claim to be.
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Yup...Ralf brings up a good point. Some of the folks on the forum are agency staffers who don't identify themselves. (Trolls.) Some are current or former agency clients who are very devoted, and feel it's somehow their duty to forward other people's negative posts and information to their agencies. (Moles.)
Be careful about what you tell folks in PMs until you know for sure for sure that they're not a troll or mole, and be very careful about what you post on the forum if you have an agency that might give you trouble if they don't like what you're sharing on the forum*, and they can identify you. If you use a login name similar to your own name/baby's name/email address, if you use your real first name or last name, post a date-specific timeline, or include photos of yourself, or use as your email address in the system your actual email that you use with the agency, they can quickly put 2 and 2 together.
Mary
*Some agencies actually have in their contract that you are not permitted to share anything in public that is negative about that agency by name -- including your own truthful negative experiences, and these agencies are notorious for trolling to see what their clients are saying...