Well, if you never send the suit, he will never be able to keep the lie alive. He will forever have to claim the few photos he has and will never be able to show other photos or wear it in public. Wish him good luck making one as awesome as your work and cut ties
Here are all of his tweets...seems pretty unambiguous to me:MCL34N said:
He consistently refers to it as "my suit" and asks for approval on its status, he's used El Fett's image as his avatar, says "I have been working on the following Spidey costume," AND is telling people he can make them a Spidey suit, using MCL34N's photos as proof.1) @MarcW My finished costume Twitter / G_Thomson1986: @MarcW My finished costume
2) #IAmTheAmazingSpiderman My finished costume Twitter / G_Thomson1986: #IAmTheAmazingSpiderman M
3) My suit on the right and the movie suit on the left Twitter / G_Thomson1986: My suit on the right and t
4) @Dan__Morris for a kit $500 +shipping, lenses, a face shell, and a both spiders applied. not sewn here is an idea for u Twitter / G_Thomson1986: @Dan__Morris for a kit $50
5) @Dan__Morris @Quentin_Macleod of course! i can make 2 different suits for u a standard print sewn or the super deluxe perfect suit
6) Web shooters Twitter / G_Thomson1986: Web shooters http://t.co/H
7) @Dan__Morris @MarcW Thanks, i can make one for you if you wish. fan made =)
8) whats your thoughts? Twitter / G_Thomson1986: whats your thoughts? http:
9) @MarcW @marcw Great that you approve the suit =) Its almost finished once done i will post another and see if its spot on
10) @MarcW - Hey there, I have been working on the following Spidey costume would love yo know your thoughts Twitter / G_Thomson1986: @MarcW - Hey there, I have
11) #IAmTheAmazingSpiderMan Twitter / G_Thomson1986: #IAmTheAmazingSpiderMan ht
It doesn't get much more cut and dry than that, the guy is a creep and deserves to be shut down before he can scam anyone out of a single cent...or take any more credit away from MCL34N's incredible piece.
EDIT: It's also worth noting that it seems he used to go under the username "Quentin_Macleod." So add that to his list of aliases.
-Nick
As I mentioned over on the build thread, the photos are posted via PhotoBucket...
PhotoBucket's posted Terms of Use restrict people from posting "anything that you didn't create", "contains or promotes something you know is false or misleading" and "includes a photograph or video of another person that you have posted without that person's consent."
I'd reach out to PhotoBucket and ask them to pull the images. That will also kill his links (and the link to any of the re-tweets that have been sent).
It will likely have to be MCL34N that send that note as you would need to be the 'content owner' for the complaint.
Good luck... Hope this helps!
I've been looking into it, but I can't find his specific photobucket account name? Do you know how I might point them in his direction?
Not sure on that one... but regarding TWITTER here is what THEIR Terms of Use say:
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I'd send them an email as well... see if you can get them pulled and have him suspended or terminate his username.
This is something that is unspeakable!!! If there's something I hate, it's people like this!
Really think you should check out what 'indiefilmgeek' posted. Great work finding the copyright infringement rules on both Photobucket and Twitter dude!
But yeah I'll see if I can get in on this Hashtag business too since I hate people stealing others work or claiming it is there own. (Trust me, I know the feeling) I don't even use Twitter much but in this case, I'll make an exception. This guy won't last for long!
I've reported his current account to Paypal (Learned he's had several accounts shut down) and I'm trying to see if there's anything that can be done to stop him. That is honestly more important than my pictures being used. If he can't accept money, he can't scam anyone.
Have you reported his ID to the mods on this board?
I hate that he is using my pic as an avatar on twitter. Makes me feel dirty.
Where theres smoke there's fire, we as intelligent human beings know EXACTLY what he's up too. I'm just glad someone was there to catch him, hopefully before he got some poor guys money as he was "selling" suits apparently. Nice to know the RPF'rs take care of their own.
wow, the stupidity level on this guy...I'm speechless. MCL34N made an awesome suit, and then the hard work was STOLEN, I am ANGRY, these people deserve to be destroyed
Finally heard back from Ichigo. He claims that he didn't do any of the things he is accused for. He says he doesn't even have a twitter because it's stupid. One problem with this though, if you look at his Facebook (I'm sure its long gone by now) He has a status bragging about how Marc Webb Tweeted him. He really is probably one of the least intelligent scammers I've ever encountered
Screen cap it if you can.
Sent a message to that d-bag on twitter too.
Here we have it folks! Definitive proof this guys ******-Baggery. This is a screen cap from Grahams Facebook where he admits he contacted Marc Webb. It isnt the same post I was talking about (It was a blatant status update braggin that Marc Webb Tweeted him back) probably because he deleted that one. But my friend found another piece of hard proof-
Bye Graham! Wish I could say I will miss ya!
And you know what? Let's pound a few more nails into the coffin-
I'll tweet him too. Wolverines unite. You know, it amazes me that some people can do this and think they'll get away with it, I'm sure he'll be loving all the praise and congrats for the costume, but what a dick he'll feel once people find out the real truth. Absolute scum of the earth.
He STILL thinks he can get away with it. From his most recent message after I posted this conversation-
"..I’ve nothing to hide here, as you can see from the conversation I don’t say at all that I made the costume. I’ve passed the information that you have provided and its been relayed to Cameron, which is no lie. Is it? You are indeed making my costume yes? The picture provided to Cameron is not an exact replica, it being el fets but also mine, no?"
No is right. And funny, I'd say that claiming "I'm using a special paint applicator" is pretty incriminating evidence that you're passing it off as your own. And "I have 3 on order" If these are the suits I'm making, shouldn't I know about this?
"..Do you really think in that stupid to say that this is my own work?"
Yes. Yes I do.
Granted, he doesn't say on there that he actually MADE the suit but surely when he's asked "how much you doing them for" and instead of saying it COST me X amount of USD he replies "1750 USD each" then he says he's got to put the price up to 2000 USD because there's a load of work to do, that's him implying that he's made/making the suit.
I think the references I quoted from the conversation are more than enough to implicate him in claiming my work to be his own. "I'm using a special paint applicator" could have easily been "it is done with a special paint applicator" but instead he chooses the one that gives him credit. And lets not forget that this Twitter account is under the name GRAHAM THOMSON and he clearly implies that he has made the suit, or at the very least that El Fett's suit was in fact his own. Unless there's some massive conspiracy to destroy his good name, he is lying, plain and simple.
Oh and also, what a vein person! "If I can I was thinking of sending a suit to the costume designer to see how impressed they were"
If we hadn't been exposed to this entire lie, do you think he would have told me about his plans to send a suit to the costume designer? He neglected to tell me Marc Webb liked it, and that was a week ago.
The shooters was a joint project for me and ichigo through using rensole as the designer, I had NO idea that when I was re-sending TheNickFox's twitter post last night I was posting to him. And this has been helpful as he paid a deposit to rensole for the work but was not available for the full amount, to which I ended up paying rensole the remaining 90% for the files. He's asked me since the files have been completed for a copy of them, and all I have said is, yes once your pament to me for them has been made, and as of yet still had no payment from him.
I will have to learn the hard way on this
Well maybe you can earn some of the money back with making them
This thread needs to be in the open, somehow. I'm linking people too it and they have no ability to see it since it's in OT.
This is not his first time either, he's been doing this for a while. I'm just glad to see that, now, there is more proof some people can see what I saw years ago.
He has scammed before?King Ranger said:
He took credit for things that he did not make. Using other people's photos saying that he had made them. This was all over on Rangerboard and had to do with Power Rangers/Sentai gear. For a time, he was even listed as a scammer on that message board.Moviefreak said:
There he went under the names Retro Planet and Thompson101. I called him out about it over there and he claimed innocence saying that the photos he used were representative of his own progress even though they were not of his own progress.
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