Exclusive: All About Fake Accounts And Cam Bots. Scam Exposed!
Fake accounts, they are real. When I visited a webcam site for the first time in 2006, my first skeptical thought was that everything was a fake setup, with fake accounts and bots. I thought that every room would be playing a recorded video, and the chat would be only bots talking. I was far from the truth, but not that far. This long post explains everything about fake accounts and cam bots. A real scam exposed.
Table of Contents
- Not everything is fake
- How do they create these fake accounts?
- Why the bot cams are not banned?
- Where do these scammers act?
- The actual models (usually) know nothing
- How to catch bots?
- What can you do?
- Scam exposed: CamDecoy is the bot’s tool
- Why so many bots on Streamate?
This post was originally published on November 30, 2011. Through the years, many updates have been made to reflect the changes and reports users submitted. The last time this post was updated was on August 23, 2021.
Not everything is fake
It is important to make this note. Not everything is fake. In fact, almost all models are real, and they can provide an amazing experience. It is just this small percentage of scammers that just give a bad reputation.
Obviously, before visiting a camsite for the first time, I had the wrong concept of how this business works. The models are real, and they use live video.
But unfortunately, not all the models are real. I have found some accounts that pretty much do what I thought they all used to do in the beginning. They use recorded videos.
Although I have found some accounts that have real models behind them, the vast majority of accounts are, in fact, accounts created by someone else that has nothing to do with the model.
When the model knows about the situation, she is either running the scam or an accomplice. But these situation is not that common.
How do they create these fake accounts?
I can’t say for sure. But I know how a couple of tricks they can use to fool the system and create these fake accounts.
- First option: Use the ID of a real girl to have the account approved. Studios can easily do this option because they keep copies of model IDs even after leaving the studio.
- Second option: Buy or make a fake ID and use it to create the account. Isn’t that hard.
Why the bot cams are not banned?
They are. But usually, the sites don’t police the chat rooms. Even if they do, for example, on Cams.com, in the last 2 months, there were 12,053 female models online. And I’m not counting men, couples, and trans-genders. Very hard to police them.
They rely on users to report these accounts. Most of the sites take some time to act. Maybe they need time to be sure it is a fake account. But they usually ban these accounts.
From my experience, the sites that are too slow to act or do not act at all are:
- Extasy Cams: It is a waste of time. They do not reply to any email, nor they ban the accounts;
- Streamate: If it is one of their “protected” accounts, they won’t ban it. Otherwise, they will act;
- ImLive: They will refund you if you complain, but never ban the account;
- Cams.com: They ban, but they take too long to act;
Where do these scammers act?
I can say that they try to run this scam on every site. But at this point, these scammers already know where they can run a bot long enough to get the first payout before being caught.
So far, I’ve found at least one fake account on Cams.com, Chaturbate, Extasy Cams, Flirt 4 Free, ImLive, LiveJasmin, MyFreeCams, Streamate, and XLoveCam. That is 9 out of 18 sites on MyCamgirl’s official list of camsites. It is a pretty long list.
Also, I should mention that I had spotted bots on six other webcam sites, but these sites are now either dead or became a White Label. These are CamSpot, CamWorld, Private Feeds, The Daily Peep, WebCamClub, and Webcams.com.
It is now hard to find fake accounts because webcam sites take extra caution to avoid this scam. After all, it negatively affects their brand.
But you still can find bots. Streamate is perhaps the biggest offender, and they have been for years. But Streamate is a particular case that I will talk about below.
On Chaturbate, you may also find bots, but they tend to have a short life because admins act quickly. It takes just one report, and soon after, they take down the broadcast.
The actual models (usually) know nothing
Of all the fake accounts I found, only in a few cases, it was a model who created them. Actually, if the model created the account, I don’t know if I should call it a “fake account.” But either way, they were using recorded videos.
BritneyFoxy has been using recorded videos for a very long time on many sites. And this is not a suspicion. I know for sure because she admitted to me and even explained that she gets help from a guy who chats for her.
ImLive seems to be her favorite site. Funny enough, she won several awards for best model on ImLive. Seriously?! A webcam site called ImLive chooses as best camgirl a model that does not broadcast live?!
Maybe she and many other girls can pull this scam without problems because ImLive is one of the few sites where models can stay in false private for the whole day. She heavily uses old recorded videos of herself while in “private.”
As she is hot as hell and people never see her in free chat, some curious members might decide to spy on her in private. Until they realize that it is not a live video, she has already made some money.
Right now, it is $3.80 per minute to “chat” with her. Britney has also used recorded videos on Cams.com, Webcams.com, and Flirt 4 Free.
Friends copy friends
KELLYBUNDY is another model that used recorded videos for months. She is also on ImLive. She has recently decided to quit using recorded videos and go live again.
Fun fact, now she rarely goes online on ImLive. Seems it is only worth going there if it is to use recorded videos. She has been camming, for real, on Flirt 4 Free under the name Hilary Tuff.
KristyCandy, is yet another example on ImLive and Cams.com. Honestly, I think I’ve never seen the real KristyCandy online. Whenever she is online, the same video plays over and over again.
What do these models have in common besides being hot? They all worked in the same studio and they all knew Britney.
Although I know for sure that Britney Foxy is the person running the scam on her account, I’m not so sure about KELLYBUNDY and KristyCandy.
How to catch bots?
It is not easy. If you visit a site looking for fake accounts, you probably won’t find them.
I usually find fake accounts when I am browsing online models. And then I see something that is not right. Like when I found xNicoleXO on Streamate. She had worked on Streamate before, but it has been a very long time since she logged in for the last time. Since then, she has worked on LiveJasmin for months and then moved to MyFreeCams, where she has been camming exclusively for like a year. So, finding her on Streamate, during a time she uses to be offline… Fishy… And indeed, it was not her.
The most interesting case is perhaps the twins Nivea. No, Nivea does not have a twin sister. But a funny thing happened when I was trying to find the fake account that was using her videos.
I knew that fake account was on Streamate, and I knew that the nickname had the word “squirt” on it. So, I searched for squirt, hoping to find her. Well, I ended up finding two fake accounts: realsquirt4u and sensualsquirt. And both were online.
When I found those two fake accounts using recorded videos of Nivea, she had different hair on each account. And not only that. Everybody knows she is from Slovakia. On one account, she was from Greece, and on the other one, she was from Hungary. And different ages too. Busted!
Finding bots by mistake
To complete this funny story, on the search results page, I found another account. AngelSerena, a MyFreeCams model, has also appeared on the results for the word squirt. I guess the scammers know that squirting is a perfect niche nowadays. AngelSerena has never worked on Streamate, and, as far as I know, she can’t squirt. Neither can Nivea. But do you think the scammers care?
Streamate finally acted. They shut down all these fake accounts. Why they did something in this case? Because these were not certified bots. More about this is below.
But that didn’t stop the scammers. While writing this post, I searched again for “squirt” on Stremate, and I found another fake account of another model who has never worked on Streamate: DesertRosee, aka Kitycat. The fake account is using the name squirtpussyy.
What can you do?
First, report it to the sites where you find the fake accounts. You may include in your report where they can find the original model. This helps to convince them that you are not a troll. Also, try to warn the model about the fake accounts.
If you find a bot using a video of a model that works exclusively on one camsite, you may also try to report that to that camsite. I saw on Extasy Cam a few bots using videos of models who work solely on MyFreeCams. The videos even had a watermark. It was easy to spot and show that to MyFreeCams. I reported that to MyFreeCams, and a couple of days later, these bots disappeared.
You can also email me the name of the fake account. If the model is on the CWSW database, I can add this fake account and flag it. Fake accounts appear below the official accounts to warn people to stay away from them.
Scam exposed: CamDecoy is the bot’s tool
Quite interesting software that I found. CamDecoy is a software that allows anyone to set up a bot with a recorded video to trick people into thinking they are chatting with a real person.
The software seems quite sophisticated, and it even has commands that make the video jump to a certain part of the clip. Like “She waves,” and it jumps to where the girl waves to the camera. They have a video on YouTube: Fake Webcam CamDecoy works everywhere even chatroulette and omegle.
Now, take a look at the girl that CamDecoy used as an example. Yes, that is right. That is MadisonQT (1176). Whoever is behind the scam on Streamate is using the same girl that CamDecoy uses in their promo video. Well, at least they were not dumb enough to use the same recorded video.
Who is behind MadisonQT?
Some studio or webmasters with access to adult models bought a copy of CamDecoy and shot videos with different models.
MadisonQT is not the only bot account using CamDecoy on Streamate. All the other accounts (thanks to AmyBabyXXX for posting the accounts) seem to use videos recorded in the same studio, with the same camera, same lighting… Makes it easier to spot them.
Looking at MadisonQT’s chat room, unless those are also fake members to help it look more authentic, many members join her room, and nobody seems to know it is a recorded video.
As far as I know, there are other fake accounts, and they are not connected to this studio. For CamDecoy to work perfectly, it is necessary to have a girl sit in front of the camera and record all the pre-made commands. The other bots I know use recorded videos from other live rooms and then play in the loop. It is a very amateur scam. Nothing like running CamDecoy or any other complex software.
Why so many bots on Streamate?
It is impressive how many bots you can find on Streamate. They are one of the best camsites and have been growing pretty well in the last years, and yet they allow bots on their own site.
Streamate, with their lack of actions, made it clear that they won’t shut down these bots. If you complain to them, they will refund you and hide the bot from appearing to you. But they will never shut down a certified bot.
What is a certified bot?
It is just how I call them. If it is a bot like MadisonQT, coming from a studio with a good relationship with Streamate, then it is a certified bot. They will never shut down this bot, no matter how many complaints it gets.
Members were even tagging these bots as “fake” or “video loop.” It is an excellent way to warn other members and maybe end this scam once for all. The only problem is that models are allowed to remove tags. Tags that get removed can’t be used again on the same model. Obviously, Streamate had to do this to avoid trolls tagging good models with negative tags, and I agree with this measure. But then, it also allows these fake accounts to simply remove any tag that exposes the scam.
Finally Streamate does something
Well, they would never ban unless their deal expires. It seems that whatever deal these studio bots had with Streamate has expired, or Streamate has finally decided to move away from this scheme because 2020 was the last time a bot was seen online on Streamate.
The infamous MadisonQT’s account was finally closed in 2019. That account was active since 2012, and for seven long years, they let the bot run every day for 18-20 hours.
That is why I believe they had a deal to protect the bots, and this deal has expired. If not, then what other reason to allow an obvious bot to run and then, after seven years, just shut them down?
