Charles Stobe

Not sure; something simple probably.

When such scammers upload content on the site with the possible motivation of promoting paid assets, it should raise a red flag. And staff members can at least archive or remove such uploads if reported by a concerned player. 
 
If LSPDFR does indeed have a strict rule against purchasing goods and services, in addition to educating players to be cautious, sellers/promotors should also face certain consequences by promoting their access and thereby committing a rule violation. 
 
Obviously, the buyer is at fault for even falling for such scams, being careless having no common sense, etc. But if the buyer was scammed by scammers via LSPDFR website, or any site that has a rule against exchange for goods; then you cannot say "We can't do anything about it," because this gives you the accusation/charge of "Being an accessory of a scamming scheme." Since you are a if not main; direct, or indirect traffic source, and the host.
 
Your failure to act accordingly in response to an ongoing scamming scheme resulted in several users from your site suffering personal financial loss, that, you cannot plea "Not Liable." 
 
Back a couple of months ago, or even a year ago, I already suspected this "vehicle mods creator" advertising his stuff on LSPDFR. He would upload a few car mods in "vehicle models," and post something like "contact us for paid custom models" in the description, then disable comments to prevent any communications in public.
 
The sole purpose of this act is to lure players into their scamming scheme, and therefore promote their scams so more victims will fall for it, via LSPDFR's official website. 
 
 

I have, and it gets marked resolved with no change.

Same as the credits issue.

ref: #19502
 

Multiple people have been taken advantage of financially by this user.  This site heavily influences the traffic to his website and discord based on his downloads.  But as for site related.

All of his posts are over 50% of the description promoting his website, discord, commissions etc.

Followed by a large amount of pictures of vehicles unrelated to the actual upload


In addition, every single upload contains improper credits




 

I also want to make it a point that if there are violations of our rules on our site, especially in private messages, it needs to be brought up to us. We can't be everywhere, we can't be active in every Discord community out there. Just because all your friends know about something doesn't mean we do. It also doesn't hurt to make us aware of shady interactions outside of the site, but don't expect us to solve the problem for you. It at least lets us know what to look out for on the site.
 
As Cyan said, we have a lot of measures in place to protect users, even those who don't actively use our site. Plenty of people attempt to leak models through alternate accounts only to find out that won't work here. But the biggest defense is the community itself. As they say, "see something, say something."

Thanks for the transparency. Your reply actually cleared it up unlike Will who was condescending and made excuse after excuse. He needs re-training in his responses.
 
I'll reach out the the dev and see if thats what he wants to prosue. 

Yes, of course. @Back12 please report these messages to us using the reporting tool. That will allow all of our moderation staff to easily access the private message thread, along with full message histories and edit metadata to take appropriate action.
 
In regards to leaks, if someone on the site is using assets without permission then this isn't allowed per our File Guidelines. Please encourage the author of the asset to report this to us via our reporting tools or if this is not possible to get in touch via e-mail (management at lcpdfr dot com) with evidence.

In this particular case, most of it comes down either: it happened off site (the original post) or it wasn't reported to us.
If it happened on DIscord, you may want to reach out to Discord Trust & Safety. If it happened here, report this to us using our reporting tools.
I'm sorry you feel that people on the site are "protected" in some way. I'll be genuinely honest and express that simply isn't the case - you can chose to believe this or not. The reality is we refuse submissions all the time due to incorrect credits, permissions issues and most of my outgoing messages are following up on reports or other file concerns. If we cared about nothing but clicks we wouldn't put half of this effort in.
 
We've built process and systems to prevent fly-by leaking, multiple accounts and all sorts of other community nuisance behaviour. Maybe we should talk about these systems a little more as it would show the effort that we do go through in protecting the community and assets of those who don't even upload here.

@Back12 posted evidence of ED conducting business on this site. Is that not an enforceable rule since it's not allowed? This guy is actively doing this to multiple people. I get you can't control what's done on discord but at the very least you can control his actions on this site. Or no?
This is very true. I've confirmed this with razer. Razer said he's been banned for using leaks and yet he's still posting razers models on his builds. Crazy. 
He gets the site clicks man. That's all they really care about. People don't know better. They see nice screenshots and don't really know the trash behind it. Devs work hard to provide content for free and it's guys like ED whos ruining the reputation of this site and the moderators don't care. I stand by my first comment. He's protected for some odd reason. If only they knew the lies he hides behind. 
 
When I first started modding, he reuploaded one of my vehicles with his texture. I asked him to take it down and he got nasty, saying very questionable things.   It's sad that he allowed to be a cancer to this community. 

Something illegal like stalking users, exposing their personal information, or other acts that threaten the safety of our users. What happened here comes down to bad financial decisions and any cop will tell you the same and inform you to seek civil litigation. Each time a refund was offered, the buyers declined and just wanted their mod completed. 
 
As for leaking, if it wasn't leaked on our site, again there's nothing we can do. We won't ban someone simply for having a bad reputation. 
 
 

My issue is that you say you won’t ban someone unless they do something illegal. And he Is scamming people out of tons of money which is considered fraud which is illegal. And he has leaked assets of Razers but yet you still allow him to be here. And what banning him would achieve is it would get him out of public light not allowing him to scam as many people still. So unless you’re going to ban him you can’t tell us you won’t ban someone unless they do something illegal, which there’s tons of evidence to prove he’s done. And I hope you do realize the number of devs you are losing because of this. Not just small named devs but even big name devs.

Thank you for proving everyone’s point in that you guys protect him. You clearly have proof of scamming, which is ILLEGAL!!!! And you still allow him to release broken vehicles as well as vehicles that he has illegally obtained through leaking. But that’s right everything he’s done has been legitimate and you’ll only ban for illegal actions. But I guess according to you scamming people out of money isn’t illegal. It’s a real shame what you guys are allowing in this community and allowing it to become!

It's fucked up the community has come to this point. I understand the concept behind making money for paid vehicles, hell I do it myself. It's really low for someone to scam multiple people and then give them the big ol' middle finger but I am not surprised, this is the GTA community after all. Hasn't changed in the 10 years I've been active..

Ive always wondered how every single car they release somehow never has working takedowns when they are advertised as having them

Not sure if he knows but it's well known all over discord and everyone I've talked to knows. Doubt anything will happen because he gets this site clicks from his constant broken releases. 

I honestly can't believe he's, they're, they? whatever the fuck it wants to be called is allowed to release stuff. 

Typical attitude from ED. He's known to use leaks as well. He needs to be banned from this website like MU but he has the staff here protecting him so that'll never happen. 
 
 

Hey guys unfortunately I put in a request for vehicles to be done and fast forward 2 months the work never got done and was scammed out of money from Emergency Distributors. I could only imagine that several people had vehicles before, But my luck with them was no vehicles and dead promises. I should have taken the refund when they first offered "if" it even would have been sent.
By the way that they handle themselves, this isn't the first time they did this and they said it themselves. Not sure how a guy like this is still in the LSPDFR community.
I will let the screenshots speak for themselves.
Please exercise caution while dealing with them, based on the experiences shared above.
7/7/23 no refund.

Pretty damn fucking good considering the limitations of GTA.

The TV show "The Last Ship" has similarities in our world today, such as a global pandemic. So I decided to reenact 30 seconds from the show in Grand Theft Auto V. I added the real clip from the show and of course my video to ensure no confusion. Yes it could be better but it's good enough in my opinion 😄
 
Clip From The Last Ship:
 
 
My Video:
 
 
 
Please let me know what you think! Thanks guys 🙂 

Why would you say that they will not work?  They work for 0.4.3 with just a "possible compatible warning".  Expect the same thing with this as well.  

Now all we need is a new Script HookV and we'll be all good! 

Thanks for all the hard work guys!  🙂