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Regular user of InboxPirates here. I really love your product and I recommend to every Digital Marketing people who sending lots of emails.

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Hi Ben. I dug through your name and your portfolio, and your LinkedIn, and other posts you've made on the Internet. And what I found was amazing. You're someone claiming to be from Bristol, but you are very clearly someone who is not from there. You have left a massive footprint on the Internet, that's strongly suggests you're also the same person as the person who posted this item. If you're not the same person, well, you're certainly close to each other - and also, this identity is a fake.

What OP built is actually pretty cool. I would suggest removing these posts of almost-certainly fake reviews - and letting it stand on its own.

edit: they are actively deleting accounts and the "Ben" profiles now that I have called this out. Honesty is the best policy.

Hi Parker. My name is Bharadwaj and MC naveen is a facebook friend of mine. I didn't ask him to comment, just shared a link of the launch on Facebook.

Just because two people are from India, doesn't mean it has to be a fake review. Please do proper research before you comment.

> Just because two people are from India

I am not going to put the work into "doxxing", an action I find distasteful, but you have literally just inadvertently admitted to at least one of the things that I was claiming.

edit: they are actively deleting accounts and profiles now that I have called this out.

I don't understand what you're suggesting. I did not explicitly dm him to comment. Are you saying it's my fault I shared a link to the launch on my social media?

I publicly shared the link on my facebook wall and he had commented on his own.

When I first saw the comment I too thought it was someone else, before I saw his HN username.

> I am not going to put the work into "doxxing", an action I find distasteful, but you have literally just inadvertently admitted to at least one of the things that I was claiming.

I'm a regular user of InboxPirates and sharing my review here. You can see my previous submission and GitHub Profile.

Parker I have literally given the links to my website, my twitter, my linkedin and my github, and all of his.

My username has been @goforbg everywhere on the internet including the domain name.

I really don't know what else to show you. All I have to say is this, I created this tool. I wanted to launch it on HN. I posted the link of the hn thread on my facebook, twitter and whatsapp status.

I did NOT ask him to come comment here.

MC naveen actually did try out the product during the producthunt launch and had given me some valid feedback and bug fixes, so I think that's why he commented here.

If you think we're the same person or that I made him comment or it's a couple of fake profiles I have nothing else to show you except the products we've built online and our github contributions.

I'm going to stop replying beyond this because I feel it's insulting me and making me feel bad for something I did not do.

If you're looking in to dig in more here are my social links:

https://goforbg.com https://linkedin.com/in/goforbg https://twitter.com/goforbg https://github.com/goforbg

Here's that of MC Naveen

https://mcnaveen.com/ https://github.com/mcnaveen https://twitter.com/the_mcnaveen https://www.linkedin.com/in/mcnaveen/

"MC Naveen" is claiming to be Ben Stokes from Bristol. He has used images of people that aren't him.

You are literally admitting that someone is posting, presumably, with someone else's face on the internet.

edit: they are actively deleting accounts and profiles now that I have called this out.

I never claimed myself as Ben Stokes.

> If you're referring to lastest submission of mine. I was searching for his submission because it was inspiring. I have never ever claimed myself as anyone.

Thanks! Glad to hear

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