Risks of being a cam model + blocked countries

[zazzles90]

hi everyone

ive started the process of applying to be a cam model on MFC.

ive done lots of reading and research before decided to become one and realise it does has its risks, which I'd be willing to take depending how likely they are to happen... Such as people I know finding out if visitors/customers record me and upload to sites.

(To be honest if someone did find out it wouldnt ruin my life, would be easier to deal with than my family)

Does this often occur?

The main one that concerns me abit is how it may affect my career in the future, and how easy it would be for future employers to find out which may end in me losing my job.

Is the risk pretty small?

Also a question on the profile settings were you can block countries...does this block customers AND visitors from the blocked country? ie is it totally blocked?


Thanks for anybody who can answer my questions, I know i may come across abit hesitant about doing it but feel I could do quite well on there and just want to get all the ins and outs before I fully make up my mind and commit to it.

 

[Always_Tim]

Also a question on the profile settings were you can block countries...does this block customers AND visitors from the blocked country? ie is it totally blocked?

Blocking a country prevents anyone who is connecting from an IP address which is allocated to that country from viewing your cam or your profile. I think they can still see your avatar photo (e.g., in search results).

On the other hand, you need to be aware that blocking by IP address is not perfect (not even close). First of all, IP address allocations don't necessarily follow country boundaries and also the databases of where IP addresses have been allocated can lag behind reality by a month or more. Also, people can use proxy servers or VPNs to get IP addresses in any arbitrary country if they really want to get around a block.

 

[Dani_withani]

I have blocked my specific province (Canadian) and if anyone here tries to search for me I don't even come up in the search results. I haven't had any problems but I'm very open about it with everyone except my family (and they're cool as shit, I'm just saving them the heartbreak).
I have given the url to my profile to people here and it comes up with an error screen when they use it.

 

[LacieLaPlante]

My brother's friends actually found me because someone posted a picture of me on a popular website. It all went downhill from there. I've had people from high school find my twitter and my tumblr. So, it happens. Their state was blocked, you can't block states or countries from twitter.

No one has ever found out where I lived - if they did, they certainly didn't share it with me. Once someone found my parent's address because I was too loose with information BEFORE I started camming - make sure you go to websites like whitepages.com or anything with a phone number listings and get your listings deleted or falsify them. This person started harassing my parents with phone calls, posted their number and address on 4chan - supposedly because I banned him from my room for calling me a name.

I get recorded fairly often, the videos aren't always bad. I have found that someone uploaded my sex video, which I am selling. They're easy to get removed, but that doesn't mean someone hasn't saved it and re-uploaded already.

I don't mean to scare you, I suppose. I just want to say that these things are real, not myth. I've been nude on the internet for 3+ years now and it's not much of a secret anymore, despite efforts to conceal it all.

 

[ElaySmith]

I got away with hiding it for a little over 2 years then somebody came across me on MFC sent the link for that and my website to people I went to high school with on FB and bam now everyone knows. Ive lost friends over it, I dont speak to half my family because of it but in the end I am happy, self sufficient and doing something I enjoy.

 

[loveyougipsy]

The main one that concerns me abit is how it may affect my career in the future, and how easy it would be for future employers to find out which may end in me losing my job.

I always find this a curious concern, unless you are intending to work in an area where background checks on you and or family are expected to be perform, eg working with children, intelligence etc.
Would you really want to work at a company where past jobs you did to make money affects their decision about whether you are the best qualified, capable and fitting person for the job you've applied for?

Maybe i've just been lucky with my employers or things are more liberal in europe. I've previously worked at a publishing company who's primary market was the education sector (5-18) they also published the Lovers Guide on CD. Most of our clients wouldn't know because things were published under different publishers, but they all came out the same studios.

One of the guys I currently work with used to be a voice over artist on porn movies. What would the clients think? I've no idea. In this country they probably wouldn't care, in the other 6 countries we operate, most probably wouldn't care either.
What does his employer and collegues think? He a smart guy who knows what he's doing and does it very well.
I just asked if he has a stick on Ron Jeremy mustache and can play '70s wakka wakka guitar... He told me he doesn't play guitar but did blow his horn in the office one day. :-D

Then again I wouldn't want to work somewhere that felt it was necessary to restrict and censor my internet access. If they can't trust me enough to use the Internet responsibly, how the hell can they trust me with access to systems containing personal data about 100,000s of people?

 

[SoTxBob]

must be liberal Europe... Here locally at least, and especially in the last 4-5 years, background checks and the like are commonplace.

"Would you really want to work at a company where past jobs you did to make money affects their decision about whether you are the best qualified, capable and fitting person for the job you've applied for?"

Whether or not you 'want' to work for a company that cares about your past seems a bit .. well... absurd. Those companies are usually the ones with better salaries and benefits that are growing and stable with the most jobs...
I know several head hunters as well as a couple of HR folks. They all have the 'unspoken' order NOT to hire x strippers simply because once found out, it would disrupt the male workforce and thereby effect productivity.
As far as restricting net access... back before I quit the firm, they had open access to everything, 2 years before I quit, they checked the hours logged onto porn sites. It averaged 3-4 hours PER DAY/PER PERSON for the office staff of about 60 ppl. Needless to say that was stopped and a letter sent out forbidding surfing of adult sites during the work day. :dontknow:

 

[AllisonWilder]

I'm not even sure how anyone would find out via a background check that you get naked on the internet unless you cam under your legal name. We're independent contractors for a website. I don't see any way that a standard background check will find out what area of the site you work for. I could just as easily be MFC support or an MFC camgirl.

 

[ElaySmith]

I'm not even sure how anyone would find out via a background check that you get naked on the internet unless you cam under your legal name. We're independent contractors for a website. I don't see any way that a standard background check will find out what area of the site you work for. I could just as easily be MFC support or an MFC camgirl.

It shouldn't show up in a background check unless it showed up as MFCXY (or whatever it says on the checks) and then MFC has that fake website that shows up when you google that. I think the major problem would be having your cam name some how tied to your real name since it is common practice for employers to google possible/future employees before hiring them.

 

[Cassidy Nicole]

I got away with hiding it for a little over 2 years then somebody came across me on MFC sent the link for that and my website to people I went to high school with on FB and bam now everyone knows. Ive lost friends over it, I dont speak to half my family because of it but in the end I am happy, self sufficient and doing something I enjoy.

This is seriously the exact same thing that happened to me.

People WILL find out, it is just a matter of when and who. There are ways to get around the blocking suck as proxies and cell phones. Videos/pictures WILL be posted around the internet. If this is something you do not want to have to deal with, save yourself the trouble and either accept it or don't cam at all. :twocents-02cents:

 

[loveyougipsy]

must be liberal Europe... Here locally at least, and especially in the last 4-5 years, background checks and the like are commonplace.

"Would you really want to work at a company where past jobs you did to make money affects their decision about whether you are the best qualified, capable and fitting person for the job you've applied for?"

Whether or not you 'want' to work for a company that cares about your past seems a bit .. well... absurd. Those companies are usually the ones with better salaries and benefits that are growing and stable with the most jobs...
I know several head hunters as well as a couple of HR folks. They all have the 'unspoken' order NOT to hire x strippers simply because once found out, it would disrupt the male workforce and thereby effect productivity.
As far as restricting net access... back before I quit the firm, they had open access to everything, 2 years before I quit, they checked the hours logged onto porn sites. It averaged 3-4 hours PER DAY/PER PERSON for the office staff of about 60 ppl. Needless to say that was stopped and a letter sent out forbidding surfing of adult sites during the work day. :dontknow:

Interesting, maybe I've just been lucky with the companies I work for, or the jobs/industry I'm in is different. I wasn't aware it had reached that level in Europe. I don't know anyone who's been through it or works where it's standard practice.

Out of the 30-40 CVs we've had through one of our UK offices this year we only Google searched one of them and certainly don't have a policy of Internet searching potential employees. In the UK we perform CRB checks depending on which systems, services they will be working on only if needed.
At interview any part-time work or gaps on my CV never came up and it is about the area of expertise in previous employment relevant to the job I'm being hired for.
The only real internet abuse was at my previous company. One of the IT guys thought it would be smart to distribute porn from the companies webservers :? and later one of the IT support guys was downloading movies and games on company servers because the internet connection was faster than home.
They brought in a filter when facebook usage increased, the main reason it increased was management didn't give people work to do so they were bored. It was soon relaxed when marketing couldn't access the social networking sites they used for product promotion and one of the directors lost a small fortune when his share dealing site was blocked as a gambling site. :-D

 

[Alabastra]

The block functions only helps to some extent. If you end up taped somewhere, and it end up on various porn sites, everyone can and will see it. Though, it is millions of videos out there, you can be drowned out if you are lucky.

A bigger issue is that it can easily be bypassed. Either from home, and when people are traveling and surfing around online.

What to keep in mind is following:
1: How likely is it that someone will recognize you? Covering up tattoos, moles, scars and so on is not a bad idea if you have easily recognizable ones.
2: How likely is it that someone that recognizes you will look at it in a negative way?
3: How likely is it that someone that recognizes you and want to harm you are able to do so without getting harmed themselves?

Add that up, and you will find out how big risk it is.

Either way, the bottom like will always be that you always have to assume that people will find out. If it don't, great! But don't count on it, and be prepared for it to happen.