I hope this reaches people before it's too late. It would seem that for, at least, the last 5-6 months the absentee administrator at ********* has let the site slip and is now just taking peoples' money.
This was brought to my attention by several users commenting that they paid over there but never received their subscription. I decided to peak in and it would seem that this is the case. A couple months ago, Ion made an appearance to assure people he's working to correct it, but only made a private thread where people could bitch instead of publicly bitch. Now, new potential victims don't even have fair warning that they'll never get what they paid for until it's too late.
I don't know too many of the people running the other sites anymore. I'm hoping Icoty will be kind enough to post this on his page and strip virtualaftershock of any links to *********.
I'm not sure what we can do at this point, other than sit back and watch. For those that still have accounts, I'd suggest posting in different sections suggesting people move away from the site (to any of the reputable cover sites).
For those that have been ripped off and are looking for a new home, you are more than welcome here--I've created a subscription for the users of ********* for 10$ rather than 16$. I'd like to do it for free, but more people = more bandwidth

If you are interested, PM me and I'll move you to a usergroup that is able to see that subscription.
Here is the other thread we opened to discuss it:
http://www.r1db.com/board/off-topic/...-scamming.html