Longleat - A WARNING TO EVERYONE

I've never been to Longleat, although passed by the gate around this time last year - is it a good day out @Verygreen? Do you have other photos from your day there?

 

I have been many years ago, I can't really remember the gardens. All I remember is the drive through monkey enclosure. They appear to know the weak points of each type of passing car, to begin with it was fun as they jumped on our car, then they systematically prised off various parts, the long rubber roof seals and wipers. That was a very expensive trip.

 

Thank you Looks like you had a fantastic time. What a wonderful looking place, I must go at some point.

 

Ladies and gentlemen we need to make you aware that some images that get posted are not always as innocent as they may seem... the images posted in this thread rang some alarm bells with the Admin Team, and sure enough it wasn't long before further images were being shared via PM. Whilst these images were also not illegal or pornographic, they were also not the sort of image that you would want your child to be sharing with strangers over the internet - - I say child, as it is our firm belief that the person in these images is a minor, despite claims of being older.

This led us to do some investigation this afternoon, and before long we linked this account with another that was banned from GC in the latter part of last year, for very similar behaviours - - portraying themselves as a member genuinely interested in gardening, fairly rapidly moving on to sending images by PM (some very questionable from what we could gather), inviting the other member to join Kik or TikTok to then presumably share even more questionable (potentially illegal) images.

Last year when this prior account had been brought to our attention, enquiries were made with legal services (police/CPS) and we established that this was a known scam to hook people in unwittingly to then go on and bribe them after having sent/shown them images of a risqué nature by informing them that they had viewed images of a minor.

As you hopefully all know, we take the safety of our members extremely seriously here at GC, and we will always take swift and decisive action when something like this surfaces. We also will NOT tolerate any inappropriate material nor will we stand back and see our members be entraped/scammed in any way.

Whilst we go to great lengths to vet everyone that applies to join GC, very occasionally one will slip the net - - please be mindful of this when you are sent any PM's from new members, particularly if those PM's contain images or are suggestive/risqué in any way.

In the event that you do receive images of this nature, please use the Report link on the relevant post within the PM - this makes a copy of that post and sends it to us in the office and allows us to see it, and allows us to assist. Private messages are exactly that, private, so unless you use the report link we will not be able to see or help - simply sending us a message will not suffice.

We strongly advise against joining platforms such as Kik or TikTok under circumstances like this and if anyone asks you to do so, ignore or report.

If you choose not to heed the information/advice here, then be aware that you are responsible for your own actions and therefore the consequences are entirely yours.

 

Hence us asking quite innocent but leading questions....