nathaniel Posted August 23, 2010 Report Share Posted August 23, 2010 T-ara's official fan cafe, "Citrine" has been forced to shut down after it's been revealed that the operator was revealed to have embezzled over 10 million KRW (8470 USD) from cafe members. "Citrine" had disappeared recently by being shut down, but no news or reason why were announce. The almost 30,000 fan cafe members took to various portal sites wondering why the withdrawal took place. In fact, if you go to the cafe's address (http://cafe.daum.net/skydancedye) it reveals that it's been set to private for the operator only and you're not able to apply to join the membership. Fans found out today the real reason why it was forced to shut down. The operator had been stealing money from fan cafe members that had donated towards gift and presents for T-ara. They money that she embezzled she kept to herself. More information is developing, but it's been revealed there was three people operating the cafe, all of which were forced to withdrawal from maintaining. According to netizens, the main operator was only in high school causing a more serious impact to the situation. Many netizens and fans are mad that the operator degraded the members and T-ara like this. They're all also confused what'll happen next and they are also criticizing T-ara's agency saying that they don't care for fans by letting this happen. Netizens said, "For now we can look at T-ara's official website until their agency provides support," "The OFFICIAL fan cafe, what do you mean it will be closed?" "High school makes this even worse TT__TT" "Now where do we go?" *** source: nate cr: nathaniel (trans) @ diadem + nate good thing diadem didn't chose them to help w/ projects LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GiovanniPia Posted August 23, 2010 Report Share Posted August 23, 2010 Fans found out today the real reason why it was forced to shut down. The operator had been saving up money over the past year that was donated towards presents and gifts for T-ara, and kept it to herself. I don't understand >_< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krazyman145 Posted August 23, 2010 Report Share Posted August 23, 2010 i hope everything went well with the case, i think someone could go to jail for doing this thing :s just tell the korean netizens esp those member of the fancafe, that tiaradiadem always welcome them XD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jayp Posted August 23, 2010 Report Share Posted August 23, 2010 What a terrible and selfish thing to do. Not only did they make the fans look bad, they are also making T-ara look bad : / And to be doing this type of criminal act at this scale, during high school is shocking. T-ara has so much activities going on during the next few months, why and how did this happen in the first place and why now? Hopefully this will all be resolved quickly and in a way that doesn't hurt T-ara's image and their fans, as much. And yes, good thing diadem didn't choose them to help with projects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christina. Posted August 23, 2010 Report Share Posted August 23, 2010 X_X... never saw this coming... why are they even blaming T-ara's agency? were they the ones who decided who should operate the website... This sounds awful, I know I would be pissed if those 3 pplz stole my money and kept it for themselves but there's no reason to blame the agency and saying how they don't care... i don't think the agency would even suspect such fraudulent actions from the fan cafe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genjo Sanzo Posted August 23, 2010 Report Share Posted August 23, 2010 OMG this terrible news for the users especially to the T-ARA fans who donated and contributed to the webpage. This issue have to be look into thoroughly to avoid any more damage to other relevant party. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest baramsori Posted August 23, 2010 Report Share Posted August 23, 2010 WHY do they blame their agency? If they company has any control in the fan site, they will try to say they MANIPULATE the fans, MANIPULATE the infos blah blah Be reasonable! The company in no way can prevent this from happening. Just like, a saint can't prevent somebody else from being greedy... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pcd6music Posted August 23, 2010 Report Share Posted August 23, 2010 WHAT?! Wow this really makes me suspicious of a few forums. But I dunno if I can trust some. I know big ones like ELFs and Soshified is legit. With that many staff and people it's hard to sneak something. I also know many forums don't do selfish things like that. Wow are they going to get arrested?? That's horrible not to mention it was an OFFICIAL fan cafe which makes the agency worse. The "OFFICIAL" status makes people trust whatever it is. Especially if T-Aras agency says so. Wow that's a huge blow to T-Ara fancafes and fans everywhere Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lem Posted August 23, 2010 Report Share Posted August 23, 2010 Oh my gah... That thing used T-ara's fan site for her own personal use.. I don't get why they're blaming the company though.. But isn't this stuff illegal and can be sued/jailed for? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoneS Posted August 23, 2010 Report Share Posted August 23, 2010 wow... i mean seriously... that girl/dude should get a life... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eva31s Posted August 23, 2010 Report Share Posted August 23, 2010 This is just so bad... Supportive fans got cheat !!!!!! In the future sure the donating and gift present will be affected ... Dunno who's real or not !!! Some fans sure didn't eat and safe some money and donated it to the fancafe's, now it notice their being cheat....... Hope this thing will soon be resolve !!! T-ara fan's Fighting !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loveletter Posted August 23, 2010 Report Share Posted August 23, 2010 That is just horrible. Embezzling funds ain't cool! Good job to Tiaradiadem for not working with them. Hope T-ara fans don't feel so cheated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hyo_hugger Posted August 23, 2010 Report Share Posted August 23, 2010 That's terrible DX I wonder what kind of person that kid would turn out to be, embezzlement is a crime isn't it? T-ara always has diadem over here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pum_in Posted August 23, 2010 Report Share Posted August 23, 2010 OMG this terrible news for the users especially to the T-ARA fans ...the things will stop? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niwdlab14 Posted August 23, 2010 Report Share Posted August 23, 2010 it is such a sad situation to hear that embezzlement in a community supporting T-ara. i hope things get sorted out. people should be nicer to each other. sigh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MustardMilk Posted August 23, 2010 Report Share Posted August 23, 2010 I don't understand >_< so basically the manager scammed everyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chiuchiuuuuu Posted August 23, 2010 Report Share Posted August 23, 2010 we should be the largest t-ara fan club right now C= Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chartreuse Posted August 23, 2010 Report Share Posted August 23, 2010 Gosh, that's terrible! D: I do hope that there'll be a more honest place for the fans to gather in place of Citrine, then. Especially considering how they'll be back on the scene soon... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiyanLovesT-ara Posted August 23, 2010 Report Share Posted August 23, 2010 wat the?! idk why but i really feel embarrassed by this.. seriously, its T-ara's official fancafe!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T-ara.ily8D Posted August 23, 2010 Report Share Posted August 23, 2010 What she did was totally selfish! How can someone be this cruel to use those innocent fans and use their money and love for T-ARA!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ras' smK Posted August 23, 2010 Report Share Posted August 23, 2010 hm, i can't understand why this operator maked such a thing '-' An operator usually have that "job" because they like the group, right? such weird thing happening in the world :/ why blame the agency? '-' they are not the fancafe admins |: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*YANiPOPO* Posted August 23, 2010 Report Share Posted August 23, 2010 You guys dont know my profound disliking for this fancafe. Im a huge t-ara fan, being so, i joined this and got kicked out/revoked membership everytime they find out that i joined another fancafe. I dont know how they do that, but me and another staff her experienced it. After that, i have joined them again, with the same results, and it happened 5 times. On the 5th time, after i got revoked membership(take note, all my accounts were LEVELED UP..) i see this news by nathaniel. And i was like "dude, thats what you call karma" they are very elitist. Im a loyal t-arafan member now. of course, diadem is still here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dis_crazy_girl Posted August 23, 2010 Report Share Posted August 23, 2010 URGH..That fan girl/guy cheated on us Diadems..cant belive it's shutting down>:[ But we are still the biggest fan group for t-ara! T-ara hwaiting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuzon Posted August 23, 2010 Report Share Posted August 23, 2010 wow...and i considered joining that cafe yesterday... at least diadem is still here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oshidark Posted August 23, 2010 Report Share Posted August 23, 2010 omg.. thats horrible how can some ppl be so selfish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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