... if you suspect this is not PW, you should report it to the mod...
I don't suspect anything, I was just thinking that it's unusual behaviour compared to his previous activity on the forum - but his (lack of) activity on his Patreon is also pretty unusual so who the fuck knows.
Also yes, there is very little value in stealing a person's F95 account since accounts here are free and most everything on this site is already stolen/pirated.
But it's not like there's
no benefit to cracking into a
creator's account on F95.
Gaining access to someone's F95 account gets you their email address, an email address can eventually be cracked into, and if the developer created their Patreon account with the same email then it becomes very easy to get into their Patreon account and do all sorts of things, including changing where the payments go.
None of this would require saying a word to you or I or anyone else on the forum.
Also, clearly some people don't need to be lured into believing the dev is still around, Paperwork has said not a word for four months now and there's still over one hundred people paying him on Patreon.
Effective fraud isn't always about pulling off big Paydays, more often than not it's about quietly slipping out with a few hundred bucks.
I don't reckon that's what happened here, because a person trying to do that wouldn't then keep coming back and visiting the site with the account they stole.
Still though, it's fun to speculate since we'll probably never know what happened to him.