Alright, I have to be honest about this here as a member whose been here for a relatively long time. I was unable to necessarily identify how requesting people to post as you on a BH forum so that you could then PAY A FEE to achieve Jr. VIP status automatically implies that someone is a scammer.
The bidders - well I understand why we might be upset that internal folks are willing to fake post as others to help them achieve Jr. VIP status - but I also think that assumes they are all in cahoots and have malicious intentions.
I can definitely think of scenarios where having someone else post as you to obtain "reputation" or "status" or whatever is perhaps not only reasonable, but in some situations necessary. Not the least of which is a situation where someone might have a hugely valuable product/service to offer to MANY communities, and they may simply be TOO BUSY to post on 300 forums.
I trust and respect the mods here, so I'm confident the situation has been handled in the manner that is best for the forum. I just thought I'd play devil's advocate for a moment, and offer some alternative thoughts on what the possible intentions of this individual trying to get into Jr.VIP might have been. I'm sure you're probably all correct that his/her intentions were bad. Or were they?