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Real Money Scamming - Totally Unacceptable

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Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#101 - 2012-08-02 22:29:18 UTC
Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#102 - 2012-08-02 22:30:39 UTC
Crouching Tigress wrote:
so you failed to show me where i signed up to be alowed to be scammed then?
…you mean apart from the bit where it said that scamming is allowed? Not only by omission in the EULA, but also explicitly in the complementary rules that you agree with as part of agreeing to the EULA.

Yeah, no. I didn't fail to show you that. You just failed to read it.
Crouching Tigress
Doomheim
#103 - 2012-08-02 22:30:45 UTC
Drunken Bum
#104 - 2012-08-02 22:32:38 UTC
This isn't real money scamming. You're an idiot. Also, HA HA. Sucker.

After the patch we're giving the market some gentle supply restriction, like tying one wrist to the bedpost loosely with soft silk rope. Just enough to make things a bit more exciting for the market, not enough to make a safeword necessary.  -Fozzie
Korg Leaf
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#105 - 2012-08-02 22:33:59 UTC
Long story short, OP is ******** and can't fathom that once he converted his mummies cash into isk that real life laws no longer apply.
Caroline Grace
Retrostellar Boulevard
#106 - 2012-08-02 22:34:07 UTC
Facepalm @ OP, no real money was stolen. End of the story.

I'm Caroline Grace, and this is my favorite musical on the Citadel.
Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#107 - 2012-08-02 22:34:08 UTC  |  Edited by: Jonah Gravenstein
Crouching Tigress wrote:
Jonah Gravenstein wrote:
What the OP hopes will happen if he tells the old bill


The reaction he'll actually get



again lets see


Please feel free to post a crime reference number if you don't

A: get laughed at because the Police Officer on duty is actually a goon
B: take a time out at her maj's pleasure for a night or 2 for wasting police time
C: get gatecamped on your way out of the carpark by the local chavs

I'm assuming UK player because you paid in £ (pounds sterling)

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

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Feyd's Survival Pack
Shameless Avenger
Can Preachers of Kador
#108 - 2012-08-02 22:34:21 UTC
Toons should get in-game sec status hit for posting threads like this.

"This is the Ninja. He will scan you down; he will salvage your wrecks and there shall be no aggro"
Roll Sizzle Beef
Space Mutiny
#109 - 2012-08-02 22:34:54 UTC
Tarsus Zateki wrote:
Crouching Tigress wrote:

still no exactl EULA extract then? you cant just make stuff up your of your head.


I trust everyone now realizes this entire thread is just a fake post.


well since he purposely passed over the EULA excerpt I gave, it was pretty obvious from the start though.
Crouching Tigress
Doomheim
#110 - 2012-08-02 22:35:13 UTC
Jonah Gravenstein wrote:
Crouching Tigress wrote:
Jonah Gravenstein wrote:
What the OP hopes will happen if he tells the old bill


The reaction he'll actually get



again lets see


Please feel free to post a crime reference number if you don't

A: get laughed at because the Police Officer on duty is actually a goon
B: take a time out at her maj's pleasure for a night or 2 for wasting police time
C: get gatecamped on your way out of the carpark by the local chavs


see the funny thing is i bet you laughed when people didnt think they could be convicted for saying stuff on twitter...
Virgil Travis
Non Constructive Self Management
#111 - 2012-08-02 22:36:28 UTC
Crouching Tigress wrote:
Jonah Gravenstein wrote:
What the OP hopes will happen if he tells the old bill


The reaction he'll actually get



again lets see


Go on then. We already know how it will turn out. Will you want to bash someone's head off a wall like you threatened in your OP?

Unified Church of the Unobligated - madness in the method Mamma didn't raise no victims.
Sarah Schneider
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#112 - 2012-08-02 22:37:08 UTC
This is such a successful troll thread.

"I'd rather have other players get shot by other players than not interacting with others" -CCP Soundwave
Crouching Tigress
Doomheim
#113 - 2012-08-02 22:39:23 UTC
Virgil Travis wrote:
Crouching Tigress wrote:
Jonah Gravenstein wrote:
What the OP hopes will happen if he tells the old bill


The reaction he'll actually get



again lets see


Go on then. We already know how it will turn out. Will you want to bash someone's head off a wall like you threatened in your OP?



do you? how do you know?
Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#114 - 2012-08-02 22:39:45 UTC  |  Edited by: Jonah Gravenstein
Crouching Tigress wrote:

see the funny thing is i bet you laughed when people didnt think they could be convicted for saying stuff on twitter...


making threats to a real life entity via a public medium is very very different than stealing internet spaceships monies, and fyi the guy who got arrested for the bombthreat via twitter? his conviction was quashed in court the other day, the little scrote that made the threat to the Olympic swimmer will no doubt get a slapped wrist and made to make a public apology.

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

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Jim Era
#115 - 2012-08-02 22:42:31 UTC
OP, you committed a worse crime than the scammers because you threatened to physically harm someone.

Wat™
Myz Toyou
Nekkid Inc.
#116 - 2012-08-02 22:43:22 UTC
10/10 best troll for a long time
Crouching Tigress
Doomheim
#117 - 2012-08-02 22:43:40 UTC
anyway im out, keep trolling....all your proving to me is that your low lifes... have fun being one Roll
Virgil Travis
Non Constructive Self Management
#118 - 2012-08-02 22:45:42 UTC
Crouching Tigress wrote:
Virgil Travis wrote:
Crouching Tigress wrote:
Jonah Gravenstein wrote:
What the OP hopes will happen if he tells the old bill


The reaction he'll actually get



again lets see


Go on then. We already know how it will turn out. Will you want to bash someone's head off a wall like you threatened in your OP?



do you? how do you know?


It's already been explained by most of the posters in this thread. It doesn't matter how you got the ISK you gave them, it was in game currency pure and simple. They didn't encourage you to buy the PLEX you used to get the ISK, you did that of your own volition. As far as they were concerned it was just 3 billion that you could have gotten via any means.

Unified Church of the Unobligated - madness in the method Mamma didn't raise no victims.
Markarian Aurelius
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#119 - 2012-08-02 22:46:11 UTC  |  Edited by: Markarian Aurelius
OP, this is really super failed logic. Lets take another example....

I go to a movie and spend $20 for a ticket. I have now converted that cash into time that I can spend watching something on a big screen. If I didn't like that movie, i would say "I just lost 2 hours of my life that I can't get back" rather than "The theatre just stole my $20?!?!"

What you did was a 3 stage exchange. You converted cash into Plex, and then Plex into ISk. You then gave said ISK to someone who ran off with it. While I don't condone scamming, your logic that you had your RL money stolen is a fallacy. Once it's in EVE you can consider it good as gone, and you know this but refuse to accept it. It's just like if you paid for a car and it got stolen you'd say someone stole your car, not your $40,000. When you exchange something it no longer inherits the same form or value of what it was before, hence why it's called exchange.

Now, would you say you had RL money stolen had you used that ISK to buy a ship and it got suicide ganked when you undocked, especially if they took all the modules that dropped which you also purchased with converted PLEX? Of course not. Stop being an idiot, please. You're hurting all of our brains.
Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#120 - 2012-08-02 22:46:41 UTC
Crouching Tigress wrote:
anyway im out, keep trolling.
I'm sorry, that doesn't make sense.

“Keep trolling” implies that someone has started trolling, and the only likely candidate for that is you. But you're supposedly out. So how will the trolling continue then?

The simple fact remains: you were not scammed out of real money, and in-game scams are, as has been shown, quite explicitly allowed.