Crime & Punishment

Hey all

This post is just in regards to watch out for the goons and their convincing join our corp/alliance scams... it is very convincing but as i know now was a waste of time and isk, i started out new and bought some isk because i wanted a little kick start. anyhow now to business

They start by doing a normal interview and telling you about the programs that goons run like for example ship replacement and carrier programs for people that wish to go down that road, it gets to the point where they ask you to applied at a site which looks really well made and legit, where you have to supple your API code(full) in which they check how much isk you have and determine an entry fee to make sure your not a spy...... and at the same time shorty after they tell you that they have a free relocating service in which they can help you transfer all of your goods to their home base so by the time your accepted you'll be ready to go.

please heed this warming don't fall for these scams, if someone opens a private conversation with you that is from goonswarm that wish to recruit you just close it and don't bother, save your time and maybe a lot of isk.

i simply joint a new game with some extra in-game money and well wanted to join the biggest group out there as my reasoning was that, if they are one of the larges names/ or amount of people they must be doing something right which i wanted to learn from(pvp wise).

i was very much disappointed but in the same time good on you that was worth paying for the isk in return for the entertainment of fake recruiting, the amount of effort you went through to convince me was outstanding.

so in short new players this is just another scam to be aware of, my only tip and exp out of this is to only join a corp that DOES NOT require a entry fee for any reason.

rant done

fly safe!.

o7.

p.s fyi website link i was told to apply at was

www.goonfleet.net

EDIT: i have decided to release the names(characters) which scammed me, they still exist and are part of Goonwaffe from alliance Goonswarm Federation;

Ivan Isakov
Robus Muvila
Goonswarm Recruitment

This information is solely to help prevent new players talking to them and falling into the same trap.

Oh, it's this thread again....i swear i've seen this about 5,000 times

You bought ISK?

I hope you mean PLEX. If that's the case then yeah, sorry that happened to you. Seems you learned the lesson the hard way.
If you actually directly bought ISK, well, then I can tell you being scammed out of your ISK is a less severe punishment than having the GMs set your wallet balance negative by that same amount.

Don't be put off. Goons are actually a pretty pleasant bunch.

They have a strict rule of never scamming the same person twice. It makes sense, how do you think they could have possibly got so many members if they continuously scammed everyone who thought about joining? If you try again you'll have no problem getting in.

Yes I bought plex's,

And yes frostys I did read the site like i said it was well designed it even link well into the real goonswarm kilboard

OP pray tell & link us to the website you read? you may find it's different from the one that we think you didn't read. IE their wiki which does state in big red letters



The wiki page is slightly out of date, goonwaffe is now Goonswarm Federation, however it is on their official wiki

This is upsetting. As a Goonswarm Federation director, I must say that we do not approve of recruitment scams - who was the member that scammed you?

(As a Goonswarm Federation director, I am also available as a third party for transactions such as supercapital trades as well, at a competitive rate!)

You fell for THAT?

The wiki may be out of date, but that page is referring to the Goonwaffe corp, the main corp in GSF. There are other corporations in GSF that don't have the requirements Goonwaffe does, but they don't have application fees either.

Goonwaffe, however, does have an application fee of sorts. $10, specifically, to join the Something Awful forums.