EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hey OP, think of it this way: you are in a ship. You get a fleet invite. If you trust a guy, that ship might blow up if he screws you over. Do you really care that much? Maybe not, and you join their fleet and make some friends. That's a different thing then giving someone half of what you own, trusting he will move it to your intended destination.

In the first scenario the worst thing that happens is that you lose a ship and maybe a pod. An acceptable risk, because you will die eventually anyway. In the second scenario you might lose half of everything you own. That risk is unacceptable, and common sense dictates you might allow this guy to transport your stuff using a courier contract with decent reward + collateral.

As a new player I wouldn't be too scared about someone misusing your trust. You don't have super-shiny ships to awox, you are probably not space rich yet, and podding you won't set you back much. You can't pluck a bald chicken, as we say in my country!

I contacted him and he appoligized it took him 3.5 years to return the money back and that he did put 200mil in there as interest for me waiting. He had some major RL stuff happening and had to drop out of game.