So I was browsing the Game Forum and up comes a new thread. "New type of scam?" New type of scam, question mark... This could be interesting! Let's find out what those ever-so-sneaky scammers are up to now. They're always coming up with new ways of taking your hard earned cash for free, those clever bastards!
It turns out that those fiends are now trying to buy accounts from people. *gasp* Sending a professional looking BM along the lines of:
give me u account and i give u 6millz on u new scum account. we need shoters 4 r bizniss. itz wiv in da game rulez! im rly not a scummer
Gusto said
Fast-talking, salesman like, straight to the point, it could rival an ad campaign created by Apple. But behind this slick message, is there an alterior motive? It's hard to believe, but there really is! One person fell for this scheme giving away his account, Rudi, for the promise of $6 million. However, he was appalled to find that he had in fact been scammed!
I know! I bet you are as shocked as I am. It turns out that you cannot even trust someone who is asking to buy your account anymore. What is Bootleggers coming to? Those sneaky scammers simply took his account and put it into vacation mode. Rudi decided to signup again as TheMortician and quickly made a post in the Game Forum entitled "New type of scam?" where he tried to warn others of this new, ultra-smart approach to scamming.
As ever the Bootleggers community rallied around this poor soul and offered him there sympathy. Many attempted to help TheMortician by suggesting that he should learn more and try to educate himself, by suggestion that what he did was moronic, stupid and idiotic.
Interrobang was quick to suggest a brain transplant may be a viable option. While Carlos offered to sell some magic beans as a small means of consolation.
So remember, these scammers are always evolving their tactics to take advantage of you. You have to be alert and on the look out for anything that seems too good to be true. Remember the phrase "if it sounds too good to be true then it probably is." Or in this case "if it sounds too good to be true then you're about to become the new kind of stupid."
For any stupid people reading this article:
[quote]sat·ire
noun
1. the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.
2. a literary composition, in verse or prose, in which human folly and vice are held up to scorn, derision, or ridicule.[/qupte]
