We’ve all seen more than our fair share of ‘I was a scammer. Then I got frozen. Now I’m sorry.’ Well, my story is slightly different, and much more common. I thought some people could profit from reading how a straitlaced guild leader could slip into the recesses of pet trading and conning, loose everything several times, and come out of it with her head high. I am highly ashamed of everything I did, but I want to make my story known. Let the film roll…

The whole thing began in the summer of ’02, roughly a full year after I had started playing. I had 6 pets on two accounts, five painted, one a Poogle. My guild, which shall be known as ‘The Lillipadd’, had about 150 members. Yes, I was at a decent place in Neopia, with almost 700,000 neopoints. Only, I was bored. I had nothing to do, my friends were all at camp, and me, I had the chicken pox for the first time. Grumpy and contagious, I settled down into my bed with my sister’s laptop to use Tombola.
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