Tag: scammer

Through the Storm – Memoirs of a Rather Bad Neopian by star_bloom

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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Scamming: The Stupidity of it by crystalfire23456

Hi folks! I just want to share an experience I had with a scammer.

My neopets username is crystalfire254. Well, it was until a “friend” of mine stole all of my neopoints. I’d had a neopets account before, so knew all about the importance of restocking, playing the games, etc. Plus, my older sister had gotten bored with Neopets and gave me all her neopoints. So, in quite a short time, I had 500,000np. I had just heard about the upcoming war and told the friend who referred me to neopets (the one who took all of my NP) she might want to start training her pets.
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How to Spot a Scammer by spickitty

How can you spot a scammer? Well if you have a keen eye and a good instinct then your set. Here are a few ways that I’ve figured out how to spot a scammer.

NAMES: One way you can spot a scammer is by their name. Most of the time a scammer just types in a bunch of letters not even caring how it comes out, (ex. asdlfkjsdfj) Or they type in just a few letters or numbers randomly, (ex. asdf1234). Sometimes they might repeat just one letter or two or three, (ex. fdsfdsfds)…

TROPHYS: Another way to check if they’re a scammer is going to look at all the game that they have played. Most of the time a scammer has first place in almost all the games or they have the same number of score, (ex. 150000) for every game listed. They might not have a trophy for that game but it says that they are in first place on the games list.
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The Day When my Friend Became a Scammer by Lulu

One sunny day, I was there on my computer, playing meerca chase, and I also in msn with one of my neo friends. His name was Daniel and he was a VERY, VERY bad neopets player. He was bad and games and stock marketer, he had bad luck at wheels, the ghosts always took his omelettes and other good things. He was scammed at the trading post (One day he traded a codestone, a negg and a faerie for a box of wheat flakes, and a lot of bottles of sand, toy sail boats, sandals, etc.) He didnt liked guilds, so he was so poor. he only had like 5000, and sometimes he bet 2500 on my posts to go to the soup kitchen. Maybe he was so stupid, I mean, ha had 1 almost dying pet, so I gave him some stupid food (omelettes, faerie cakes. wheat flakes) every day. I was like her mom giving stuff to the child, till one day.
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Double Agent Noob

This is a story about Adobe Photoshop, a scammer with remorse and asparagus.

First, let me introduce myself: for obvious reasons I will not post my real username here, but among newbies (both the unknowing-but-willing-to-learn and the Ill-do-anything-if-you-give-me-something-shiny kind) Im known as Double Agent no0b, the Hacker with a Heart, the Undercover Scammer, or 007-Neowell, you get the idea. (To be honest, no one calls me that. Most of my victims tend to call meehma certain four-letter word which I shall not post here. Still, I prefer to be called the Undercover Scammer because A: it sounds cool and B: you KNOW it sounds cool).
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