The following is an interview I had with a scammer. He/she contacted me after reading the scammed section on the site, praising PPT, but also wanting to contribute to the compilation of articles in relation to scamming. The main concern, that most of the scams presented on PPT did not know how to spell correctly. This interview however, gives us an insight into why a person may scam. What leads a person to scamming and how some people scam. Whatever you may read this for, this interview holds within itself important information on how not to get scammed.
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The Return of a Scammer by Dreamer4284
Hi. My name is Dreamer4284, a faithful Neopian. Although you probably dont know me, I am here to tell you my story. It is long, so sit back and relax.
One fine Sunday morning, I was chatting with my friend on AIM. We were having a good time, when all of a sudden she starts laughing! She said that she was chatting with a scammer, and was having a little *fun* with them. So, I decided that I wanted to have a bit of fun myself. So I asked her for the screen name, and she told me it was FlyBabi5. Then, my friend told me that the PERSON WHO SHE WAS CHATTING WITH HAD SAID SHE WAS GUCCI_MAMA and guess what I had just read that morning: yup, that is right the article here on pinkpoogletoy about the girl who had gotten scammed by this same person. Obviously, the same scammer goes around telling people that she is gucci_mama, when she is plainly not, just so it looks like she has a lot. That REALLY made me want to have a word with this loser. So, I began to chat.
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Scammer: Real Conversation by drnick60
This guy claimed to have a code that would get you a million np, only if you had 100,000 and send him your password. First I reported him, then I decided to have a little chat. It is quite funny actually. (I am T34297) My comments are in italic.
T34297: hi
Greennoell: hi
T34297: explain how you can get me 1,000,000 np
Greennoell: HOW MANY NEOPOINTS DO U HAVE?
He wants to make sure it is worth his while to steal.
T34297: 400,000
T34297: approx.
Greennoell: OK WELL I NEED UR PASSWORD AND USERNAME SO I CN PUT IN THE CODE 2 GET THE MILLION
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The Confessions of a Scammer by The Basilisk
Hello everyone, I am the Basilisk, and I am a scammer.
Woah, put the knife down! While I do spend my time trying to cheat hapless children out of their neopoints and items, Im afraid my conscience has been bothering me of late. That, and earning millions this way have become far too easy. So, in a remarkable display of kindness and generosity from someone with such a villainous neoprofession, Im going to tell you why I scam, why others scam, and what you can do to stay out of our little password snares.
First off, why do people scam in the first place? The most obvious reason is, of course, the neopoints. Many n00bs decide that the best thing to do with their pathetic young neolives is to get others to give them their neopoints. But this isnt the only reason to scam. Some scammers are neopets veterans, to whom the game has become bland and unchallenging, despite the new features arriving every day. To those of us who have played the game for awhile, scamming is that new challenge weve been seeking for so long, another way to play the game. I had half a million before I begun to scam, plenty to get by in Neopia. To me, and to many others, the neopoints that come with the job are just an added bonus.
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The Pink Poogle Toy Show 53: Lee Gets Scammed
Kym Huynh and Lee join forces today and bust out those scammer banishing rays to talk about all the ways you can get scammed and hacked on Neopets.
- Lee’s recent hacking
- How you can prevent being hacked
- How you can recover your account or neopet
- How to contact The Neopets Team
- Common scams in Neopets
- Cookie Grabbers
- Frozen? Here’s What to Do
- Your Account Stolen? Here’s What to Do