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Cruel
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An account (f2p no stats) guested, grabbed a bunch of usernames then made a new account of a high rank replacing the L with an I and proceeded to try and scam everyone online at the time. His first PM went to my alt and picked up on it straight away so they only got troll responses from us. No loss from our end but I can see others falling for it easily.

Apparently has been happening in a lot of clans lately and might be a good idea to warn members and just keep an eye out.

10-May-2016 08:33:57

Vera

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But I like
Cruel
's thread title better :P

And I remember that thread by
Cuddlebucket
, but I couldn't remember what it was called. And every time I see "scammers & failed scammers" on the front page, I have to think about what the thread is about

Thanks
Cruel
for the PSA :) And gosh I just really wish they could change the in-game text to be more discriminatory. Mostly out of convenience, and now mostly to prevent scamming.
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10-May-2016 09:57:10 - Last edited on 10-May-2016 09:58:27 by Vera

Cruel
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Thanks Vivy :D

I read that thread too and just thought it was a "what's gonna happen to these players" thread, I wouldn't have made the connection if it wasn't for it happening to us today.

They should really change the capital I because of this. Our clan is ~200 players and is ranked behind hundreds of others, so if they're looking through active clans and got to ours hundreds of others would have been visited first.

10-May-2016 11:43:02

Salcos

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It is very often that the one who made the threads similar to this one are very hard to follow since they are not straight to the point, and often seem to ramble.

Thank you for posting this thread.
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12-May-2016 01:08:49

Vera

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Cruel
, agreed that the capital I should be changed. Also makes it difficult when adding new friends, in addition to making communication difficult.

I think the last font update was in 2010-ish? Don't know if there have been any others since, and I remember it was a pretty big deal. As such, I don't know how simple it would be to update all the capital I's to have serifs. But, in light of how it's been used for scamming, I think it's very important that something be done about this.

Andras
, you're throwing so much shade--how are the glasses in your profile picture not sunglasses yet????

:| :| :|

Underlying message: We're not oblivious to your petty and disrespectful remarks, if you for some reason thought you could get away with them.
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12-May-2016 10:30:36

Salcos

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Vera said :
Cruel
, agreed that the capital I should be changed. Also makes it difficult when adding new friends, in addition to making communication difficult.

I think the last font update was in 2010-ish? Don't know if there have been any others since, and I remember it was a pretty big deal. As such, I don't know how simple it would be to update all the capital I's to have serifs. But, in light of how it's been used for scamming, I think it's very important that something be done about this.

Andras
, you're throwing so much shade--how are the glasses in your profile picture not sunglasses yet????

:| :| :|

Underlying message: We're not oblivious to your petty and disrespectful remarks, if you for some reason thought you could get away with them.


Its 20 degrees cooler in all this shade
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12-May-2016 16:22:51

Scret
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Seer of War said :
This is why we kick f2p guests / low level guests. This is why we should have filters to prevent these accounts from joining in the first place.


but... discrimination right? ;)
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