Social Engineering at its best.

[eljonto]

Heh, some people are epically stupid.

[Kage]

This reminds me of how on this one forum I'm on, this guy was banned a couple years ago for scamming everyone. The story of his scams were very well known, even by people relatively fresh to the site. This other guy joined a couple months after the first one was banned, and became very reputable. So much so that they almost made him an admin. One thing leads to another, and 2 years later, everyone realizes, "shit, this is the same guy."

So, like Insomniac said, you never know who's behind the screen.

... Though in this case, I actually do on some accounts since I've met about 40 of them last July.

[insomaniacal]

LOLWUT.

LOL @ Goatboy's comment about you .

[sanddbox]

Necro FTW!

Anyways, everyone in that thread completely deserved it. It was such an obvious scam - the members put in money with NO insurance from him, no information about what selling/buying he was, etc.

Hopefully they won't reproduce.

[KenziJane]

Heh, some people just bemuse me. That whole post just oozes 'scam'. My little sister wouldn't fall for that nonsense.

But a Ponzi-esque scheme like that can run on for a long time. I wonder how much money he was able to make?

[Daedice]

From what I read on the link, he made off with around $800. Not bad for just sitting around on a forum jacking up your post count to get people to trust you.

[Theminatar]

Heh, some people just bemuse me. That whole post just oozes 'scam'. My little sister wouldn't fall for that nonsense.

But a Ponzi-esque scheme like that can run on for a long time. I wonder how much money he was able to make?

I bet she would if you knew the guy for as long as they did. Something similar happened to this well trusted programmer on the forums I visit, he was selling the game hack, and then after making $400, he left.

[0xBEEF1337]

Delete.

[tvpoket]

hihi

[tgoe]

lol tv......... your balls are solid brass