A Clever New Scam + More on Smooshgem

Hey jammers! Smarty here. On quick note to Starry, sorry I've been posting so much lately. It's just when ever I find info on hackers/hacking info at all I go to RATH, and whenever I find new scamming info/scamming news I come here. XD

First, I want to address someone you've heard about in my most recent post: Smooshgem. I buddied him because he's surprisingly quite nice. (I also wanted to find out any possible information on possible scamming or hacking history) He admitted to me that he has 45 LONG RARE COLLARS. He could very well be lying, but by the look of him already, I'm starting to have my doubts.

Second, I found another clever new scam: Something I call "Giveaway Scamming V. 2" (V stands for variation). You all know variation 1, yeah, the classic trusting/flashing scams at "Giveaways". But, a few days ago I found a quite clever new variation of Giveaway Scamming.

First, the person said, "I'm giving away my party hat and spiked collar for free! Come to my den if you want them :)" I went, because, you never know if they really ARE giving away this stuff. I usually leave as soon as they say, "BEST TRUST WINS!" or "AWESOMEST FLASH GETS MY STUFF!" But, this person just told us to line up and put things we would usually offer the items on our trade lists.

There were about 5 people in the room, most of which were "unrare". They had things like tiaras and bat wallpaper on their lists.

I had put four good (nm) den betas on my own. Duchess, an eagle at the back of the line, only had a necklace on her trade list.

The person hosting announced that Duchess and I won, and immediately things started to seem fishy. Duchess still had nothing but a necklace on her trade list, whereas I had four super-rare-man betas on mine.

Our "kind" hostess then told me to put my rare nerd glasses, which I was wearing on my bunny at the time, on my trade list. She told me if I accepted her trade I immediately won the giveaway. I found it strange that through this whole conversation, Duchess simply sat there doing and saying absolutely nothing.

I put them on my trade list, curious, but when she offered a store-bought couch, and, of course, I declined. Too obviously a scam.

After I left, I carefully worked out the (quite obvious) logistics, and discovered that Duchess was the host's true account after all. Hah! What a clever scam!

Jam on!

||Smarty||