Message from discussion Scamming

From: ikel...@mail1.sas.upenn.edu (Ian A Kelley)
Subject: Re: Scamming
Date: 2000/08/14
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Dominic (dominic.sutherland_c...@btinternet.com) wrote:

: Now, the purchaser was going to report this to a GM (probably still trying
: *smiles*). Will a GM be able to take action? Or has Larson gotten away with
: his ill deeds?

Probably. They're cracking down on scammers now. A personal experience to 
prove it:

Right before UO:R went in, on my way to the bank with a full packhorse 
of wood, one of those lovely town monster spawns appeared and slaughtered 
me and my packhorse. On my way to retrieve the wood from the corpse, I 
found some unscrupulous individual dragging it to the bank himself. Me 
and a few others surrounded him and demanded he return the wood. (he 
couldn't move since it was too heavy) Being your standard UO griefer, he 
laughed at us and refused to return it, and there was quite a long 
standoff. Fortunately, this was a newbie griefer, and said he would sell 
me the 1600 wood back for 500 gold. Of course, upon handing over the 500, 
he wouldn't drop the wood, so several people paged GMs. About a minute 
later *poof* someone appears asking where the scammer is. Of course by 
then we had told him that we had paged the GMs, so the griefer handed 
over the wood.

So they are doing something at least.


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