SCAM - It's not just cheating anymore.

It all starts with just thought of cheating.



What Patrick said at the start of the interview "it all started as just an in game thing where you would basicly try to trick someone into giving you something and they would think that you will give them back but you would just keep it and that was it" can be found anywhere in any online game. I still remember my little Ragnarok Online sister once ran to me and cried about a person convinced her to let them try an expensive item that she was using. And of course, once she gave the thing, the person logged out and never came back.She was lucky back then because the server we played in was a small one so the technical adminstrator brought the item back and lock the scammers' account straight away. However, in a large game with more than 10 thousands players, would the technicians really care about each scamming case?

Another scammer's trick is to trick people into giving out their account and password. And surprisingly, it works, easy trick, doesn't need to have a good knowledge about programming like hacking database. I bumped into a guy in World of Warcraft just some weeks ago who asked me if I want some gold, he could give me 10k gold. Look at the link just above. It's silly how a lot of people got tricked by their own greed. Some other common tricks would be "Hi, I am the Game Master and we are having an account checking, this would only take some minutes but we need your account and password". In every games, the real game masters have to remind gamers all the time that THEY WOULD NEVER EVER ASK FOR YOUR ACCOUNT INFO, because there are too many people fell for that trick.

In the interview with Patrick, he pointed out another trick that is no longer just an in-game thing. He sell the account to someone but after receive the money, he never send the account information. He did it so many times and still get away with it. Whether what this person Patrick said about himself in the interview was real or not, there are a lot of people out there trying to do the same tricks. Even though not many are reported, should it be safe to let your guard down just because you believe these scam are just internet rumour?