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Second Life scams - Part 1!
Click to view krazykizza's profile Posted by: krazykizza // 3 months ago // viewed 125 times
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Last updated: 3 months ago
Second life is well known for its opertunities and adventures. But as soon as you get used to doing something SLAM it gets shut down!
Earlier this week i set off in the virtual world created by linden Labs in search of something fun and addictive to do. I fount the Xploder. It comes in a variety of different shapes and sizes. Some in a shape of a pig, some a big sack of gold. I had noticed along my way that there was two avatars with similar names, they never spoke in open chat, they had no profile and both had maxed out their groups. I thought this was suspicious. So i sent them both a friendly IM posing as just a friendly avatar ( as i am ) and to simply ask why thy have been a member for well over a year and not one word on their biography. No response, i try a different language using a translator ( French, German, Spanish and italian) and still no response. i ignore this happenings for a few days thinking to myself "their there again, why are they getting away with this and walking away with all this L$"

The day is today, im in naughty isles in Second Life. The time is noon local time. And i snap. Im in an open sim where building rights is available publicly. I get my attack bar, i get my carry away weapon and i launch in on both Dawidd Reinard and Denyell Reinard (the two bots) And SLAM! Bang whollop. Im banned from the sim, and not only that sim. Ohh no! It turns out the owner is so into giving his hard earned lindens to bots that he tells the whole sploder group intentionally try to sabotage my account status.

By this time im outraged, im furious, i report both bots to the linden labs via Help > Report abuse > Other and explain their using alt accounts (Which is against TOS as their sold at a one off fee of $9.95USD after your free one) Several hours after making the complaint, no action taken. I still see the avatars in question. Even as i type this i see them both in the Xploder im in. The injustice that Linden Labs prefers bots is unbelieveable! Surely something should be done to take these things off of Second Life.

And as for the other sims im now banned from. Well, i guess thats upto them. But if they feel jumping the gun into banning someone from hear say is the right approach to things; then there sadly mistaken.

A picture of Dawidd Reinard - one of the bots, can be fount on photobucket via this link http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w41/princekiwi05/Picture7.png

Watch out for part 2 when i go undercover and take an in depth look at the scams the 'noobies' of second life face when it comes to camping chairs and small 'coinage' earnings.

KrazyKizza, reporting for CNN iReport news.

P.s. I just won 29L$ XD - KrazyKizza 29 - Bots - 4
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