Scam Alert

[xerent]

There seems to be a resurgence of this particular scam. Certain users will state that if you donate money, you will recieve an additional unit.

IF YOU SEE ANYONE ADVERTISING FOR THE SITE DRAGONTYRANT.TK OR ANY OTHER SITE ASKING FOR DONATIONS FOR ADDITIONAL UNITS, PLEASE CONTACT A MODERATOR OR ADMINISTRATOR IMMEDIATELY.

You will NOT recieve any additional units, and instead be subject to identity theft if you submit all required information.

THIS IS A SCAM. DO NOT GIVE OUT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION TO ANYONE!

[bullcat0]

There was some guy on legends, Mud Golem was his name I believe.
He would spam a website and it would say, Enter your paypal account and password to recieve a free Mud Golem.

[Kreator]

Thank you for the warning. :) I'll be on the look out from now on.

[|ReNeGaDe|]

Wow thats stupid, I hate lowlifes like that.

[Match Strike]

Oh no! God, how could it have been a scam? I knew it was too good to be true.

[drama llama]

interesting.

i have never heard of this one before..what is tao coming to. :rolleyes:

[EricH]

The original file used to make the scam php, which was simply modified from a tagboard, can be found here:
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?action=profile;u=44164;sa=showPosts

[Morning Star]

This has been on legends for as long as i can remember

[Serge]

This has been on legends for as long as i can remember
You probably can't remember far though, as Legends doesn't exist...

[Forest_Archer]

If you're stupid enough to fall for it, then you deserve the punishment ;)

[Serge]

If you're stupid enough to fall for it, then you deserve the punishment ;)
Naivete shouldn't be a crime, stupidity yes, but I don't think this counts as stupidity if it's a very young kid or something, thus z's warning.

[Forest_Archer]

True. We should have an age restriction on TAO. Like 10yrs. old.

It gets a little inappropriate ;)

[Serge]

True. We should have an age restriction on TAO. Like 10yrs. old.

It gets a little inappropriate ;)
What age restriction would get rid of you?

:P

[Forest_Archer]

haha

[ThinkTank]

True. We should have an age restriction on TAO. Like 10yrs. old.

It gets a little inappropriate




Most of the spammers/scammers/cyberers are 10 years old. :dry:

Edit: Quoted wrong post. :dry:
Edit edit: Fixed.

[† Bubacik †]

Most of the spammers/scammers/cyberers are 10 years old. :dry:

o.O how do you know ? Are you cybering everyday ? lol, j/k.

Thanks for the warning, xerent. ;)

[Mephisto]

I came across another scam where a guy told me to press f5 for 'cool monsters'. Nothing happens on firefox anyway so I told him to get lost. Do kids fall for that a lot? cause its happened more than once for me.

[Kreator]

I came across another scam where a guy told me to press f5 for 'cool monsters'. Nothing happens on firefox anyway so I told him to get lost. Do kids fall for that a lot? cause its happened more than once for me.

Alot of newbies fall for that. Just use Firefox and most scams like that won't work. (Except for the Alt F4 one)

[speaker4thedead]

People used to do this AGES a go...

[Mephisto]

No I tried. If the flash of the window is in focus even alt-f4 doesnt work on firefox. yeah I guess people who dont know what f5 and alt-f4 would fall for it. I did fall for a scam where I typed chess expert without the space. I didnt even know you could get booted for bad words then.

[death of humans]

i h8 lowlifes that try and get people to fall for things like that

[Ignition]

There was some guy on legends, Mud Golem was his name I believe.
He would spam a website and it would say, Enter your paypal account and password to recieve a free Mud Golem.
I knew him... In person I mean, he has the same name as me, We went to the same school, and he's a booster as well.

[_Thunder_]

I <3 xerent and duffman. *cry*

[Draquist]

Did anyone think of getting this site shut down? Duffy has done it a few times I believe.

[The Coder]

I think so Draquist.

[Jeffery]

Did anyone think of getting this site shut down? Duffy has done it a few times I believe.
I got tired of shutting down websites for TAO personally. If TAO can;t figure out how to do it, then it is their loss.

[RAGING INFERNO]

...I didnt know that stickies could get un stickied.. anywho, yeah. I've come across many of these people. and I've finnally spotted what's wrong with "Tacticsexpert" with no spaces.

[Kreator]

RAGING INFERNO, people have already found out what was wrong with tacticsexpert.

[mantis33]

...I didnt know that stickies could get un stickied.. anywho, yeah. I've come across many of these people. and I've finnally spotted what's wrong with "Tacticsexpert" with no spaces.
Omg. really? What is wrong with it? I've always been wondering!!! :rolleyes: