Really need more information before I can sympathise with the OP.
That may seem unnecessarily harsh, but experience has taught me that in some cases, "scamming" can be entirely justifiable. It depends on the situation.
As an example; I used to play UO and one of my favourite past-times was floating around on my boat, looking for AFK/macro miners and stealing the ore from the decks of their boats after corp poring them in the face.. They were being lame by using third-party programs and I was being a bit lame by killing them when they were defenseless and ripping off their ore. Entirely justifiable in my opinion.
Another example; I was playing EvE as a member of a successful corporation and one of our members decided to strip the guild of a vast amount of assets. I later found out that he had joined the guild with the intention of doing this and had managed, through deception and flattery, to gain a position of sufficient trust within the corporation to be able to rip us off.
At first, I was as outraged as the rest of my corp-mates at the betrayal, but after giving it some thought I came to the realisation that it wasn't really a matter of betrayal, but more a case of high-yield PvP. In a game of politics and diplomacy, the player had "beaten" his enemy, our corporation.
Likewise, some have described elements of what I would call "economic PvP" .. price fixing, gouging, attempting to entrap the unwary with misleading prices .. cheap tricks but all absolutely valid imo. There's more to PvP than just pressing a few buttons and making the other guy respawn.
Playing: EVE, Final Fantasy 13, Uncharted 2, Need for Speed: Shift
His "scam" was probably someone in game said "hey, give me your account info. I promise I won't steal your shit and your account!" to which the OP responded "Sure dude! In this small tight knit community no one would steal my account without fear of backlash from said community!"
Nowadays companies don't ban credit card numbers (at least most don't do it). I remember back in the original EQ days (1998) Sony would ban your credit card number as well as your name and address so you can't use that card again on any of their games. But that's probably a bad business decision on their part, because let's say the son got banned for botting but the dad pays for the whole family with his card, now banning a card would mean the whole family gets banned. Nowadays a game company don't care as long as you keep paying them. They can ban you as punishment for major infractions but you can simply buy another copy of the game also nowadays many games accepts game cards and other easy to use payment system (such as paypal, google checkout, etc.) that it's pointless to do a realistic banning.
You shoulda played D2 back in the days. It was a scammer's paradise. However, there was a silver lining. Once you were scammed for the first time, most relatively intelligent people were never scammed again. Sure, getting scammed sucks, but it is a vital lesson in life. That's why imo a gm should never help out someone who got scammed. If you help them out, they'll never learn and just get scammed again. My opinion may seem cruel, but it's a cruel world out there and that's a fact. If you don't learn now, you'll get scammed for something real when the time comes. See that's the problem with today's world. People are coddled from birth and when something happens to them they whine cry and moan about it. When no one helps them they think the whole world's out to get them and get all kinds of flakey. Well, guess what, the whole world was out to get you from the start. You were just too damn naive to see it.
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Really need more information before I can sympathise with the OP.
That may seem unnecessarily harsh, but experience has taught me that in some cases, "scamming" can be entirely justifiable. It depends on the situation.
As an example; I used to play UO and one of my favourite past-times was floating around on my boat, looking for AFK/macro miners and stealing the ore from the decks of their boats after corp poring them in the face.. They were being lame by using third-party programs and I was being a bit lame by killing them when they were defenseless and ripping off their ore. Entirely justifiable in my opinion.
Another example; I was playing EvE as a member of a successful corporation and one of our members decided to strip the guild of a vast amount of assets. I later found out that he had joined the guild with the intention of doing this and had managed, through deception and flattery, to gain a position of sufficient trust within the corporation to be able to rip us off.
At first, I was as outraged as the rest of my corp-mates at the betrayal, but after giving it some thought I came to the realisation that it wasn't really a matter of betrayal, but more a case of high-yield PvP. In a game of politics and diplomacy, the player had "beaten" his enemy, our corporation.
Likewise, some have described elements of what I would call "economic PvP" .. price fixing, gouging, attempting to entrap the unwary with misleading prices .. cheap tricks but all absolutely valid imo. There's more to PvP than just pressing a few buttons and making the other guy respawn.
Playing: EVE, Final Fantasy 13, Uncharted 2, Need for Speed: Shift
Page 3 and still no information on how he was scammed.
This is either a lie or perhaps something fishy is going on like he deserved it?
Why arent any of you pushing the OP for the whole story?
His "scam" was probably someone in game said "hey, give me your account info. I promise I won't steal your shit and your account!" to which the OP responded "Sure dude! In this small tight knit community no one would steal my account without fear of backlash from said community!"
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Only the gullible, the drunks or the sleepy get scammed, heh.
Nowadays companies don't ban credit card numbers (at least most don't do it). I remember back in the original EQ days (1998) Sony would ban your credit card number as well as your name and address so you can't use that card again on any of their games. But that's probably a bad business decision on their part, because let's say the son got banned for botting but the dad pays for the whole family with his card, now banning a card would mean the whole family gets banned. Nowadays a game company don't care as long as you keep paying them. They can ban you as punishment for major infractions but you can simply buy another copy of the game also nowadays many games accepts game cards and other easy to use payment system (such as paypal, google checkout, etc.) that it's pointless to do a realistic banning.
You shoulda played D2 back in the days. It was a scammer's paradise. However, there was a silver lining. Once you were scammed for the first time, most relatively intelligent people were never scammed again. Sure, getting scammed sucks, but it is a vital lesson in life. That's why imo a gm should never help out someone who got scammed. If you help them out, they'll never learn and just get scammed again. My opinion may seem cruel, but it's a cruel world out there and that's a fact. If you don't learn now, you'll get scammed for something real when the time comes. See that's the problem with today's world. People are coddled from birth and when something happens to them they whine cry and moan about it. When no one helps them they think the whole world's out to get them and get all kinds of flakey. Well, guess what, the whole world was out to get you from the start. You were just too damn naive to see it.