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I remember my favorite Scam someone tried on me. I even use this person's Username as a place holder in my Ignore List now. They P.M.ed me while I was doing business, with an offer to "make me a Member" by giving me free Membership for 2 years, after a short poll. Somewhere during there there were questions such as "Do I enjoy R.S.?" and eventually I had the question "How do I get a Membership from this? I'm already a Member." which should have been their first hint that they messed up, few who get a Membership are still dumb enough to fall for that scam, since they want to keep the money they pay for them, not some dumb Scammer, but the person continues with how "It'll just become free for two years." thing.

This person, of course, needed my password to get me the Membership, after which I mentioned they were reported, they said that I'd better give them the password now because otherwise I'll be banned in three weeks for reporting a "Membership Giver" as they called them self, And I got a new Ignore List divider out of the deal. This happened shortly after I started playing in late August of 2005, and I'm sure you can figure out what that means for how long it's been (which is much longer than 3 weeks) and the person never could answer why it would take three weeks, other than continue with that threat that never turned up true.

It was kind of pathetic, you'd think Scammers would notice the overflowing numbers of people who play without any form of sense and just go after them again and again until they figure it out (I don't think it's a good thing to do, but you'd think they'd figure that one out) but no, they go for the intelligent people like me who actually think the rules are worth reading, know that Scams are out there and how to disable and destroy them efficiently, and well, you'd think they'd just figure it out, you know? But they don't, they just figure out one Username at a time who not to go after.