Porn Scam

In regards to the porn laws in Australia? You can buy magazines and toys anywhere, but videos and movies, can only be purchased from the ACT (Aust Capital Territory). It's also allowed in the Northern Territory (I believe), but it's a little isolated and not much happens there. However, it's not enforced with much vigour.

P.S. The name of his store is amusing - Australians (and probably many others) will instantly recognise 'B1' as one half of the highly successful children's duo, Bananas in Pyjamas.

You have to wonder at the myspace/SL disjunct - much of the artwork on the website is stunning, yet not a single thing in the porn-selling skybox has been created by him, as far as I could tell. Curiouser and curiouser.

Why would it be curious? I mean, isn't the point of SL to make money as quickly as possible with as little effort as possible? (Not that I subscribe to this, but...)

Any ideas what to do about this scammer?

Two people have contacted me now complaining that they did not receive the product they bought for L$5,000 at the porn store in Lunalis. The purchase is supposed to provide them with a lifetime membership to a porn service. The notecard they recieve promises them "Instant account activation with an email address. Your personal login and password will be sent to you immediately."

The problem is I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH THAT STORE, I DON'T SELL ANY SUCH PRODUCT and never have. Yet the notecard the buyers receive shows me as the creator. Obviously the seller took one of the notecards that my vendors give out and edited it for his own purposes.

The first victim contacted me last Feb., the second victim just a few days ago. I educated them both how to look at the vendor box they purchased from and see who the owner is, and to look at their transaction records to see who the money went to. The victim who contacted about this last Feb. confirms that he never did receive anything from the seller, even after many IM's. When this first happened I IM'd the seller and demanded he stop using my notecards in his scam. I never heard from him and he obviously has not changed anything. I also abuse reported him at that time.

The guy is not to bright, his profile lists his my space site.
Going there I found he lists his RL business name and website.
whois.net disclosed his name, business address and phone number and an email address. A google search on his name located his facebook site and a few others he frequents. A whitepages.com search produced a residential address and phone number. I was thinking of calling him up but it is in Australia so I have not yet.

I have not done anything further about this and am wondering what would be the most effective way to deal with this. I would like to hear if anyone has any suggestions.

I wonder what the porn laws are like in Australia? Hmmm actually I don't have any indication that he ever actually delivers any porn.

True - but both the ACT and NT have thriving mail order businesses and supply most of Australia's porn. Owning porn is not illegal, but selling it is, and the fact that it cannot legally be purchased in the states is a product of the quaint state/territory set-up. As for vigourous enforcement, that rather depends on perspective. Customs are pretty hot, and certainly in New South Wales, traders who dabble in the illegal side of the trade are prone to fairly regular visits from the boys in blue.

Hmm Porn illegal?
Someone perhaps has not mentioned that to most of the newsagents and video stores, I've been too.
X rated porn is illegal in most states, but not R rated..........

Keep sending expensive MALE hookers to his house until he promises to stop.

(Edited that for you. Much more fun )

Is it not possible that these two transactions were just borked by SL? I think it's HIGHLY possible. I can also totally picture myself just grabbing any notecard from my inventory and modifying it without thinking about it not showing me as creator.

I have already considered that as a possibility. But I have reason to believe he is not smart enough to do that.

In regards to the porn laws in Australia? You can buy magazines and toys anywhere, but videos and movies, can only be purchased from the ACT (Aust Capital Territory).

That's correct. It's only disclosure if you reveal an SL avitar's RL info or details to a third party, directly or indirectly. You WOULD get pinched if you passed it to a friend or alt to send to him because he has you muted though. It would be harassment if anything, but a single card would hardly qualify for that IMO. He'd never report it anyway, the guys running a scam and won't risk putting a spotlight on his activities. The WHY, or purpose of the notecard has already been AR'ed and is on record.

ArchTx, 96m global scan distance is a long way...
New script.. scan for AV's, if within X distance of vendor.. get ID, message AV.
Plop it into a microprim and slide it onto a nearby noreturn parcel underground *evil laugh* Can also move the prim back & forth between 2 return-enabled parcels to avoid return. Not that I've ever done that before *whistles at ceiling innocently*

It makes me wonder, when a crime takes place in SL, where is it taking place? Where the servers are? Or where the scammer is located? Or where the victim is? Who has jurisdiction?

Possible but improbably. Even if it were so he has ignored the IM's and note cards from the customers he ripped off, when they requested that he fulfill his obligations. He also ignored my requests to stop using note cards that show me as creator.

"On the other hand... if the guy really did use your notecard to hide his identity... what makes you think that he would not list someone else's Myspace or Facebook in his profile to further hide his identity?"

I have already considered that as a possibility. But I have reason to believe he is not smart enough to do that.

If he's not smart enough to use someone else's Myspace then he's not smart enough to pull off the notecard trick.

My feeling is the notecard thing was probably a simple mistake and he's probably just really bad at answering IMs... from both you and his unhappy customers.

I found he is selling his stuff here at SLE also.

http://uncensored.slexchange.com/modules.php?name=Marketplace&file=item&ItemID=530234#reviews

Another victim gave him a negative rating there because he never delivered the lifetime membership. Checking out his other products, he is also a seller of freebies, stolen skins and animations.

Ohhh, so you see him as a poor dumb socially inept fool, and we should feel sorry for him for doing such a poor job selling porn?
Yeah, lets all feel sorry for the poor fool.