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Fraud, Theft, and Underage Invaded Second Life!

Hellsing Matador
Registered User
Join date: 19 Jun 2005
Posts: 3
11-12-2009 19:13
Fraud, Theft, and Underage Invaded Second Life!


Lately there had been a lot of theft going on second life, people offering you services and once they get paid with Lindens you never see them again.
The number underage kids playing the game have increased as well!
Moreover the FRAUD is getting WORSE on secondlife, why?
The Reason is simple which I will explain now. I played second life from the year 2005, in the past you would need a credit card to create an account and prove that you are above 18 years OLD, not to mention secondlife would have your real name and address as well. Right now any 13 years OLD kid can create an account and claim in the game that he is 18 years OLD. Not to mention anyone can now create an account using a fake name, address and start to rip off people on secondlife.

Moreover the harassment on secondlife has increased, if you have a land or a nice shop you will have people harsse you and ask you for LINDENS or REAL LIFE money otherwise they will just ruin your business.
You might all say open a COMPLAIN which I did many times and I never GOT a respond from secondlife and the problem kept on going. I am a man who pays more than 4000$ a month how is it fair for me as a PAYING CUSTOMER to secondlife to have my BUSINESS RUNIED from people that I complained many times about and who are still playing the GAME under a FAKE NAME AND ADDRESS!

Many people started leaving this game, there are many other games on the internet and if Linden LAB don’t take our inside game complains seriously about those scammers and kids then we will find another better game that would take us PAYING CUSTOMERS seriously instead of PROTECTING those scammers who would just create an AVATAR with a FAKE NAME AND ADDRESS and HURT our Business and HARASS US in GAME.
Bogac Aeghin
Registered User
Join date: 21 Jul 2008
Posts: 2
Right, right, right.
11-17-2009 16:27
You are right, I doubt someone does something about this fraud cases. The week before, or so, we have witnessed a fraud, with one of our affiliate vendors, we have filled abuse reports, with information, but the guys are still in SL, and noone contacted us for details. I invest real money here, and I see this as business, but Linden Labs does nothing against these people :/
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Join date: 12 Jan 2007
Posts: 5,707
11-17-2009 23:10
Second Life, Your Real Dollars scammed away by others Fake Avatars.
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Nell Chrome
Registered User
Join date: 17 Dec 2009
Posts: 1
fraud,theft and Underage.
12-17-2009 18:29
its very simple,anyone that has attempted to threaten and extort money *linden or real life* in sl from me has met the banhammer. Many times my and my wifeys club has been threatened with ruining but allways has failed due to banning the individual account. use your ban feature .