Money tree scam

If you post the script, I and other scripters can certainly look at it for easy things to do to it. But the scanner that I put out, and the one above, certainly work already. (I'll post the code up openly now come to think of it.) The problem is detecting when people leave the things - dealing with them once you know where they are is relatively easy.

As long as you still hace 3 out, the problem is going to continue. If ALL of the items were deleted today, you will start the problem all over again. I suggest that you delete the ones on YOUR land as well. The issue is more than just "placement", it is an issue of the legality and the morality of this pyramid scheme.

I won't give the code in such a public place, but I will say this.
Every Magic Money! has the llAllowInventoryDrop(1); command.
Even the old ones without the proximity detetector should have them.
Maybe this could be used have the markers distribute a timed virus script that will distribute itself to other magic money markers and kill the marker that has the virus after 10 minutes.
Just an idea. One that I'll leave to the more talented scripters in this forum.

Already done.

Unfortunately, llAllowInventoryDrop does NOT allow delivering scripts to objects Only llRemoteLoadScriptPin permits this... Thanks for helping though.

Thanks, I'm going to start loading that into my scripts into the future no matter what they're for.

Hmm, maybe I was wrong about you. I hope so.

I just checked - he *is* selling one for zero.

You utter idiot. You're just making the whole thing worse. The point isn't that that the creator is getting money, the point is that it's encouraging newbies to drop "money making" prims around the grid, so that they can get money off people who pay the object money. Selling it for L$0 makes no difference. It's either a dwell tactic or sheer stupidity, I'm not sure which.

Found one on my money tree in Darkwood (practically center sim near my cathedral) last night. Thanks Frans for the heads up on this. I AR'd the person who left it and the creator. I also deleted it and banned both people from all my land in that sim.

Wanted to throw out a few additional, personal comments as well. I have countless newbies come into the sim being so close to the welcome area and I try to give a bit of a helping hand by having the money tree and some free things available there. It really bothers me to see that part of the population misled by such garbage. The learning curve is hard enough in Second Life as it is, at first, never mind you might have just kissed goodbye whatever money you had to this scam.

People can take the high road and say not to fault the creator but through his own words he knew it was a scheme. Those send a dollar in an envelope to a list crap was and so is this. You might not be able to stop the flow of it's viral spread now.. but how about locking down the group to new members, then educating those that are still in the group to not post them on land that they do not own, without getting permission. Then, do not personally distribute the script/object at all anymore..at least you would be one less cog in its spread.

As for the, why do land owners not have autoreturn on... the 'ounce of prevention' sort of idea. I have gone back and forth about this. At one point I had all my land there, 1/4 the sim, open to build in and would 'clean up' after things. That can be abused as we all know. Unfortunately, anyone who allows their land to basically be to the enjoyment of the rest of the SL general public, find's it hard to also go the other way and completely lock down all land perms.

The money tree I have is on the same plot as the Cathedral in the sim. It is an old build by SL standards (almost 2 years old) and events go on there, weddings, etc. So, often I have to have people be able to drop down objects and keep them there longer than autoreturn would work for. If say a wedding rehearsal is one day but the ceremony is a couple days later. It happens and I am sure others who hold events have to contend with similar. I could move the tree, but then again it is central and people can't help notice the cathedral so they find the tree as well. Trust me on that.. I have had newbies come flying in full force into the sides or inside walls of the church and flop down like a bird that hits a window.


My 2 cents.. I guess I just wished that something like this was thought out more before it was released into the world. Just cause you can do something, doesn't mean you always should.

I don't see how you could possibly know this. It seems just as possible that he knew exactly what he was doing, and is only apologizing now to try to mitigate the damage to himself.


Kyushu

gesh i keep finding this all over and repeated abusers....... this is turning into a game by these people

Found 5 of these on my properties today.

Maybe I am missing something here since I skimmed over most of this post because it was all pretty much the same stuff but....

I do not understand why people would not just simply use Auto Return to items not set to group or the land owners? Its just that simple......

i had one crabby owner bitch at me for telling him i had a scanner on his land..........he said the same auto return deal......... problem is you don`t want these objects set back. you want to delete them.

What does it matter if you delete them? They are copyable...

There are various reasons people can't always use autoreturn - including not wanting to require a group, and also that auto-return can be buggy - I had a house destroyed by it. It still all comes down to the fact that just because you can put something on someone's land doesn't mean you should. Blaming those who own the land isn't addressing the problem.

well if you been update to date with this thread people are saying DELETE not auto return. and i know they are copyable....how else do you think people are placing 5 or more in one spot. I been seeing abusive drops from a few people littering many simes withthem so who would not know they are copyable.I been runnign around sl for 2 days scnning locations for these objects and inforuming sim owners.....

If you return them people will know and come back and place a new one. Delete happens silent.

OMG frans thats been the problem! i seeing counting number freom a few really less bright people littering the same sim over and over again.........I wonder how long LLabs is going tolet this occur?!

Woah! Calm down!

MOI always peaceful.....don`t then again those objects are a pain itn the rabbit tail.

Unfortunately sometimes it isn't that simple.. as I mentioned in my post.. when you are dealing with the limited land tools of the mainland grid, and also have inherited and are trying to keep alive legacy builds you were not a part of creating originally that have often multiple creators and you want to have your land open to the public.. group and auto-return just don't cut it. Maybe I am a specialized case.. but I have lost pieces to builds that there is no longer a player in world to do anything about to even replace.. I live in fear of one day logging in and the almost 3000 prim cathedral is gone that 3 other people build almost 2 years ago.. the price of trying to do some SL historic preservation and have it still able to be enjoyed by others.

I found four of them on Linden land so far. One is in Chris Linden's office IN any case, this has grown from scamming into being plain spamming, they are everywhere.

His account was less then 2 weeks old when he scripted this.