Darkened my day -- but now is kinda funny

[stampsyne]

This darkened my day (I went GRRR for about three seconds), especially since the person has been playing SIX months and has only ONE game score.

Was I wrong to reply "Nobody is hacked at neopets. You may have been suckered into giving someone access to your account, not log off completely from a public terminal, or had such an easy access word that someone can guess it. Either way, I have NO sympathy for beggars."

Last edited by stampsyne on Fri Sep 24, 2004 5:22 pm, edited 2 times in total.

[Nani]

Nah, that reply sounds quite reasonable, although you could have phrased it a bit more kindly.

[stampsyne]

How would you have phrased it? I don't want to be rude at all, but the person was obviously scamming for items and it made me a bit angry. There are a lot of nice people who are taken adavantage of by such a false claim.

[Ixistant]

I think thats a good reply. Ok. Now I'm presuming they will activate the normal begger response, so place your bets! How long before they try and report Syne for something (s)he didn't do?

PS: Sorry, but I couldn't tell because of the gender icon and I didn't want to guess as i always get things like this wrong.

[stampsyne]

I reported first, at the urging of a friend who got the same message from the same person on her account. That would be spamming as well as scamming for items. I hardly ever report but my gallery account got one as well...asking for a different item.

And I am female.

[Bobjohnny]

lol i'd report them but i'm like that

[Morningstar]

I know just how you feel--you want to throttle the person and let them know that you are onto their scamminess. However, I have to agree with Ixistant. It's not worth losing your account over if the scammer decides to falsely report you for harassment, etc.

Some people are extremely "report happy." I have a staffer's admittance in an email that the Neo team doesn't always check out a person's report before hitting the freeze button. And, after seeing my daughter's account frozen and then unfrozen because someone falsely reported her, I know that it is no fun whatsoever to be frozen and a lot of hard work to get yourself unfrozen (and for many innocents out there, that doesn't seem to ever happen).

So, I say, don't even give them a chance to respond to you. When someone asks me for something I politely, but bluntly, say "Sorry, but I can't." That's it. Nothing more. Because they are wasting the time I could be spending making nps. So, it isn't worth my time to get into an argument with the person. And, some of them really like to argue. If they write me again, I will say the same thing once more and then block them.

[raudf]

So, I say, don't even give them a chance to respond to you. When someone asks me for something I politely, but bluntly, say "Sorry, but I can't." That's it. Nothing more. Because they are wasting the time I could be spending making nps. So, it isn't worth my time to get into an argument with the person. And, some of them really like to argue. If they write me again, I will say the same thing once more and then block them.

In my case, I only allow messages from Neofriends, so.. But if I hadn't, I'd have a three mails and you are reported rule. But I will never tell them they are reported. No point whatsoever and every reason not to.

[Mistress Morbid]

Urgh...peole like that just infuriate me. The way they just ask for it. Like people will give them anything they want. If they maybe tried to earn their own neopoints instead of begging they'd see it really isn't that difficult, and it feels a hell of a lot better in the end knowing you did it all on your own.

[Scream]

How would you have phrased it?

Turn off computer. Run into traffic.

But for obvious reasons, I can't post that eveytime someone tries to pull a scam on me

[Zero!]

Six months and one game score?! Ha! And it's sixty-three at Ultimate Bullseye? My score's twice that amount!

I would probably say, "No, you weren't hacked, as your account isn't valuable enough. Now please don't beg me." Then I would block them and report them for scamming. :3

[Kitten Medli]

Nah, that reply sounds quite reasonable, although you could have phrased it a bit more kindly.

I agree with that.

Six months and one game score?! Ha! And it's sixty-three at Ultimate Bullseye? My score's twice that amount!

Atleast they scored higher than I usually do. I only got 7 points higher by pure luck. *shrugs, sticks hands in pockets and waddles off*

[coming2atvnearu]

I agree it was item begging, but a Neopets account being hacked is not unheard of.

There have been occasionas when Neopets, Inc. left huge security holes in their system and people were able to access not only others account, but email as well, through no fault of their own.

[stampsyne]

*shrugs, sticks hands in pockets and waddles off*

Waddles off!

I know people get thier accounts taken at no fault of thier own, but this person obviously didn't care about others. Asked for a Paint Brush on my gallery account.

[Qanda]

Lol, why should a mail from a beggar darken your day? If it were me, I would just hit the delete button and not be bothered at all. I don't see what's the big deal about a little beggar, whether really hacked or not.