Tell ya what...

Swear fealty to me by "donating" 100% of your corporation's shares to my wallet and I'll help you blog about it

Sound fair?

I always keep my promise when people send me ISK, unlike those scammers.

What promise is that, exactly?

What do you think?

what good would my corp's shares do you? this corp is fail, and I'm about to dump it into the wastelands and move back to lowsec

Well if your going to dump your corp anyway, what's the harm?

Besides, I thought you might like a story to write about

no, that would be a dumb story, and you should feel bad for suggesting it.

If someone would be so kind as to sticky this. I shelled out a good amount of ISK to get this conversation to happen.

Noobs, don't fall for dumb crap. And here is why, in plain sight. I've been in this game long enough to know a scam, and decided to do something about one of them, so you all don't get roped into this kind of thing.
Flying since 2007... so sometimes, this is how bored I get with EVE

Read up and educate yourselves.

http://jarodgaramonde.blogspot.com/

The scammer sounded absolutely devastated that she took your 1.2b ISK and had to suffer your wrath and the ultimate humiliation of being BLOGGED about. My lord, man, ease up on the poor lass.

PS - next time you are 'plain bored' and want to blow 1.2 billion ISK in an effort to help newbs, buy us some ships, or some skill books or something. Anything else, rather than give your money to someone who is obviously (obvious to anyone with half a brain) scamming.

So did you prove that ISK doubling is a scam? Or that ISK doubling is a scam that really works?

I rather doubt that you deterred your spammer. But I'm confident you have encouraged a whole bunch of new scammers.

The people that fall for this aren't going to read this anyway.

They can't all be scams. I gave a guy 1b isk and he doubled it once. I think it was in jita.

Though well intentioned I feel the process is perhaps a bit misguided and fruitless.

1- you have reinforced the scam
2- such a scam runs on the greed of the particular player, you are not effecting that, nor can you reasonably hope to
3- players who actually get sucked in to 2x scams are not likely to be reading your post, if they do they will delete or distort 'facts' that fall outside of the model of things that have them fall for the scam in the first place.

The noob missions should have an ISK doubler with limited negative impact and a station agent that then tells you how stupid you were.

About 4 1/2 yrs ago, back when I was a young capsuleer, I took a chance on one of those 'Double Your ISK' things to the tune of 15 mill. That was pretty much my wallet amount. After I sent the ISK, the scammer did a private convo with me asking me to do 100 mill, Of course he didn't know I didn't have any more ISK. I simply told him to first double the 15 mill and then I'll gladly do the 100 mill. The scammer told me he was in convo with others and would do it shortly, then he left the private convo.

All attempts at trying to re-establish communications was futile. I then placed the scammer on watch list and set him to red standing. I then stayed logged into the game for long lengths of time, at least 16 hrs a day, always looking for him. When he logged back into the game, I used a locator agent and quickly warped over to the system he was in and spammed Local chat linking his name with the words = Liar, Thief, Scammer. Eventually he left the system and after I did a mad dash jumping into neighboring systems, I found him again and started doing the same thing again, spamming Local with my message about the scammer. He soon logged off.

However, I remained vigilant and whenever he came online, I was soon in the same system posting my message in Local. This went on for about a week, then one day he sent me a mail message saying I had won, deposited 15 mill in my wallet and told me to leave him alone.

Sure, I didn't get the 'Double Your ISK' but at least I got my initial amount back. Granted it took me some time to do that but in the end vengeance was mine. I've heard it said before that vengeance is best when served cold but I'm here to tell you that it's way better when served fresh, hot off the grill.



DMC

You spent a week logged into Eve for 16 hours a day, following someone around for 15 mil.

You're either crazy or daft, maybe a little of both.

yesterday i actually played doubling and "Erotica 1" actually made me richer by 150 million

so nope, the picture is more complex than you seeing