Janette
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Posted - 2006.06.13 04:27:00 -
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Hi, my name is Janette and I'm a scammer.
I recently pulled off a scam which you may or may not have heard of.
This is my side of the story.
This is one of the bigger scams in EVE and is quickly becoming known simply as "The SVE scam".
It all started when I was reading through ISS's IPO and thought to myself, that will never work. Later I found out it was very successful and made people lots of isk.
Then at their second IPO I saw even more interest, not surprising in light of their other IPO's success and soon afterwards IPOs started becoming quite popular.
I started to wonder what's the guarantee they'll make isk at all to begin with since so many people are investing?
Turns out there isn't any.
How simple it would be to just walk away with the isk.
Later on EGSE comes along with real *experts* that keow all about IPOs, I don't view them as real experts as there isn't much to know about them in the first place, but people seemed to trust them. This was the perfect time to strike, a lot of IPOs recently successful and people are beginning to be quite greedy.
So I layed the groundwork, wrote up a business plan and asked Exelsior to help me finish it. It was a simple idea, buy t2 BPOs and produce the items. I tryed to make the business plan very simple because, well, people are stupid.
Later Omber Zombie a well known and respected person in the community logs on, Exelsior knew him so I invite him to the convo. We talked about it and it was quite easy to convince him into being a trustee. After about 10 minutes he asked "So, what do I have to do?"
The pieces were falling into place.
They posted in my thread confirming that they will be looking at the progress and making sure I don't steal the profits.
24 hrs later I post a Sell Order thread.
My Inbox was instantly bombarded and I was recieving convos sooner than I could press accept on the earlier one.
4 hours into the actual sale I'd already made 19 billion, I kept on making small sales every now and then.
The next day I woke up with 25 billion sitting in my wallet.
I was quite satisfied with it and once I could quit my corporation I changed the original business plan to one sentence including a link and awaited the flames.
The flames you can easily find in Market Discussion portion of the forums but since you're lazy and you know you are here's a link and another link and another link and another link.
I implore you not to flame ths thread but simply say shame on you and your point will be made.
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