Learned your lesson I suppose.

Goons are the kind of people that will never amount to anything in their real life so they have to pretend like their badass in a video game. In other words, the scum of the Earth (and New Eden).

It's interesting to see people talk bad about tens of thousands of people,
dismissing them all as being the same.

They did that back in the 30s, too.


You should be hunted down and removed from the game, you sick freak.

did... did you just invoke godwin's law?

did... did you just invoke godwin's law?

The Goonswarm recruitment scam is nearly old as EVE itself. They only recruit from the Something Awful forums. If you are not a member of that and not recruited from there it is a scam. They offer to move your stuff it is a scam.

EVE Rule No1 Trust no one. 100% percent of the victims of scams, corp thefts, intel leaks, alliance thefts, and awoxings violated it.

Is it possible to make a sticky about known scams that new players should be aware of?
Could be really helpful for new players

Is it possible to make a sticky about known scams that new players should be aware of?
Could be really helpful for new players

Goonswarm recruitment scam...
If its not the oldest trick in the book, its close personal friend of the oldest.

Homework, google, 90% of the pilots in Eve, Goons themselves, asking in local, could of enlightened you to this scam...

Ok, you can get them to use this;

EvE is a game where, if you are not paying attention, you WILL get scammed.

Does that work for you?

Including elaborate scams from the recruitment channels such as finding your LF corp message and convoing you so that there is no way for CCP to track them down by their own add?

NO

Happened to me and CCP did absolutely nothing.

Many, many new players including myself joined Eve because of shiny spaceships, not because they wanted to research how to now get scammed in a new MMO. Its just something people generally don't anticipate as acceptable in an MMO because in-game scamming is generally not acceptable in other MMOs.

Is it possible to make a sticky about known scams that new players should be aware of?
Could be really helpful for new players

Lies, libel, and not the least bit of treachery by the creator of this thread. OP was a spy and was treated as such. Don't trust him. After attempting to dissolve The Glorious Socialist Goon Soviet, he is now trying feebly to damage our stellar reputation. Having his possessions taken and his ship destroyed was the least we could do to repay his nefarious actions.

and the obligatory childish denial...

Along with the obligatory broken sarcasm detector.

I don't know if their sarcasm detector is broken or not... I didn't feel it was important to speculate on that.

Including elaborate scams from the recruitment channels such as finding your LF corp message and convoing you so that there is no way for CCP to track them down by their own add?

NO

Happened to me and CCP did absolutely nothing.

Many, many new players including myself joined Eve because of shiny spaceships, not because they wanted to research how to now get scammed in a new MMO. Its just something people generally don't anticipate as acceptable in an MMO because in-game scamming is generally not acceptable in other MMOs.

I forgot to quote the poster, so ******* mad I am about this ****!

It's this stupid brainless behaviour that leads to **** like this in the first place!

AND IT'S JUST A ******* GAME! WTF IS WRONG WITH THESE IDIOTS!

Including elaborate scams from the recruitment channels such as finding your LF corp message and convoing you so that there is no way for CCP to track them down by their own add?

NO

Happened to me and CCP did absolutely nothing.

Many, many new players including myself joined Eve because of shiny spaceships, not because they wanted to research how to now get scammed in a new MMO. Its just something people generally don't anticipate as acceptable in an MMO because in-game scamming is generally not acceptable in other MMOs.

Highlighted your problem.

You are the poster boy for everything I've ever talked about on these forums lol.

You came to a game that everyone else knows about. People won't don't even play EVE know what EVE is like. Yet you downloaded a game client, created a character and started investing time and money into it, yet couldn't be arsed to Google 'EVE Online' before doing any of it.

You came to EVE not for EVE Online game play but because it has shiney ships, not understanding that EVE is an open world sandbox game. That's like playing Grand Theft Auto because it has nice cars and being surprised at all the crime and Hoe Stomping that occurs in it lol.

The company that makes EVE started 17 years ago in 1997 (and advertised what kind of game they were making). The game itself was launched in 2003 (11 years ago). That entire time no one has hidden what EVE online is, what it's about and what kind of gameplay it has.

And yet, despite all the above, somehow your irresponsibility (in not having a single clue about this game that you paid some form of money for) is someone Else's fault. Somehow, CCP is supposed to turn it's back on 17 years of history to 'do something' about you getting scammed...

I find people like this to be amazing...in a bad way.

When I said scams were bad, I meant good. You should feel good about my post, by which I mean bad.

I was only mentioning how a scammer can avoid posting in the corp recruitment channel by directly convoing people. CCP actually does investigate recruitment scams and does take action if there is an add in the channel. In my case the did not.

As also mentioned in my first post i learned my lesson and moved on. Some players don't and this is why they quit.
No need to get angry about it or take it personally. If you are finding people being amazingly bad then perhaps reassess your post which is most definitely erroneous

Let me first start off by saying I know I messed up and I am stupid for doing X and trusting them. But hey you live and learn and that's part of EVE and there's always tomorrow.

Goonswarm recruiting to kill there new members and take some of there stuff???
So today I was looking for a Corp which was in null, and that I can help support with my 8 accounts being a huge industry guy and all. A couple days ago I was invited by Lyeni of Outer World Industries [-OWI-] in Goonswarm Federation. Made it sound interesting in joining, was really just wanting to get into a corp with a settled Null system and continue playing the game and make billions a day again. However that was not the case with this story. Instead they had me pack up some things send over X via contract to haul over join the corp and jump my freighter out. Then I was tackled and killed and podded, they wanted me to eject ( lols ) I didn't. My total lose at the end of the day roughly 4b. Yes that is a good amount of money, and well I guess I was not cool enough for the Goons of EVE, it means little. Could I have prevented it? maybe if I wasn't so trustworthy idk?

Just thought I should share my story for the day for all to laugh at, or learn from or whatever you want. Life goes on and I will make my isk lose back in acouple days doesn't really matter when you have 8 accounts, just a shame I couldn't join.

Another case in point. Somehow I'm 'angry' and my post 'erroneous' lol. Yet, Of the 2 of us, one has never been scammed. Do you think no one has tried to conv/scam me in the last 7 years of my EVE life loo? I'm not angry, I'm dismayed at the idea that grown folks (average EVE age was stated and 27 or 28 last time CCP mentioned it) could be this clueless.

The same people who can't figure out a video game are the people voting in elections in Western Countries lol.

The point is (and this is reinforced by your response here) is that where you see a 'game problem', I see a 'personal problem'. YOU didn't do your homework, and got had for it. EVE isn't just any mmo, and the 'shiney space ships' that attract people are nothing more than game play tools.

The people who quit after getting scammed (of ganked) shouldn't have been playing in the 1st place. They should have taken a look at themselves, realized that they aren't mentally suited to a cutthroat environment, and choose another game to play.

EVE is no more 'dangerous' than a padded room is you are alert, aware and smart, it's a freaking lion's den if you are sloppy or dumb.

Judging from your tone, it's no wonder that you feel eve is a lion's Den. It can definitely be a hostile game to get into but i don't see how your opinion matters on who should play this game or not. Just because eve is currently a game that makes you happy and obviously attached to it as you defend its state so ferociously, does not mean your word carries the definition on how it should be in the long run.

Judging from your tone, it's no wonder that you feel eve is a lion's Den. It can definitely be a hostile game to get into but i don't see how your opinion matters on who should play this game or not. Just because eve is currently a game that makes you happy and obviously attached to it as you defend its state so ferociously, does not mean your word carries the definition on how it should be in the long run.