Lucas Kell
Internet Terrorists
SpaceMonkey's Alliance
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Posted - 2015.02.06 16:17:10 -
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2 months for a 25b payout? :effort:
He did pretty much just give you the PLEX too, it's not like you carefully played out some elaborate theft for this so there's not even a great story to it.
Congrats and all that though.
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Lucas Kell
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Posted - 2015.02.06 19:16:18 -
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Inata Policar wrote:What I think people are missing here isn't that I just joined and he gave me plex, but rather that I built up enough trust with him that he was perfectly willing to give me that much.
Also I'm safe from legal action because he gave me the PLEX willingly, I never signed a contract saying I would give it back. It's like, if you handed someone $100 and asked them to bring back more, if they never came back you'd have 0 legal ground for suing them. Verbal agreements can be legally binding. There's a reason con artists get sent to prison even though their victims hand over cash willingly.
That said, it'd be unlikely a game based theft would ever go that far. It's certainly an interesting point when it is PLEX that was directly injected from a purchase though.
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Lucas Kell
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Posted - 2015.02.07 10:08:39 -
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Shailagh wrote:Omfg you are allowed to scam peoples plex they just bought with 500$ of their family's monthly grocery fund.
You just aint allowed to ask/convince the guy to take $500 from his families grocery fund and THEN directly scam it from him.
If he took a loan on his house and bought plex by his own free will and you didnt suggest it to him, you can scam it all legally.
Just cant convince the guy to spend money to buy plex specifically for you to then scam
Wtf cant you people read or listen? Oh check it out, a lawyer!
Depending on what country you are in, laws differ. I'm pretty sure there was someone tried for deleting someone character once, and there certainly have been some insane lawsuits come out of second life. Over here in the UK, a politician has been pushing for legal definitions to be changes so that in-game assets are considered for theft cases, so stealing someone's isk would actually be seen as theft - regardless of whether you bought it will real money or not.
Just because all of that is completely insane doesn't mean it's not something that should be at the very least thought about when robbing people ingame.
I'm not saying "ooh, watch out, you'll get arrested for ingame scamming!" I'm just saying it's not quite as clear cut as some people think it is.
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