An Increase in Scamming?

he first time I was ever actually scammed was when I was in the Jamaa Township, probably looking for a buddy. It was the usual. People were chatting, trading, and, as always, there was someone exclaiming,"If you like me, go to my den!"

I spotted a white bunny with pale pink patterning and a flower behind one ear saying in all capitals," FASHION SHOW MY DEN! DONATIONS GO TO MY SIS IT'S HER BIRTHDAY!" she then continued on to say," THE PRIZE IS 1 RARE ITEM!!!"

I clicked on the person's player card. Sage565. A bit dubious, I logged a side account on too, and went to the person's den to investigate.

"oh hi!" the bunny chirped. "are you guys here for the fashion show?"

"Uhhh.. yes." I said, looking around her den. There was nothing to hint that she was rare. 

"well, to start off, just send me one rare for my sis." she said.

"PROMISE it's not a scam?" I asked, hoping to get something out of her.

"I cross my heart and promise." she responded. 

Hmm, interesting. I made my side account say," What if you don't have any rares?"

The bunny, not even the slightest bit fazed, replied," then just send a good item."

I transferred a not-very-valuable hat that looked vaguely like a blue flower inside an egg shell to my side and then sent it to the bunny. On my main account, I then sent Sage565 the previous day's RIM.

She paused for a moment after we sent them.

"Helllooo?" I asked, logging my side account out.

Suddenly, she exclaimed," HAHA, I SCAMMED YOU GUYS!" then promptly left. A bit stunned, even though I was expecting it, I pursued her into the Jamaa Township, where she was using the same technique. I exclaimed," SAGE565 IS A SCMMER! DON'T ATTEND HER 'FASHION SHOWS', UNLESS YOU WANT TO BE TRICKED!"

I then went around, telling all of my buddies and warning them. In hindsight, I'm glad that I sent her items, or else I wouldn't have been able to warn people who could be tricked more easily into sending her actually valuable items. 

Anyways, the scamming drama is constant. Just today, my good friend nafaria9 told me that her buddy, Mistybreeze472, was hacked! She apparently went to nafaria's den and told her that she had been hacked. The thing was, though, Mistybreeze was talking oddly, and her grammar was more careless then usual. 

Nafaria told me that she thought that Misty might have still been hacked, and the person pretending to be Misty was possibly trying to get nafaria to send her an item! 

And later, she saw an odd comment on numnum13's blog.

Nafaria and I think that it might be possible that 'hive309' had hacked Misty and was trying to get numnum to send items to Misty's account so that he or her could then send it to his or her main account.

Usually, in the Jamaa township, there are always people scamming, trading, and scamming some more. It's very sad. Is this what we want Animal Jam to be like? No.

Many people scam... I'd say 68% of Jamaa's population, unfortunately. Scammers are painfully common. 

We need this to stop. Now. 

  ~Edwingrim2