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Torn City is a shady place at the best of times, but over the past week, there seems to have been a notable increase in the number of people falling for obvious scams. Jaiden was accused just yesterday of taking $63million TCD from FinalOffensive, and this came hot on the heels of PrinceVegeta's outing of Lungi-- and DAH's betrayal by an unnamed player on Saturday.
Before the weekend, Kapten_Klitoris posted the results of another of his infamous ruses to add to the list, with his latest multi-million dollar haul building on his previous efforts, the past two of which have returned $875million TCD in scamming profits - minus the cost of a snowboard and driving gloves. So why has scamming suddenly become so easy? Are Torn's people getting stupider? Or are the scammers becoming ever more tough to identify?
The latter seems improbable when buy-muggers and trade scammers are frequently outed via the forums. However, with so many accusations flying around, perhaps it is now easy for scammers to hide among the fraudulent masses. It's like when all of these Hollywood sexual harassment claims came out of the woodwork. Yes, we must castigate those who stand accused today, but in doing so, we mustn't forget that R Kelly likes to REDACTED onto young REDACTED and videotape them. The offenders of the past must be remembered, lest we fall foul of their ways once more.
Pictured: Lemon juice, probably.
Or maybe we're just so used to hearing scamming allegations that most people feel they can no longer take them seriously? Who knows? What seems hard to deny is that outing a scammer can have mixed results for those who choose to expose themselves via the forums. FinalOffensive saw this for himself when he accused Jaiden of scamming him out of some cash, as in response to his call for action, he received equal parts advice and sass talk.
"I went for the idiotic doubling money scam and didn't look at his enemy/friend ratio. I feel sad about it since I lost all my money in one go. Worse then Blackjack! But, cheaters never win! Didn't know he was a scammer because I didn't look at his enemy/friend ratio. Now, I will look at that ratio, and if it is bad, I will avoid them just like the cancerous being Jaiden is." - FinalOffensive
Jaiden's reputation precedes him, and a cursory search of the forums would have turned up many threads testifying to his untrustworthiness. Nevertheless, FinalOffensive will learn from this and hopefully avoid falling foul of such fiends in future. As for Jaiden, well, if he can manage to scam someone despite possessing such notoriety, I say good luck to the man. The same goes for Lungi--'s swindling of PrinceVegeta, since he too has the kind of reputation that would almost certainly prevent him from selling his old laptop on eBay, and yet PrinceVegeta seemingly did nothing to investigate this.
PrinceVegeta seems to have self-fedded in response to his error, which, if we're being honest, was entirely avoidable. If you wish to insulate yourself from the threat posed by scammers then you would do well to pay heed to the advice found littering the threads of their victims. Most of us realise that if something's too good to be true, it probably is. I know this from personal experience, having put several years into a relationship with an attractive, amusing woman only to later discover that she has a giant throbbing love for the music of Hanson.
Her remains were buried in a shallow grave.
Ignorance isn't the only way a scammer can gain your good grace, though, as the story of DAH so clearly proves. I can reveal that the delightfully named YungCoochie - perhaps a fan of R Kelly judging by his name - was the foul creature who took advantage of DAH's good faith to pilfer his vault. Master Coochie messaged his victim out of the blue to propose marriage while he was already betrothed to the owner of a private island. DAH asked why he wanted to end their union, and he claimed his current beloved had rinsed him of $80million - a likely story indeed.
DAH fell for this ruse believing that he was merely helping someone out who had fallen on hard times. But in Torn City, a soft heart is rewarded with hard luck. DAH allowed YungCoochie access to his private island's vault which at the time contained just a few million dollars. There wasn't enough to tempt Coochie into fleecing his new spouse just yet, however, after one particularly lucrative plushie sale garnered DAH $24million in profits, the urge to thieve proved too great. DAH lost $31million TCD, although he remains adamant that he does not consider this incident a scam.
"Now I'm not a goodygoodguy. I never really think about doing good deed, even more so in the Torn city and I've been feeling down lately so I thought why not try and be good and do good deed. and so I did accept the marriage. I don't really like when people called my case a scam because a scam is basically an agreement where both party are supposed to gain something but one party decide to swindle the other for extra gain, while my case is just pure kind gesture that got spitted in the face. I am in no way expecting anything in return so its not really a scam dont you think?"
Since DAH posted about his ordeal on the forums he has received a mostly positive response from the community. Several people sent messages of support, others sent gifts, a few placed bounties and YungCoochie's enemy list swelled from one to twelve. DAH even married one of the people who helped him in his time of need, proving that Torn citizens do have hearts after all, albeit encased in a thick layer of bulletproof kevlar.
The reason DAH wasn't roundly mocked was because his forum post exposed nothing more than his kind heart and good nature, as opposed to the lack of knowledge displayed by others. The way you respond to a scam, ruse, racket or diddle determines how people will treat you, and this was made apparent in the aftermath of Kapten_Klitoris' scamming of Hermoine last month.
Hermoine lost out to the tune of $435million TCD, and while the Kapten was right to boast of such a haul - it was objectively hilarious - you couldn't have begrudged his victim a little saltiness.
As you can see, Hermoine avoided salt and responded to this incident with class and dignity, and as a result, Kapten_Klitoris has pledged to return every last penny of his ill-gotten gains. This isn't true, but if you believed my ruse for even a second then you may be at risk from scammers right now. Torn isn't a very nice place, and nor is it supposed to be. Bad things happen here, and if you're not the one being a bastard, you'll surely be the victim of bastardry soon enough.
As for the scammers themselves, they all have their reasons for doing what they do. Maybe they're poor, they might be evil, or perhaps, as in the case of YungCoochie, they just want to make their mark before heading off into the sunset.
"My reasoning behind me scamming DAH would be that I am quitting Torn and I wanted to go out with a bang and I did so with a 450 mill blackjack bet (which I lost) and I only scammed dah for 30 mill which is absolutely nothing for a player like him (0.01%of his networth)."
"I wouldn't say that my intention when meeting DAH was to scam but to just live in his PI but when Torn was blocked at my school I quit and one of my irl friends told me to do a large bet and he also told me to steal from my spouse."
You never know what tragedy has led someone down the path they are on. Some people are born and raised in drug dens, others are pregnant and homeless by the time they're five years old, and a few poor bastards have Torn blocked by their school's network administrator. Such tragedies inevitably mould otherwise decent people into monsters, but maybe there's a way back for these errant souls. For if YungCoochie is to be believed, and if he follows through on his promise, it turns out he may have a big, soft heart after all.
"If he is so angry about it I have 176 mill coming out of the bank in 13 days and would love to pay him back."
DOG TAGS CURRENT STANDINGS
Dog Tags 2017 concludes this Friday the 25th of November at 17:00 TCT, and it will take some considerable effort if our current leader is to be caught. The gap between first and second has increased from 5,046 points to 7,960, with the first-place haul of 29,161 already 6,355 points ahead of the winning total from last year with five days of competition remaining.
Pictured: If Dog Tags 2017 was this race, all of the horses in this image would represent 1st, and everyone else would be the horse not shown who was shot and euthanised having fallen over the first hurdle.
Our second-place player holds 21,201 points, followed by td3hSEDb4bounty in third on 19,916 points. This means that Td3hSEDb4bounty, who outed himself via an article as the holder of second place last week, has dropped one place. In said article, Td3hSEDb4bounty also revealed Ofgortens to be in third beneath him at the time. I subsequently received a message from Nova, who was none too happy that Td3hSEDb4bounty had name-dropped his friend in an apparent attempt to have him targeted.
Did T3dhSEDb4bounty write a newspaper article for the sole purpose of gaining an advantage in the tags competition? It is hard to say, but the evidence in favour is beginning to mount like cat shit in the litter tray of a recently deceased pensioner.
"The first part I ate was the face".
It was later brought to my attention by Chedburn that Td3hSEDb4bounty's claims of being able to instantly respond to attacks by self-hospitalising were likely untrue. If this act were possible, it would almost certainly require the use of a script. However, further investigations revealed that Td3hSEDb4bounty had merely edited the image of his events to make it seem as though he was able to respond in this manner to every attack, which I have been led to believe is not the case.
The Torn City Times does not know how our recently hired reporter obtained the information regarding Ofgortens' placement, and nor can we be certain of his motives for writing his recent article, but we wholeheartedly refuse to confirm or deny the identity of the person currently in second place. All we can say is that T3dhSEDb4bounty is now third, and someone else is now second. And if Mr Oftgortens, or indeed any player wishes to submit a tactical article to enhance their own chances of success, feel free to contact the TCT and we shall respond at our earliest convenience.
As for the rest of the competition, the action has been hotting up like a dog trapped in a hot car. 19,590 active users have stolen 273,114 tags so far, with 2,114 tags having been returned to their original owners. Last week's fourth-placed Bodybagger - who has agreed to reveal his placing - has now swapped places with last week's fifth-placed player. Also, this week's sixth was last week's eighth, seventh has stayed where they were, a new entry into the top ten has taken eighth, ninth is last week's sixth, and another newcomer has penetrated tenth position. 7,036 points are required to enter the top ten at present, with 5,044 the current total for the player in 25th position.
1st, REDACTED, 29,161 points, 1,325 tags
2nd, REDACTED, 21,201 points, 703 tags
3rd, T3dhSEDb4bounty, 19,916 points, 625 tags
4th, REDACTED, 13,129 points, tags 520
5th, Bodybagger, 11,791 points, 343 tags
6th, REDACTED, 10,698 points, 478 tags
7th, REDACTED, 10,693 points, 470 tags
8th, REDACTED, 9,307 points, 334 tags
9th, REDACTED, 9,277 points, 305 tags
10th, REDACTED, 9,007 points, 460 tags
11th, REDACTED, 7,036 points, 421 tags
12th, REDACTED, 6,987 points, 349 tags
13th, REDACTED, 6,888 points, 409 tags
14th, REDACTED, 6,078 points, 329 tags
15th, REDACTED, 5,948 points, 274 tags
16th, REDACTED, 5,844 points, 289 tags
17th, REDACTED, 5,751 points, 265 tags
18th, REDACTED, 5,555 points, 246 tags
19th, REDACTED, 5,518 points, 245 tags
20th, REDACTED, 5,299 points, 201 tags
21st, REDACTED, 5,298 points, 222 tags
22nd, REDACTED, 5,263 points, 261 tags
23rd, REDACTED, 5,077 points, 266 tags
24th, REDACTED, 5,047 points, 240 tags
25th, REDACTED, 5,044 points, 256 tags
Before the weekend, Kapten_Klitoris posted the results of another of his infamous ruses to add to the list, with his latest multi-million dollar haul building on his previous efforts, the past two of which have returned $875million TCD in scamming profits - minus the cost of a snowboard and driving gloves. So why has scamming suddenly become so easy? Are Torn's people getting stupider? Or are the scammers becoming ever more tough to identify?
The latter seems improbable when buy-muggers and trade scammers are frequently outed via the forums. However, with so many accusations flying around, perhaps it is now easy for scammers to hide among the fraudulent masses. It's like when all of these Hollywood sexual harassment claims came out of the woodwork. Yes, we must castigate those who stand accused today, but in doing so, we mustn't forget that R Kelly likes to REDACTED onto young REDACTED and videotape them. The offenders of the past must be remembered, lest we fall foul of their ways once more.
Pictured: Lemon juice, probably.
Or maybe we're just so used to hearing scamming allegations that most people feel they can no longer take them seriously? Who knows? What seems hard to deny is that outing a scammer can have mixed results for those who choose to expose themselves via the forums. FinalOffensive saw this for himself when he accused Jaiden of scamming him out of some cash, as in response to his call for action, he received equal parts advice and sass talk.
"I went for the idiotic doubling money scam and didn't look at his enemy/friend ratio. I feel sad about it since I lost all my money in one go. Worse then Blackjack! But, cheaters never win! Didn't know he was a scammer because I didn't look at his enemy/friend ratio. Now, I will look at that ratio, and if it is bad, I will avoid them just like the cancerous being Jaiden is." - FinalOffensive
Jaiden's reputation precedes him, and a cursory search of the forums would have turned up many threads testifying to his untrustworthiness. Nevertheless, FinalOffensive will learn from this and hopefully avoid falling foul of such fiends in future. As for Jaiden, well, if he can manage to scam someone despite possessing such notoriety, I say good luck to the man. The same goes for Lungi--'s swindling of PrinceVegeta, since he too has the kind of reputation that would almost certainly prevent him from selling his old laptop on eBay, and yet PrinceVegeta seemingly did nothing to investigate this.
PrinceVegeta seems to have self-fedded in response to his error, which, if we're being honest, was entirely avoidable. If you wish to insulate yourself from the threat posed by scammers then you would do well to pay heed to the advice found littering the threads of their victims. Most of us realise that if something's too good to be true, it probably is. I know this from personal experience, having put several years into a relationship with an attractive, amusing woman only to later discover that she has a giant throbbing love for the music of Hanson.
Her remains were buried in a shallow grave.
Ignorance isn't the only way a scammer can gain your good grace, though, as the story of DAH so clearly proves. I can reveal that the delightfully named YungCoochie - perhaps a fan of R Kelly judging by his name - was the foul creature who took advantage of DAH's good faith to pilfer his vault. Master Coochie messaged his victim out of the blue to propose marriage while he was already betrothed to the owner of a private island. DAH asked why he wanted to end their union, and he claimed his current beloved had rinsed him of $80million - a likely story indeed.
DAH fell for this ruse believing that he was merely helping someone out who had fallen on hard times. But in Torn City, a soft heart is rewarded with hard luck. DAH allowed YungCoochie access to his private island's vault which at the time contained just a few million dollars. There wasn't enough to tempt Coochie into fleecing his new spouse just yet, however, after one particularly lucrative plushie sale garnered DAH $24million in profits, the urge to thieve proved too great. DAH lost $31million TCD, although he remains adamant that he does not consider this incident a scam.
"Now I'm not a goodygoodguy. I never really think about doing good deed, even more so in the Torn city and I've been feeling down lately so I thought why not try and be good and do good deed. and so I did accept the marriage. I don't really like when people called my case a scam because a scam is basically an agreement where both party are supposed to gain something but one party decide to swindle the other for extra gain, while my case is just pure kind gesture that got spitted in the face. I am in no way expecting anything in return so its not really a scam dont you think?"
Since DAH posted about his ordeal on the forums he has received a mostly positive response from the community. Several people sent messages of support, others sent gifts, a few placed bounties and YungCoochie's enemy list swelled from one to twelve. DAH even married one of the people who helped him in his time of need, proving that Torn citizens do have hearts after all, albeit encased in a thick layer of bulletproof kevlar.
The reason DAH wasn't roundly mocked was because his forum post exposed nothing more than his kind heart and good nature, as opposed to the lack of knowledge displayed by others. The way you respond to a scam, ruse, racket or diddle determines how people will treat you, and this was made apparent in the aftermath of Kapten_Klitoris' scamming of Hermoine last month.
Hermoine lost out to the tune of $435million TCD, and while the Kapten was right to boast of such a haul - it was objectively hilarious - you couldn't have begrudged his victim a little saltiness.
As you can see, Hermoine avoided salt and responded to this incident with class and dignity, and as a result, Kapten_Klitoris has pledged to return every last penny of his ill-gotten gains. This isn't true, but if you believed my ruse for even a second then you may be at risk from scammers right now. Torn isn't a very nice place, and nor is it supposed to be. Bad things happen here, and if you're not the one being a bastard, you'll surely be the victim of bastardry soon enough.
As for the scammers themselves, they all have their reasons for doing what they do. Maybe they're poor, they might be evil, or perhaps, as in the case of YungCoochie, they just want to make their mark before heading off into the sunset.
"My reasoning behind me scamming DAH would be that I am quitting Torn and I wanted to go out with a bang and I did so with a 450 mill blackjack bet (which I lost) and I only scammed dah for 30 mill which is absolutely nothing for a player like him (0.01%of his networth)."
"I wouldn't say that my intention when meeting DAH was to scam but to just live in his PI but when Torn was blocked at my school I quit and one of my irl friends told me to do a large bet and he also told me to steal from my spouse."
You never know what tragedy has led someone down the path they are on. Some people are born and raised in drug dens, others are pregnant and homeless by the time they're five years old, and a few poor bastards have Torn blocked by their school's network administrator. Such tragedies inevitably mould otherwise decent people into monsters, but maybe there's a way back for these errant souls. For if YungCoochie is to be believed, and if he follows through on his promise, it turns out he may have a big, soft heart after all.
"If he is so angry about it I have 176 mill coming out of the bank in 13 days and would love to pay him back."
DOG TAGS CURRENT STANDINGS
Dog Tags 2017 concludes this Friday the 25th of November at 17:00 TCT, and it will take some considerable effort if our current leader is to be caught. The gap between first and second has increased from 5,046 points to 7,960, with the first-place haul of 29,161 already 6,355 points ahead of the winning total from last year with five days of competition remaining.
Pictured: If Dog Tags 2017 was this race, all of the horses in this image would represent 1st, and everyone else would be the horse not shown who was shot and euthanised having fallen over the first hurdle.
Our second-place player holds 21,201 points, followed by td3hSEDb4bounty in third on 19,916 points. This means that Td3hSEDb4bounty, who outed himself via an article as the holder of second place last week, has dropped one place. In said article, Td3hSEDb4bounty also revealed Ofgortens to be in third beneath him at the time. I subsequently received a message from Nova, who was none too happy that Td3hSEDb4bounty had name-dropped his friend in an apparent attempt to have him targeted.
Did T3dhSEDb4bounty write a newspaper article for the sole purpose of gaining an advantage in the tags competition? It is hard to say, but the evidence in favour is beginning to mount like cat shit in the litter tray of a recently deceased pensioner.
"The first part I ate was the face".
It was later brought to my attention by Chedburn that Td3hSEDb4bounty's claims of being able to instantly respond to attacks by self-hospitalising were likely untrue. If this act were possible, it would almost certainly require the use of a script. However, further investigations revealed that Td3hSEDb4bounty had merely edited the image of his events to make it seem as though he was able to respond in this manner to every attack, which I have been led to believe is not the case.
The Torn City Times does not know how our recently hired reporter obtained the information regarding Ofgortens' placement, and nor can we be certain of his motives for writing his recent article, but we wholeheartedly refuse to confirm or deny the identity of the person currently in second place. All we can say is that T3dhSEDb4bounty is now third, and someone else is now second. And if Mr Oftgortens, or indeed any player wishes to submit a tactical article to enhance their own chances of success, feel free to contact the TCT and we shall respond at our earliest convenience.
As for the rest of the competition, the action has been hotting up like a dog trapped in a hot car. 19,590 active users have stolen 273,114 tags so far, with 2,114 tags having been returned to their original owners. Last week's fourth-placed Bodybagger - who has agreed to reveal his placing - has now swapped places with last week's fifth-placed player. Also, this week's sixth was last week's eighth, seventh has stayed where they were, a new entry into the top ten has taken eighth, ninth is last week's sixth, and another newcomer has penetrated tenth position. 7,036 points are required to enter the top ten at present, with 5,044 the current total for the player in 25th position.
1st, REDACTED, 29,161 points, 1,325 tags
2nd, REDACTED, 21,201 points, 703 tags
3rd, T3dhSEDb4bounty, 19,916 points, 625 tags
4th, REDACTED, 13,129 points, tags 520
5th, Bodybagger, 11,791 points, 343 tags
6th, REDACTED, 10,698 points, 478 tags
7th, REDACTED, 10,693 points, 470 tags
8th, REDACTED, 9,307 points, 334 tags
9th, REDACTED, 9,277 points, 305 tags
10th, REDACTED, 9,007 points, 460 tags
11th, REDACTED, 7,036 points, 421 tags
12th, REDACTED, 6,987 points, 349 tags
13th, REDACTED, 6,888 points, 409 tags
14th, REDACTED, 6,078 points, 329 tags
15th, REDACTED, 5,948 points, 274 tags
16th, REDACTED, 5,844 points, 289 tags
17th, REDACTED, 5,751 points, 265 tags
18th, REDACTED, 5,555 points, 246 tags
19th, REDACTED, 5,518 points, 245 tags
20th, REDACTED, 5,299 points, 201 tags
21st, REDACTED, 5,298 points, 222 tags
22nd, REDACTED, 5,263 points, 261 tags
23rd, REDACTED, 5,077 points, 266 tags
24th, REDACTED, 5,047 points, 240 tags
25th, REDACTED, 5,044 points, 256 tags
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