Please read, someone using my name to try to do account scams

[Morniel]

Denmom - sorry to clutter your board with this, but since this is such a well traveled board (and one of the few places where I post) I thought it might be appropriate.

Someone is trying to pass themselves off as me, and scamming people out of their accounts. I want everyone to know, I am not selling or trading any accounts. Allison Morniel is NOT me, even though he/she claims to be, and is using my magelo on his/her emails.

Any advice as to how to handle this would be most welcome.

[Morniel]

I turned on the log at that point - here's the conversation up til the guy vanished/went ld:



[Mon Sep 22 17:07:13 2003] stormhammer.Rafikar told you, 'Someone was talking to my wife about trading shamans thur emails and also claims to be "Morniel" and gave me the magelo profile and all'
[Mon Sep 22 17:07:31 2003] You told stormhammer.Rafikar, 'what magelo profile? do you recall the number?'
[Mon Sep 22 17:07:41 2003] stormhammer.Rafikar told you, 'yes one sec'
[Mon Sep 22 17:08:21 2003] stormhammer.Rafikar told you, '105973'
[Mon Sep 22 17:08:28 2003] You told stormhammer.Rafikar, 'err that's my magelo'
[Mon Sep 22 17:08:53 2003] You told stormhammer.Rafikar, 'do you have any contact info for this person? any info? not sure what to do but that's disturbing'
[Mon Sep 22 17:08:54 2003] stormhammer.Rafikar told you, 'the scammer seems to use other peopls magelos to get the peoples trust.'
[Mon Sep 22 17:10:04 2003] stormhammer.Rafikar told you, 'The scammers AIM user name is Allie 2788'
[Mon Sep 22 17:11:01 2003] stormhammer.Rafikar told you, 'The email address is Alliemorniel@yahoo.com'
[Mon Sep 22 17:11:11 2003] You told stormhammer.Rafikar, 'how did they contact you?'
[Mon Sep 22 17:11:59 2003] stormhammer.Rafikar told you, 'My wife was trying to sell shaman on PA and she contacted us asking if we'd take trades . Well my wife wanted a 65 shaman on Torvonnilous, so this person said that they found one.'
[Mon Sep 22 17:12:46 2003] stormhammer.Rafikar told you, 'gave a magelo of a shaman (who we just found out was just using someones magelo) and try to trade my wife shaman for it.'
[Mon Sep 22 17:13:31 2003] You told stormhammer.Rafikar, 'thanks for telling me this'
[Mon Sep 22 17:13:39 2003] You told stormhammer.Rafikar, 'I have no idea what to do about it though..'
[Mon Sep 22 17:13:50 2003] stormhammer.Rafikar told you, 'well Unfortnually my wife gave her info first and the account was been taking from her'
[Mon Sep 22 17:14:04 2003] You told stormhammer.Rafikar, 'you can get it back'
[Mon Sep 22 17:14:15 2003] stormhammer.Rafikar told you, 'I'm able to call sony to either get account back or at least get this person banned. hopefully'
[Mon Sep 22 17:14:16 2003] You told stormhammer.Rafikar, 'go to www.everquest.com, have the pw reset'
[Mon Sep 22 17:14:25 2003] You told stormhammer.Rafikar, 'no don't do that heh'
[Mon Sep 22 17:14:34 2003] stormhammer.Rafikar told you, 'info was changed. will go to that person now'
[Mon Sep 22 17:14:34 2003] You told stormhammer.Rafikar, 'you will get banned if you do that... or the acct would'
[Mon Sep 22 17:14:48 2003] You told stormhammer.Rafikar, 'no it won't... should go to the email that it was originally set up wtih'
[Mon Sep 22 17:15:56 2003] stormhammer.Rafikar told you, 'But you should know that she is linking your magelo in her emails and "cailms to be this person. '
[Mon Sep 22 17:16:14 2003] You told stormhammer.Rafikar, 'thanks..'
[Mon Sep 22 17:16:46 2003] stormhammer.Rafikar told you, 'I talked to the persons "shaman" seems she sold there magleo also'

[Maevenniia]

That is despicable, on so many levels. Scamming others and damaging your reputation in the meantime, and putting a great tool like Magelo to such a shameful purpose.

Some people are scum. And unfortunately there are some naive/too trusting people out there that get burned in the process.

EDIT: Just wanted to adda suggestion : maybe you can temporarily replace the background pic of your Magelo with a disclaimer that explains what's happening, ie: "I am NOT trading or selling my account, anyone telling you otherwise is lying & trying to scam you."

[Lothay]

Note: Ouch. That blows.

However, this isn't the place to deal with this. Sony's Customer Service is.

I'm leaving the post, but locking.