Confirmed Scammers GM Genesis

[BaconInMyPants]

There was a previous post where someone said someone added them on skype posing as GM Genesis. I'm sure I just got hit by the same guy, good thing I did a quick search on forums and found that thread.

I'll break down everything that happened below so no one else falls for it.

TL;DR : 

• Names used : "Merry Happy New Year" and 2 others masquerading as GM Genesis and Veracity (just joined so i'm not sure how GM names are formatted here)
• email used in skype : [email protected]
• told me they needed a new GM
• tried hard to make it all very convincing
• had me download "GM Commands.txt"
• told me to download "team.exe" from a mediafire link which was just teamviewer to gain access over my pc

First someone named "Merry Happy New Year" pm'd me in game. I forgot what he/she said, but asked if I was from asia and some other stuff. Sooner or later told me to @go 21, then said to just @warp to some coords that was near the helpdesk in town. He then made a chat for me to join, then 2 other 'GMs' joined the chat, but their names weren't visible in the chat room. This made me think believe they were real GMs because I don't know any other way you can do this. So I added the person on skype, [email protected]. I already had worries from the beginning that this was some scam, and it only got more intense when I was told to talk over skype and to exit out of RO. He told me the reason I was scouted was because I'm new so I don't have friends or foes (I previously told them in game that I'm completely new to this server). In attempts to make it seem more legit, he outlined that I would be an event GM, that I'd just need to do events around 30 mins a day blah blah. Gave me a txt file to download over skype, I poked around it for a bit to see if it was anything more than a txt file, didn't seem like it. Was just another bit to make this whole thing seem more convincing. After a bit more talking he sent me the download link to team.exe through a mediafire link. -BLARING RED ALARMS, THIS NIGGA TRYING TO FUCK YO SHIT UP- I downloaded it. He claimed it was to use GM commands and characters. I already know you don't need some special program to use GM commands nor use a GM account. Upon downloading I saw the logo it had, same as Teamviewer. For anyone that doesn't know teamviewer allows someone else to access control over your computer by giving them your access information, very commonly used in these scams. At that point I just finally said this is definitely a scam now and he removed me from skype, and the "Merry Happy New Year" character in game didn't respond to me, even though he/she was clearly moving around.

If anyone's interested, I copied and pasted the full convo from skype :  http://i.imgur.com/JxZ4L1i.png 

Edited December 7, 2016 by BaconInMyPants
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[BaconInMyPants]

For those unaware, this kind of scam is not just to get your account info, its usually something more along the lines of locking up your PC and not giving you back access unless you pay some ransom.

[Fenrir]

wow. thanks for the warning man. I got a similar question this morning, asking if i'm from asia. Thankfully I was AFK for a while and was not able to reply hahaha!

[BaconInMyPants]

3 minutes ago, Fenrir said:

wow. thanks for the warning man. I got a similar question this morning, asking if i'm from asia. Thankfully I was AFK for a while and was not able to reply hahaha!

Np, helps that I recently-ish watched a couple videos on internet scams and am a bit more conscious of these things. Literally when I was first talking to them in game I kept saying how it smelled like a scam, wonder what that was like to them on the other side, seeing someone suspect them of scamming so early.

[ShadeIromatak]

4 hours ago, BaconInMyPants said:

Np, helps that I recently-ish watched a couple videos on internet scams and am a bit more conscious of these things. Literally when I was first talking to them in game I kept saying how it smelled like a scam, wonder what that was like to them on the other side, seeing someone suspect them of scamming so early.

Whew! Glad he didn't get yah! Hopefully @Genesis can IP ban this guy now that you have his IGN.

[Inflatable Sheep]

The infamous "your from Asia right????" scammer again? Dude's been at it for years, using the same exact trick, he's probably PM'd me a thousand times since 2012.

Educating people not to fall for this blatant type of crap is the best solution, cuz if the many bans he's probably received by now hasn't stopped him, I don't think it's going to lol.

[B u m b l e B e e]

8 hours ago, BaconInMyPants said:

There was a previous post where someone said someone added them on skype posing as GM Genesis. I'm sure I just got hit by the same guy, good thing I did a quick search on forums and found that thread.

I'll break down everything that happened below so no one else falls for it.

TL;DR : 

• Names used : "Merry Happy New Year" and 2 others masquerading as GM Genesis and Veracity (just joined so i'm not sure how GM names are formatted here)
• email used in skype : [email protected]
• told me they needed a new GM
• tried hard to make it all very convincing
• had me download "GM Commands.txt"
• told me to download "team.exe" from a mediafire link which was just teamviewer to gain access over my pc

First someone named "Merry Happy New Year" pm'd me in game. I forgot what he/she said, but asked if I was from asia and some other stuff. Sooner or later told me to @go 21, then said to just @warp to some coords that was near the helpdesk in town. He then made a chat for me to join, then 2 other 'GMs' joined the chat, but their names weren't visible in the chat room. This made me think believe they were real GMs because I don't know any other way you can do this. So I added the person on skype, [email protected]. I already had worries from the beginning that this was some scam, and it only got more intense when I was told to talk over skype and to exit out of RO. He told me the reason I was scouted was because I'm new so I don't have friends or foes (I previously told them in game that I'm completely new to this server). In attempts to make it seem more legit, he outlined that I would be an event GM, that I'd just need to do events around 30 mins a day blah blah. Gave me a txt file to download over skype, I poked around it for a bit to see if it was anything more than a txt file, didn't seem like it. Was just another bit to make this whole thing seem more convincing. After a bit more talking he sent me the download link to team.exe through a mediafire link. -BLARING RED ALARMS, THIS NIGGA TRYING TO FUCK YO SHIT UP- I downloaded it. He claimed it was to use GM commands and characters. I already know you don't need some special program to use GM commands nor use a GM account. Upon downloading I saw the logo it had, same as Teamviewer. For anyone that doesn't know teamviewer allows someone else to access control over your computer by giving them your access information, very commonly used in these scams. At that point I just finally said this is definitely a scam now and he removed me from skype, and the "Merry Happy New Year" character in game didn't respond to me, even though he/she was clearly moving around.

If anyone's interested, I copied and pasted the full convo from skype :  http://i.imgur.com/JxZ4L1i.png 

Yeah it happened to me too. That nigga tryna scam me because he saw my items. I played around with him while reporting him. I gave him a fake skype which had a username of "[email protected]" and the password is "fuckingcunt" then he logged out immediately haha. funniest thing ever

[BaconInMyPants]

5 hours ago, Inflatable Sheep said:

The infamous "your from Asia right????" scammer again? Dude's been at it for years, using the same exact trick, he's probably PM'd me a thousand times since 2012.

Educating people not to fall for this blatant type of crap is the best solution, cuz if the many bans he's probably received by now hasn't stopped him, I don't think it's going to lol.

wooow, is this guy an actual player in this game? I thought for some reason he was just going around private OR servers and targetting people there for some reason.

[Inflatable Sheep]

3 hours ago, BaconInMyPants said:

wooow, is this guy an actual player in this game? I thought for some reason he was just going around private OR servers and targetting people there for some reason.

Who knows. I played on a different lowrate server a while back and someone also PM'd me with "your from Asia right???", so he's probably doing it on several servers, lol.

[barrzabel]

Sending exe files just to enable GM commands? Sounds like scam. Don't fall for scammers.

[Ares]

It's obvious from the beginning that he's a scammer. I wonder why it went as far as this.

Edited December 8, 2016 by Ares

[BaconInMyPants]

3 hours ago, Ares said:

It's obvious from the beginning that he's a scammer. I wonder why it went as far as this.

I was skeptical because they were able to go into a chatroom limited to 2 people, as in there were 4 people in a chatroom that was limited to 2.

I was mainly motivated to keep pulling this along because of the youtube videos I recentlyish watched of others messing with scammers.

Also I had the intention of making this post and wanted more material to post about, rather than the same post as before, tried to add on skype, the end.

[Alexaa]

Hacker or Scammer go away to this server! Please leave us alone!

[niemono89]

just be alert, keep it in mind :3

[+ Mia +]

Hack him back.. ;D