Trusting People?

[FoXeH]

Quite a long story, so here goes.
Around 2 month ago I started a Theurgist, got her to around level 13, went to Cammy to train, uppon recieving a PM from what seemed a friendly (Who will remain to be unnamed) fellow Albion. He wanted my help starting a guild he was going to form, I thought why not? I've got some free time.

After the guild was created he then needed some help with setting up the guild, I know my way around the guild commands so opted to help him. With the guild all set up and ready to go recruit members it needed an emblem. Again I had to fund the 300gold that was needed as the GM was a low level 20 Scout, which at the time was quite alot for me as my highest character was a 40 Mercenary. Anway I decided to stay in the guild with my theurgist and only my thuergist to help it get on it's feet. A while passed, me and the GM became very good friends. I decided to add all my characters to the guild seeing as it seemed a nice friendly one.

Weeks past with my trust growing and growing for my new found friend. Somewhere inbetween I leveled a Necromancer to 50, if any of you have a 50 necro you'll know what the PL requests are like, which most of you ignore, that is untill the GM requests a PL. I denied him a few times untill I became sick of the requests i'd get. Apparently if I PLed him he promised me full guild powers, which I thought was kinda strange. I PLed an Infiltrator of his from 5 to 24 in a few days thinking that would be the end, after he made a Paladin and requested it to be PLed I point blank refused. The guild carried on recruiting new members, then out of nowhere he decided to fold the guild. I didn't hear from him for a week or so untill I recieved a PM telling me he'd made a new guild and would appreciate it if i'd join, so I did.

The new guild was going smoothly, me and the GM were getting along great. This was where I really trusted the guy telling him really really person information that I've only ever shared with one other person. Again the PL requests came flooding in from him, there was no way I was PLing him anymore. Anger seemed to strike him, as he kicked me out of the guild along with throwing aload of abuse at me saying I never did anything for the guild. The guild folded, the next day we did make up agreeing to forgive and forget the whole thing. Moving on, a few weeks before I'd added him to MSN so we could talk outside of DAoC. This is where everthing seems to fit into place.. He started asking me really strange questions, like what was my mothers maiden name, I told him without hesitation pritty much anything he wanted to know. Suddenly he logged out.

Then I asked myself... What the hell's with all the strange questions all of a sudden? It hit me. My mothers maiden name, it's the secret question on my hotmail account, if he got access to my hotmail account he could get my DAoC login and pass from GOA(If they ever reply)
Panic stuck, not knowing what to do I kept logged on my daoc account and managed to change my hotmail secret question answer before anything happend. A few minutes later he logged back on and I confronted him about it, asking what the strange questions where for. Saying he just wanted to know.. So I made a joke about what I thought had happend because at this time I thought it was just a coincidence maybe. All of a sudden he got really really agressive with me throwing insults all over the place asking me to never talk to him ever again.

Am I right with my accusations? Was our whole friendship a large scale plot to try and get my account information? I Dont know what to think at the moment after losing a good friend like this
It all seems to fit into place.
Either way I don't think i'll trust anyone online as I have before.

 

[Ceap]

seems an odd situation, on the one hand why befriend someone for so long, only to rip them off.

on the other hand, why ask those sort of questions? even if innocent they look suspicous...

bah, just hope it hasn't affected yer long-term enjoyment

 

[Repent Reloaded]

im sorry, im to sleepy to read it all, but omg, that sucks, hope u do ok, erm ..... be cool /hug

 

[Cap'n Sissyfoo]

No offense to you, but if I was gonna make a large scale plot to steal somebody's accout...I would choose someone with a dozen or so level 50s, thus making sure I stand a good chance of getting some fine loot.

Nah, I think it is something far less serious, possibly a serial stalker or kiddy murdering sociopath tracking you down through the web to turn you into Shisk Kabobs.

Anyway, I hope this has been a valuable lesson for you! If your security question is 'What is your mother's maiden name?' then you make the answer something totally obscure like 'Horatio' or 'Poontang'. If someone asks you what it is in a seemingly innocent setting but with an alterior motive then they are going to be shafted when it comes to busting into your mail account or whatever.

Confronting him probably wasn't the most tactful thing to do but he was highly unlikely to admit to wanting to hack into your account. Besides, at least now you won't get him pestering you to PL his alts. I'd say you did pretty well out of it.

 

[Coim-]

Originally posted by Sissyfoo
If your security question is 'What is your mother's maiden name?' then you make the answer something totally obscure like 'Horatio' or 'Poontang'.

For some strange reason i think i put my answer as Reginald

 

[healer_mcheal]

ive had people try to get into my msn account b4, dont keep daoc details on a email, or on your machine either, just write it down some where,

back on the subject, if u put anything in the security question, then just put something silly u remember.

 

[Ekydus]

Sounds to me that maybe he wanted to hack your account to use your character he knows can PL him, without you denying him?

 

[Tasans]

There are people who actually type the truth in those hotmail questions etc

 

[Kagato.]

Lets be honest here, you just DON'T ask someone theres mothers maiden name, why would anyone want to know that except for the fact that its the most common 'secret question' for everything from hotmail to on-line credit card company registrations.

Sounds to me like you had a lucky escape, whilst it may not be a 'long term plot' it does sound like this person saw an oppotunity at the end at least and tried to take advantage. If you have a different email account, maybe with your ISP, it may be worth having GOA send your account emails there instead of hotmail and change your hotmail password for good measure too.

Sorry to hear though that you got betrayed by a friend, thats really quite sad.

 

[Trinilim]

To be completely honest, and I hope you aren't offended, I think he only became friends with you because he thought he could get stuff from you.

You showed him sympathy and helped him out, and apparently he thought he could take advantage of that. Which would explain the PL requests.

It would also explain why each time he would get mad things would magically come back together because he realized you had what he wanted and figured he'd better get back on good terms to "use" you.

And I guess he got tired of getting turned down, so he figured he'd get 1 last shot at it, and tried to get into your account and claim it for his own and/or use it for whatever purposes he wanted. Because come on, when was the last time ANYONE asked you what your mother's maiden name was. Even if you're asking weird questions, would that one even occur to you? And go figure, by coincidence it just happened to be your secret password.

And good thing you found out and changed it, who knows what he would've done.

As much as you probably don't want to hear it, I really don't think he ever thought of you as a friend. He thought of you as a means to get what he wanted fast.

Moral lesson: Never trust people in-game 100%.

 

[Sortbane]

Moral lesson: Never trust people in-game 100%.

To take it even a bit further, dont get personally involved with games.. Sure people can be nice and etc.etc. but everyone got their agenda, and it can be hidden and suddenly explode in your face..

Better be careful instead of sucking your thumb remembering you X amount of 50'ies stripped and deleted...

 

[yeahyeah]

I agree with Kagato. There has to be something fishy if sum1 asks you your mothers maiden name

 

[Arnor]

Originally posted by yeahyeah
I agree with Kagato. There has to be something fishy if sum1 asks you your mothers maiden name

yep, and when ppl starts hurling abuse because you wont pl them, they really arent worth having as friends tbh.

sorry you had a crappy experience, I've had none similar luckily and we're not all bad

 

[zmurf]

Originally posted by Tasans
There are people who actually type the truth in those hotmail questions etc

 

[Karlo]

sounds fishy to me;

Saying that I might a friend in Diablo 1 7 years ago and we're still good friends now, speak on phone a lot and stuff, so its not all bad.

And I trust her 100% with everything.

 

[FoXeH]

Thanks guys, all your comments are appreciated
maybe the time to ignore him and all his alts has come

 

[Bellona]

my mother dont even have a maiden name.. must be something people use outside denmark...

 

[Cap'n Sissyfoo]

~takes out Banjo and plays theme tune from 'Deliverance'~

 

[Arnor]

Originally posted by Bellona
my mother dont even have a maiden name.. must be something people use outside denmark...

thats because your mother was born a slut, she never was a maiden

 

[Ekydus]

 

[Annouk]

I only started trusting anyone in the game since i met up with them in RL, its a lot easier to read ppls reactions and intentions when u can see their face. In fact i have managed to make a few really good friends out of it

 

[Arnor]

damnit annouk!! your avatar is seriously fluffling me to death, the cuteness ARRGGGH!HH!H!! TEH CUTENESSS!!!111

 

[adari]

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[Annouk]

lmao