Comments on: Clones!

By: x Tweety x

x Tweety x — Thu, 06 May 2004 06:57:14 +0000

Life gets quiet when you are not an owner of a top ten skill lot in AV anymore and a lot easier. The harrassing stopped as soon as I closed my house. I didn’t close for that reason, but it is sad to draw the conclusion that some people can obviously only enjoy the game when harrassing others. The only words that come to my mind are envy and jealousy when I see that happen.

For me there is only one little regret, I know there are still people around who think I was the spammer and the one who randomly invited people. I am not going to defend myself, because people who know me well know I would never do that. Besides lots of people helped me by banning the fake tweety’s (there were more). With a little help we can keep Alpha a nice city to live. And I feel with all of the sims who have to live through the clone thing, it really is very annoying.

But they get bored sooner or later and will find a new victim or another way to harrass.

By: Meri (Reyes on Sims)

Meri (Reyes on Sims) — Wed, 05 May 2004 21:47:17 +0000

Lead Archetict (notice spelling)came into my house wanting to buy my Robot Cat. The real Lead knows my Yahoo ID so i told him this is ***** on Yahoo IM me. So the Fake on Imed me with the ID of tsoreality. Thought nothing of it thought it was the REAL Lead. He said he would give 50 mill simoleans for my Robot Cat. I said OK so then he says price the Cage for 1 mill then i will give you the 49 mill in trade. I THOUGHT NOTHING OF THIS CAUSE I KNOW AND TRUST THE REAL LEAD. so i did and well then he went POOF and then i Imed him and asked him for my money and he called me a few Curse words and logged off. I know he has scammed people before and he NEEDS to be stopped. He got my Robot Cat for 1 mill and nothing can be done about it. Please email me with any suggestions. Thanks, frustrated Meri

By: Maria LaVeaux

Maria LaVeaux — Fri, 30 Apr 2004 15:37:42 +0000

In my first months in AV, someone attempted to Mimic me, My name and Bio were copied down to the letter.
I think they would have gotten away with it indefinatly under the TOS at the time had they NOT attempted to have relations of an adult nature with one of my girls at the time.
I was on at the time, and attending a function at another home when my girl called me to ask if i had a second account, and was i checking up on her.
My complaint, coupled with hers for what ammounted to Sexual Harassment caused this indeviduals spoof sim to be deleted almost Immediatly.

Dyer once “Spoofed” a friend of mine. Dyer had the taste, and good sense to Alter his name sufficiently that no one would confuse one for the other, so his claim of having done it just for fun has some Validity. However, the person who “spoofed” me Was, in my view Clearly attempting to be destructive or Hurtful. I think that there is a Clear difference in the Intent.

I CAN after a Fashion forgive Dyer for “Lord Cheetah” (Though i still feel this sort of “Fun” is Juvenile) But I could never forgive the person who tried to hurt my girl. That wasn’t fun, it was just plain Cruel.

Maria.

By: tbt

tbt — Thu, 29 Apr 2004 00:18:59 +0000

Yep has happened for ages in tso its pretty common…

By: Matthew Armone

Matthew Armone — Wed, 28 Apr 2004 21:43:31 +0000

Just a warning to money traders, ppl can use “l” in place of the “i” in game and it looks eerily similar – a way that mafias (myself included) used to tag certain people, unfouretnatly I’ve seen people scammed with this as well…so for people who deal with traders with an I or an L in their name, make sure it’s the correct one.

-Matt

By: Dyerbrook

Dyerbrook — Wed, 28 Apr 2004 19:33:17 +0000

It’s a little sad that MT has viewed the “clone Sim” phenom so two-dimensionally, as just a function of griefing and scamming culture. “Clone” sims, or “spoof Sims” as many prefer to call them, have a rich and variegated history in TSO. They are used as a narrative device in the Big TSO Story to parody, critique, celebrate, emulate, deter, all kinds of phenom, not just griefing. I’ll never forget the brave soul who stepped out with Mia Wallace’ — and a parody profile about her big titz. That sure let the air out of her balloons.

And I have been spoofed not only with Sims like Dyerbrook’ or DB’s Sanity or characters from my stories suddenly coming to life like in Solaris, there have been more subtle spoofs like brb lol afk’s Sim with exactly my face and outfit whose purpose is some kind of subtle prank, ostensibly because the owner “likes the look” LOL. It’s a blast. I myself have made spoof Sims like the Lord Cheetah to that insufferable Lord Cougar, and his consort, Lady Tellonyou. There’s Selene Moon who belongs in the category of a spoof Sim. There is a sub-phenom of all kinds of girls who write Hello Kitty or Kitty with various xs or os because this kitty concept means something to them, I’m not sure what and they wish to copy it.

The naming of sims is a sacred and special act. And making a spoof or a clone like creating a golem. It walks, it talks, will it pass? Will it acquire power?I’m quite aware that there are all sorts of Mr. President type clones designed to grief or revenge against griefing, which 9 times out of 10 creates more havoc in TSO, but really, take a broader look at this phenom, it is not all negative, some of it fulfills a very positive, corrective function in TSO.

By: monkeybear

monkeybear — Wed, 28 Apr 2004 13:39:32 +0000

this is monkeybear303 on yahoo, i’d like an interview too because i am one of the victims of Cj Johnson’s scams which was much more than that you see I had a trial account and he tricked me into giving him my account information he has also scammed 20 rares of me when i wanted a trade to AV from FF

By: Pip

Pip — Wed, 28 Apr 2004 10:16:57 +0000

I also reccomend people to Lead..and have been cloned myself…the first one I know about was about 8 months ago and was just for the purpose of destroying my rep. Luckily a friend noticed the extra L in the last name and we spread the word.

There are several in other cities as well and from what I have heard, they are doing money trades, sending people to AV to check my standing and then stealing the money. I was tagged several times by people who had been scammed.

By: Urizenus

Urizenus — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 23:25:23 +0000

lol, that is the fault of Los. I guess I’ll have to fix it.

By: RB

RB — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 23:18:04 +0000

Yes i still recommend Lead currently. YIM: tsorealty. He is a good person as far as i know him and i am referring all trades to him while i am temporarily poor.

This CJ person is a suspect in the hacking cases, thus Mr Lead thought he was dealing in stolen goods and thus ceased to deal with this impostor.

Also Uri. i think you were confusing us two when you wrote the following line:

“For those of you wishing to work with Respected Architect, ”

Notice half of his and my name there. lol.

- RB