Scammers (griefers, thieves, call ‘em what you will) always find a way to rationalize and justify their actions. “In RL I’m a really nice guy”. No, if you were a really nice guy in RL, you wouldn’t be ripping people off on SL.

Some claim to be attacking LL. What these people seem to not realize (or ignore) is that every attack they make hurts REAL PEOPLE who are not Linden Lab. There are people who make their living here. There are people who are disabled and can’t get out of their home, and SL is their only social activity. There are people who can’t speak or hear, but find SL to be an open area of communication (at least, until the flippin’ voice thing came in and isolated them even further). To many people, SL is their RL… and as sad as that may be, it’s reality.

When scammers scam, they’re not hurting Linden Lab. Linden Lab still continues to rake in sim fees. They still continue to exist. Scammers hurt people who are just as subjugated to LL knee-jerk laws as the scammers are. So bottom line, scammers are immature, emotionally-disabled scum who have no ethics, no morality, no decency. No two ways about it. Their attempts to rationalize their crimes is just another manifestation of the criminal mind… the same rationalizations used by every RL criminal, the KKK, religious fanatics and to site a cliche’ major fanatic-rationalizer– Hitler. He wasn’t killing Jews. He was protecting the world. Yeah, right.

I have pulled no punches in my posts against Linden Lab “management”. Their shakey platform and outrageous prices is inexcusable. But I’m fair. When they do something good, I let them know. When they do something stupid, I let them know. Scammers are like an old bludnerbuss… it shoots a general direction, and who knows who the pellets hit. Usually, they’re just shooting for the fun of shooting and who they harm doesn’t even come into considration.

If one is angry with Linden Lab, there are much more effective ways to show such than scamming. For those scammers who scam just to prove how “intelligent” and “skilled” and “gifted” they are… I don’t think someone who has to resort to criminal activities to prove their “skill” is all that gifted. You want to prove to me how intelligent you are… show me how you can call Linden Lab on the carpet without breaking the law or hurting other people in the process.

Scammers = scummers.

believe this has been addressed.

this line, I think, and I wonder who “someone” is: “someone in my house has invited a so-called reformed scammer in as a roomie.”

And agreed about your comments on scammers in your post way up top.

Scammers and griefers are trash. They provide no useful service or function and must be gotten rid of. They have mental issues in RL and are never nice people.

- RB