- a person who will promise you something in exchange of something else. Will ask you to send it first and then disappear after you give them what they wanted.
Here's an example:
Someone approaches you in SW and asks you if you want tokens for your denim shorts ( which are only sold in gold). You're running low on tokens and you really wanted to buy that skateboard. So you ask how much she is willing to give you and she will give all her tokens. So you tell her to give the tokens and that you will gift her the shorts.. But she refuses and tells you to give her the shorts first and she will give the tokens. In a desperate mode, you send her the shorts and wait for the tokens... But instead she disappears... You've been scammed!
So will you get your shorts back? Probably not. But what you can do is report the person for scamming you. Although the SmallWorlds forum has warned people numerous times
-If the person has poofed after you giving them something they asked for and you don't remember their name, don't worry you can access that another way. If you hurry and go to the chat log, you can find their name on there, type it in under people and report them.
-If you can no longer see their name on the chat log, then go to 'My Profile' which is the passport icon. Look under account and you should see the name of the person you gifted the item to.
-You can also go to your mail and look under sent and it should say who you gifted the item to. Then report the person.
-If you were in the persons homespace and were booted after gifting the item and you can't remember the persons name, go to your SW homepage change avatars and click 'back to world' and it will ask you if you want to reload the space using the different avatar, click yes. If you can access the space, click the info spanner icon at the top left corner and check the owners name and report.
-If you cannot access the space at all, then send an email explaining in detail what happened to support@smallworlds.com
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