User error is LEGIT according to MOD-Mandi!

Hey,

Here is some sickening news. I kept complaining to MOD's about users registering about 10 variations of enom with dots, comma's, etc.. and I had a lil argument and basically I've been told what they are doing is not scamming, it is user error.

So guys, how are you legaly able to earn funi without paying? Go into Private Rooms as the owners name with a dot at the end and trade with those P2S etc!!

Seek below screenie for proof from MOD-Mandi via Hobba Says:

http://img454.imageshack.us/img454/7...andi9bj.th.png

Other alerts I didn't screenie included her saying "Habbo Hotel is not responsible for furniture lost due to user error" "There is no proof users with similar names are scamming".

So basically no-one did anything and all my users got scammed. Its meant to be a n00b friendly place, yet they don't use their commen sense and say those with similar names hovering in a door way is fine and are deffo not scamming?

Pathetic I say.

- James

Edited by Global (Forum Moderator): Please note, this is not an encouragement to scam. Scamming is against the Habbo Way.

too small a pic.

Fixed it, look now ;)

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Originally Posted by Enom

Pathetic I say.

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Yeap

it is however up to users to bet the right person and check these things. it is hard for them to prove what is happening! dont you think? I think its pathetic the people who actually do it.

it's not saying it's allowed, there is nothing they can do about it, all you can do is becarefull

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Originally Posted by Article.

it's not saying it's allowed, there is nothing they can do about it, all you can do is becarefull

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The problem is when someone has a fullstop after a username it is very hard to tell whether it is a scammer or not your trading with. Especially for those new to Habbo, it can be very difficult.

I reckon Habbo should ban users who are just using the owners similar name and are just stood in the doorway.

- James

But they don't have proof they are scamming anyone, Unless they are caught asking for pw's or anything similar, They cannot ban

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Originally Posted by Article.

But they don't have proof they are scamming anyone, Unless they are caught asking for pw's or anything similar, They cannot ban

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Article is absolutely right I know exactly what he is gettin at. you can't ban someone for having a similar name as someone else. Maybe that person just wanted to have the original name and couldn't so made an alteration. That doesn't make him a scammer. It's all technicalities and complications, although lots of people get banned for nothing, on Habbo you're innocent until proven guilty.

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Originally Posted by Enom

Hey,

Here is some sickening news. I kept complaining to MOD's about users registering about 10 variations of enom with dots, comma's, etc.. and I had a lil argument and basically I've been told what they are doing is not scamming, it is user error.

So guys, wanna earn funi without paying? Go into Private Rooms as the owners name with a dot at the end and trade with those P2S etc!!

Seek below screenie for proof from MOD-Mandi via Hobba Says:

http://img454.imageshack.us/img454/7...andi9bj.th.png

Other alerts I didn't screenie included her saying "Habbo Hotel is not responsible for furniture lost due to user error" "There is no proof users with similar names are scamming".

So basically no-one did anything and all my users got scammed. Its meant to be a n00b friendly place, yet they don't use their commen sense and say those with similar names hovering in a door way is fine and are deffo not scamming?

Pathetic I say.

- James

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She didn't say to go and do it, but it's the users fault if they don't pay attention. And you can't sit there and complain about it when you said for people to go and do it (sarcasticly or not)..if people stopped and payed a little bit more attention to things, people wouldn't get scammed.

It's not really a form of scamming, if the other person agree's

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Originally Posted by Enom

Hey,

Here is some sickening news. I kept complaining to MOD's about users registering about 10 variations of enom with dots, comma's, etc.. and I had a lil argument and basically I've been told what they are doing is not scamming, it is user error.

So guys, how are you legaly able to earn funi without paying? Go into Private Rooms as the owners name with a dot at the end and trade with those P2S etc!!

Seek below screenie for proof from MOD-Mandi via Hobba Says:

http://img454.imageshack.us/img454/7...andi9bj.th.png

Other alerts I didn't screenie included her saying "Habbo Hotel is not responsible for furniture lost due to user error" "There is no proof users with similar names are scamming".

So basically no-one did anything and all my users got scammed. Its meant to be a n00b friendly place, yet they don't use their commen sense and say those with similar names hovering in a door way is fine and are deffo not scamming?

Pathetic I say.

- James

Edited by Global (Forum Moderator): Please note, this is not an encouragement to scam. Scamming is against the Habbo Way.

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I think what MOD-Mandi is trying to say is that she doesn't care! Other MODS went to a hell of a lot of trouble when i was scammed that way! ROFL. Welldone MODs.

Wicked iam in that pic but i was not in that room :o

Well say it was .Callie. it wud be a differant story ;]

just like the same thing happend with a Hobba and that name got removed.
the hobba used to be called gissberg87 and he was gissberg86 and his name got removed cause it was too similar..

AHA mod-mandi i hate her :p

and hwo do u no it was her anyway?

People just got to be careful who they trade.

that is why when u make a new user u make all the fake ones also, duh lol

I was in the same room is Aight before, He was just teasing me because he got the cooler name ;)

I know it was MOD-Mandi as she was only MOD online.

What I am trying to say is, I rarely create game rooms but yesterday I did and I had 12 variations of Enom created by users who just stood in the doorway trading with people who said they would P2S. The problem is, when you have a very small difference in the username, for example a fullstop, it could just mean end of line and either way people may not think anything of it!

If I have had 12 users do the same thing, if it was just 'cause they wanted a similar name, why hover in my room in n00bie look and trade with users P2S'ing?

- James

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Originally Posted by dj-buddy

Wicked iam in that pic but i was not in that room

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Yes you were, complaining about Mocha's and that. :P

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Originally Posted by Nixon!

that is why when u make a new user u make all the fake ones also, duh lol

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Our safety and security should be habbo's top priority. This doesn't show that one bit! ;)

Ps. Sorry for double post, the post above looked cramped.

Exactly, im sure thats TO much of a coincidence..

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Originally Posted by Undesirable

She didn't say to go and do it, but it's the users fault if they don't pay attention. And you can't sit there and complain about it when you said for people to go and do it (sarcasticly or not)..if people stopped and payed a little bit more attention to things, people wouldn't get scammed.

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Enuff said

Our saftey and security should be habbos top priority, but this is a site that when a paedophilia ring was found in the form of a habbo fansite, actually asking for kids address, phone numbers, full name and DOB, they closed the site down and took no further action, and when the Head of the scamsite team kicked up a fuss, Habbo replied, "we closed the site, it's no longer our problem". :rolleyes:

Anyway, they can ban for this, if it's clearly scamming, but mostly it depends on the Mod.

Different Mods, Different Minds..

IF you get hacked its also classed as user error even when its due to housekeeping like i was :( Lost 10T and a red birdbath and apparently its due to user error. ! :(

Indeed, they class everything as User Error, apparently Habbo try to avoid the reason you were hacked from Housekeeping..

Quake, whats your habbo name?

Propheter

Kk sent you a f./r

Ok m8 i havn't recieved it :/

Like a lot of people before me have said, Its not against the Habbo Way to have a similar name [Unless its scripted] But, if you scam on it, then, yes, it is. Also, what room is that your in, It looks Interesting