Scammed Account

[Obese]

I scammed this guys account and he is threating to file legal actions against me for this.

All I did was change his e-mail.

Here is the e-mail he just left me.

" Due to the nature of this exploit/violation of Blizzard EULA and it dealing and pertaining to a US bonded Bank Credit Card, I will be filing legal actions against you, A subpeona has been sent to Hotmail to obtain your IP address and my states Cybercrime department has volunteered to take this case. You have commited Fraud and I will pursue you till this is finished and make sure you get the maximum fine and conviction. If you do not return all information to me regarding my account I will not only purse criminal conviction but civil punishment as well."

Should I do what he asks me. Or ignore him and just not even mess with his account anymore.

I'm only 17 years old so I am not sure what he can do to me. Or if he is even really filing a report against me.

Any real adivce would be great. This is the first time I have been in a situation like this.


Thank you.

[Sallix]

1st. hacking an account is only against eula if 3rd party program is involved i think
2nd. how is he goin to get your personal details?
3rd. why would this guy go to so much hassle over a virtual game (don't awnser i may now the awnser already)
4th. i doubt any lawyer/attorney/soliciter would do this cheap :P

but if all this does happen, you'll be trialed as an adult (in england anyway)
gl

[Obese]

I am in the United States.

He says he has been in Law Enforcement for many years and that he will do whatever it takes to put me in jail.

I hope I can calm this guy down.

[Honsu]

He's just trying to scare you. Send him something like "Do your worst" Or something. =P

[mike133]

Everyone says that, he is trying to scare you. Not much you can do now except wait.

[Zylin]

well i know for a fact that here where i live (in denmark) you aren't able to sue people for such things...
oh and by the way hotmail aren't allowed to just give your IP to everyone only if he has a very good case and are on the right side of the law which i highly doubt

[Obese]

I told him everything that I know.

I think someone else got his information also.

He is saying that his password was changed, etc. Which I never did.

I told him to wait until Monday and just ask blizz to freeze his account.

I'm just going to ignore his e-mails now for my own safety.

Thanks for all the responses.

[Zylin]

well now the only thing to do is not to be afraid like go and think of it every day, as i don't know what kind of person you are i cant really tell if you are a person that can go with things like this for weeks or its forgotten tommorow.
BUT dont be afraid... nothing will happen, i am almost 100% sure

[Obex]

a law suit like that would have to go through with blizz first i cant see them getting of there ass to help scamed people get there stuff back let allone file a lawsuit


i sujest saying you have a degree in law and know that he case has no fact then ctrl + c ctrl + v the ENTIRE blizz TOA and say as you can clearly see you case will not hold up in court if you have anymore questions i will be happy to oblige


your sencirly (name)


that will seperate the wheat from the chaff it hes legite he will message back saying what degree did you take i can sue you for x-y or maby youl scare him off coz hes a noob (im guessing the latter)

[Obese]

I canceled my e-mail that I scamed him with. I am just hoping this all goes away.

If I end up having to go to court. So be it, i'll be ready.

[scammaster123]

He is trying to scare you, I get this all the time. Yea he is going to hire a lawyer/attorney over a 150$ account? Sure....

[Obese]

Originally Posted by scammaster123

He is trying to scare you, I get this all the time. Yea he is going to hire a lawyer/attorney over a 150$ account? Sure....

Probally not even worth that much.

He has had the account since 2004 though. So I can see that he is very pissed.

All he had a 1 level 70 warlock in blues and about 500 lowbie alts.

[Sallix]

Originally Posted by Obese

I am in the United States.

He says he has been in Law Enforcement for many years and that he will do whatever it takes to put me in jail.

I hope I can calm this guy down.

so obviously scare tactics, if he doesn't now who you are he can't find out, cannot obtain customer information (from blizz, hotmail or whatever) without having an official warrant, and tbh i don't think many judges would care (espescially without evidence... ffs he doesn't now you (can't emphasize that enough))

Lol i'm only 15 yet i know more about law then the guy who's tryin to sue you xD

[Obese]

Originally Posted by Sallix

so obviously scare tactics, if he doesn't now who you are he can't find out, cannot obtain customer information (from blizz, hotmail or whatever) without having an official warrant, and tbh i don't think many judges would care (espescially without evidence... ffs he doesn't now you (can't emphasize that enough))

Lol i'm only 15 yet i know more about law then the guy who's tryin to sue you xD

This is the first time this has every happend to me.

So I think you can understand why I crapped my pants. But now after calming down and actually reading and understanding what he said.

He is just trying to bullshit me. I understand that now.

I feel much more relaxed now.

[Sein]

haha, yea nothing can happen scamming peoples accounts. me and a couple of scammers where on vent the other day and they asked couldnt they sue you or something and the reason why they cant it.

1. They don't own it in the first place, they are "Renting" it from blizzard.
2. If you scammed it from them while they were trying to sell it or trade it. Thats against the rules, and there account will get banned if they called blizz and said my account was hacked while i was selling it.
3. Internet stuff is just "Air" it doesn't really exist in the world. So how can you steal something that isn't there in the first place?

Also i use a Hide IP, so when i scam, my ip is in China.