So, I don't know if you all figured it out yet, but there's actually a scamming community on AJ. It's almost like the dark web of AJ or something. If you watch a lot of AJ videos on youtube, you'll probably eventually see one of the scamming videos in the sidebar. Especially if you watch videos about rares. If you don't believe me that there's a whole community for scamming, just search up "animal jam scam".
What do these people do, though? They literally record themselves scamming people on the game and taking their rare items away. I've watched a few of their videos now to really know how they do their "work". They make themselves sound very, very convincing. In every video, they're always doing trust trades. They'll say a few rules to make it more civil. Then they'll state that you can decline the trust trade, but accepting is worth more for the "less rare people", just so it isn't unfair. That's pretty much how they scam, based on what I've seen.
Here's a disclaimer: don't ever participate in a trust contest, or anything that would put your items on the line. That's how you don't get scammed.
Now, here comes the worst part to talk about. These scammers are actually convincing other people that it is okay to scam. They say that "it's just pixels", "it's just a kid's game", and stuff like that. But their biggest message, based on the videos I've seen from them is that scamming teaches kids to not fall for tricks. What can I say about this? It is complete and utterly wrong. These people are scamming kids for the entertainment, feeling, and excitement, pretty much. That's at least according to what they've all stated in their videos. This is so wrong, though. Any type of scamming is. I know that all of the scammers believe in what they do. However, this is one situation where I don't think just any opinion should be true. Scamming actually hurts people's feelings that have worked for certain items over time. Imagine in real life, if you did chores daily, or had a job. You might save up for something expensive. Maybe even a car. Or you could even put away the money for college tuition. However, what if all of that was taken from you, in an instant? That's how a lot of people feel on AJ. Even though these items are just pixels, they have value. Items can be hard to work for.
Also, all of these people keep saying that kids will learn their lesson, and that they have the right to scam because it's just a kid's game. First of all, kids might learn a lesson from scamming, but this is still the most horrible way to teach them that. And everyone scamming should not just be doing it because it's a kid's game. Scamming is actually a terrible hobby that can lead to things much worse, like criminal activity. You never really know when you learn that the feeling of scamming is good. Imagine what that could lead to in the future, and the people scamming probably don't even think about this, or would deny it.
To sum it up, here's a very reasonable and thorough video made by Flooflies AJ.
3 comments:
Scamming is not good, indeed
I think people need to be more educated, in reality you should never get scammed if you're smart. You have control of your items, you cannot get them scammed unless you willingly hand them over... I mean, I've done it. I don't think there's a way to remove scamming.
Or at least not an easy way to remove scamming. You could get rid of most of it by removing trading and gifting, but...
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