User blog comment:Thewolfswings/A Confession/@comment-43836919-20190930190643

Oh no.. here we go...

(Remind me if the timeline's wrong, I don't even know anymore)

One time, I scammed myself. I don't know why. I was a nm, I was desperate for items, and I felt bad. I needed to be rarer. I'd never had a single spike in my inventory. Yes, I was a 'noob'.

I went on a new account, played for a while, and got achievements. Then I traded the account one of my rarest items, a pink worn. I put it on trade.

When I said trust, a lot of people left. But I still had just enough. That time alone, I scammed 2 cbs, nerds (adventure), and a few rares, I think. I didn't feel guilty. I traded it back to my main.

I swapped the cbs for one den beta. I worked my way up, but it just became harder and harder to scam. This was unfortunate since I had my silver long collar from it. I couldn't wear it, but it was good enough.

No, I didn't get hds or black longs from it. That would've taken a long time. But I'd never connected the Email to my account (I pretended I was my parent for FCP on that) so when I tried to get my hard work back, it never came. I contacted help and they said the exact same thing as always: "There's nothing we can do about it." So I never got my spikes back, and you'd think I learned my lesson, but no.

Something similar happened this one time, too. I was going to scam, on my main for some reason, and I was using 3 rare longs. They were only orange, luckily. This was when I was like, 8. I think I used like a pink worn.

The first times, I thought about scamming, but they were all so nice. On one of my last giveaways, I gave away a worn that matched someone's outfit. They were so grateful I felt so positive and like I was 10 feet tall, until I realized my goal.

It left me with no rare items. I thought I'd never work my way up to another spike. Get this: I even asked for the items I gave away back. Everyone said they traded them away or pretended to 'crash'. I'm serious.

The way I got rare was from lying.

Karma, kids. It'll happen to me someday. But anyway, there was a giveaway and it was trust. They were a scammer. I declined every trade, and when she locked us out after someone seemingly traded a good item, the person was sad.

At once, people told everyone the items they'd lost. I did it, too. I complained about losing 2 adventure nerds, that I was saving up for a spike with the den betas I'd also got scammed of.

Guess what? It wasn't much, but 2 people gave me the nerds and the yellow rare long. And I just left. I was horrible back then.

I cleared my inventory of it all. I didn't want a single reminder and, I gave away the items I'd falsely recieved- the givers hadn't even wanted it. They'd both said that, too, but I ignored them and still, left feeling happy.

I couldn't play like that, taking the items people worked for. I don't want to, either. If you saw, I made a blog post about me getting scammed. That wasn't fake, and I didn't ask for items, either. I know a user, actually, that uses her sister in the hospital for pixels. She says she got scammed. All she does is ask for items.

She shall not be named, but that were in the discussion know who she is.

None of the items I hold now were scammed or falsely recieved. It's been 5 years, and I'm pretty inactive on AJ now, but still. I'll never do that again.

I'm sorry for taking up your time with the loooooong message I could probably put into a blog/page, if I wanted to. But I feel like it's time to admit it... I feel so much better now, even though everybody here knows now :) but that's in the past, and I've changed. I hope you believe me.

Sorry for wasting your time with the long message, but I needed it, and you helped me a lot :) I know none of you would be rude to me and that makes me feel so much more warm inside.

Truly yours, your friend

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