March 28, 2019

RedFox Scams (YouTube)

Do not attempt to track down or harass any of the scammers we post. We only ask that you report them, and maybe block them.


Hey all, Blue here with another scam post!

So, a little while back, while I was looking for a community like SASS, I looked up "animal jam scamming" on youtube and found the channel "RedFox Scams." They had a lot of videos on scamming and even a tutorial on how to scam! I watched a couple of their videos, praying they were jokes, but they were all real. The scammer hasn't slipped up and let out their user yet, but they are unfortunately one of the scammers that is really good at convincing people they are not a scammer. Most of their animals are either a tiger or a wolf, and they usually scam with a headdress and longs as prizes.

 

Please please watch out for people who fit this description, and like always, stay safe, jam on!

-Blue

March 26, 2019

Society Update: Promotion

What's up everyone! Got great news to bring to you today! Our long-time Gamma, Jade, has now been promoted to the Sigma rank! Congratulations!

Stay safe, and Jam on!
-Dew

Agent Insights Ep 08: S14


Hey all, Jade here with the latest Agent Insights! Today, I'll be talking about a much less known scam. The only name I've seen it called in the past it S14, so we'll be calling it that today. Though this isn't used very often, it's one of the most effective and scary scams out there.

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S14 begins with two scammers sitting in Jamaa Township, usually just far enough away that they can't be seen on your screen at the same time. Scammer 1 has a very good item on trade and is asking for an extremely uncommon item in exchange for it (and not accepting any items other than that). Scammer 2 has that uncommon item on trade and is asking for trades. 

Seeing this, and not knowing it was the setup for a scam, a Jammer may decide to trade Scammer 2 for the uncommon item, then trade it to Scammer 1 for the very good item. However, when someone tries this, Scammer 2 will refuse to accept. Because of their continual declining, Jammers will get more and more desperate when trading them, even if the uncommon item isn't that rare. When Scammer 2 finally gets a trade they deem rare enough, they will accept, but then both scammers will leave. 

This leaves the Jammer who traded with Scammer 2 with a worthless uncommon item, lacking their rares they traded for it, and not able to trade for the good item they wanted from Scammer 1. Therefore- the Jammer has been scammed!

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This is a very hard scam to avoid if you don't catch onto what's happening very early. However, some things that can help are:

1) Asking someone who seems like a Scammer 1 (the one with the good item for trade, asking for the uncommon item) why they won't accept anything else for the item, even if it's rarer than what they're asking for.
2) Just stop trading with anyone who seems like a Scammer 2. If they won't accept anything reasonable for their item, then it's not worth it to keep trying to trade with them.

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I do hope this helped you all learn a little bit more about scams and how to avoid them! Stay safe out there, Jammers.

Society Update: Court Update

What's up everyone it's me agai ---

Wait. It's a Tuesday (GMT). Why is this not an Agent Insights?

Well, this is a quick update on our court. The Prosecutor and Lawyer roles have been removed from the court for promotion or demotion. Have a nice day!

-Dew

March 23, 2019

Random Saturday Ep 17: Alphas



Hey all, Jade here with the latest Random Saturday! In honor of Animal Jam's new event, ALPHAMANIA, we'll be talking about the Animal Jam alphas! This post is pretty long, so click read more if you want to continue reading!

March 22, 2019

robot483 (AJPC)

Do not attempt to track down or harass any of the scammers we post. We only ask that you report them, and maybe block them.


Hi all, blue here with another scamming post! For this scammer, they did not manage to scam anything so I do not have full proof they were actually a scammer. However, I recommend to watch out for them, just in case.

I found robot483 in Jamaa township, they were advertising for a black long collar giveaway. I went to their den, there was about 5 other people there including sodacatpaws and bunny20070. They came to the den, and told us there would be 3 rounds of trust. The first one would be jags, prize would be short wrist, second trust that you didn't have to accept, prize orange long, and last trust you must accept, prize black long.

We got straight into the first round, and a bunny called bunny20070 won. One other person and I asked robot483 and Bunny20070 to move at the same time, but they didn't. We let it go, and went on to the next round.


The second round was the trust that you do not have to accept. I called it out as a scam, and only bunny20070, sodacatpaws and one other person traded. sodacatpaws won with an accepted orange long, but they had no proof that they were actually in possession of the long. The person from before and I asked robot483 and sodacatpaws to move at the same time. However, they did not.


I called it out as a scam, and told the other people not to trade. We never got into the final round before the den was locked.


Please report robot483 for attempted scamming as there is no full proof that they scammed. If you ever see them advertising for a giveaway and sodacatpaws/bunny20070 are there, stay alert because they may be robot's alts.

That's all from me today,
stay safe, jam on!
-blue

March 14, 2019

item_recovery (Instagram)

Do not attempt to track down or harass any of the scammers we post. We only ask that you report them, and maybe block them.


What's up everyone, I back with another scammer post! Well, today's scammer post isn't the conventional scammer caught on AJ or AJPW. This scammer, or more like hacker, was found on the popular social media site Instagram.

Note: they have changed their user to item_recovery.

So, this person claims that they can give you anything you want. 


All you need to do is:


Now, this is a red flag for us Jammers. We should never, ever give our password away to anyone, especially those whom we met online. This is to protect our account from others. Once other people get your username and password, they can easily log into your account and steal your items. 


This scammer/hacker used urgent tones to get people to dm them without thinking. With this, we must make sure we think through our actions before doing something that could lead to big consequences.

Finally, all the posts are made rather recently - around 2 days ago. This suggests that the scammer in question could still be active. Stay vigilant everyone!
-Dew


March 12, 2019

Agent Insights Ep 07: Why Scamming is Bad


What's up everyone, I'm back with another episode of Agent Insights. Today, I'm gonna talk about why I feel scamming is bad.

So, scamming is a process in which scammers trick other people to give them good items in return for nothing much. This isn't fair for the scammed. They lose their items, which they could have worked hard for, in return for nothing.

Now you may think that it's the scammed's fault for falling for the trick. However, Animal Jam is, after all, a kid's game. They may not be aware of scammers with not-so-good intent. 

I'd like to move onto how the scammed might feel when they have their items taken away from them. Let's put ourselves in the scenario that you are the scammed. How would you feel if you had your good items, that you worked weeks for, taken away for good? You cannot get them back no matter what you do. Let that sink in for a moment.

Similarly, the scammed may feel sad when they get their items taken away like that. It isn't a good feeling. I don't think making others feel sad helps to make a good, positive Animal Jam Community.

Now, if you still can't picture why scamming is undesirable, let me present to you an analogy: cheating in a test.

Imagine that you studied real hard for the test. You studied day after day to prepare yourself for the test. When the test day comes, you feel confident in scoring full marks.

Your classmate seated next to you didn't study at all. They simply relaxed all day and waited for the test day to come.

When the test started, you realised that you could do all questions. However, you did not notice your classmate copying your answers, because you were too busy doing your own test.

In the middle of the test, the teacher walks up to you and your classmate, and takes you both out of class. The teacher scolds your classmate for cheating, and scolds you for helping them cheat. You try to defend yourself, but without solid evidence that you were not helping them cheat, both you, and your classmate are subject to punishment.

At the end of the day, your classmate got a solid zero for the test. However, you look at your test, and realised that you got a zero as well, even though you answered every question correctly.

That's the end of the analogy, and the end of the post from me. Until next time.
-Dew

Don't hate the scammers, but have compassion for the scammed.

March 11, 2019

Random Saturday Ep 16: Lucky Clovers


Lucky Clovers is a seasonal adventure that comes out around Lucky Day/St Patrick’s Day. It is thus themed this way, with clovers and cobblestone villages.

The point of this adventure is to find all 50 clover keys scattered throughout the map. Every 10 clovers, you get a large key that you can unlock a chest at the center with. Once you’ve collected all clover keys, you get a very large key that unlocks the chest in the center.

The small chests contain Lucky Day-themed items, and there is a member and non-member chest. The large chest usually contains rares of some sort, ranging widely in value, although the non-member chest can give out mundane items.

As with all gathering-things adventures like this, it can devolve into a great bore as you reach the end, where you must go over the entire map again to find 3 keys that you missed.

I think efficient methods are more important than spotting keys, as you want to avoid missing parts of the map, finding clovers when you have a large key, and other such things.

Preferably, use a flying animal here. It’s so much easier when you can just bypass fences and houses and the like. I know this is not feasible for everyone, but if you can, do so. Plus you can just fly up to those little platform things instead of waiting for someone else to join you.

Overall, this adventure is fun. It’s just when it gets to the end that it gets tedious. Bye!

March 08, 2019

Scale Aj (YouTube)

Do not attempt to track down or harass any of the scammers we post. We only ask that you report them, and maybe block them.

Hey all, Jade here, with the latest scammer post! Today, I’ll be talking about a scammer I found on YouTube- Scale Aj. 


This scammer has two videos posted. Both of them are of them scamming a purple long.


On their channels page, they have three other scamming accounts linked. These other accounts have all been recently active and have posted videos of themselves scamming.


None of these accounts have their usernames shown, but watch out for them! If you want to be able to avoid them better, go and watch their videos, then avoid any Jammer you see using the same tactics. Stay safe, everyone!!

March 01, 2019

Monthly Update - February

What's up everyone! It's me with your monthly update of the SASS! Today, I bring you the news for the month of February.

Firstly, we now have a moderator bot, Dyno, in our discord server. Dyno helps us to keep peace in the server, and also helps us to delete multiple messages at one go.

Next, I'm happy to say that we managed to hit our posting quota last month! We didn't miss any post, though a couple were slightly late.

Also, I'd like to extend a warm welcome to our newest Omega, Omega Tiger. Welcome to the society!

Finally, the SASS is recruiting! If you think you got what it takes to join us, you can fill the form here and we will look through it!

That's all the news today. Jam on!
-Dew

New Jammer (AJPC)

Do not attempt to track down or harass any of the scammers we post. We only ask that you report them, and maybe block them.


Hey all, Jade here with the newest scammer post! I found this scammer in Jamaa Township advertising a giveaway for a magic mirror, so I went to their den.