April 29, 2019

Monthly Update - April

What's up everyone! It's me with your monthly update for April! Without further ado, let's go!

April was a rather quiet month for the society. We didn't have much changes going on. However, we did manage to hit our posting quota for the month!

Next, we're sad to say goodbye to Omega Shybun. Good luck in your future endeavours!

Also, we've decided to adjusting our posting dates and times to the GMT time, rather than the EST time that we used to use. For example, our Random Saturdays will be posted on Saturday GMT rather than Saturday EST.

That leads to the Dyno bot in our discord server. It has been renamed "Mira", and it can display the current time in GMT with the command ?time.

Finally, there was a small addition to the application form. Though it will not affect your chances of being accepted into the society, we'd like to know if you are active in AJ, PW, or bith, so we can get a rough estimate of AJ scammer posts and PW scammer posts.

That's it for this update! Stay safe, and Jam On!
-Dew

April 28, 2019

Random Saturday Ep 19: Royal Red Pandas


Hey all, Jade here with the latest Random Saturday!! Today I'll be talking about the latest animal introduced to Animal Jam- the Royal Red Panda.


These animals have a lovely design, in my opinion! They're probably my favorite of the recent new animals. For your enjoyment, I've made a few GIFs of their animations! Click read more if you want to see them!


Here's their regular standing animation!


Their playing animation! Look at that happy little bounce!


Their hopping animation!


Their sleeping animation!


And finally, their dancing animation!!


Really, these red pandas are just the cutest things. Their patterns are beautiful, their animations are very well done, and their design is just overall great!! 

Well, that's all for today, folks! How do you feel about these new additions to the lineup of Animal Jam animals? Feel free to leave a thought about them in the comments section below!

April 25, 2019

Straycat2 (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, Blue here with a scammer post!


This is straycat2. He is not your normal type of scammer.
Straycat2 uses the referral system to get people banned, as well as scamming people normally. Luckily, animal jam mostly fixed this glitch, and Straycat2 has been banned, but he still plays.

You might not believe that the referral system can get you banned, and even if it could, that you had never given out your referral code, so I will explain. To get you banned, Straycat will get you to the 4th referral level, and then he will refund the membership, which gets you banned. So, you might think, I just wont give out my referral code! What most people don't realize is that as long as he has your user, he can refer you. 

Luckily, straycat has been banned, but a warning to YouTubers, he targets livestreamers. I have seen two of my friends been taken down by him before the glitch was fixed, the first one was because they didn't know, the second one because they wouldn't believe me, and they were both devastated.

Straycat2's main (straycat2) has been banned, but he is still active on aj. I'm actually pretty sure he scammed me before i joined ajsass. His spares are usually called "lovesbetasfan" with a couple numbers at the end, so if you are going to a giveaway and a lovesbetasfan is hosting, make sure to warn everyone and be vigilant.

As always, 
Stay safe, Jam on!
-Blue

April 19, 2019

Kakia 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, I'm here with our latest scammer post! Today we'll be talking about the user Kakia Scams (on YouTube). I'm not sure what their actual username is, as they blocked it out in their videos, but their victims have referred to them as "snooper", so I feel that it's safe to assume their username is something including snooper. One of their alts, as shown in their latest video, is væroows.


This scammer's first (and only) scamming video is titled "i scammed some Peacock feathers 3", in which, they do, in fact, scam some Peacock Feathers. 

They seem to be a relatively new scammer, judging by their lack of videos, but they are still pretty skilled at it. The peacock feathers video does show them tricking a Jammer into trading over their Peacock Feathers, then locking them out of their den.

Therefore, since they’ve been proved to scam at least one Jammer, please report their alt and their main account (if you see them!).

April 16, 2019

Agent Insights Ep 10: Scammer Reformation


What's up everyone! It's me with an actual regular post this time! Ok, so, in today's Agent Insights, I'm going to share why I feel that scammers can reform, the challenges involved and how they can start.

Ok, so we know scamming is bad. Some scammers may not know that what they were doing could hurt other's feelings. However, once they realise it, they may think twice again about scamming. In this case, the scammers have potential to reform and correct their own wrongdoings. Scammers are people after all, and people can be taught to distinguish right from wrong.

Now, the path may or may not be smooth for scammers who want to reform. In good cases, their friends will accept them as friends again, and forgive their past misdeeds. However, in harder cases, there may be prejudice against the scammer, especially if other people remember their username. They may be shunned by old buddies, and people around. This, will be much harder case to overcome.

Now, how can scammers overcome the difficulties to reform? I have a few suggestions on how to get started. First, they got to let go of their greed. I believe that many scammers are driven by their greed for more rares. On the road to reformation, they need to let go of it so it doesn't come back. Learn to be content with what you have. Next, do good. Gift people on AJ if you're a member. Trade people good stuff. Drop sapphires in AJPW. There are many ways to show that you can do good to the community! Finally, don't ever think about scamming again. If you managed to re-earn other Jammer's trust, I don't suggest that you lose it again by going back to scamming. The more trust you lose, the harder it can be to overcome scammer prejudice.

With that said, it's not impossible to reform. You scammers out there who are reading this, I highly encourage you all to think about your actions, and do your best to reform. It's not impossible.

That's all from me. Till next time!
-Dew

April 13, 2019

Random Saturday Ep 18: Referrals



Hey everyone! Blue here with the newest Random Saturday, and today I will be talking about AJPC's referral feature.

Image result for animal jam referral link

To get your referral link, you open your buddy page and click the invite a friend button underneath the dropbox.
 Image result for animal jam referral link
There are 4 stages to the referral, and this is when it gets interesting. The first stage, when someone makes a new account via your referral, you get 1,500 gems, which isn't too exciting. However, if someone you referred gets membership, you move on to the second stage, and as well as the 1,500 gems you get a week of membership added to your account and 15 diamonds. If 3 people you referred get membership, you move on to the third stage, where you get 25 diamonds, one month membership and the exclusive Epic Feathered Armour set!!

Image result for feather armour aj

If 5 people you referred get membership, you move on to the fourth and last stage, where you get one month membership, 50 diamonds, and the legendary eagle.

Image result for legendary eagle aj

This eagle is customisable with 4 different patterns in many different colors, and people on this stage can make as many of them as they like! however it is super hard to get this far unless you buy membership on your spares, a sign of true dedication to animal jam.

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

April 12, 2019

Tokka (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 guys, Flint here with a scammer I found on YouTube.

This person's YouTube name is Tokka, and their username is hard to find, as they edit out their username at the bottom left of the page and have animal names enabled instead of usernames. They post videos of them scamming people, with crazy editing and music in the background. The animal they use in their videos is a pig that wears a turkey hat and had red hard swirls, but this account is probably an alt. They have 16 videos, and their last video was posted 5 months ago.

Stay safe out there!

April 04, 2019

animaljamgeneratorajs (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! It's me with the rare scammer post from me! Today's scammer post is another one found on Instagram. Just that, they are not exactly the same. I will explain shortly.

The first one I posted was an item generator. They ask for your username and password, claiming that they can give you free items. This one is a membership generator. They ask for your username and password, claiming that they can give you a membership.


Currently, they only have one post on their account, but it is less than a month old.


They show this image to try to convince Jammers to give them their username and password. However, there is no solid proof that they have the membership codes. Look carefully at the image, and you can see watermarks of animal jam world on it. Therefore, they could have taken the image from animal jam world, and used it in that post. Hence, we cannot be sure that they have memberships to give.

As a conclusion, no matter how tempting the deal may sound, do not give your username and password to anybody (except maybe your parents), especially people you met online.

Stay safe everyone!
-D
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April 03, 2019

Agent Insights Ep 09: Purpose of Agencies


Hello, Flint here, and today I’ll be talking about the purpose of scam catcher agencies.

Scam catcher agencies are groups like this one, whose purpose is to seek out scammers and post about them. Many also do things like list types of scams and promote community involvement.

Some of these sites may seem useless. We can’t possibly warn of every scammer out there, the ones we do post about probably won’t be banned, and much of the times these sites are inactive.

However, these sorts of things can help people recognize scams when they see them, and help them avoid getting scammed. Posting about the scams and scammers we see can enlighten people as to what they are doing, and any new or previously unknown methods they may not have seen.

Also, agencies often cover things like hacking. Reading the sites/watching the channels of agencies can help people discover how to avoid getting hacked, among other things.

Bye!

April 02, 2019

Monthly Update - March

Hey all, here’s your update post for March!

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First of all, we’ve added a roleplaying channel to our Discord! If you’re interested, you can join through the link in the blog sidebar!

We’ve also been working on updating the Dyno bot commands to better assist with moderation.

The prosecutor and lawyer roles were also removed from court for promotion cases only. They are still used for demotion and otherwise.

We also like to extend a warm welcome to our newest Omega, Onega Shybun! Welcome to the team!

Finally, we’ve had two promotions! Omega Tiger was promoted to Gamma Tiger, and Gamma Jade was promoted to Sigma Jade!

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Hope you all have enjoyed your month with us! Stay safe and jam on!!