minimalmilk + crunchymoon9itsme (AJPC)

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Hey gang! It's Danny here with an incredibly poorly planned and clumsily executed scamming attempt.
Yesterday, I saw minimalmilk advertising for free red long spikes at their den in Temple of Zios. This sounded pretty fishy, especially due to minimalmilk's lack of achievements, so I went to their den to see what was up.

Sure enough, there were upwards of 25 people there. They started by saying that the first person who had come into the den would get a red long, but this obviously fell through rather quickly as there were many people claiming they were the first person and no actual way to check who arrived first.

Instead, minimalmilk put some bad items on trade and switched to announcing that whoever traded them something of value first would win. Win what? Presumably a red long, but they weren't very specific.

They then started announcing that everyone who had traded them had been awarded a spike. This was already a deviation from both of their previous announcements, as this implies they had multiple spikes to give out instead of one singular red long, and that, apparently, everyone who traded them received a spike rather than just the first person to trade them a rare. This would also defeat the entire purpose of a giveaway, since, at this point, it's just become regular trading but with extra steps (and the likelihood of getting scammed).

Their claim was also immediately contradicted by other people in the den who had traded them blatantly stating they hadn't received any sort of prize yet. minimalmilk ignored them and continued on with their scam.

More players ended up trading them, and they started announcing the names of people who had allegedly received prizes, including someone named "blue fire" apparently getting a den beta. Despite the fact this giveaway was initially advertised as being for a red long, they seem to have taken an impromptu detour after it became obvious their original plan was not going to work.

By now, many other people had left the den at the realization this wasn't a legitimate giveaway. There were only about 10 other people around, which allowed me to clearly see the name tags of the everyone in the den. Other players' name tags have been blurred for privacy, but I can assure you that there was nobody with "blue fire" in their username in the den.

The other players also started to pick up on this as minimalmilk continued to announce random people as the recipients of prizes, even though nobody with that name was in the den. It soon became very obvious that they were straight-up shouting out names of fake winners that they made up on the fly to make their scam seem authentic. Maybe this would have worked if there were more people in the den and name tags were less visible. In this case, however, it only served to destroy any remaining credibility minimalmilk had as a giveaway host.

Other players who had traded minimalmilk asked for their items to be returned, to no avail.

At this point, crunchymoon9itsme stepped in and started asking those of us rightly calling out minimalmilk for scamming to stop, since we were "basically bullying new jammers". minimalmilk obviously wasn't a New Jammer, despite having only 5 achievements, if they had so many valuable items to give out, but that didn't seem to deter crunchymoon9itsme from staunchly defending them.

Other players started to accuse crunchymoon9itsme of being minimalmilk's main account and likely the source of the alleged rares that minimalmilk was "giving away". I don't believe this is the case, though, as the two talked and moved simultaneously numerous times, but crunchymoon9itsme was still a clear accomplice in the scam. They repeatedly told everyone to stop being so mean to minimalmilk, in spite of all the people in the den announcing that they had traded their items without receiving the prizes minimalmilk was claiming to give out.

minimalmilk even went as far as to specifically thank crunchymoon9itsme for defending them from everyone they had taken items from.

minimalmilk eventually started naming actual players in the den and claiming they were going to receive their prizes (Crystal is the pink arctic wolf)...

...but in the end, nobody who had given minimalmilk rares testified that they had received anything in return, spikes, den betas, or otherwise.

After most people had left, another player in the den alleged that crunchymoon9itsme had scammed them previously 2 months ago. While there isn't currently any solid evidence to corroborate this claim, minimalmilk locked the den almost immediately after, and everyone except crunchymoon9itsme was kicked out.

Report crunchymoon9itsme and minimalmilk for scamming. Stay safe and always trade fairly!