Blizzhackers

There I am minding my own business, running my bots, when I stumble into a Jah rune. Elated that I'm 1 rune away from an Enigma and have a bunch of Ists saved up to possibly get a Ber to complete it.

I make a game to trade, and a seemingly nice fellow joins, saying he's getting ready to quit//give away free stuff, if all I'll do is join some forums to talk about diablo 3, since he just got a fan site (supposedly) up and running.

**-- I should have known right there, stopped what I was doing, and continued what I was doing, yes, don't remind me --**

Anyway, he gives me the url, which is under the ___.1x.net free domain service. There's some shoddy java plugin, I click "run anyway" (and that's presumably when he got backdoor access, sigh), and even try to help him figure it out, as I own my own legitimate, paid-for domain, as he empties one account out (luckily he didn't get to the rune mule I was logged in on or I'd really have nothing left to my char's).

In the end, after a lot of name calling, and hindsight of "I should have known better", I do some digging.
Apparently, to get that domain name under 1x.net, he had to register at least some legit info - or has compromised someone's account there.

the 1x.net WHOIS returned a name, address (in canada!), and an email address.
Using that I was able to track down an apparent facebook of the guy (or at least someone of the same name, claiming to live in the same city).

Now all that's left is what to do.
First I'm going to try to verify that domain name was him, and not a compromised account.
Presuming that gets done, I'm taking suggestions on things to do -- and yes, ordering pizzas to that address is the bare minimum.

Do nothing, you got scammed, suck it up.

How can you not afford an enigma at this point in the ladder?

I hadn't played for a good 2-3 years, then came back in the last 2 weeks, so yeah, affording anything that involves runes is kind of pricey.

Oh please like you guys wouldn't get some sort of payback if you had the chance. You're suggesting he roll over and let some faggot walk all over him.

I would order pizza from multiple locations to his house. How awesome would it be if 3-4 pizza guys pulled up around the same time.

ahahh this!


Also google pranku (prank university) get on beyluxe msg'er (I know it looks shady but trust me) and pm one of the leaders, they will literally harass this guy for months, find every # he has and every friend off that persons facebook, it will be full of luls!

I doubt your going to get anywhere with this. It appears they used on the thousand free subdomains, and there isn't WHOIS information for subdomains. Just take this as a lesson that you never, ever, ever, ever download anything anyone tells you to download in game.

did you get a phone number?

clamtxt.com?

Little update:
No response from the guy that turned up; not from a facebook message, not from the email 1x.net listed as the guy's email. So far can't really verify with certainty the info I got on the guy was actually the one who scammed me.
*:: which kind of leads me to believe any other rational person would at least respond with a "who the fuck is this?" or "what the hell are you talking about?" kind of thing; maybe silence is damning?

Yes, I know you can't WHOIS subdomains, the ___.1x.net is a free domain service, and offers what I can only really describe as a local WHOIS for registrants that have acquired a subdomain under their service, and where I found the info about the guy's name, address, et al.
Perhaps it was just him being an idiot (for using his real name), or using a fake name/address/email (still pretty stupid), or using a compromised account (the only thing to worry about, though I haven't noticed any suspicious activity on my CC's or other important accounts).

If I really wanted to verify enough of it for my taste, I'd have to subject the computer once again to a security risk, and trace the IP's with outgoing traffic (which isn't exactly something I want to do). Though this isn't 100% if he's running through a proxy or otherwise dummy-IP (it might still be enough to run a geoloc on the IP, lulz).


Random heads up:
USWest, his account was *Tofubeast
I've noticed him back at various hours (and when I have enough where-with-all to type /whois *Tofubeast), but that doesn't necessarily mean a whole lot other than he's still scamming people.

LOL You got scameed with the oldest trick in the book. Pretty elite it just installed thru your browser though.... pretty 1337 indeed...

He seems to be on right now