Heads up on potential scam...

Hey guys, RJO/Taas Taru leader of AKS here.

I just wanted to let my fellow guild officers aware of a potential situation. The other day an Exodus Fury joined our free company. He was RPing a bit before I invited him and when he did join after he was warmly welcomed he said he was going to leave the FC for a while and return when he had proven himself (we found this hilarious and changed all of our ranks to say proven, but that's a tale for another day).

What didn't click at the time was he also asked when he'd be given access to the guild bank. I explained our normal rules members and recruits once processed get access to slots 1 and 2, 3 is reserved for guild event cache and gil is only accessible by officers. After I explained this he left.

Since that time Exodus has had contact with a few of my members and it's come to light his fresh FC without a single level 50 is "working on buying a large plot".

Now that I've had a chance to put all the ducks in a row this isn't sitting very well. What I think is going on here is a scam to attempt to rob unsuspecting FC banks. Exodus has now created his own FC (officers are Exodus Fury, Elzina Blackheart and Jill Seranin) and as I said before they are all lower level.

What I'm alleging this: Exodus and likely others within this FC are smurfing to rob guild banks. I am posting as a friend and leader of a large FC and I would hate to see any guild's hard work put in danger.

I have no proof of any of the above. Just a whole bunch of things not smelling right. Maybe I'm being irresponsible in posting, but I feel that things line up enough that I have a duty to share this.

If I am wrong I sincerely apologize, but sadly I doubt I am.

Thanks gilga. <3

So rather than telling your fellow officers in game, you post on a public forum the name of someone (which by the way is a bannable offense) who you THINK might be stealing without even checking to see if they even took anything from your bank in the first place?

To be clear - they didn't steal anything from our bank...

This is super sketchy, and I want it out there.

he'll get warned at most - not banned - and thanks for the heads up Tass, people like this piss me off.

Thanks for the heads-up, RJO. I think you were right to post it here.

And Holyhunter, how do you know he hasn't already informed his guild members? He's trying to help everyone here, and I think his worries are well founded.

I've worried about this sort of thing before, even without due cause to. Which is why our guild bank is only accessible to certain, trusted, members.