I think the point was, it was a merge. They gave the new leader less power than all the other officers, but enough of a rank that he could set up a raid team (which, to my understanding, is what he promised them.) New lower-rank officer then accepted, and promoted the gilseller-named account to regular officer, or fc master status, that account stole all the money, and then presumably transferred it somewhere and deleted itself.

This was not the original guild's fault. It is unfortunate, it shouldn't have been able to happen, and the guy that pulled it off is a scumbag. The point of this thread is not so that we can blame the original fc for setting their fc up in a reasonable way, but that we can be aware there is a problem, and that morally ambiguous individuals will use it to scam people.

And really. Since when do we decide that the actions of a thief are without blame, and we need to instead blame the people he stole for being stolen from? Come on community, you can do better.