Middleman

I never liked the idea of being a Middleman. I wouldnt trust any of the current "trusted" MMs. A couple of days ago I was asked to be a Middleman, im convinced now to never do it again. The story goes like this...

It all started one day when I was standing behind Guild House in Aeven. A girl named Cherubi randomly comes up to me and asks if I can help her transfer Orona. I say Ok, then she drops the orona on the floor and logs off. I was overweight and had to use like 3 pots but by then a newb comes up and takes the Orona. Cherubi comes back and I had to explain... I offered to pay her for the orona, but she just asked if I could help her transfer again. I agree but only if she actually trades me and not drops it on the floor.

After helping her transfer 2 million gold. I pm her asking..."How can you trust a random person so much?" and I tell her that im sorry about the orona". She pms me back saying that she was only testing me and that the 2 mill was actually for me. I dont accept the 2 mill gift lol, was still feeling bad about the newb taking her orona. Yes, very random moment in Aeven, some people have just to much gold but its rare to see nice rich people. :p


2 days after that random moment, Cherubi pms me asking if I can be a Middleman for her. She was going to trade her turtle account for an unlore panda. I agree because seeing how she trusts random people, I fear her getting scammed lol. The problem was the newb named Newbstew who had the unlore panda. He started talking about how the trade was unfair to him etc. which is ok because I wouldnt trust anyone either, but im wondering how a newb like this was able to get an unlore panda.

Like 30 minutes pass going back and forth trying to agree about the trade because he is afraid, im already feeling that im wasting my time, the then starts to tell us his life story. He starts talking about his mom, teacher and how he has no friends? I dont know, I was just thinking how I wanted someone to kill me than stay there. I say I had to go and to pm me when they were ready. Like an hour passes and Cherubi pms me saying that they are finally ready. Poor Cherubi having to hear the Newb's emo story.

Cherubi is logged on the account that she is going to transfer. She tells me that she will tell the newb the account info and he will trade me the panda. Once he trades me the panda then she logs off letting him into the account and I trade her the panda. I didn't like the idea, I wanted to do the traditional MM, but the newb wouldn't agree to it saying that he didn't trust me.

She pms him the info, but when he tries to trade the panda to me, the trade keeps getting aborted. He acts as if he doesn't know whats going on. We keep trying to trade and I start to think that he is unaware that the panda is fake or... that he is trying to Scam!

I pm Cherubi saying "Ok he is trying to scam, ill distract with trade and you change pass" o.o
I trade him and Cherubi logs off. The trade is aborted again and he soon logs off too, giving Cherubi only a couple of seconds of a headstart. Standing there waiting nervously.... until the Turtle Account logs back on. I quickly ask "Who is this??", it turns out that Cherubi managed to get it in time. The newb who tried to scam never logged back on, im not surprised.

At the end im left with 1 question. Did the scammer invent the sad story of his life just to scam or was he telling the truth? Either way, it just shows how much scammers suck :p