Beware: Brothervodj45/Puffinmage@aol.com is a thief

[Anebriated]

Just giving a warning to everyone else on these boards. Do not do business with Puffinmage@aol.com. I tried to purchase his wizard the other day and he took my money and then blocked me from AIM and stopped all contact. I filed a claim with paypal but I know they wont do anything about it. Just dont want him to get away with it on anyone else. If anyone wants to know his RL name shoot me a PM and ill give it out. If you are bored feel free to sign his email up for some gay porn or something. Hopefully this saves someone else from getting scammed.

Gender: Male Age: 33 Expr: 2367064 Level: 47
Normal (Bonus) ... Enhanced (Bonus)
Strength (STR): 69 (14) ... 69 (14)
Constitution (CON): 59 (4) ... 34 (-8)
Dexterity (DEX): 100 (25) ... 100 (25)
Agility (AGI): 84 (17) ... 84 (17)
Discipline (DIS): 84 (17) ... 84 (17)
Aura (AUR): 97 (23) ... 97 (23)
Logic (LOG): 87 (23) ... 87 (23)
Intuition (INT): 75 (17) ... 75 (17)
Wisdom (WIS): 91 (20) ... 91 (20)
Influence (INF): 69 (9) ... 69 (9)

Level: 47 Deeds: 0
Experience: 2367064 Death's Sting: Crushing!
Exp. until next: 18936 Recent Deaths: 2
Mental TPs: 0 Fame: 9525320
Physical TPs: 5 Mana: 200/200 max
(1768 Phy converted to Mnt)

Skill Name | Current Current
| Bonus Ranks
Armor Use..........................| 20 4
Physical Fitness...................| 50 10
Arcane Symbols.....................| 170 70
Magic Item Use.....................| 170 70
Spell Aiming.......................| 174 74
Harness Power......................| 200 100
Elemental Mana Control.............| 150 50
Elemental Lore - Air...............| 148 48
Perception.........................| 148 48
Climbing...........................| 70 15
Swimming...........................| 70 15

Spell Lists
Major Elemental....................| 40

Spell Lists
Minor Elemental....................| 35

Spell Lists
Wizard.............................| 41

no current fixskills, but theres one in 19 days anyways, so its not that big of a deal

Comes bare
Master of COL

looking for atleast 200, 300 buy out this second
want to sell fast, would like to sell by end of the day if possible Its for the account, not a transfer

contact me at puffinmage@aol.com

[Gan]

What an asshat.

Thanks for the headsup. Sorry you got scammed bub. I'll definately warn off people from this guy.

Its also good to know the character stats, so we can look to see when he tries to sell again.

[LeftOverForGood]

Having a hell of a time formatting this correctly, but you get the idea.

I'm confused. He's your wizard?

correct

And I take it the wizard is not for sale?

no

I had emailed Puffinmage as well, but then saw Doughboy's post. Maybe Doughboy can shed some light on who this jerkoff is.

[beer]

puffinmage is zimzum's play.net address. no idea if he's behind the aol account too; might be someone trying to pretend to be zim to rip people off.

[beer]

eh, looks like that is zimzum's email:

http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:...ient=firefox-a

[Gan]

Easy way to find out of its Zim... since he's pretty well known.

Anyone know if Zim has a level 47 wizard that he's been seen playing in the past?

[Khariz]

I've had dealings with PuffinMage before and have never been ripped off.

Either this is a different guy, or something has gone wrong in this guy's brain.

I'd make sure this isn't some kind of misunderstanding.

[Doughboy]

Easy way to find out of its Zim... since he's pretty well known.

Anyone know if Zim has a level 47 wizard that he's been seen playing in the past?

yeah it was my wizard

I let him play him because I don't play that often..next thing I know I see it for sale. I call billing..change the account name/pw, etc etc. I see the character log in for a moment today the old account name is gone, new account name is gone...billing says talk to lockout...

[Gan]

yeah it was my wizard

I let him play him because I don't play that often..next thing I know I see it for sale. I call billing..change the account name/pw, etc etc. I see the character log in for a moment today the old account name is gone, new account name is gone...billing says talk to lockout...

So his response to your changing the account name/pw was to call in and 'phish' for the new info in order to gain access?

Holy shit. You better check your any other accounts under the same name as the one locked out; we just saw an example where they locked out the user and all accounts under his name for phishing, intentional or not.

.... And yea, based on my conversations with Elrodin and encouragement to bring the matter here before the glorious PC, I've been having visions of a white bronco as well, only he's the one driving it.

Bottom line:

Actions speak louder than words. If he's upright and innocent he would not have ignored Elrodin's requests, he would not have blocked Elrodin's IM, he would not have escalated the issue to paypal immediately instead of contacting Elrodin to clear up the matter, he would not have 'slammed' when Elrodin attempted to contact him via psinet this morning, and lastly he would have been posting here on the PC defending himself.

Hard not to judge in a case like this.

[Doughboy]

So his response to your changing the account name/pw was to call in and 'phish' for the new info in order to gain access?

Not sure, once I get something back from lockout I'll be more than happy to post what they say.

Holy shit. You better check your any other accounts under the same name as the one locked out; we just saw an example where they locked out the user and all accounts under his name for phishing, intentional or not.

.... And yea, based on my conversations with Elrodin and encouragement to bring the matter here before the glorious PC, I've been having visions of a white bronco as well.

I read bits and pieces of that thread and said to myself...damn that sucks man. Go figure. Just goes to show you how much you can really trust "friends."