The situation: I got a PM from someone saying,
"Hi it's me _______!! I got hacked!!!"They were claiming to be someone I knew pretty well who has not been on Gaia for quite some time. Ooh cool, I thought, and hit reply. I was about to send my message back to them when something niggling at my brain thought, check out his posts.
And so I did. I found that the person was totally an imitator, and not my friend at all. He had been trying to imitate several Gaians in a matter of 20 posts.
My question is why would you want to do something so silly? To get random donations I suppose but it seems so lowly and pathetic. And then what happens when the person they were trying to imitate comes back to Gaia and the truth is revealed? Oopsie didn't think of that, eh?
Such idiocy deserved to be mentioned here on GaiaonBlog. :3
So the warning part of this post: don't fall for things like this, check out a person's posts, ask for some kind of proof, etc. before blindly thinking that they are who they say they are. Be safe, Gaia harbors some crazy folk!
