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Posted: Nov 14th 2007 6:28PM (Unverified) said

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i knew that habbo was bad news when he entered the room
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Posted: Nov 14th 2007 6:33PM Dopple Boppler said

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Pool's closed.
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Posted: Nov 14th 2007 7:18PM (Unverified) said

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I was gonna say that as soon as I saw that Habbo pic XD

Epic Win
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Posted: Nov 14th 2007 7:29PM (Unverified) said

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Pools closed due to AIDS!
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Posted: Nov 14th 2007 8:42PM BPMOmega XBL PSN Steam said

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Pool's closed due to furniture theft.

The furniture was full of AIDS and he dumped them in the pool.
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Posted: Nov 14th 2007 6:36PM (Unverified) said

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sounds just like what the gold farmers do in wow
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Posted: Nov 14th 2007 6:37PM thethirdmoose said

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You can't "steal" anything online. It's just 1's and 0's. It would have been way easier for Habbo if they had just given the people another copy of the furniture.
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Posted: Nov 14th 2007 6:43PM Andrew F said

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If you go to a bank and ask for the original dollar bills you deposited, they probably can't help you. Odds are, the money's been shifted around somewhere else now. Instead, what they did was flip a bunch of bits in a computer somewhere to signal that you had deposited a certain amount of cash.

So in that sense, your money is made up of 1s and 0s, and if you can't steal money, what can you steal?
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Posted: Nov 14th 2007 7:16PM thethirdmoose said

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Your analogy is flawed. It is easy and close to free to replicate virtual furniture. It is costly to replicate real furniture. Thus, rather than suing this kid, Habbo should have just given the victims another, close to free copy of the furniture. (Or maybe not, since they were stupid enough to fall for the scam)
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Posted: Nov 14th 2007 10:15PM quickshade said

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LOL, you can steal anything you want online. If I crack a bank network and get everyone's SS numbers and use them to get money, or get bank account numbers and account info and withdraw money with it I'm stealing. the computer world may be just 1's and 0's but those 2 numbers can get you anything you want in the world now, Hence why network security is among the highest paid jobs in the world. It's also the toughest. Anyways for proof check out Die Hard 4, which sums up what hackers could do with no life and unlimited funds. BTW this reminds me of the sims online, which had people doing this all the time.
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Posted: Nov 14th 2007 6:39PM R V said

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Why would anyone in their right mind spend 4000 euros on virtual furniture in the first place. You can play a different game that is entertaining that'll cost you only $60. Heck, if you really wanted to, you could download a shitload of games off of torrents for free for endless enjoyment. Wtf is wrong with people? Paying for fucking VIRTUAL furniture is not synonymous with fun for me at all.
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Posted: Nov 14th 2007 6:45PM (Unverified) said

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that's because you're "smart" :)
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Posted: Nov 15th 2007 12:36AM (Unverified) said

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To be fair, it seems that it was stolen from several people. I hope that there isn't a person pathetic enough to buy 4,000 Euro in virtual furniture.

But 400 people spending 10 Euro each on digital furniture seems equally disheartening.
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Posted: Nov 14th 2007 6:55PM Lone Starr said

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Do you think arrest will stop this brilliant criminal mind? For all we know, prison is just his next MMO.
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Posted: Nov 14th 2007 6:57PM (Unverified) said

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Nerds dont tend to live long in prison and im sure will do anything to stay out once they taste it, or they taste the nerd(s)
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Posted: Nov 14th 2007 6:59PM (Unverified) said

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That's hilarious!

Anyone buying virtual furniture with real money probably deserved to have this one coming, I can understand using virtual currency earned in-game.

What's the strength of the euro against Habbo coins right now anyway?
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Posted: Nov 14th 2007 7:23PM Mr Khan said

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About the same as the ratio of Schrute Bucks to Stanley Nickels
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Posted: Nov 14th 2007 7:12PM (Unverified) said

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He was arrested for phishing for peoples account information, not "stealing virtual furniture". What is this, Fox News?
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Posted: Nov 14th 2007 7:21PM (Unverified) said

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but is that illegal?
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Posted: Nov 14th 2007 7:15PM einhanderkiller said

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The Internet is serious business.
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Posted: Nov 14th 2007 7:23PM (Unverified) said

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the internet is for porn
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Posted: Nov 14th 2007 8:41PM BPMOmega XBL PSN Steam said

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The Internet is for serious porn.
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Posted: Nov 14th 2007 8:53PM (Unverified) said

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The business is for serious porn internet.
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Posted: Nov 14th 2007 10:52PM (Unverified) said

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business is givin you the business
up yo butt
and let me tell ya
business is boomin

you lookin to expand your business?

business is closed!
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Posted: Nov 14th 2007 11:30PM Dr Stabbingworth said

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athf ftw!
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Posted: Nov 14th 2007 7:23PM (Unverified) said

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Wait, hold up...

He dreamed up a phishing scam - to steal fucking furniture?
Not to raid bank accounts or buy real stuff but to steal virtual, fucking coffee tables!?

Send his dumb ass to prison.
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Posted: Nov 15th 2007 9:50AM (Unverified) said

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My LOL of the day is yours, my friend.
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Posted: Nov 14th 2007 7:25PM Mr Khan said

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4,000 Euros? (~$7000)?

Either that's one expensive MMO, or he spent a long time accumulating a lot of stuff
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Posted: Nov 14th 2007 7:59PM (Unverified) said

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Yeah, whats up with the 4,000 Euros? That would buy one hell of a real-life living-room set, HDTV and everything. So if we are talking about virtual furniture it had better be a whole friggin' universe made only of LazyBoys. I mean, 4,000 Euros isn't exactly pocket change.
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Posted: Nov 14th 2007 8:12PM (Unverified) said

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Wonder if anyone will steal the furniture in Home? Since you have to pay for that.
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Posted: Nov 14th 2007 8:23PM Colossalhat said

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I'm wondering if anyone will ever play/use home for more than 10 minutes.
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Posted: Nov 14th 2007 8:28PM (Unverified) said

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I can see it being quite big with the 2nd Life crowd.
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Posted: Nov 14th 2007 11:05PM (Unverified) said

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Need blackup, over.
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Posted: Nov 14th 2007 11:10PM Hydralisk456 said

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/b/lackup on the way!
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Posted: Nov 14th 2007 11:56PM hotpuck6 said

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Phishing = not cool.
Phishing to steal virtual furniture from people dumb enough to buy it from a gay looking MMO social networking game = awesome and ingenious.

i hope they give him a medal.

chances are if you are going to succumb to a phishing scam in the first place, someone else was probably just going to dupe you out of your money eventually...
I mean, they are already playing this sad excuse for a "game".
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Posted: Nov 15th 2007 7:11AM (Unverified) said

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The people that tattled on him should stop being such bosnians.
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