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pinkythepink

Joined: Jun 23, 2005
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Vuurballeke hacked, avoid until settled.

Vuurballeke's pirate has been hacked. Please don't purchase items from his pirate and if you can avoid his poker table (I watched earlier and he just threw all in preflop every single hand) please do so.

Evidence is thus: I gunned for the real Vuur during the Bipolar - Dies Irae blockades while he was on a different account/pirate. Asked him if there was any way to get his main pirate back and he said if I saw it online to jump on it.

Ye told Vuurballeke, "Yo"
Vuurballeke is playing poker and might be too busy to respond.
Vuurballeke tells ye, "hey"
Ye told Vuurballeke, "What's up"
Vuurballeke is playing poker and might be too busy to respond.
Vuurballeke tells ye, "nm"
Ye told Vuurballeke, "Didn't see you at the blocky :("
Vuurballeke is playing poker and might be too busy to respond.
Ye told Vuurballeke, "I thought for sure you would havebeen there, there were good navvers needed"
Vuurballeke is playing poker and might be too busy to respond.
Ye hop on the ferry and are whisked away to Alpha Island...
Vuurballeke tells ye, "where? :)"
Ye told Vuurballeke, "At the blockades"
Vuurballeke is playing poker and might be too busy to respond.
Vuurballeke tells ye, "tell me where and i can hop on"
Ye told Vuurballeke, "No, they were before"
Vuurballeke is playing poker and might be too busy to respond.
Ye told Vuurballeke, "Turtle, Cranberry, Eta, Jorvik and Spring"
Vuurballeke is playing poker and might be too busy to respond.
Vuurballeke tells ye, "ah i see"
Ye told Vuurballeke, "Yeah where were you man"
Vuurballeke is playing poker and might be too busy to respond.
Vuurballeke tells ye, "been busy"
Ye told Vuurballeke, "Ah."
Vuurballeke is playing poker and might be too busy to respond.

Petition opened, sat on the poker table and sent out /tells it wasn't really him, recruited some help from other pirates to monitor him, sat in the Emerald arch and watched him run around various tailors there, stopped a transaction between him and another pirate with the help of a higher officer in that crew, and then he logged off; petition closed.

Support Response: Thanks for this info. We'll monitor this situation.

That's all I have, I hope it gets settled soon.
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[Dec 20, 2010 10:05:52 AM]

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greekblah

Joined: Nov 21, 2007
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Re: Vuurballeke hacked, avoid until settled.

Yep, was on his poker table, all in, all in , all in. Not a word. However we were all telling them that we knew he wasn't vuur. So the person knows there busted. However its just a messy situation. Just wonder why the real vuur can't just go by email to change his password? However this may be more delicate than it seems.

[Dec 20, 2010 11:05:52 AM]

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DeepNine

Joined: May 31, 2009
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Re: Vuurballeke hacked, avoid until settled.

Nasty stuff. It looks like he hasn't logged in since ~1 hour after the petition was submitted, so his account may be locked for now which would be the best thing for him.

Good luck getting it settled.
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[Dec 20, 2010 11:40:02 AM]

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Rhapzodi

Joined: Feb 15, 2009
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Re: Vuurballeke hacked, avoid until settled.

Wow! That sucks!

Bad Hacker! Bad Bad Bad!!!!

No cookies for hackerz! =(
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[Dec 21, 2010 5:04:34 AM]

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Momma_Wolf

Joined: Dec 28, 2005
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Re: Vuurballeke hacked, avoid until settled.

To my knowledge, Vuur's email was also hacked. I know he's working with support to get this worked out, I just hope it's soon.
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cmdrzoom said:

Anyone may demand answers of the gods.
Getting them is another matter.

[Dec 21, 2010 11:11:58 AM]

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sweetnessc

Joined: Nov 10, 2004
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Re: Vuurballeke hacked, avoid until settled.

I'm not really understanding what's going on here. In every past case I've been aware of, the pirate has been locked down and locked out from the moment OOO was informed of the problem, until real life confirmation of identity could be provided to the company through out of game means. But Vuur's pirate was online yesterday. I'm quite confused.
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[Dec 21, 2010 12:20:31 PM]

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pinkythepink

Joined: Jun 23, 2005
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Re: Vuurballeke hacked, avoid until settled.

No idea why it isn't being locked down right away, but he's not the only pirate of recent who's been hacked (though, to my understanding, all of those pirates have been recovered).

If anyone has a way of contacting the real Vuur out of game please do so, I have no means of doing it and would like an update from his end.
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[Dec 21, 2010 4:08:54 PM]

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ravenkill1

Joined: Dec 30, 2006
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Re: Vuurballeke hacked, avoid until settled.

poopycats is hacked too ^_^ dont buy ny of his stuff or join his poker tables XD
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[Dec 21, 2010 8:43:08 PM]

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Momma_Wolf

Joined: Dec 28, 2005
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Re: Vuurballeke hacked, avoid until settled.

I talk with Vuur on Skype regularly, but sadly I don't have any new information to share on getting his pirates recovered.
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cmdrzoom said:

Anyone may demand answers of the gods.
Getting them is another matter.

[Dec 22, 2010 6:11:12 AM]

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REJBELLS

Joined: Oct 16, 2005
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Re: Vuurballeke hacked, avoid until settled.

I wondered how come he suddenly showed up on the Malachite Crew list as active.

Seems they must have raided that too. Haven't seen him there in years!
Sad , it was not him.
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[Dec 22, 2010 7:42:18 PM]

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