Autistic teen scammed in WoW.

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What is there even to buy with 1400?

A WoW token redeems at 15GBP, can be purchasable w Bnet balance

that's 113,3 tokens
113 tokens in EU @176k/token (current price) is 19.8 million gold

[exdeath202]

It blows my mind they let a kid this gullible and without basic common sense manage his own money. I dont blame him, i know he has autism and he cant do better, but letting him manage his money and store his payment data in wow so he can spend all his money on a whim was a ticking bomb. Sooner or later he was going to be scammed or spend it all in lootboxes.

[ellieg]

Why did he have access to that much money? If you knew hes autistic, manage his finances for him. Obviously q scummy move but the mother is an idiot.

[zenkai]

People get scammed all the time. Not sure why this story is any different.

That's what I am wondering. The elderly are the most common victims and it usually takes their life savings.

[Vargulf the Happy Husky]

I didn't read all of that because I don't care that much, but if I had an autistic child I would monitor their bank accounts pretty closely.

sounds like the parents got a lil' reeee in them too

[Celista]

First of all, being autistic doesn't mean that you are necessarily more trusting, I am highly skeptical of that study. It also doesn't mean you are necessarily shit with finances or that you necessarily make bad decisions. Autism means that you have communication skill issues, and that is about the extent of it. There are a bunch of high-functioning autistic people at all levels of society.

This isn't about the kid being autistic, it's about the kid making a stupid decision and his mom is trying to blame his bad decision-making on his disability. If he's low-functioning and that highly disabled then he shouldn't have been given access to money in the first place.

[Teri]

This has absolutely nothing to do with having Autism.

[Ragedaug]

There is the problem right there. 100% a parenting problem. If, after the fact, an explanation was given and he was able to comprehend it (obvoius by his breakdown), then it is the parents fault that he ended up in the situation. This is what happens when people put their kids in a bubble and tell them they are special and so on.

This is what I was thinking. She didn't teach him the whole "stranger danger"? My heart breaks for the boy, as I've seen vulnerable people in my own life get scammed, but I put the full blame on the mother. The irony is that she's teaching him how to scam the correct way. Don't try to trick one person to give you a lot of money, go to GoFundMe with a good story and get little amounts of money from a lot of people.

[socialmaker]

OOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH why was the autistic boy allowed to have a bank account/tap into that? Why not prepaid stuff prior? That's like sending my 5 year old to the corner store to buy some bread with a 500 Euro note glued to his forehead. Surely no one would take advantage of him right right?

[Crillam]

What is there even to buy with 1400?

Well there was something about a drivers licence, taking that should be around 1400 with driving lessons etc.

[Naiattavain]

People who take advantage of others are everywhere. This world is full to the brim of lying shitbags who will do anything to avoid being a productive member of society. It's disgusting.

i got scammed over twitter twitter does nothing to regulate scammers. there is no way to report a scammer on twitter.

[Noomz]

the post above yours nails this post exactly.

So you can't really do anything else than snide remarks. You've no fucking idea what life I've had, what life I have now or what my experiences are. And it's too personal to tell some random no-name on the internet.
I don't think you, who're doing nothing else than post shit-talk, should talk about not knowing things. Maybe not judge people you've never fucking met or even had a superficial talk with in your entire fucking life.

So who the fuck are YOU, to judge ME? What high horse are you sitting on that you think makes you know it all?

[ellieg]

So you can't really do anything else than snide remarks. You've no fucking idea what life I've had, what life I have now or what my experiences are. And it's too personal to tell some random no-name on the internet.
I don't think you, who're doing nothing else than post shit-talk, should talk about not knowing things. Maybe not judge people you've never fucking met or even had a superficial talk with in your entire fucking life.

So who the fuck are YOU, to judge ME? What high horse are you sitting on that you think makes you know it all?

Bro, take your meds and chill out. You're on a video game forum getting heated. Not a good look.

[wulfnuts]

lol why should i feel sorry for some one who was dumb enough to get scammed on wow? you should have already learned this. or i guess you shouldn't have access to money? at the very least, hes not playing wow anymore. that's for the best.

[Coombs]

I've played hot female avatars since the days of Everquest. Boy have I scammed some gold off the lonely.

However, how does one make a profit off of game time card numbers? Is there some shady black market for WoW game time? I just can't see the point.

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So you can't really do anything else than snide remarks. You've no fucking idea what life I've had, what life I have now or what my experiences are. And it's too personal to tell some random no-name on the internet.
I don't think you, who're doing nothing else than post shit-talk, should talk about not knowing things. Maybe not judge people you've never fucking met or even had a superficial talk with in your entire fucking life.

So who the fuck are YOU, to judge ME? What high horse are you sitting on that you think makes you know it all?

I'm trotting on a Shire. Sorry the donkey has you feeling low.

[Independent voter]

First of all, being autistic doesn't mean that you are necessarily more trusting, I am highly skeptical of that study. It also doesn't mean you are necessarily shit with finances or that you necessarily make bad decisions. Autism means that you have communication skill issues, and that is about the extent of it. There are a bunch of high-functioning autistic people at all levels of society.

This isn't about the kid being autistic, it's about the kid making a stupid decision and his mom is trying to blame his bad decision-making on his disability. If he's low-functioning and that highly disabled then he shouldn't have been given access to money in the first place.

You're right, autism doesn't make you more trusting. What it does is make it so that you can't tell who is a friend or who is an enemy. So if he thought this guy was his friend, he missed all the social clues that told him the guy was his enemy. A normal person would've easily known the guy was a scammer.

[The Stormbringer]

Its at over 1200 pounds now, the kid is going to probably come out considerably ahead. I'm a bit torn as I'm not a fan of 99 percent of GoFundMes but the person who conned this guy is a colossal piece of shit.

He's down 1400 pounds, so it sounds like he'll just come close to breaking even.

I feel like this is a failure on the part of his parents. They were never able to teach him that there are bad people out there who won't have your best interest at heart. I understand that autism would make that much harder to do, but there are specialists out there who better understand how to teach people like him.

Of course, the real blame lies with the scumbag who scammed him. They had to know something was up, no one would just give that much money away to another person out of the goodness of their heart (without being on the spectrum, at least).

[rowaasr13]

Of course scammer is fucktard, but I don't get one thing: if parents know their child have trouble with scammers, why the fuck they provide him direct access to big amount of money instead of managing it for him?

[GrimReaper673]

He's down 1400 pounds, so it sounds like he'll just come close to breaking even.

I feel like this is a failure on the part of his parents. They were never able to teach him that there are bad people out there who won't have your best interest at heart. I understand that autism would make that much harder to do, but there are specialists out there who better understand how to teach people like him.

Of course, the real blame lies with the scumbag who scammed him. They had to know something was up, no one would just give that much money away to another person out of the goodness of their heart (without being on the spectrum, at least).

The bank actually refunded 600 of it. So he's officially turned a profit if the GoFundMe is at 1200.

[Cracked]

While sad, I don't know what you supposed to do with it. 90% of rich people become rich because someone else is stupid (and don't get me wrong - autism is a kind of stupidity that you are just born with, tough shit). All trading markets are based on suckers providing money and winners scooping it up.

I would have probably gotten cancer pretending to be an autist's friend for just 1400 pounds.