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Originally Posted by -Ra
First let me start by saying I agree that scammers suck and it would be nice if they did not exist. But...
1- you don't own it, and the person who takes it also after taking still does not own it. Everything is MA's and since it is all nothing more than a bunch of lines of code, it can never be removed from game, therefore, never stolen. MA still has possession of their items.
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Well you DO retain the dollar equivalent of the ped value of your account. So, when someone takes you virtual items, they have stolen you ped/dollars.
That is real theft.
In most scams we are talking 10, 20, maybe 100 USD, but in a few cases I have heard of a couple of hundred USD, and once around 1K USD.
Most of this is petty theft in real world, so difficult to get international law enforcement very excited, but it is still theft, and still unacceptable.