People are Evil

I was HACKED

The account that I've been playing on for years was hacked -and the reason is because I trust people too much.

Well this is what happened. I was playing on Maplestory...the game I have been playing on for years. And as usual, I was talking to people online. Some guy asks if he can buy my account or if anyone wants to share accounts.

Being good ol' me, I say sure and give him $300,000 for his account (which is a lot by the way). He tells me his password and pin number so I can log onto his account. Then he says we should just share accounts and I agree, so I give him my password and pin number. He promises he won't scam me and he gives me his word that he wont.

When I log off to log onto his account, I find to my chagrin that his pin number doesn't work. So I log into my other extra account and obviously accuse him of hacking and lying to me about his information. After whispering to him with no response, he disables the 'whisper' so I can't talk to him at all and changes my own account's pin number so I can't log on.

He promised he wouldn't scam me right? He gave me his word. Well he lied. Now I don't have any accounts except for my extra one (which is crap) and all the long hours spent training my account were for nothing.

After all this happened I just felt stupefied. In a matter of 10 minutes, all the hours and days I wasted playing that game meant nothing and were in the hands of a lying cheat.
All the nights staying up late to get to the next level were all in vain; all the pointless arguing with my parents about how much longer I could play were worthless.

I wanted to kill whoever was on the other side of the computer, but I was so powerless. I had known nothing about the person. Not even their real name- yet I gave them an account which I spent countless hours perfecting.

It seems pretty dumb right? Like how I could put all my trust in a total stranger? Like how I gave them my password with no strings attached and no guarantees or ways of reversing what I had done?

Yes, I am too trusting. I think people are good, and that is why I just lost everything. I trust total strangers and I think everyone has something good in them. I think people will treat me the same way I treat others and respect my feelings.

Maybe I trust others because I've had it too good. I'm surrounded by good people who have high moral standards and have not been exposed to enough evil to harden me into a people-hating pessimist. I live a good life in a middle-class white town where crime is a low and murder cases are rarely or never heard of. I do not have to lie, cheat, steal, or do any other immoral things to get by. I am blessed with the gift of knowledge and do not have to cheat on tests to compensate for my lack of intelligence. Most of the people I meet on the internet are nice, caring and would never hack anyone or steal anyone's account. I have been lulled into a dream world where people are nice, you can trust everyone, there is world peace, Al Gore is president, and people don't die.

However I now know how evil people can be. The truth is: the media hype is true. People are evil and will lie, cheat, and steal. They will do anything if the value is worth enough. If people are poor they will steal from the rich. If people aren't smart enough they will cheat on the test. If people are lazy they will get slaves to do their work. If people don't have friends they will bomb the school so no one does.

Think of the events in world history: The Inquisition killed thousands through cruel and unusual torture for their religious beliefs. The Spanish conquistadors killed thousands, maybe millions of Aztecs and Incas and worked them literally to death making them mine precious metals till almost the whole population was extinct. The Colonists kill the Native Americans and later transport thousands of black slaves to the Americas to do their work for no charge; basically owning someone's existence. Mao Tse-tung killed somewhere between 20 and 67 million of his countrymen, including the elderly and intellectuals. Hitlers set up concentration camps and killed over 6 million Jews. Why, people today in Iraq are being killed right now in a pointless war over gas prices and 'terrorist attacks'.

If had been 'hacked' in real life I would probably be dead right now lying in a ditch, living in a homeless shelter, or countless other horrible things. Use your imagination. It is a surprise I am here right now with all ten fingers, eyes, and limbs in use- typing this horrible story.

This person didn't just take away my money, or time, or even my account- they took away my innocence. Something I probably will never regain. When I think back of this incident 10 years from now, I probably won't think of how I miss playing on my account or how I wish I had another account; I will think of how evil people really are and how low people will stoop for money and items that aren't even real.

The worst part of it is that I see this happening all the time. That kid that brags about stealing their classmate's iPod, that kid who got an 100 from cheating off a test. My aunt who was conned of her money and lost millions. The tenants living in my parents' property that have to be sued to pay the rent. That girl who got AIDS from a person passing it on intentionally. That person who died from getting hit in the head by a robber who stole for petty change.

Now that I think about it, I know people who would jump at the chance to have an account like mine for no expense at all. My own brother, my friend. I can envision people I am close to being the hacker that tricked me of everything, then laughing about it, shrugging it off, and acting like they would in real life. They would not think about the tears I shed, the emotional anguish they would have put a person through.

I suppose all those days and hours wasted on that account were nothing. They sure aren't anything now.