This is a cross-post of one made on the official SE forums:
Just a word of warning to any potential FCs out there that might recruit this guy..
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...acter/3335722/
He was in our FC on Leviathan for a few months, in our of our Turn 5 farm groups. For a while since housing was announced, we were saving gil to buy one. This guy had been in our FC for a while, and we had no idea how much money he had, just that he had a good deal of it. He was a long time crafter and made a lot of money gathering, crafting and selling on the markets. He had over 100m to his name, some suspected more, but we had multiple (what seemed like at the time) legit screenshots of his available money.
As we were building up to buy a large house, he offered to make a 'angel investment' in our house, as long as we covered a good chunk of the cost ourselves. So, we started saving up to cover our portion, we get everything in place, and we all go (him included) to the residential district to buy it. Since he was covering the majority of the cost, he asked us to give him out portion, and he'd buy it.
Up till now, we had no reason to doubt that this guy was anything but honest. He had loaned many members of the FC money, and we had paid him back. He never did anything sketchy. He was known to troll guildmembers during raids in very minor ways. "I've only got 15 more minutes before I have to go, so let's make this last one count!" after 2 hours of practicing T5, and getting close. (he didn't really have to go, he was dedicated to getting it down like we were) Harmless trolling. But it was kind of part of his personality.
So when we were doing the countdown to him buying the lot, he is doing his Rho dance and whatever, then disconnects. Hahaha, yeah yeah, we all saw that one coming. Then a few minutes later he comes back online and goes "Yeah, sorry, couldn't resist!" Then he leaves the FC, disconnects, and server transfers to Behemoth, taking our many millions of gil with him.
So, just be warned.