um....

[Despain]

Family is the worst, don't be fooled. While I was off at college my freshman/sophomore year my dad opened CC's in my name, racked them up, stopped paying them, he of course used his cell phone and a personal PO box he opened to get the late calls/notices. I had no idea until my personal bank accounts accounts were frozen 5 years later since there was a judgment out against me. Any time I applied for credit and got denied I asked him why he thought it happened and he said because of my school loans. It made sense to my naive ass since I was going to a private school.

That's fucked up. Yeah, I don't trust my brother with a buck, but that's a different story.

[StareDownTheBarrel]

Err, I'm not quite understanding this story. You had a token attached? Did you leave your token sitting there while you were gone? Or did you deactivate the token? Either way, this topic just seems like a pointless troll topic.

[Rikus]

if I were you I'd go to his house & break every single thing he owns, burn his clothes & smack my brother/sister for raising such a douche-mover.

/comfort dude.... horrible way to go out ><

[Rikus]

Or are you trying to tell me that a kid that you admitted had absolutely no knowledge of the game did enough research to learn how to un-link the security token through the SquareEnix account website?

not to hard.... google this... "how to unlink the square enix token"

brings me to this

http://www.bluegartr.com/forum/74794...i-account.html

6th reply links to this http://www.bluegartr.com/forum/72881...ken-guide.html

anyone with half a brain could figure this out

(I somehow skipped page 2 )

[noodles355]

You said you have a security token... They can sell the account, but surely he would have ahd trouble de-activating the token. Unless you left it at home while you went away.

[Titanss]

obvious troll is obvious

[Deimos]

not to hard.... google this... "how to unlink the square enix token"

Okay, now imagine that you don't know that it's called a "token", and that you don't know that what you're trying to do is referred to as "unlinking". Now find it.

[Yugl]

Okay, now imagine that you don't know that it's called a "token", and that you don't know that what you're trying to do is referred to as "unlinking". Now find it.

This is so true. It's funny how people always say it's easy to find a topic using search (Here or Google) then proceed to use search words that no one would normally use.

[Seanpgrnc]

Well given the fact that he had about 6 weeks to figure it out......

[Argettio]

@ All those saying "It's you fault for having it written down":

Look around you... I can bet that in your house there is a dozen pieces of info that could be used against you.

Real stuff:
*Old bank statement
*Drivers licence
*Passport
*Credit or Store Card bill
*Nation Insurance number (social security if your american)
*Old pay slips
*Cheque book

E-data:
*Browser history
*Saved passwords on your Browser
*Saved emails
*Saved letters (to the bank, lawyer, anyone)

Unless all that real stuff is in a decent safe with a key which you carry with you ALL of the time, with no copies OR a combo lock (without writing down the number) it is not secure.

Unless you delete all the e-data and then use one of the programs to prevent data recovery every few hours.

You ARE susceptible to having your entire life stolen! Not just an account in a game.

Is you house perfect? Is everything locked away? have you just scrabbled your hard drive for the 5th time today after deleting everything? If not... STFU and GTFO.

If you do live like that, you are a very sad and lonely person.

This guy obviously knew what he was doing, this was not a purely opportunist attack, he knew how to sell FF accounts, how to forge signatures for cheques, which toys were valuable etc.

@ OP: That's the shittiest thing I have ever heard. Not just the FF account but money, toys etc. This guy is well out of order and deserves a few years in the Big house. Where the some of the friendlier inmates could find him at shower time and make him think about what he has done; one long and deep stroke at a time.

I wouldn't hold your breath with SE recovering your character. They can do it, but it is an up hill struggle to persuade them to do it.

[dejet]

well you could do a few things. You might not get the account back though, If you call SE with your codes tell them what happened your CC that was on the account before you should get the account closed at the least. Making the ass who bought it lose it.

You could also call Paypall if you know your brothers account(idk if he sold it using that) and say that something of yours was sold that is illegal(you cant even sell an account as based on SE its not yours and US law has not defined it as of yet) by this guy. I could be wrong on this one, but it be worth a try if SE wont do anything.

If nothing else you can screw over one of the two people lol

You have the token still right? tell SE you have that and are willing to use it if that can somehow help your odds of getting it back. my guess is the ass took that off though.

[Starfighterpilot]

whether this is a fairy tale or not, the moral of this story is don't trust family with money. Don't lend or let them get possession of anything worth money either, especially if they are a crackhead. It will come back to haunt you. Like the moron that told everyone he was leaving town on twitter and someone ransacked his house.

[Diumis]

whether this is a fairy tale or not, the moral of this story is don't trust family with money. Don't lend or let them get possession of anything worth money either, especially if they are a crackhead. It will come back to haunt you. Like the moron that told everyone he was leaving town on twitter and someone ransacked his house.

I think that's a very negative way of looking at this.

A more accurate lesson is that family can screw you over like anyone else. Don't unconditionally trust someone just because they're your brother/sister's son, even if you would trust that brother or sister with anything. You have to treat each and every person as their own individual.

To the people saying he should press charges, I'd like to agree but you're missing the whole family aspect. The nephew might be a bad egg, but can you imagine what kind of tension that brings down on a family? Suddenly you're suing your brother's nephew and you have your sister or mother trying to talk you out of it. Your brother is angry and wont speak to you. Your father is asking you why the fuck you're doing this. Going after the one bad egg might completely crumble the entire relationship with the rest of the family.

If this was a true story, you should definitely confront the guy's parents first. Even if he's 25, it's still a family matter first. You deal with it through the family and show just what he did. If that falls through, then I guess you should feel the right to press some legal pressure on him.

[Yugl]

To the people saying he should press charges, I'd like to agree but you're missing the whole family aspect. The nephew might be a bad egg, but can you imagine what kind of tension that brings down on a family? Suddenly you're suing your brother's nephew and you have your sister or mother trying to talk you out of it. Your brother is angry and wont speak to you. Your father is asking you why the fuck you're doing this. Going after the one bad egg might completely crumble the entire relationship with the rest of the family.

If this was a true story, you should definitely confront the guy's parents first. Even if he's 25, it's still a family matter first. You deal with it through the family and show just what he did. If that falls through, then I guess you should feel the right to press some legal pressure on him.

If they're going to justify and defend his actions, are these people you want to associate with anyways? It depends on how strong you uphold your ideologies, but I for one wouldn't care to associate with those with those who will defend such action. If the family breaks because a few people allow thieves among them, then is there really a problem?

[Argettio]

To the people saying he should press charges, I'd like to agree but you're missing the whole family aspect. The nephew might be a bad egg, but can you imagine what kind of tension that brings down on a family? Suddenly you're suing your brother's nephew and you have your sister or mother trying to talk you out of it. Your brother is angry and wont speak to you. Your father is asking you why the fuck you're doing this. Going after the one bad egg might completely crumble the entire relationship with the rest of the family.

If this was a true story, you should definitely confront the guy's parents first. Even if he's 25, it's still a family matter first. You deal with it through the family and show just what he did. If that falls through, then I guess you should feel the right to press some legal pressure on him.

I would approach them to tell them what he did and to tell them what you plan to do (press charges).

They have a few choices,
*They can support you (all ends 'well')
*They can support their son (gogo family drama)
*They can take some middle ground (no one knows what's going on. every one is on edge)

They are bound to support their son to a point (after all they are his parents), but you need to tell them before you call the cops on their son and give them at least a chance to try and make it right.

Although he is 25, he shouldn't (and you shouldn't) rely on his parents to sort it all.