At one point, a scammer scammed one of my friends, they took their ice dragon wings and sedge hat. I felt so bad, my friend was really sad. So when they found the scammer, I made a plan to scam the items back. But I was too nice for that and realized it was a bad idea, to be fair, I lightly undertraded, but I lost an item I really liked and spent a whole lot of sapphires getting it back. I got my friend the items back, and gave the items to them- I’m not going to mention the full story, but I had a falling out with that friend and we aren’t friends anymore, I don’t feel all that bad about losing that item for them. I still helped someone I suppose.

I remember I tried to scam a new jammer but I felt bad so Instead I gave them half my inventory 😂

I remember being accused of being a scammer once in a giveaway because I wasn’t moving enough. I remember all the death threats I got on my fandom wall and having alts coming to my den with my username and different numbers just sending angry faces. It haunted me for days and i even apologised even though it wasn’t even my doing. Make awareness posts but sending harassment towards others is horrible especially when they get wrongly accused

I used to be a scammer, it was a way for me to outlet my emotions onto other people, and get a sense of satisfaction.

If its the same person, im 99% sure ive talked to the animal jam seller, shes actually rlly sweet and trying to just take care of and raise her kids, i sold everything i owned of value to her at a huge discount to quit and to help her <3 shes such a sweetheart, i was SURPRISED to hear you talk about her

I honestly do not mind children scamming. But the adults and teens scamming for content and for fun? That’s outrageous 😡

scamming sure, but NOT bullying, you never grow out of bullying someone and i have ptsd to show for it

As someone who had a rich history of scamming back in 2012-2016 (I was unfortunately infamous for it) harassment only made me do it more for an ego boost. The harassment would really upset me and when i started playing aj i had just moved to a new suburb where i knew no one that i could talk to, I would scam to make myself feel better. i was also awful to those i would scam, I would bully them and laugh at the fact they fell for a scam. I in fact have not even thought about scamming anyone since 2016 as my old account (I am not giving the user as I no longer want to  be associated with scamming ever again) got banned.

Getting banned is what actually made me realise what a terrible person I was at the time. I have grown so much as a person since then on aj and off aj. A lot of people surprisingly refer to me as one of the nicest people they have ever met and i will never take advantage of that.  

I might end up making a full story about it on my channel eventually but if you are currently a scammer, there are so many other ways to get rare if you don't have the time or patience to trade for items. A big way to do it is to enter in to giveaways! Personally I restarted over on a fresh account a year ago where i got rare off of art/masterpiece commissions.

“Animal Jam is notoriously known for having scammers”

So is Adopt Me, sadly.

This video is incredible! Its really well put together and it has really good points in it, im so glad you made it! Scamming and scammers are awfully but its totally wrong to go out of your way to threaten them and dox them. Ty for making this, stay safe sam!

As the oldest in my family suffering from a lot of depression and lack of attention/friends ddue to being the autistic weirdo who cant fit in i turned to shoplfting and became somewhat of a kleptomaniac, hating myself for it.i ended up falling  in deep and the only way to get myself out of genuine trouble was to turn to animal jam scamming. I have become better and since i went out of my way to look through every screen recorded footage of me scamming, find every victims user and return every item or what i traded for that item. If any of the users had quit i would give their items to new players. Im better now but i still regret it every day.

We all where scammers some days but we changed over time and became a legend❤

When I look up my original accounts username, 2 videos come up from ‘scammer hunters’ recording me.

Both from 12 years ago.

Kinda crazy seeing a video of me playing a game still existing long after I practically stopped playing, immortalized on the internet.

I used to be a scammer, I’m pretty sure it’s cause I got scammed once or twice. It was before I got some real friends, which now I realize you’ll get a lot more friends if you give stuff instead of take. I stopped scamming and just started gifting my friends and stuff and now I have a full list and my buds gift me all the time 😅

I use to be a scammer, really bad one and at first I swore to never do it until people kept doing it to me and somehow I thought it would be right to do it back to people in the community, which isn’t right at all. After that it just became more of an addiction something that that gave me a satisfaction and it was truly looking back at it years later an awful mindset

Personally, I can’t see animal jam scammers the same way as telemarketers, because one is getting virtual accessories out of people, and the other is getting real money. I understand that it’s difficult to get a job, but making a living from leeching off other people and even losing them a significant amount of money is not something I can sympathize with. Especially considering the people who fall for these kinds of phone scams are either desperate or naive. They could even be financially struggling themselves.

This video couldn’t have relayed the behavior of scammers & hackers any better. As often as it may occur, there is always a trigger to poor decision-making. Whether that would be for survival purposes or simply because the scammer/hacker is numb/void of any emotions. Personally, I believe people do these terrible deeds as a way to harm themselves without openly saying so. It is unfortunate but true. Thank you for making this video, Sam.

If there is a crucial takeaway from this video, if you are a hacker or scammer, do not use mental health as an excuse when backed into a corner. Because there are so many scammers and hackers, I can only imagine the consequences many of them endure when stuck in a place of bad health. Bad health is not an excuse to do bad things. 💕🦦

16:34 Galastorm, thats me!! Well, was me..

Years ago, I was in a horrible state as a child and took to scamming/hacking others, I was going through a rough abuse situation with zero internet restrictions and used the game to make others feel bad so I can feel better about myself, even going so far as to pretending to like and flirt with someone to gain their trust and hack them, years later I'm a teenager now, almost 18, diagnosed with PTSD and other stuff that helped my therapist management my emotions, I regret what I did when I was younger, and I got some karma too because I can no longer access the account with my items

7:22 I used to do that, I would bully kids in my school usually 5 - 11 I would push little kids and make fun (not just make fun, straight up tormenting them)of older kids because I was slowly going mad because of neglect, trying to commit..you know what. I’m still as messed up. But I’m trying to become a better person, but my health is slowly deteriorating.