Do you ever have one of those moments where you ask your self "What in the bloody hell did I just do?"I had one of those moments about an hour ago. I will try to keep the description general enough so that non WoW players will know what i’m talking about.
I have been playing Wow for a several months now. I had the habit of getting into random conversations with people, some of whom were later added to my friends list. A few months back, I wound up talking to this one girl and every now and then said “hi”. I ran into her again a week or so ago. We chatted a bit, dropping the occasional personal anecdote, and jokes. Now, I am a level 60 warlock. I cannot attain higher level right now because I don’t have the burning crusades expansion. Since I don’t have much going on with that toon on account of not being able to level, I offered to help her level. She is at level 35.
So for the past week we have been running around, having a fun ol’ time and she comments that if I keep helping her, she will catch up to me. I replied by saying " I’m sure you will. I can’t level any higher" after explaining to her that i can’t splurge on much these days, She offers to buy me a copy of BC and mail it to me.
Now, my mind starts to attack this. Is this a trick? Is she into me and is trying to make a gesture of trust? Has this person misrepresented herself? What the deuce?! I then figure “well, she has never said anything shady in the past. I offered to help her, she didn’t ask for me to pal around with her to try and ‘win my trust’ like a scam artist would.”
And this is the point where my lapse in good judgment was made. I managed to convince myself that I was just being paranoid and that she was just a nice girl who is really cool. So, despite my gut telling me something doesn’t smell right, I gave her my addy… with a fake last name, for what good measure I can’t seem to remember now :smack:
She then says she must get up for work tomorrow, cya and logs off. That is when the sinking feeling in my gut began, and I started to reexamined what had just happened, and what might happen…
So how much hot water could I have potentially got myself into? this is really not something that I would normally do… I could chalk it up to not enough sleep I suppose. Anyway, it was a total Beavis moment and now I’m thinking damage control
I played FFXI, and I had tons of online friends who would do something similar. If anything, it sounds like she has a virtual crush on you. I’d relax and enjoy your package.
I agree, doesn’t sound like too much. You can get someone’s address with their IP these days, anyway, if you really want. Not like you gave her CC info or any ability to access any of your money. The worst she could do is send you drugs in the mail
That’s a pretty minimal slip. If there’s no correct personal information, then she hasn’t learned anything she couldn’t by randomly selecting addresses on a map anyway.
Yeah, like some others have said, it’s quite possible she’s on the level. Now please don’t disappear and leave us hanging as to whether the package arrived!
Maybe I’m also naive, but I’d assume s/he just enjoys your company and wants to keep leveling with you once she hits 60. I’ve had a couple of good questing buddies like that, one of whom also happened to be female (her husband also played and we’d often make it a 3 some).
I tend to agree that it’s no threat. Despite the horror stories, most people who play WOW are not scammers and gold farmers. Most are obsessive and often friendly geeks who want to share their obsession with others.
Don’t worry - I have made a number of friends in game [EQ, WOW and EVE Online] and have mailed off packages to them. Usually it is because we have compared candy/junk foods, so we agree to exchange packages of our favorite junk foods. So far I have traded potato chips and candy with a brit, sent a housewarming gift of tervis insulated tumblers to another brit, and innumerable packages of maple candy to assorted germans, french, brits, aussies, romanians and a russian =) I have gotten bitters, mugs, shot glasses, chips and candy, and a matrushka =)
All of the most likely explanations I can come up with boil down to “she’s friendly”. The only questions are precisely how friendly, and how you want to respond to that, but that will become clear in due course.
But all you really have now is “You were nice to someone online, and she’s being nice to you now”. That’s nothing to worry about; people being nice to each other is how the world is supposed to work.
