[quote name='Tsukento']Basically, the guy selling the account was scammed because the kid withdrew the transaction and had the password info for the character. The seller threatened the kid that if he touched any item, he would take action. He took action by getting his account back and taking the money. While he did pretty much take the kid's money, I don't think that's really scamming. I'd say it's called teaching a kid a hard-learned lesson in not stealing your own parent's money for your own stupid shit.
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So... as long as you CATCH the scammer before you get scammed at all, you can freely take kids mom's money AND keep the account while being able to be justified for stealing their money, thus becoming a scammer in his own right?
Now that kid tried to pull a stunt but he was probably just a little kid, you don't remember doing stuff like that? Surely not to the same degree, but I think all of us at least stole something from somewhere before as kids. He would have learned his lesson if the guy called the house to give that kid a real lasting lesson of honor, or even from the fear of the situation alone. That would have been pretty funny to see. Now if the guy let the kid have the WoW character, that's a whole new arguement here. I assume he kept the character, though.
That guy stole that money, so I can't really respect the guy who steals from a kid's mom. If it were the actual guys account? Sure, still wrong, but less immoral. However, he just stole from an innocent (a mother) just because her son went into his mom's account and acted like a stupid dick on AIM. The dude caught him, just report him and let his mom know and let that be that.
Anyway, this is taking it way too seriously but the point still remains, the man who 'busted' the kid for "scamming" ended up becoming the scammer himself and I just don't like that type of behavior