Speaking of crime stopping, a word of advice... Don't let your fellow soccer addicts freebase the sideline chalk.
Actually, I would hope that it would not be... otherwise, that would be an avenue for cheating where the intended beneficiary would remain hidden behind the scenes.
Good point. Actually, I think someone found a cheater using this method a few weeks ago. Not sure if its in this thread or not. I'll check with the friendly, neighborhood GM and make sure.
Was looking for a decent player and was heavily involved in a bidding war, which I lost and TATA! I found myself with a ring of cheaters who have been reported. They're from Argentina though. 273888 643440 641433 221490 33081 541701 538848 538502 539263
Can you guys take a look at this club (Club Aldosivi de Miami) and his last four sells. Digging a little deeper I looked at the last five logins of the club who bought the players and the owner in question. All logins seems to originate from the same beginning IP and roughly the same time of day. I am new to this but just want to confirm I think this owner is padding his bank with a second team that was just created a week or so ago. This team is in my division, although rated #8, and I need all the help I can get. If you guys agree, what should I do?
If things seem questionable report him. I haven't checked the team yet, but that is what the GM's are for. Let them sort it out. If there is no cheating, no action will be taken.
I don't think S.M.F. is a cheater in my league but he had to go bankrupt by now. Too bad I play him next week.
So I was checking out transfer compare on a player I TL'ed for $150k. The vast majority of the similar players had TSI's of ~1000 and sold for $70-150k, except for one that had a TSI of 770 and sold for $300k. Well that struck me as odd, so I dug deeper. The team that sold him, regavim (340625), is from Israel. Well I wasn't going to hold that against him, but I couldn't help but notice that his last 14 transfers were with the same team. Well that stinks more than gefilte fish. This other team, lioness (152059), is another team from Israel whose transfers dealings have been solely with regavim. Well, these schmucks aren't that smart are they? Surely Jewish people are more clever than that. Not only are their transfer dealings blatantly illegal, they're signing on from the same PC. Looks like their shtick is up. P.S. just noticed their aliases are: regev iamregev Fvckin' Idiots
For some reason I'm getting SQL errors trying to submit this report so I'll just post it here for safe keeping. If anyone else wants to try to submit it, go for it! Team IDs: 331436 - C.A Lucho 495511 - C.A.Diablos Rojos 444250 - C.A FuMaNcHeRoS 326013 - C.A.Manchester Munro These teams all appear to be run by the same guy, who isn't even smart enough to somewhat change the names. They all log in from 200.127.***.*** and there are several transactions of plus 100K for guys with less than 100 TSI.
Tried submitting as well and got a "500" error. Tell me what kind of error you got in case it isn't just you.
I just submitted it fine with no problems. And just to nitpick, C.A. stands for Club Athlitica (I believe), so saying he made no effort to change teh name is like saying D.C. United, Manchester United, Colechester United, Sydney United, and PB United all have the same name.
Yeah so I stumbled across these well synchronized teams. Kimberley Athletic Club (222132) 4/1/2005 at 18.47 from 201.248.***.*** 3/27/2005 at 16.45 from 200.11.***.*** 3/25/2005 at 21.55 from 201.248.***.*** 3/21/2005 at 16.02 from 200.11.***.*** 3/18/2005 at 16.12 from 200.11.***.*** Argentinos Jrs• (709279) 4/1/2005 at 18.03 from 200.11.***.*** 3/27/2005 at 16.32 from 200.11.***.*** 3/25/2005 at 22.15 from 201.248.***.*** 3/24/2005 at 23.18 from 201.248.***.*** 3/21/2005 at 15.12 from 200.11.***.*** Club Atletico Castoro (499556) 4/1/2005 at 17.43 from 200.11.***.*** 3/27/2005 at 16.12 from 200.11.***.*** 3/25/2005 at 22.32 from 201.248.***.*** 3/24/2005 at 22.06 from 201.248.***.*** 3/19/2005 at 19.06 from 200.11.***.*** Virreyes Utd. (446303) 4/1/2005 at 18.29 from 201.248.***.*** 3/27/2005 at 16.21 from 200.11.***.*** 3/25/2005 at 22.46 from 201.248.***.*** 3/24/2005 at 22.48 from 201.248.***.*** 3/24/2005 at 22.36 from 201.248.***.*** It's amazing how all 4 teams log on as teams from 3 different nations on 2 IP addresses all within an hour of each other. And oh by the way, Argentinos is El Salvador's top team.
kimberly is the punk in my series. also notable is that one of his alias's is 'oliver' and another of his teams arena names is 'olivers field'. not to mention the dozen or so transfers between all the teams. so frustrating!
A quick word of advice nickfox. We have two GMs and a mod who are registered on this forum (and one who hangs out here regulalry). It is usually better to gripe about cheating accusations here than on hattrick; if you do it on hattrick you risk being fined/banned. The Mods/GMs are all volunteer, hold other jobs/go to school, and can't do hattrick 24/7. It takes time to verify cheating accusations, and I for one am glad that they seem to do things thoroughly as I would hate for someone to be kicked out of hattrick by mistake. Have patience, and trust in the GMs. They're pretty good people, except for the ones that root for the Wiz.
will do, its nice to have another place to bitch, theres so many rules on the freakin confs it seems. what exactly is the penalty for being fined? do they just take a certain % of your cash, or it is user specific?
If I'm not mistaken, it's just a set amount. I may have been fined once, twice, three times a lady in the past.
I don't know exactly, but I remember that one time a guy that sent me a transfer ad in an ht-mail got a 50,000 fine. I don't know how much that differs from the conference fines though.