My bad for being late with this, had family over during a school break and I've just gotten finished with all that. Should be returning to weekly news again if all goes well. Anyways, todays issue will be heavily focusing on the recent staff drama over the past 4 days, featuring a new staff role, two resignations, and most important of all, an active staff member exit scamming and being demoted. The last of those will likely be featured in the next few issues as well as I continue to gain information. Let's begin!
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Now, what you've all been waiting for. This is likely the biggest drama I've seen on the site since I registered in late 2018, and definitely the biggest scam-related or staff-related drama.
For those who do not know what happened (which is very reasonable as it hasn't been even 24 hours since the situation was made public), Harrison was a moderator of MC-Market. He was hired on October 16th of 2018. Completely by coincidence, he was banned on his 1 year anniversary of staffing for exit scamming through loans.
Harrison scammed a total of at least $2342.52 from users. 16+ users have claimed to have been scammed, but out of them, it appears only 11 of these claims are credible (so far). The known affected users are Smart (lost 650 USD), Pranium (lost 400 GBP), 2020 (lost 220 USD), Tofty (lost 200 USD [on a side note, Tofty gifted Harrison Premium rank.]), Etika (lost 200 USD), tylerisjewish (lost 185 USD), Scroll32 (lost 110 GBP), Dr Paradox (lost 90 USD), Overtime (50 GBP), Banned (lost 50 USD), and Crimvael (20 USD).
Staff have been very vocal about their distaste of Harrison's scamming out, their intentions on reporting him to law enforcement, the lack of signs that Harrison would ever demonstrate this behavior, the recent suspicions of a potential scam, and more. However, they have been very careful to ensure that no personal information of his is leaked on the site.
Interestingly, Harrison claimed (over Discord) that he had been compromised recently. This doesn't explain why he did not contact staff through Discord or another platform, nor how the hacker was able to bypass the 2FA on the site. SIM swapping has been speculated, but nothing is confirmed.
For those who do not know what happened (which is very reasonable as it hasn't been even 24 hours since the situation was made public), Harrison was a moderator of MC-Market. He was hired on October 16th of 2018. Completely by coincidence, he was banned on his 1 year anniversary of staffing for exit scamming through loans.
Harrison scammed a total of at least $2342.52 from users. 16+ users have claimed to have been scammed, but out of them, it appears only 11 of these claims are credible (so far). The known affected users are Smart (lost 650 USD), Pranium (lost 400 GBP), 2020 (lost 220 USD), Tofty (lost 200 USD [on a side note, Tofty gifted Harrison Premium rank.]), Etika (lost 200 USD), tylerisjewish (lost 185 USD), Scroll32 (lost 110 GBP), Dr Paradox (lost 90 USD), Overtime (50 GBP), Banned (lost 50 USD), and Crimvael (20 USD).
Staff have been very vocal about their distaste of Harrison's scamming out, their intentions on reporting him to law enforcement, the lack of signs that Harrison would ever demonstrate this behavior, the recent suspicions of a potential scam, and more. However, they have been very careful to ensure that no personal information of his is leaked on the site.
Interestingly, Harrison claimed (over Discord) that he had been compromised recently. This doesn't explain why he did not contact staff through Discord or another platform, nor how the hacker was able to bypass the 2FA on the site. SIM swapping has been speculated, but nothing is confirmed.
Fortunately, this week has been rather slow on bans. The only significant bans were those of Deleted User 22325, an inactive Java developer, and Jacksan, an inactive account seller, both of which were compromised.
OGs: 6f (massi), Volt (Cottage), Swim (yangsquared), Most (Ghosted), Ho (gorman), Nova (Aether), G0 (Scholar), Optifine (Monkey, sold), How (Scholar, sold), Sugar (jurhe d), ign (Koll), Miami (DaquanSells)
Semis: Dams (Smart), Soars (cute), Prays (dimple), Piracy (Piracy), Scoped (SUPAH)
Capes: jonkplap72 (2016 + 2015, dib), smanh (2012, Scholar),
Ranks: Engravings (Mirlxd), *** (SHINTO), WhiteSugar (asa),
Semis: Dams (Smart), Soars (cute), Prays (dimple), Piracy (Piracy), Scoped (SUPAH)
Capes: jonkplap72 (2016 + 2015, dib), smanh (2012, Scholar),
Ranks: Engravings (Mirlxd), *** (SHINTO), WhiteSugar (asa),
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