Griefers can remove expensive things????

[Decker Darkthief]

A few days ago we had a griefer running around our property.

A couple days later my pirate ship with all items on board vanished including my Intan 41 dance controller and my NHC TV media receiver and all furniture too. Also most the work on an aircraft I was working on.

The weasel left a single prim belonging to him on the ocean floor.
So, we cannot leave expensive items on our land? How is this even possible. Nothing was returned to lost and found..or anywhere in my inventory..
Is there anything that can be done? The loss was very expensive.

Any help would be greatly appreciated..

Decker Darkthief

[Gabby Pixelbottom]

Unless there is some exploit I am unaware of I think it is very unlikely a griefer was able to take your items. More likely it was returned for some unknown reason, if so it may be part of a coallesed object so it may not be named what you expect. It is also possible that perhaps someone that has permission to edit your objects took it or if it happened to have been shared with a group, then any group member may have taken it.

[Theresa Tennyson]

If your things had been in place for some time before they vanished you should ask to have your sim rolled back to a time when they were still there. There are times when a sim can be so flooded with excess prims that existing objects can disappear. They SHOULD be returned but it can take a while sometimes.  The griefer may or may not have had anything to do with the sim getting overloaded but you should put in an abuse report on the griefer's prim so someone can take a look at any scripts in it.

[Boo Chant]

well bc these tools use a veiwer to steal an copybott stuff.. I havd the same thing happen to me..Took my land rights, all my stuff.. I lose 50K in stuff.. I feel ya

[Decker Darkthief]

You rock..thanks. I did find a cluster with a wierd name and had a pirate ship and aircraft parts! Even tho all in my living room..but now safe once I clean it all up. Yay! Thanks again.

[Gabby Pixelbottom]

That's great news! I'm glad I could help.

[BLUExANGEL]

I'm not sure how often it happens in SL but in every other virtual/ social world I've played in hacking was a big issue. If I were you, I would change my password right away just to be safe.

[BLUExANGEL]

Definatly sounds like the work of a hacker. Change your password, and always check the URL in your address bar before logging in. It should always say secondlife.com when you're logging in otherwise don't don't do it.

[Dillon Levenque]

Great that you found your stuff. And in spite of the fact it seemingly decided to vanish into an oddly named box for no good reason, the story is kind of SL funny. Someone says, "Dude. You have a pirate ship and an airplane factory in your living room!". You say, "Yeah? What's your point?".

[Amethyst Jetaime]

Your account was hacked. LL consideres this a serious matter and will take immediate action.

What to do

• Change your password immediately to something secure and unique
• On the Second LIfe Help page page, click the Contact Support link on the right.
• On the next page, click Submit a a Support Case form.
• Under What type of problem are you having?, select Account Issue. A second dropdown appears.
• Under Account Issue, select I believe my account has been compromised.
• Fill in the rest of the fields as directed.
• Click Submit.
• Check your email for your case number.
• Call the fraud number: 800-860-6990 .

Once you do this, Linden Lab will place your account on hold and investigate the relevant transactions. This may take a few days. Once they have concluded the investigation, They'll send you an email explaining thier conclusion and the action we will take. Note that all transactions involving Linden dollars are subject to Linden Lab's Terms of Service.

[Fabiano Dover]

definatly work of hackers?

finding cluthered stuff in your inventory we normally call SL ... thousends of people shared that wonderful experience.

please, let's keep it a little positive, just griefing is bad enough, hacking is a total different level of crime, and this most likely has nothing to do with one of both.

[Dilbert Dilweg]

Kind of sounds like to me the griefer dropped a spoofing object that spoofed your name and you are not on mainland and the private region owner returned all your things to stop the spoofing spam to everyone on the region...

 

Not sure if this was mainland or private land. But thats what it may be....

[Porky Gorky]

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Theresa Tennyson wrote:

There are times when a sim can be so flooded with excess prims that existing objects can disappear. They SHOULD be returned but it can take a while sometimes.  

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Just to add, I have seen this happen lots of times, mainly when prefab demo vendors mess up and they start rezzing demo's on top of each without deleting the previous one. In an instant I can go 1000 prims over my prim allocation and start seeing items returned. Every time this has happened it has been the last objects rezzed that were the first returned. Any objects in place before I exceeded the prim allowance have always remained in place.

So I think it very unlikely that the op's items were returned due to exceeding the prim allowance.

[Theresa Tennyson]

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Porky Gorky wrote:

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Theresa Tennyson wrote:

There are times when a sim can be so flooded with excess prims that existing objects can disappear. They SHOULD be returned but it can take a while sometimes.  

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Just to add, I have seen this happen lots of times, mainly when prefab demo vendors mess up and they start rezzing demo's on top of each without deleting the previous one. In an instant I can go 1000 prims over my prim allocation and start seeing items returned. Every time this has happened it has been the last objects rezzed that were the first returned. Any objects in place before I exceeded the prim allowance have always remained in place.

So I think it very unlikely that the op's items were returned due to exceeding the prim allowance.

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My comment was based on personal experience. I've had objects returned to me because of things that happened on a neigbors lot, and they were things that were in place for months.

[Porky Gorky]

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Theresa Tennyson wrote:

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My comment was based on personal experience. I've had objects returned to me because of things that happened on a neigbors lot, and they were things that were in place for months.

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Ah yes I had not considered that. I was thinking on a plot level rather than a region level. I am not sure what order objects are returned if the region prim cap is reached.

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