Public Enemies CO - Scam Corporation
I scouted around a bit for a new victim. A mining corporation called Public Enemies CO looked promising. I put in an application, was accepted, as usual, without question, and moved to their home base in Gyerzen, an isolated lowsec system in Tash Murkon.
It became immediately apparent that Public Enemies CO was a scam corporation. They were running the old Slave Plantation Scam.
Now, far be it from me to judge anyone for being a scammer in EVE. My longtime readers know that there is almost no low to which I will not stoop in this game. But there are a handful of scams that even I balk at, and this is one of them. You have to be a cold, ruthless bastard to run the Slave Plantation Scam, although it has always been a very common one in EVE.
The way it works is this. The scammers who run this one are generally miner/industrialists, who have advanced in their career path to the point where they are producing big, expensive things. Like all serious miner/industrialists, they have spent long hours poring over spreadsheets, trying to figure out how to squeeze a little bigger profit margin from their production runs.
They have struggled with the reality that they cannot possibly mine enough ore themselves to make a real dent in what they need, and that buying materials reduces their margins to near nothing, and involves a lot of painful logistics to boot.
Then one day they had an epiphany - what if they created a mining corporation, recruited 50 miners, and required them to mine 4 hours/week “for the corporation” and drop the ore off at the exact location where it is needed. They crunched the numbers in their spreadsheets, and cash register noises started going off in their heads.
Public Enemies CO is such a scam corporation. They recruit gullible newbies, lure them back to their little industrial enclave, and trick them into thinking that it is right and normal that a corporation requires them to spent a significant portion of their play time mining “for the corporation”, receiving nothing in return.
Public Enemies CO is still aggressively recruiting - so newbies be warned.
Anyway, since they lived in lowsec I held off on dropping a wardec, for fear of tipping them off, and began farming them for kills, along with their blues in the Lost and Clowned alliance. It was a simple matter of using my spy alt to locate targets, then providing warp-ins for Syeed to quickly reach their location and kill them.
Finally getting kills
I ended my 2 year dry spell on Mischief Night, October 30, when I killed a Lost and Clowned Coveter, then a Public Enemies CO Tayra, with my Daredevil.
The next day, another Coveter slipped away from me, but I hung around, and the pilot came back in a Stabber to try to get his revenge, so I killed that too.
The bloodlust came over me. Public Enemies & Lost and Clowned were not providing enough kills to satisfy me, so I dropped a couple wardecs on corporations I had seen in the area. One of them immediately sent me a 450 million isk surrender offer, which I graciously accepted.
[ 2018.10.31 14:49:24 ] Santa Komandoo > Syeed Ameer Ali in local
[ 2018.10.31 14:49:49 ] Santa Komandoo > i thought u were getting ganked
[ 2018.10.31 14:50:11 ] Meklend Sharp > in what i fly he can try
[ 2018.10.31 14:54:32 ] HEXFORD > just warp out
[ 2018.10.31 14:54:54 ] Meklend Sharp > na i got some one to help me out i gave all my loot up to them
[ 2018.10.31 14:56:03 ] Syeed Ameer Ali > o/
[ 2018.10.31 14:56:15 ] Syeed Ameer Ali > am i famous or something?
[ 2018.10.31 14:56:28 ] Syeed Ameer Ali > do you guys...do you want an autograph?
[ 2018.10.31 14:56:37 ] HEXFORD > who the fuck is Syeed Ameer Ali
[ 2018.10.31 14:57:25 ] Syeed Ameer Ali > HEXFORD that's what i want to know!
[ 2018.10.31 14:58:32 ] Meklend Sharp > idc he never did nothing to me i do my thing he duz his we r cool no trubble hear
[ 2018.10.31 15:00:59 ] HEXFORD > Meklend Sharp maybe he's the same as that idiot OCCANGER
[ 2018.10.31 15:01:05 ] Syeed Ameer Ali > Meklend Sharp THE FUCK? THOSE ARE FIGHTING WORDS
[ 2018.10.31 15:01:39 ] Meklend Sharp > and how so
[ 2018.10.31 15:01:56 ] Meklend Sharp > did u really just fucking war deck me
[ 2018.10.31 15:02:08 ] Meklend Sharp > over me being chill with u
[ 2018.10.31 15:02:23 ] Syeed Ameer Ali > :D
[ 2018.10.31 15:02:39 ] Meklend Sharp > Syeed Ameer Ali u got it get ready for a fight
[ 2018.10.31 15:02:53 ] Syeed Ameer Ali > will do
[ 2018.10.31 15:03:30 ] Meklend Sharp > i try and be nice to some one and they bring war on me only in eve
[ 2018.10.31 15:03:59 ] Syeed Ameer Ali > haha yeah
[ 2018.10.31 15:04:12 ] Syeed Ameer Ali > the way she goes
[ 2018.10.31 15:04:20 ] Meklend Sharp > i hope u know what u r doing
[ 2018.10.31 15:04:36 ] Syeed Ameer Ali > tell you what, you can pay me and i'll drop the wardec
[ 2018.10.31 15:04:48 ] HEXFORD > Syeed Ameer Ali surrender now IMHO
[ 2018.10.31 15:05:01 ] Meklend Sharp > see thsi every one i tryed to be nice and got war decked what a shame
[ 2018.10.31 15:05:14 ] Syeed Ameer Ali > HEXFORD you want in on this?
[ 2018.10.31 15:05:17 ] HEXFORD > Meklend Sharp he is nuts
[ 2018.10.31 15:05:29 ] Meklend Sharp > i dont know if we can fight back o well time to dock up now
[ 2018.10.31 15:05:57 ] Syeed Ameer Ali > Meklend Sharp i'm just one person, you can fight me if you want
[ 2018.10.31 15:06:07 ] Syeed Ameer Ali > i'm not even that good
[ 2018.10.31 15:06:45 ] Syeed Ameer Ali > you have 24 hours to think about it anyway
[ 2018.10.31 15:07:24 ] Syeed Ameer Ali > i mostly just fly a merlin
[ 2018.10.31 15:07:59 ] Syeed Ameer Ali > no reason to panic
[ 2018.10.31 15:08:24 ] Meklend Sharp > i know how this works
[ 2018.10.31 15:09:45 ] Syeed Ameer Ali > at least one of us does then!
[ 2018.10.31 15:09:56 ] Syeed Ameer Ali > tell me how it works
[ 2018.10.31 15:10:26 ] Syeed Ameer Ali > i've been on a break from eve for a few years, i can barely remember how to play
[ 2018.10.31 15:11:24 ] Meklend Sharp > then y r u war decking me
[ 2018.10.31 15:11:40 ] Meklend Sharp > all u got to is talk to me
[ 2018.10.31 15:11:49 ] Meklend Sharp > wars r dumb
[ 2018.10.31 15:12:00 ] Syeed Ameer Ali > seems like a good way to get back in the game with a good old fashioned war
[ 2018.10.31 15:12:27 ] Syeed Ameer Ali > plus i think i can get you to pay me to stop
[ 2018.10.31 15:12:39 ] HEXFORD > roflmfoa
[ 2018.10.31 15:12:52 ] Meklend Sharp > i got a few friends that u could just go stay with in null for all this so u dont wast isk
[ 2018.10.31 15:12:56 ] Syeed Ameer Ali > my merlin may be small, but she is mighty
[ 2018.10.31 15:13:18 ] Meklend Sharp > stop this please
[ 2018.10.31 15:13:36 ] Meklend Sharp > ill give u back the isk u payed for the war
[ 2018.10.31 15:14:38 ] Syeed Ameer Ali > nice, plus a 200 mil profit
[ 2018.10.31 15:14:49 ] Syeed Ameer Ali > pleasure doing business with you sir
[ 2018.10.31 15:15:15 ] Syeed Ameer Ali > now lets see what other corporations are in local...
[ 2018.10.31 15:15:37 ] Meklend Sharp > ill do what it talks for my people
[ 2018.10.31 15:15:47 ] Meklend Sharp > tAKES NOT TALK
[ 2018.10.31 15:16:03 ] Syeed Ameer Ali > and another 200 mil! i love you Meklend Sharp
[ 2018.10.31 15:16:24 ] Meklend Sharp > u got me all nerve wrecked
[ 2018.10.31 15:16:47 ] Syeed Ameer Ali > ;D all in good fun my friend
[ 2018.10.31 15:16:57 ] Meklend Sharp > not for my people
[ 2018.10.31 15:17:05 ] Meklend Sharp > but yes all in good fun
[ 2018.10.31 15:24:25 ] Syeed Ameer Ali > Meklend Sharp you financed my next wardec, much appreciated
[ 2018.10.31 15:26:00 ] Meklend Sharp > that was not what i ment to do :""{
The old failed anti-ganker alliance, Defenders of Eve, yielded a couple Ventures and a Procurer, although they then immediately dropped to alt corps, in a most cowardly fashion, to avoid facing me. An ally of theirs, who had joined the war, tried to “bait” me to an ice anomaly with a Drake, then de-cloaked a Falcon on me. I killed the Drake, but the Falcon got away.
While I was at it, I reverse AWOXed a Gila, and did a bit of lowsec roaming too.
For a few days, I became the terror of Tash Murkon. All the carebear intel channels I monitor would light up with warning in a most satisfying fashion, everywhere I went. This was the good old EVE I remembered.
Cashing out
Every day I spent in the despicable scam corporation, Public Enemies CO, made my skin crawl more and more. They had yielded a few kills, and would certainly yield more, given time, but I knew I couldn’t stick around long.
Sooner or later they were going to ask why I hadn’t filled my ore quotas. There was no way I was mining 4 hours for those greasy bastards. Not going to happen. They even ripped me off. Me, Syeed Ameer Ali, who wrote the book on EVE scams. When I tipped them off to a valuable Mordus rat in a belt, they gave me only a 5 million isk “finders fee” - splitting the 800 million value of the loot between the CEO and his cronies.
I was trying to think of how I might hit them hardest without wasting any more time. I was thinking I might do the old “I need help with this PVE site, please bring an expensive battleship and warp to me” trick. The way this works is I would wait at a safe in a Drake or something, get them to warp to me, get tackle, then jump Syeed into Gyerzen in some PVE-battleship killing fit, warp in and finish the job.
However, before that could happen, I saw my out and took it. A war target of Public Enemies CO had appeared in neighboring Dabrid, and they all headed over there to fight him. My spy alt followed after, in a tackle Slasher. By the time he got there, the action was all over and one of the Lost and Clowned guys had managed to get himself CONCORDed in his Kronos, dropping 2 billion isk worth of loot. I helpfully volunteered to loot the wreck for him, and never looked back.
https://zkillboard.com/kill/73381976/
[ 2018.11.04 21:52:57 ] Katie Noban > Emiya Kado he is in dabrid, you will concorded if you aggress
[ 2018.11.04 21:53:04 ] Emiya Kado > understood
[ 2018.11.04 21:53:05 ] DaMago Mayaki > no he is wt
[ 2018.11.04 21:53:06 ] DaMago Mayaki > come
[ 2018.11.04 21:53:22 ] DaMago Mayaki > ive got him
[ 2018.11.04 21:53:39 ] Emiya Kado > ive locked him
[ 2018.11.04 21:54:17 ] Emiya Kado > fucking fuck me
[ 2018.11.04 21:54:22 ] Katie Noban > wut
[ 2018.11.04 21:54:32 ] Emiya Kado > i had him locked and was waiting
[ 2018.11.04 21:54:34 ] Katie Noban > how did that happen?
[ 2018.11.04 21:54:42 ] Emiya Kado > and my fucking cat jumped up on my keybaord
[ 2018.11.04 21:54:48 ] DaMago Mayaki > srs¨
[ 2018.11.04 21:54:50 ] Emiya Kado > so now ive lost my maurauder
[ 2018.11.04 21:54:53 ] Emiya Kado > wonderufl
[ 2018.11.04 21:54:59 ] Katie Noban > dammn
[ 2018.11.04 21:55:06 ] Emiya Kado > goes 3b
[ 2018.11.04 21:55:16 ] Spy Alt > i'll get your loot for you
[ 2018.11.04 21:55:23 ] FuzzyBunny Knutz > time to get rid of the cat..
[ 2018.11.04 21:55:58 ] Emiya Kado > im... upset to say tyhe least
[ 2018.11.04 21:56:07 ] Emiya Kado > i was just jumping in to scare him
[ 2018.11.04 21:56:12 ] Katie Noban > so you got the km of him?
[ 2018.11.04 21:56:32 ] Emiya Kado > 100km
[ 2018.11.04 21:57:04 ] Emiya Kado > if anynone is kind enough to grab whats left of my ship and give it back i would be grateful
[ 2018.11.04 21:57:52 ] FuzzyBunny Knutz > no Killmail
[ 2018.11.04 21:58:18 ] Katie Noban > https://zkillboard.com/kill/73300364/
[ 2018.11.04 21:58:21 ] Spy Alt > i got what i could fit but there's a couple things left in the wreck
[ 2018.11.04 21:58:22 ] Katie Noban > thats the enyo KM
[ 2018.11.04 21:58:33 ] Spy Alt > i got the most expensive stuff
[ 2018.11.04 21:58:48 ] Katie Noban > Spy Alt contract it back to him wherever he wants.
[ 2018.11.04 21:58:55 ] Spy Alt > ok
[ 2018.11.04 21:59:09 ] Katie Noban > ty
[ 2018.11.04 21:59:15 ] Emiya Kado > im in Dabrid V - Moon 1 - Caldari Business Tribunal Accounting
[ 2018.11.04 21:59:26 ] Emiya Kado > if you can get all of it i would be grateful
[ 2018.11.04 21:59:39 ] Spy Alt > i'll get the rest standby
[ 2018.11.04 21:59:56 ] Katie Noban > at least it didnt give them the km at all..only concord...
[ 2018.11.04 22:00:02 ] Katie Noban > but 3.1bil....jesus
[ 2018.11.04 22:00:10 ] Emiya Kado > it as my mission runner
[ 2018.11.04 22:00:12 ] Emiya Kado > was
[ 2018.11.04 22:00:18 ] Emiya Kado > it was how i made all my isk out here
[ 2018.11.04 22:00:55 ] Emiya Kado > im done until i replace it
[ 2018.11.04 22:02:01 ] Katie Noban > damn....that sucks
[ 2018.11.04 22:02:17 ] Emiya Kado > consequences of having a cat i guess...
[ 2018.11.04 22:02:28 ] Emiya Kado > they occasionally blow up 3b isk ships
[ 2018.11.04 22:03:08 ] Katie Noban > didnt you feed him enough today or what? :P
[ 2018.11.04 22:03:35 ] DaMago Mayaki > that's one way to get your attention I guess
[ 2018.11.04 22:03:44 ] DaMago Mayaki > carefull running JFs with that guy around
[ 2018.11.04 22:06:04 ] Emiya Kado > how will i know when my stuff gets contracted back to me?
[ 2018.11.04 22:07:52 ] Emiya Kado > and why didn't my insurance payout some in...
[ 2018.11.04 22:08:30 ] Naja Nigricincta > Emiya Kado had to get a bigger ship to get your stuff, the slasher wasn't cutting it
[ 2018.11.04 22:09:08 ] Emiya Kado > does the insurance not come in when killed by concord
[ 2018.11.04 22:09:31 ] Katie Noban > not sure buddy
[ 2018.11.04 22:15:22 ] Emiya Kado > Spy Alt thank you
[ 2018.11.04 22:15:28 ] Spy Alt > inp
[ 2018.11.04 22:15:30 ] Spy Alt > np
[ 2018.11.04 22:16:00 ] Emiya Kado > i might have to downgrade to a megathron for a while
[ 2018.11.04 22:19:12 ] Emiya Kado > let me know when your ready
[ 2018.11.04 22:22:22 ] Zelt Sasen > Testie logged in Gyerzen IX - Moon 15 - Amarr Navy Testing Facilities
[ 2018.11.04 22:22:27 ] Zelt Sasen > or jc
[ 2018.11.04 22:25:12 ] Katie Noban > Alexander LoboGris Gyerzen
[ 2018.11.04 22:25:29 ] Phillip Aurgnet > Condor
[ 2018.11.04 22:27:55 ] DaMago Mayaki > where is he?
[ 2018.11.04 22:29:41 ] Emiya Kado > Spy Alt you still coming? your not just taking it are you?
[ 2018.11.04 22:29:47 ] Spy Alt > Emiya Kado o/
[ 2018.11.04 22:29:56 ] Spy Alt > on further inspection...
[ 2018.11.04 22:30:14 ] Tross KalSol > lol, don't stress him out, omg
[ 2018.11.04 22:30:24 ] Spy Alt > it appears you did not have a permit to fly that ship in highsec ;D
[ 2018.11.04 22:30:48 ] Spy Alt > i'm afraid i have to confiscate your stuff
[ 2018.11.04 22:31:04 ] Emiya Kado > but you'll cut me a check for 2.1b right?
[ 2018.11.04 22:31:11 ] Spy Alt > mining permits are available for 10 million isk per year
[ 2018.11.04 22:31:16 ] Emiya Kado > otherwise ill legit move out of dabrid
[ 2018.11.04 22:31:24 ] Spy Alt > www.minerbumping.com
[ 2018.11.04 22:31:37 ] Tross KalSol > I thought it was 10m a month
[ 2018.11.04 22:31:37 ] Spy Alt > ;D
[ 2018.11.04 22:31:55 ] Spy Alt > just send me 10 mil and I'll set you up
[ 2018.11.04 22:32:24 ] Katie Noban > Spy Alt contract his stuff back
[ 2018.11.04 22:32:31 ] FuzzyBunny Knutz > Don't forget the setup fee
[ 2018.11.04 22:32:35 ] Katie Noban > and i am not joking around atm
[ 2018.11.04 22:33:10 ] Tross KalSol > we will get you earning some isk Emiya, earn that back pronto
[ 2018.11.04 22:33:18 ] Spy Alt > illegal PVE in CODE territory is a serious offense, i'm not joking either
[ 2018.11.04 22:34:12 ] Emiya Kado > if your legitimately holding my stuff random for a bullshit code, then im out of this corp. is that what your telling me?
[ 2018.11.04 22:34:18 ] Spy Alt > www.minerbumping.com
[ 2018.11.04 22:35:07 ] Emiya Kado > fine. then im out. Expect me to kill you the next time i see you
[ 2018.11.04 22:35:15 ] Spy Alt > feel free to send any questions or concerns to James 315
[ 2018.11.04 22:35:17 ] Tross KalSol > Emiya, hes kidding
[ 2018.11.04 22:35:21 ] Tross KalSol > he's not in Code
[ 2018.11.04 22:35:25 ] Tross KalSol > and he's not in our corp
[ 2018.11.04 22:35:41 ] Tross KalSol > they are blue to us and we are allied, so leaving our corp doesn't help anyway
[ 2018.11.04 22:36:49 ] Emiya Kado > I had a perfectly fine setup two jumps from Jita before i came out here to help this organization. If our allies are going to be shitbags and tax me to exist, then. im. done.
[ 2018.11.04 22:36:57 ] Emiya Kado > is that clear enough?
[ 2018.11.04 22:37:31 ] Visitant > If that happens they will no longer be blue.
[ 2018.11.04 22:37:40 ] Spy Alt > Emiya Kado have a lovely evening!
In our next episode, our hero heroically returns to Caldari space and smites more war targets with righteous fury...
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