jamesw stole the UK's Treasury

Day 1,659, 04:21 Published in Croatia Croatia by Arrlo

On the 24th of July 2011 the UK's Treasury vanished from its holding org. We immediately suspected the CP at the time, jamesw. This was a particularly painful turn of events for me, who considered jamesw as one of my favourite erep players, and who had spent considerable time and effort building a war chest for the country.

This was complicated by his appearance some days later, and a conversation I had with him on August 7th. He gave me a story of how he was mugged, and his items were stolen, and his passwords and accesses were somehow compromised. I immediately felt guilty for doubting my old friend, but as time has gone on I'm afraid the evidence is so heavily against him that I no longer doubt his culpability.

We are expected to believe that a random mugger worked out erepublik to the extent that he could find the national org, find the password to that national org, and work out how to use the monetary market to move all the contents out of it. Not only that, but to send it all to the jamesw account.




I wanted to believe my old friend, but a conversation in an IRC chan where I defended him turned a wee bit silly when a member of the eRep team piped up that all our money from Bank of England had been transferred to jamesw. This was the following conversation I had with that admin. I'm removing the name for obvious reasons.

Session Start: Tue Jul 26 21:35:07 2011
Session Ident: -
01[21:35] --- we had heard that
01[21:35] please keep it to to yourself
[21:35] um, okay
01[21:35] try HM Treasury
01[21:35] that is the org with most of our money
[21:36] 'kay
[21:36] same here
[21:36] everything goes to jamesw
[21:36] minute after minute
01[21:36] can you see how much?
[21:37] yes
[21:37] should I spam you with numbers? 😛
01[21:37] yes pleasxe
[21:37] GBP 371870.00
[21:37] RSD 50k
[21:38] PLN 20820.00
[21:38] PLN 30900.00
[21:38] IEP 108661.50
[21:38] IEP 8439.00
[21:38] BGN 51461.00
[21:38] ARS 25k
[21:38] BRL 50k
[21:38] CAD 50k
[21:38] CNY 75k
[21:38] ESP 75k
[21:39] FRF 50k
[21:39] GRD 50k
[21:39] HRK 75k
[21:39] HUF 75k
[21:39] IDR 75k
[21:39] LTL 50k
[21:39] LVL 5k
[21:39] LVL 45k
[21:39] MKD 100k
[21:39] PLN 50k
[21:39] RSD 50k
[21:39] RON, RUB, SEK, SIT 50k
[21:39] TRY, USD 100k
[21:39] USD 5941.00
[21:39] BGN 180.00
[21:39] finite
01[21:40] 😕
01[21:40] and 1g?
01[21:40] oh no
01[21:40] h had already donated
[21:40] no gold
01[21:40] that is very sad news indeed
01[21:40] thanks for your help
[21:40] np 🙂
[21:40] and it's only from HM treasury 😛
01[21:40] H [21:41] MM transactions
01[21:41] HM Treasury *
[21:41] a LOT of transactions at MM this day
01[21:42] i am shocked
01[21:42] i have to brb
Session Close: Tue Jul 26 21:42:37 2011

At this point I was trying to believe that someone had hacked the jamesw account, or had temporarily gained access, and by this point the loot would have been moved to the real culprit's account. Nope!

Session Start: Thu Jul 28 18:17:39 2011
Session Ident: ---
01[18:17] ---.....
[18:42] hi
[18:42] ?
01[18:42] hi, can i ask a favour?
[18:42] sure
01[18:42] would you be able to see if jamesw moved money from his account to somewhere else?
01[18:43] like via donations or transferring on the monetary market?
[18:43] yeah... sure
[18:43] let me see
[18:44] it all happened on 24th, right?
[18:46] he didn't move money
[18:46] just exchanging them for gold at MM
01[18:46] yes 24th it happened
01[18:46] and then if lots of money moved out of his account after that
[18:49] but he just exchanged them for normal gold
[18:49] and is training with gold + buying HK sometimes
01[18:49] so... he still has tons of foreign currency in his account?
[18:50] yes
01[18:56] thanks very much for your help
01[18:56] really appreciate it
[18:56] np 🙂
Session Time: Fri Jul 29 00:00:04 2011
Session Close: Fri Jul 29 01:25:27 2011

One new try to prove his innocence? 🙁

Session Start: Fri Aug 05 18:38:02 2011
Session Ident: ---
01[18:38] --- can i bother you about jamesw? ...
[18:42] sure 🙂
01[18:43] as a mod can you see when people use the MM?
[18:45] Yes
01[18:45] so can you tell me if jamesw still has all that money in his account?
[18:46] let me see...
[18:53] the thing is we can't see how much money has someone exactly got at the moment, just the history of the transactions...
01[18:53] ok so it's a quite complicated thing
[18:53] but still he has got a lot of money, since he uses boosters
01[18:53] do you see a list of transactions?
[18:53] yes
01[18:54] because he had probably more than a million foreign currency
[18:56] yeah...
01[18:56] so no really big transactions
01[18:56] means he has most of that money left

So there you have it. He's been lying or avoiding the issue ever since, and used a sob story to try to dissuade people from asking too many uncomfortable questions. I'm not a UK player any more, so I suppose it doesn't matter to me which way the election goes. And most people must know that I really don't like Greatmoff at all, but I'm only angry at this stage that jamesw continues to lie and to dupe you all (on this as well as plenty of other subjects).

Vote how you like, but in full possession of the facts. Peace!