3rd Age Services / False advertising / Poor trading practices

Scammer's profile link: 3rd Age Service
Amount scammed:
Discord ID + Unique Discord ID: mr.geek / 714429404444622849
Proof that it's their Discord: imgur.com
Explanation of the trade: 9/01/24 - 3rd Age Services hosted a megascale giveaway/raffle where once you spend $100 on services within their Discord you get entered into the giveaway.
How they scammed: Earlier in the year of 2024, 3rd Age Services hosted a raffle where you purchase a ticket for an item they're raffling, I believe it was $5 per ticket. I entered that raffle and said raffle just magically disappeared without the raffle spots being filled and I never received a refund. Unfortunately I do not have much proof of this besides this simple screenshot from someone else wondering why it disappeared imgur.com - Never heard anything about that raffle after that message.

9/01/24 - 3rd Age Services announces a megascale giveaway where if you spend $100 on services within their Discord you're entered into a Megascale giveaway. Seeing this I had a feeling the "giveaway" was just going to disappear like the last. In his first announcement, he says "20 slots". Then once spaces start filling up it now becomes 25 spaces.

10/22/24 - 2 more spaces left within the giveaway

Giveaway disappears sometime after that.

1/1/25 - I ask MrGeek(owner) what happened to the megascale giveaway and he states "Had to pause it for a little due to baby and new PC. Need to load up the old laptop to get the entries" As of today, it's been 3 months since there has been "2 more spaces left". imgur.com
Which would maybe be believable if he had announced it in the megascale giveaway channel instead of just hiding it unannounced and if it wasn't 3 months after there was only 2 spots left

Seems pretty shady to have giveaway's that you have to spend money on to enter just "disappear" unannounced


Other relevant trade screenshots:
imgur.com - 9/1/24 Megascale giveaway/raffle announcement that also shows MrGeek announce 20 slots, not 25.

imgur.com - 9/21/24 The partial list(anonymous apparently) of the megascale giveaway entries

imgur.com - 10/22/24 announces 2 spots left

imgur.com - 1/1/25 Asked what happened to the giveaway

 

@3rd Age Service Your attention is required here.

Please provide proof of this channel & all entries. This can be provided in private if sensitive information is present - use post report feature.

 

@Kanye I will send a response here later on when I’m home

 

I would like to apologise for the delayed response and any inconvenience this has caused.

Regarding the raffle, I truly have no idea... It’s been quite a while since we last ran one, and I regret that I cannot provide more clarity. Looking through all transcripts with Nebula, the only mention of a raffle was back in March 2024 which ran on 2nd April, looking at the general chat at the time where people were commenting from the live stream.

Now, moving on to the Megascales, I must take full accountability for the delays here. This should have been rolled out much earlier, and I acknowledge that it’s taken far too long. There have been various reasons for the delay, and unfortunately, I failed to maintain transparency with the community about what was going on. This was a mistake on my part, and I deeply regret not keeping everyone informed.

As for the draw itself, I’ve listed the Discord names of all the entries below for full transparency:

- blad
- bobbyhill4035
- zlatandagoat
- nani
- xchefy
- qwackson
- rodaz
- dondevil
- spwl
- rsnebula
- sapentia37
- sapentia37
- mraxe
- spwl
- spwl
- spwl
- navmangames
- bobbyhill4035
- greatsenseiswisher
- dagamba
- 33012
- blad
- don.devil
- mraxe
- bobbyhill4035

I am fully committed to moving forward with the draw, but I must also inform you that due to the changes in the Megascales system in-game, the prize will be equivalent to the balance in the winners' Discord wallets, which they can use for other services instead. This can be completed within the next few days and will be streamed on the discord.

I understand that this isn’t ideal, and I wish I could go back and make things right. Unfortunately, I’m unable to undo what’s happened or provide further details on some aspects of the delay. That said, I should have passed this matter over to one of the managers to handle in my absence, and I deeply regret not doing so.

Again, I apologise to our community for these delays. I know this isn’t the level of service you expect or deserve, and I take full responsibility for that. Please know that I am doing everything I can to ensure this won’t happen again in the future, and I am committed to improving the process moving forward.

 

Couple things here to start - please answer for your respective questions:

@3rd Age Service

When did this megascale raffle fill up?
Can you provide all transcripts associated with RSNebula when it comes to raffles? Including the service one in question to be eligible for this raffle.
When was this hidden from the public?

@Nebula
Can you think or provide anything related to proof for purchase of the raffle back early last year?

At this time I've spoken with @3rd Age Service who advised the initial raffle channel he no longer has when he did rebranding and/or rebuild a while ago. @3rd Age Service thinks this is around March/April.

 

@Nebula
Can you think or provide anything related to proof for purchase of the raffle back early last year?

I cannot provide anything for this no

 

When did this megascale raffle fill up?
I am unable to provide a time for this as it was all on my old computer with no date stamps against it.

Can you provide all transcripts associated with RSNebula when it comes to raffles? Including the service one in question to be eligible for this raffle.
I can provide transcripts, I believe, where do you want me to send them?

When was this hidden from the public?
I am unable to provide a time for this as the discord audit logs only go back 1 month

 

When did this megascale raffle fill up?
I am unable to provide a time for this as it was all on my old computer with no date stamps against it.

Can you provide all transcripts associated with RSNebula when it comes to raffles? Including the service one in question to be eligible for this raffle.
I can provide transcripts, I believe, where do you want me to send them?

When was this hidden from the public?
I am unable to provide a time for this as the discord audit logs only go back 1 month

Report the post and add them in there.

 

Transcripts have been provided in a post report.

Regarding the raffle $5 raffle there's nothing from either side to support this & given the delay on your report @Nebula there's nothing that can be done. You are indicating you have nothing to support this and @3rd Age Service is advising this was ran in April (you purchased your ticket in March). Given that there does appear to be some sort of chat in his discord general chat it does appear reasonable that this was ran already.

Surrounding the Megascale raffle I will give you 3 days to sort this out/finalize this with the list noted above of participants @3rd Age Service

 

@Kanye the draw has been completed and the winner is don.devil

WINNER

 

Apologies for the delay have been quite busy. Thank you for wrapping this up timely (once advised to do so).

Unfortunately, this is extremely troublesome given that it took a report for this to play-out/be raffled. I will be lenient here as one could argue this is DNT-able & add a stern warning to ensure this does not happen again. Further things like this may result in a harsher punishment so ensure you are following through with what you are advertising.

You will receive a Trade With Caution (TWC) for poor trading practices.

Edit: I'd also like to add to ensure you keep transactions/records of past winners and record the rolls/raffle.