User blog comment:Æcia/T-this is just sad.../@comment-33750461-20181009032229

I completely agree, I have encountered so many scammers within this year its awful. It's extremely sad a childrens game has come to this, the younger audience on animal jam is also getting smaller, not a lot of people play anymore, and not a lot of people are starting to play. Apart of me doesn't want new players because with the amount of scamming activity and difference in the game which is more than half based on rares/items, the kids wouldn't even enjoy there time on animal jam, and they are more easy to scam since they dont know any better. The audience on aj is now mostly based on teenagers, I have recently met various 20 year olds, your age shouldn't stop you from doing what you love, but this game was intended for younger audiences. Now aj has had "mating" and scamming, hacking, fighting, arguing, and everything now has to do with rares and items just about. I have been hacked once and scammed once by my own best friend back in 2016. I lost my red long, and everything I worked for, and after that I was so devistated my own bestfriend took my items the one i knew for 2 years. Animal jam isnt the same as it used to be no doubt about it and we can change this by helping to limit the scammers, but it's so difficult because even if we get enough people to report them than the only thing that will happen is it might suspend them or get them banned on that spare account. I have talked to scammers asking why they scam and most say its fun, but i tell them im reporting them and they said they dont care because they have multiple parent dashboards which shows that even if we get one of their parent dashboards turned off or unable to use, they have so many more accounts they can keep scamming on. Animal jam needs to be notified of the amount of scamming.

Make sure to check out my blog posts about the scammers I found and make sure to report and block them. Thank you for writing about this issue we need to spread it more.

- midnightmoonlight1