Rental Dementia: Not Passing the Sniff Test

I always can spot trouble in a tenant. After being in this business for eight years, you can see them coming. And I'm almost never wrong -- as I wrote about this one a month ago.

Right in the middle of the worst griefing spate I had ever experienced in SL, with tenants on four sims all moving out and hundreds of dollars of losses with an elusive "terror-former" constantly jacking up the earth in Ravenglass and adjacent sims, along comes an avatar with an affected name, LeFacteurARaison (see complete chat logs below).

Since he immediately begins making pointed remarks about the terror-forming on the sim -- a sim others have fled but he's moving into -- I think he must be yet another attempt by Shaun Altman or the other griefers from Woodbury/Wrong Hands to move in -- they love pretending to be real tenants, and then act disgruntled and outraged if they are expelled, as if they are innocent members of the public blah blah.

There was obviously something "off" about this new alt who knew a lot about SL when he moved into a the tower in Ravenglass but I usually give people the benefit of the doubt. I drilled him, and when he professed to be a returning oldie chagrined about the changes in SL and the shocking state of terror-forming, I said this: "If by some chance you *aren't* a griefer on a fresh alt and are a real person with a French name (um, ok), then...I'm sure you'll have no problem refunding! Good day, sir!"

I encouraged him to refund a) I knew he was trouble b) he was moving into a sim that most people were moving OUT of because it was constantly being stormed by griefers. In fact, what I had just done to some of the persistent hold-outs and new people coming was put out notecards telling people they could rent, but would have to move up into the sky to avoid griefers. So I gave him one of those. He was not deterred.

I left him alone, but I didn't think he "passed the sniff test". You just get a nose for these things. I wasn't wrong.

Although I never bother with security systems or even those elaborate sim monitoring systems that tell you about everyone coming and going, I put in one by the docks to try to trap the "terror-former" who was constantly undoing the landscaping and pushing earth up into everyone's homes. I figured he would show up eventually.

Soon I found three people suddenly logged on in succession and all right next to each other:

[09:10] Ravenglass <122, 71, 18> Relay: Unconfined Resident stayed 10 minutes.
[09:10] Ravenglass <122, 71, 18> Relay: LeFacteurARaison Resident entered area, 2012-12-03, 7:49 AM (SLT)
[09:10] Ravenglass <122, 71, 18> Relay: LeFacteurARaison Resident stayed 4 minutes.
[09:10] Ravenglass <122, 71, 18> Relay: TheExHusband Resident entered area, 2012-12-03, 7:56 AM (SLT)

Now I'm the first to say that machinopology doesn't always give you the facts, and server truths aren't always real truths. It could be completely coincidental that these three all logged on and were all next to each other in a 96 m area early in the morning EST which would be evening in Europe.

Unconfined Resident was one of the Wrong Hand fresh alts -- he was putting out creepy effigies of my RL self, putting in bans of me and tenants to annoy, the usual menu. He was on some kind of rogue viewer or something.

TheExHusband was a suspect in griefing because he wasn't a tenant and didn't seem to fit, he and a partner account kept appearing. Later it was he who was discovered by Soft Linden as standing on neighbouring sims and terror-forming Ravenglass, using the "resident tag" he'd been given when he briefly rented on another sim.

So all three of them are together -- right or wrong, I don't need to keep any of them. It's unfortunate if someone innocent gets caught up in a sweep, and it doesn't happen that often, fortunately -- I can only think of a few cases of people who had really suspect griefer names that moved in during griefing storms and got expelled, only to discover later they were unrelated. But it happens, and it is your right to reject tenants -- there isn't some TOS mandate that says all rentals agents must accept a tenant. I have a list of rules, plus there are the regular TOS requirements, and if I think tenants are violating them, they go.

I can usually tell I've hit the mark when a person like that who might in fact have been innocent keeps complaining, heckling -- and then obviously harassing me -- for months on end.

So what happens next, despite being refunded and told to move on his way, LeFacteurARaison doesn't exhibit any reason, and moves in demonstratively *again* to a cottage, paying a very large sum of money for a little $150 or $250 rental. He also makes contributions to the land preserve. When someone suddenly gives you $10,000 for a little rental in SL, you have to take a second look. In a few cases when I've gotten large sums of money strangely, it has been fraud and I've reported it to the Lindens and it has been removed. This was large, but not large enough, yet still odd -- nobody pays that far ahead for a little mainland rental because usually they move on to something larger or they just wait and see -- especially if they are new or returning to SL.

This fellow put up various posters and signs about the Illuminati or some such in his cabin -- I noticed his group was MaltaGraphics and was related to the Knights of Malta or to something of that nature. I didn't study it but just promptly refunded him and told him *again* to move on. I felt the creep factor was too high.

With all my losses for 6 weeks, regrettably I had to put some land to sale that wasn't rented, after the tenant left with all the turmoil. I put it at a fairly high price, I think L$3.5/meter or something, which is high these days. Soon it was purchased -- and by this creep's alt and group.

Now, it might be that he is perfectly innocent, but he is still obviously a person who has "boundary" issues. He can't leave people alone who have already told him to go away.

So he builds a giant castle on this land, begging the question of why he had to have a little modest cottage for $150 on my sim. He added the story that he got his account back or something.

I proceeded to ignore this person, although he moved in next door.

I hadn't caught up with my Prokofy Twitter account in awhile, but I log on and find that there is this man named Michael Bommerson in Holland writing this:

Michaël Bommerson ‏@Maltagraphics

I sent an old classmate to @Prokofy for accommodation since he'd had a rough time and wanted to return to SL friends. (1/2) #fail

Er, "old classmate"? But that was *him* from all indications. He had a group of his alts that he used for group land and bought the land and built the castle.

Here's what he then wrote on Twitter when I confronted him with these people being alts:

Michaël Bommerson ‏@Maltagraphics

@Prokofy Belkara is in Canda, Vance is in USA, Michel (LeFacteur) is in Belgium, Chrisje and I are in Amsterdam. No one is near you.

Gosh, be thankful for that, anyway!

But...LeFacteur hadn't told me he was in Belgium. As you can see from the chat belog he said:

[2012/12/03 05:09]  LeFacteurARaison: I'm of mixed descent myself and live in Amsterdam, Sir.

Later he told me to "come and visit our museum" in Amsterdam and so on.

I'm familiar with people in SL who make "families". Certainly anybody has to have alts to put groups together (I have them myself and everybody knows who my alts are because they are linked and publicized). But sometimes you find people who really think they can put one over other people and get you to believe their "family" is really all separate people. I found this with Lynden Lehane/Chalky White/Ellie Edo who used to harass me for years on end in Ross. It's common.

This fellow Michael Bommersen just went on and on and on haranguing me in his Twitter field, urging people not to rent from me. For someone who was supposedly "one person removed," i.e. he sent an old classmate to rent from me, he was awfully insistent and garrulous. Funny that this "separate person" LeFacteurARaison -- who in fact sounded just like him inworld -- never IM'd me or tweeted himself to complain about his "horrible" rental experience in Ravenglass, where he went from renting a little room to buying a castle across the street ROFL.

Most people -- if they really were mistakenly confused with griefers, and really had had an unpleasant experience being removed unfairly -- might complain, but then they'd move on, because SL is a HUGE place with GADZILLION rentals. Fortunately, if you put $10,000 into my prim, you get a refund, unlike so many other places.

But this sad Internet type, Michael Bommersen, the kind of guy who watches web cams and spends hours on line and complains about things, kept going and going on Twitter. Why, it was such an outrage that this awful horrible Prokofy rented to people and "all these tenants" had left. Well, a few leave after they violate my rules and/or exhibit outrageous behaviour and they are called out on it simply because there is no recourse in SL. You'll notice the pattern with Rental Dementia: not coverage of every disgruntled or stupid and idiotic tenant. But coverage of tenants *who threaten me* with announcing boycotts of me in their groups. When they do that, I fight back and I put their bad behaviour on the record as I am doing now with MaltaGraphics.

Next thing I know, my lovely neighbour next door to my home in Refugio with the bits store is IMing me to tell me that a grief tower has gone up, she has abuse-reported it, and I might want to do the same. She sends me the URL, I visit it, and it's a huge-ass tower built way up into the sky on a 512, telling people "don't be bullied by your landlord" and "buy premium, you will get $60 US in cash". The label of the parcel is NEVER RENT FROM PROKOFY NEVA OF RAVENGLASS although cunningly, just under the radar, the grief build texture itself doesn't use my name. I AR'd it, and figure it will "go nowhere" -- you get to build ugly towers on your land; you get to advise people not to use a service if you want to. I don't know if this passes the test for "defamation" -- it might, and it would be good to have recourse for this in SL with all the vindictive assholes around, but I'd rather have something like that with a court of law. In any event, since this tower utterly destroyed the view for miles, I gave it a go as an AR anyway.

This was clearly making good on the threat of the previous day, part of a long line of heckling tweets:

Michaël Bommerson ‏@Maltagraphics

@Prokofy We're not griefers but rl designers and academy classmates. But you really really pissed me off and you will know it.

He claimed that he and "Michel" (LeFacteur) were separate people. I don't think they are. Of course I could be wrong, but...I don't care. I don't like people who can't understand their boundaries and move along when the relationship is over lol.

This loon continues to yammer on Twitter, on behalf of his own outrage and his allegedly indignant academy classmate (who hasn't surfaced on his own) -- hence this blog.

 

[2012/12/03 04:56]  LeFacteurARaison: Bonjour! I just rented cottage no. 14 on Ravenglass. As I took a look at the surroundings I found that the houses of two neighbours have apparently been buried in the soil. So I really hope everything is okay with the land rights here.
[2012/12/03 04:57]  Second Life: Inventory item offered
[2012/12/03 04:59]  Prokofy Neva: Um, Shaun, as a week-old alt, you might think that you can pass with a fake name like that, but you won't be renting here. Refund, and leave, as I have explained multiple times, I don't compensate griefers who constantly harm me and cause me loss of business deliberately by renting and heckling me as you are doing now. If by some chance you *aren't* a griefer on a fresh alt and are a real person with a French name (um, ok), then...I'm sure you'll have no problem refunding! Good day, sir!
[2012/12/03 05:03]  LeFacteurARaison: Sorry Sir, I was still reading your note about moving up.
[2012/12/03 05:04]  Prokofy Neva: I think refund is probably the better option as you are an obvious alt : )
[2012/12/03 05:05]  LeFacteurARaison: I consider myself a returning resident rather than an alt Sir. It's been years since I was active here.
[2012/12/03 05:05]  LeFacteurARaison: I have the impression that the overall design has improved.
[2012/12/03 05:06]  LeFacteurARaison: However the silence is deafening. But that might just be my time zone.
[2012/12/03 05:07]  Prokofy Neva: Um, ok, well this isn't the rental for you! Unless you want to live up in the sky
[2012/12/03 05:07]  Prokofy Neva: as for "silence," um, I don't supply activities for people
[2012/12/03 05:08]  Prokofy Neva: for that, you'll have to go to the interracial cuckhold people
[2012/12/03 05:08]  LeFacteurARaison: In 2008 I was overwhelmed about Second Life being so crowded. In fact that was a reason I left.
[2012/12/03 05:08]  Prokofy Neva: Or maybe you were permabanned, Shaun
[2012/12/03 05:09]  LeFacteurARaison: I'm of mixed descent myself and live in Amsterdam, Sir.
[2012/12/03 05:09]  Prokofy Neva: ok I'm done, these are self-service rentals. Serve yourself and save!
[2012/12/03 09:03]  LeFacteurARaison: (Saved Mon Dec 03 08:10:11 2012)No Sir, I was never banned from anywhere. I have been living in Red Light Center (Utherverse.com) for the  past 3 years.
[2012/12/03 09:03]  LeFacteurARaison: (Saved Mon Dec 03 08:34:49 2012)I'm really sorry to meet such bitter people in this world. You are the 5th now in the 10 days of my return. I was thinking land editing had much improved but it seems to pose quite a problem instead.
[2012/12/03 09:03]  LeFacteurARaison: (Saved Mon Dec 03 08:35:53 2012)Remember we had to use "bombs" in the early days to edit the land.
[2012/12/03 09:03]  LeFacteurARaison: (Saved Mon Dec 03 08:38:21 2012)I left your cottage as you asked. Maybe I should leave this world again. I'm going to be 53 in March (I hope) and my friends are nowhere to be found here anymore. Even the Lindens I knew have moved on.
[2012/12/05 07:47]  LeFacteurARaison: Hi, I don't want to make you upset again Sir, but I noticed that Victor1stMornington is on the banlist of the Celtic Tower. I'm convinced Victor is an honest person since I have known him in the past on the old Dr.Who sim and I cannot imagine that he would be genuinely banned. So he's probably been put on the banlist by some spoofer.
[2012/12/05 07:54]  Postbode Siemens (lefacteuraraison): Currently I am reading your blog by the way. I must say there is enough in it for a book! Now I also know whom you refer to as Shaun.
[2012/12/05 07:54]  Prokofy Neva: Gosh, do you think?! And you should know! Obvious griefers are obvious. It's a known exploit and it's dealt with constantly. Abuse report it if you like.
[2012/12/05 07:55]  Postbode Siemens (lefacteuraraison): I do not expect much from an abuse report anymore these days. Those I used to work with are not even employed by LL any longer. :-(
[2012/12/05 07:56]  Postbode Siemens (lefacteuraraison): (I did file *many* reports for the Arbor group in the past when extortion and excessive advertising used to be our main concern.)
[2012/12/05 07:58]  Postbode Siemens (lefacteuraraison): The last thing I "cooked up" together with Guy Linden was actually the auto-sale of abandoned land. Only they implemented it 4 years late. :-(
[2012/12/05 08:32]  Prokofy Neva: Well thanks for devaluing the land market so handily, big guy! And hey, intellectual conversations with griefers and their erudite soulmates is not my specialty.
[2012/12/05 08:34]  Postbode Siemens (lefacteuraraison): We never told LL to sell the land for L$ 1 per sq.m. ofcourse! Just to automate the sale of abandoned land since the best parts of this world where lying unnoticed for over 2 years.
[2012/12/05 08:45]  Prokofy Neva: Um, it's not possible to automate sales unless you make prices uniform
[2012/12/05 08:45]  Postbode Siemens (lefacteuraraison): The idea was to auto-add them to the auction list, to be specific.
[2012/12/05 08:46]  Postbode Siemens (lefacteuraraison): Which was exactly what we were always told would happen. But never actually did.
[2012/12/05 08:47]  Postbode Siemens (lefacteuraraison): I'm going to have dinner now. Be good.
[2012/12/05 10:52]  LeFacteurARaison: Just got a message from Kalel and he says the bug that gives people estate rights through the use of an especially crafted client has been around for 2 years. Since JIRA became invisible it's impossible to check how many people have reported that. :-(
[2012/12/05 11:00]  Prokofy Neva: This is not news, Hazim.
[2012/12/05 11:02]  Postbode Siemens (lefacteuraraison): Are you sure you sent this message to the right window?
[2012/12/05 11:09]  Prokofy Neva: tu sais ce que je dis
[2012/12/05 11:57]  LeFacteurARaison: Okay that's enough. I've certainly never seen you at Jack Linden's OH all those Thursdays we represented the victims of extortionists and ad farms. Have a nice life. 10 more days before you turn 3000 in SL.
[2012/12/05 12:00]  Prokofy Neva: oh fuck off. I went to lots of Jack Linden's OH. Oh and PS despite having to do my RL jobs as well. If I didn't come to every single one, so what/ Who could possibly make time during the *work day* to sit for an hour in a virtual world over *that issue* which I was the one to put on the JIRA and fight for ages on end on my blog, and with endless abuse tickets. Do you think you're the only one who fights the good fight with your Dutch socialist democratic bullshit?
[2012/12/05 12:07]  Postbode Siemens (lefacteuraraison): I'm a member of the Partij voor de Dieren (Animal rights party) and I'm not a leftist. I strongly believe in karma and that doesn't involve equal sharing with people who are too lazy to work for their money.
[2012/12/05 12:10]  Prokofy Neva: Eesh, animal rights -- the worst form of hateful Marxism
[2012/12/05 12:11]  Prokofy Neva: karma -- the socialist redistribution system of the heavens! for people who are too lazy to get a real religion
[2012/12/05 12:13]  Postbode Siemens (lefacteuraraison): It is not a redistribution system but a retribution system.
[2012/12/05 12:25]  Prokofy Neva: no, it redistributes "expected behaviour" to users. Now go away, and find better friends
[2012/12/05 12:31]  Postbode Siemens (lefacteuraraison): Don't forget to visit our museum if you happen to travel to Amsterdam next year. http://www.hermitage.nl/en/
[2012/12/06 13:11]  Second Life: secondlife:///app/agent//completename paid you L$3000.
[2012/12/08 18:45]  Second Life: secondlife:///app/agent//completename paid you L$10000.
[2012/12/08 19:21]  Prokofy Neva: Why are you still hanging around here and paying large sums of money for little rentals? I thought I told you to get lost.
[2012/12/08 19:22]  LeFacteurARaison: I probably got lost then but I myself am still convinced of my good motives.
[2012/12/08 19:23]  Prokofy Neva: well there are now Linden eyes on these servers and scripts that track avatars who grief with the terraforming and ban lists, so you're not going to be able to grief here as planned with your social hack.
[2012/12/08 19:24]  LeFacteurARaison: It's about time they tackle that problem anyway. With the Lindens they have left. I can tell you I miss Minerva.
[2012/12/08 19:27]  Prokofy Neva: Now you have two alts on my sim, or three
[2012/12/08 19:28]  Prokofy Neva: and you will be the first to be expelled if griefing repeats, with no refund, as griefers to not get refunds
[2012/12/08 19:28]  Prokofy Neva: so play all the games you want, but they will be expensive
[2012/12/08 19:29]  LeFacteurARaison: I don't even plan to be around that often, no worries there please.
[2012/12/08 19:31]  Second Life: Inventory item offered
[2012/12/08 19:31]  Second Life: Inventory item offered
[2012/12/08 19:35]  LeFacteurARaison: By the way did you ever consider to make a lot less visible to members of the rental group? I think I have seldom seen a free-to-join group that gives financial and land ownership info to all members.
[2012/12/08 19:36]  Prokofy Neva: Um, no. I don't need help running my rentals. If you have "good ideas" for running rentals, you can go start your own rentals.
[2012/12/08 19:36]  LeFacteurARaison: I no longer have that amount of money, thanks.
[2012/12/08 19:36]  Prokofy Neva: There isn't any "financial and land ownership info" to all members, I don't know what your strange point is there.
[2012/12/08 19:37]  Prokofy Neva: there is no reason to hide the ownership of land, it's an open book, it's like real life, in real life you can't hide the ownership of land either
[2012/12/08 19:37]  Prokofy Neva: only would some idiot in SL think that making alts and different companies is some kind of "boon"
[2012/12/08 19:38]  LeFacteurARaison: If I would be a target of some idiots I would surely hide what I owned as far as ownership is applicable at all in SL.
[2012/12/08 19:38]  Prokofy Neva: You might want to find someone else to be your "friend". I'm not available for fascinating little talks about virtual economies. These are self-service rentals. You are not paying for charm, you're paying for a cheap rental. Good night
[2012/12/08 19:39]  LeFacteurARaison: It's the morning for me actually since I'm on night shift. I didn't start the conversation but I realise I kept it going.
[2012/12/12 11:19]  Prokofy Neva: I'm refunding you. You have your own land there -- which you bought from me with your group I see, because you're creepy, and need to creep around me. I don't need people to pay me 276 days in advance or whatever in my rentals, and I don't need creeps that show up and pretend to commisserate with griefing, and hang out on the sim with two known griefers at the same time. I don't care WHAT your story is. I don't care WHAT whining and ranting you want to do. You're getting gone from my rentals. Don't bother me again as I said. I don't want rentals, payments, donations, visits or anything from you. Get lost.
[2012/12/12 11:19]  Second Life: User not online - message will be stored and delivered later.
[2012/12/12 13:39]  LeFacteurARaison: I know none of those people whom you associate with griefing. Period.
[2012/12/12 13:47]  Prokofy Neva: I don't care. I don't want anything to do with you. Leave me alone, and stop trying to rent, donate, friend me. I am not interested in you or your alts or your creepy stuff. Goodbye. Mute

2012/12/05 13:15]  Prokofy Neva: Like I said, find better friends.
[2012/12/05 13:19]  LeFacteurARaison Resident: I don't know what your notecard is about, but whenever I got rejected by a PDS orb ("Avatar not old enough") I got bumped back to the place where I set home. So, sorry if I upset you by the many involuntary jumps into the area.
[2012/12/05 13:20]  Prokofy Neva: No, you know quite well what this notecard is about, and that's all there is to it, move along now
[2012/12/05 13:21]  LeFacteurARaison Resident: No I don't. But I start to think you wouldn't believe yourself if you'd talk into a mirror... really.
[2012/12/05 13:34]  LeFacteurARaison Resident: By the way I landed at Ravenglass because I thought I remembered my old landlord. Today I went back to Kerala, one of the places where I used to live. Found out the land is owned by Ravensloft Real Estate so you can laugh at me.
[2012/12/05 13:34]  Prokofy Neva: LeFacteurARaison Resident entered area, 2012-12-03, 7:30 AM (SLT)
[09:10] Ravenglass <122, 71, 18> Relay: LeFacteurARaison Resident stayed 1 minutes.
[09:10] Ravenglass <122, 71, 18> Relay: Unconfined Resident entered area, 2012-12-03, 7:38 AM (SLT)
[09:10] Ravenglass <122, 71, 18> Relay: LeFacteurARaison Resident entered area, 2012-12-03, 7:44 AM (SLT)
[09:10] Ravenglass <122, 71, 18> Relay: LeFacteurARaison Resident stayed 1 minutes.
[09:10] Ravenglass <122, 71, 18> Relay: Unconfined Resident stayed 10 minutes.
[09:10] Ravenglass <122, 71, 18> Relay: LeFacteurARaison Resident entered area, 2012-12-03, 7:49 AM (SLT)
[09:10] Ravenglass <122, 71, 18> Relay: LeFacteurARaison Resident stayed 4 minutes.
[09:10] Ravenglass <122, 71, 18> Relay: TheExHusband Resident entered area, 2012-12-03, 7:56 AM (SLT)
[09:10] Ravenglass <122, 71, 18> Relay: TheExHusband Resident stayed 1 minutes.
[09:10] Ravenglass <122, 71, 18> Relay: Unconfined Resident entered area, 2012-12-03, 7:59 AM (SLT)
[2012/12/05 13:34]  Prokofy Neva: Do not darken my doorway again
[2012/12/05 13:36]  LeFacteurARaison Resident: Sorry that's your own shadow really. You must be one of the pioneers (looking at your dob here) but you don't sound happy.
[2012/12/05 13:37]  Prokofy Neva: keep up the word salad, you log on your latest alt and your other alts and you think no one notices? Are you daft? Go away. I don't care if this is a false positive. You're an asshole anyway.
[2012/12/05 13:39]  LeFacteurARaison Resident: I'm not an alt. I just started over. Lindens just made it very difficult to retrieve an ancient account. Lots of security questions I could no longer answer. Like "what's your favourite pet" (I had many and rodents don't live that long).
[2012/12/05 13:40]  LeFacteurARaison Resident: In the end I could have paid $40 to retrieve the old account *emptied*.
[2012/12/05 13:40]  LeFacteurARaison Resident: I can do better things with the money.

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Comments

[RedMokum Bravin]

Michel says you kept pushing him away and in the end you muted him.
Now you want him to seek other ways to keep to talking to you, which you have forbidden so many times?
Well he has a new project now and he won't be on as often as before I guess.
There's a chance he will be doing things for the Hermitage in Skt. Petersburg in Spring when parts of the collection are exchanged with Amsterdam again.
Never know when you might run into him. ;-)

[Prokofy Neva]

I feel like I'm dealing with Sherry Lewis here.

I find it awfully hilarious that just when I've exposed the connection between LeFacteur, who said he was in Amsterdam, and you, in Amsterdam, despite your continued claims that there is this "Michel" in "Belgium," "Michel" has to go away. He won't be on so often. And why, of all things, he's off to the Hermitage!

The record shows that I asked LeFacteur to go away a number of times -- you -- and you persisted in bothering me and kept trying to pay me large sums and kept acting oddly -- and still acting oddly and stalking me.

I don't recall if LeFacteur is muted, but he ought to be.

[Richard]

Wow! You're all a bunch of wackos. Especially the person here writing about this stuff all the time, but it is great material. Is everyone in this game as crazy as you? If they are I might have to check it out.

[RedMokum Bravin]

You probably write too much and read too fast.
He's not off to Skt. Petersburg yet, dear. We can be found wherever there's an exposition to be built.

Maltagraphics is a company and since the Dutch economy was hit hard by the American bank scandal, we have to find projects all over Europe to stay alive.

The Knights of Malta (Sovereign Military Hospitalier Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta) are not a cult but an old established lay men's order of the Roman Catholic Church. The closest Malteser headquarter for me is that in Köln, where the Malteser drive ambulances and provide help for the elderly.

@Richard: I think you already know by now. :-p

[Prokofy Neva]

1. I didn't say "Michel" (you) had already left; I said "he's off to the Hermitage" which is a generic, you don't understand English nuances, it's not your first language.

2. Sounds like somebody has developed a victimology where they can whine about their own socialist government-induced problems by complaining about "American bank scandals".

3. Of course Knights of Malta is a cult. It doesn't matter if it's "an established lay men's order" of the Roman Catholic Church. For many, it is a cult and it is engaged in cult activities. The taking care of the sick and elderly is something that is common to all organizations seeking power by making people dependent on them. Some Islamic charities do the same thing. They all do this deliberately because it makes it impossible to distinguish them from other charities, even branches of the same organization, that are innocent and doing good work -- it's a great cover.

4. People who grief me and cause me damages in real life and SL cannot post here. You've definitely reached the threshold by endlessly stalking me, harassing me, putting up giant grief-builds on land labelled NEVER RENT FROM PROKOFY NEVA and publishing repeated tweets urging people to boycott my business. So go rant on your own blog.

"Richard" is another character like you with multiple names.

[Michel Lebeau]

1. I came back to SL after several years. I have never run into your "griefers" anywhere at any time before. (Googling for "Prokofy Neva" this week was a real eye opener to me!)

2. I rented a cottage on Ravenglass and it was real cheap compared to what I had researched the two hours before in SL. My boss said you could be trusted. (sic!)
I found one house that was half buried next to my cottage and sent you a message, thinking you would be a really busy person and you might not notice it for a long time. You then sent me a notecard about griefing and the option to move up into the sky. I decided to move to the tower instead. A beautiful building that is high above the ground but not floating in the sky.

3. You complained that griefers wanted to hurt your business. I thought it would help if I would pay for half a year in advance.
Instead I got force refunded this time and all my stuff returned. Also you made derogatory remarks about the groups I had accepted everywhere I had been and about religious items I kept in the condo.
In the mean time Linden Labs had restored my main account from years ago. The one I used to play with on Kiev Island, which is sadly gone now. I think I told you how glad I was to have it back.

4. All the time you kept telling me that you did not need me as a friend. I was never attempting to become friends with you. I never try to with business people since they are never available anyway, unless they are working in my own field of expertise.

5. You kept telling me I was the alt of several people, some of the names I had never even heard of.
My boss told me to ask the help of Kalel, who knows a lot about what is possible in SL and what isn't. I for myself doubted that someone could just edit your land.
Kalel however confirmed it was possible with some kind of modified viewer and that it should have been fixed years ago. Kalel was kind in his answers, although he couldn't offer real help for the situation.
Your language as a "host" of the area however was unwelcoming, sometimes rude. Apparently I had been paying the Knights who say Ni! and after I paid they wanted something else but a shrubbery.
Now I read that you found about L$10,000 a large sum of money. That's what I pay for my lunch everyday in Bruxelles when converted in Euros!
I bought most of the currency from the DX terminals in the 0031 territory.
I do not write this for you, but for your well mannered incrowd whom I might still run into on the grid.

At the time you hit on me I was still mourning the loss of someone I had been taking care of for a long time.
Right now I have the energy again to summarize all that happened.
I'm no longer bound to Amsterdam and I can go *anywhere* although I prefer to see back my beloved Neva - and I don't mean you, even if you are just as frozen over as it is right now.

By the way I think it's very bad mannered to publish a conversation log without asking someone's consent.
Not in the least because anyone can edit those texts and publish them here as if they were originals.

Oh and after we reported the abandoned land between your land and ours for the L$ auction. the land was subsequently bought by a fresh account that has not been online anymore since the 28th of December.
I'm not saying it's yet another alt of yours but I find it suspicious. We have counted more than 10 of your puppets now, if what they say in other blogs is true.

[Prokofy Neva]

Michel, I don't believe that you and "Michael" are separate people. He's tripped up once with this. If he has figured out to use a proxy and another account with a BE address, so what? Easy enough to do! After this post, which went into the spam folder for some reason, you are blocked. Why? Because you are part of a group, even if a separate person, harassing me, heckling me, stalking me AND putting up large grief towers telling people to boycott me. I'm not required to publish your harassment.

I don't believe there is any "boss" and "you" -- and which is it? One day it's "my old classmate"; another day it's "my employee". The story keeps changing.

As has already copiously been explained inworld and on this blog, if you show up in the middle of a severe and epid griefing storm when everyone is moving out, and you begin obsessing about the griefing and yammering endlessly along and not leaving when told to, you are suspect. If you then show up on a tracker with two obvious griefers right at the same time, you become even more suspect. *If doesn't matter if you are an accidental passerby*. If you *keep renting again, paying large sums of money which no one ever does in SL*, DESPITE BEING TOLD TO MOVE ALONG, you are now triply suspect as merely someone interested in heckling, probing, stocking, harassing, nosing about, and toying with someone online in some sort of silly power game where you think you are in charge, but are merely a pathetic asshole.

In my vast experience, most people who are cases of mistaken identity, "wrong place at the wrong time" and ejected accidently in an anti-griefing effort, SIMPLY MOVE ON. They don't keep heckling, bother, justifying, blah blah. The people who keep coming back and writing word towers are griefers and merely trying to be a more sophisticated psychological form of griefer, but still pathetic.

The idea that you're "doing someone a favour" by paying ahead because of their griefing losses *when you've been told to leave because you're an annoyance* is part of the inflated egotism or psy-war game you're playing here in your cult. I'm not interested. Go away.

You got force re-funded because YOU HAD ALREADY BEEN TOLD TO LEAVE AND DIDN'T. DER. Most people, when they are told to leave, leave. They don't come back, pay huge somes of money trying to ingratiate themselves with someone who doesn't want them -- and then also buy big lots for castles across the street, begging the question as to why they need a little cheap Ravenglass cottage. It's just psychological manipulation of the sort that pathetic lonely dweebs on the Internet engage in. Not playing.

If you show up behaving like a Francophone griefer who has long harassed me on that sim, then too bad, you're going to be seen as him. If it's a case of mistaken identity, YOU MOVE ON, you don't keep coming back, trying to make payments, making long messages - that's exactly what those griefers do, they keep pretending to be real tenants and indignant that they are banned -- this is EXACTLY the game they are playing AND YOU ARE PLAYING IT TOO. It's a little psychological game that griefers play and people with pathetic low esteem like yourself play to try to feel more inflated online. Not playing.

$10,000 is about $37 or $39 dollars in the US, enough to feed a family of 3 every day. I'd never spend that much for lunch every day, it would be preposterous. Maybe some people do, but not me, I'm poor.

I don't care what your sad RL story is. I truly don't. Move on to your interracial cuckholds or other groups where you may find solace. Not here to play.

I don't edit chatlogs. I publish them when people harass me. Naturally they and other griefers are welcome to pretend they've been edited or tampered, but what they show is the inconsistences in the strange "Michel/Michael" story, that's all. I really don't care about you, your alts, and your online adventures. Take them elsewhere.

I don't have any "puppets". All my alts are in my groups and are obviously alts holding the different groups together.

The land that was abandoned was in fact seized by the Lindens from the griefing group Woodbury University, a griefing professor, as it happened. The Lindens have three times seized all their land in SL, and with very good reason, they are total assholes who have harassed and copybotted many people. I'm not interested in buying more land in Furness which doesn't rent well. I've sold my land there in fact by the roadside and kept only the waterfront. I'm not the person who bought that land, it's some other rentals agency I believe.

Now for the last time: go away, leave me alone, stop bothering me, stop harassing me, and be warned: your grief towers are going to continue to get multiple Ars not only from me but everyone in that area.