Reeser says:

As a 10 year old kid without any responcibility and a 4 month summer vacation, I had sunk hundreds of hours into Diablo II and the LOD expansion pack… I remember being so happy at the time due to just recently aquiring an extremely rare item on my pushing-80 sorc on a Baal run. The name of the item escapes me at the moment, but I do remember sprinting around my house in a fit of pixie-stick induced glee (high) after getting it. Whatever it was, it was the 10-year old equivalent of feeling up your first boob. This was one of my first experiences with an online community and as a 12 year old kid, I was not yet acclimated to the rampant scamming and douchebaggery that such a game can hold. Thus, when I saw a guy advertising free high-level items (again it’s been forever since I’ve played so I don’t remember exactly what it was), I licked my greedy lips and bit the bait. I don’t recall exactly how it went down. Somehow he said he couldn’t just drop the items and allow me to pick them up. I DO remember however, the sirens going off in my head when the guy said the only way he could make it work was if he had my account information and password. “It’ll just be a minute,” he said. “I do this all the time, I promise.” I….PROMISE…. Those were the two words that got me. I hadn’t yet become the jaded individual that I am today, and after he “promised,” I happily handed him the reigns, a shit-eating grin on my face as images of uniques danced across my mind. I logged off my account. 5….10…..20 minutes passed. I decided he had to be done by now, so I brought up the login screen and typed in my username (Voldemorts) and my password (don’t recall). A small popup greeted me: USERNAME/PASSWORD IS INCORRECT. My heart raced, but thinking I had either entered a typo or had a sudden onset of child’s alzheimers, I tried again.. USERNAME/PASSWORD IS INCORRECT. I tried a hundred different combinations over the next hour, getting more and more frantic as my world crashed in around my 10 year old psyche. I had been duped! How could I have been so stupid? Hundreds of hours wasted and gone in an instant of greed and stupidity! My summer was ruined…. In a daze and with my head down, I walked over to my bed, and cried myself to sleep. And as stupid as it sounds, as ridiculous it may appear, THAT my friends is when I first learned that the world I had been brought up in was not such a nice place. It was also the last time I decided, that I would let my GREED would win over my logic. A hard lesson learned….A hard lesson learned indeed.