Habbottery

Habbottery Thrones

Habbottery was a one-off semi-official event promoted by Hotel Manager Jibbi and hosted by Habbo user 'Reem' on the 9th September 2004. The event is well regarded as being one of the biggest scandals/scams on the hotel with 40 Thrones not being rewarded as promised and several thousand Club Sofas being conned out of users. Due to the nature of the hotel at the time, the scam had a wide-spread impact on users, Hobbas and Sulake staff.

The Event

Habbottery was devised by the user Reem during August 2004, who had intended for users to gamble their furniture to her in exchange for a trophy with a number on it, with each row of numbers costing 5 HCs, in the hope that their number would appear when the Dicemasters were later rolled. Reem was reported to have already known Jibbi to such an extent, that she managed to convince Jibbi to promote the event to the entirety of the hotel via alerts and with help from the Hobbas 'rareboy' and 'rareoid' (one of whom was supposedly also in a relationship with Reem).

At the time of the event on the 9th September, the Dicemasters were rolled twice, once by Reem herself who rolled the winning number belonged to the user 'Ullie'. However, Ullie was not given this prize as rareboy rolled the Dicemasters again followed by Reem proceeding to 'run off' with the 40 Thrones and thus scamming hundreds of Habbo users in an officially promoted event. Before she had departed, she'd placed various Trophies in a room containing hints to where users could find an explanation as to what she had done and her justification for it which can still be viewed on HabboxForum.

Reem's reasoning for the scam was due to a previous incident that occurred between her and Jibbi regarding the Splash Plastic payment method for obtaining Credits. At the time, there was a well known glitch which allowed users who used this payment method to get more Credits than they were due and Reem reported this to Jibbi, who then removed approximately 2400 Credits which Reem wasn't meant to have and told Reem everyone's glitched Credits would be removed. However, Reem claimed other players did not have their Credits removed and she had been treated unfairly, so she ended up using the previously normal event to try and enact an act of revenge on Jibbi for removing her Credits by scamming users and thus leaving Jibbi to compensate users.

Aftermath

Protests about the scam

Reem was very quickly banned after such an incident took place, but she supposedly moved onto another, new account with Thrones gained from elsewhere; though this is yet to be confirmed. More importantly to users around this era, is the fact that Jibbi resigned from Sulake shortly over 1.5 months later - many users have said that this incident is most likely one of the reasons why she resigned from her position, since she had essentially advertised a gambling scam and was forced to recompensate every user who had lost furniture as a result of this event.

In addition to this, the Credits hundreds of other users had gained by exploiting Splash Plastic were removed by Sulake staff shortly after this event; this could have been entirely coincidental or Reem could have been the driving force behind this move.