[quote name='Josh1billion']A way to earn reputation would be to stick around on the forums for a year or two and participate in conversations on the forum. I just get very suspicious when I see someone who created an account just for the sake of joining a gameshare group. When I saw his first post, I thought "ok, this could go either way-- a noob who legitimately to join a group, or a scammer creating a new account to rip people off again." The fact that he deleted his first post when I replied to it raises my suspicion from 50% to 90% chance of danger.
There's still massive damage that a phantom could cause. He could get the account info, quickly download onto two PS3's (his own and a friend's), do the remote deactivation himself, reactivate on a couple of other PS3's.. in a situation like that, even being able to change the password back would still mean waiting a full year before the other 3 people gain complete access again. Scary thought.
That's a worst-case scenario, so the chance of that happening is probably very low in general (though just doing the first half of the steps would still be a major headache for everyone else), but the chance of it happening with a brand new user who created an account just for the sake of joining a group.... well, I wouldn't risk it, personally. It doesn't take much effort to post around and become a familiar face in the community, so anyone who tries to skip that step throws a red flag in my book.[/QUOTE]
I only created an account on here to get into game sharing as well, but you do make some good points.
I personally think if the new person is fine with funding the account then I am more likely to allow them into a group of mine.
Even better if they buy the game an then sell the account info to other members, since they already have put money into it and are just selling the extra slots to recuperate costs.