anyone else see random dead characters?

[TheWizard14 372]

Anyone see random dead characters with fairly good items just sitting around the coast, and the gear still stays on the body even though you can take it? If I take the gear, I will have it for about 5 minutes, but then it disappears. Normal gear that I find still stays on me. I might be late but what is this?

[Grimey Rick 3417]

[dvsilverwing 241]

IIRC, there's a way people dupe items by cloning themselves and killing the clone somehow, not sure of the exact details but I guess it involves screwing around with your connection or something. You might be encountering the clone of someone who's tried to dupe?