yeah, but I mentioned in my original post that even when I became a medium stack they still played the same way, never involving themselves seriously against each other but constantly wanting to get involved in big pots with me. It's not that I ever really felt like they were genuinely colluding to get a few more pennies or dollars out of the freerolls, it just felt as though since I rarely play in these, that I was the outsider and they were all somehow like "good ole' boys" or something like that...players who resented a newcomer who knew what to do at the final table...it was just a feeling I had at the time, probably completely false.

What do you mean by "cheaters/scammers", how do people cheat and scam PO freerolls?