No I Wont Scam

Lately in the past few days people have been in towns and posts saying "WTB factions account of wts" later on, they cry because they are scammed for like 100k or whatever. Then they go on begging for money.... Yesterday in ascalon i was giving away some blues i had recently farmed to new guys. a couple people messaged me and asked for money, i told them no. I asked why they needed it, they replied they were scammed for an account.

I have decided to make a list of things to watch out for when buying / selling.

I went around saying WTB account ( just to see how the people act) and got a couple people. i asked how much for it he said 20k.. this leads me to my first point and second point.

1. DO NOT BUY ACCOUNTS IN GUILD WARS.
2. if they are selling extremely low(such as 20k) they are scamming.

So i asked how he wanted to do this ( 10k isnt much of a loss for me), he said half and half, i acted like i was worried and crap, he says, no i wont scam, i do this for a living. (lol a living? wow pretty lame).so i pay 10k, check the account then pay rest. i knew what was going to happen. i screen the conversation and trade window, give him the 10k... ill tell you what i do later.

3. They are going to run off when you do this, ignore you, log out, or deny they scammed you.

I send this into anet, da da da, do all that other stuff, they send me a message the guy got banned for a week.. well after this, i was selling some stuff i farmed, ill list what to watch out for, i know this has been posted many times but im saying it again.

4. double check the box no matter what, another 2 seconds to chec will be worth it.

5. make sure its the right item, the skin may be the same, but the item isnt. like altheas ashes and glittering dust.

6. if you are selling for say 4k, make sure its in the plat box not gold.

7. do not pay upfront for anything, unless they give it to you in the trade. (example: give me the money and ill go get the sword from my guildie and give you it). <dont fall for that, have him trade it in the screen when you pay.

8. last one, do not scam, it is not worth it, you will get banned permanently or maybe for a few days. AND DO NOT BUY ANY ACCOUNTS OFF GW. securely do it from plaync or go to a store and buy it.

Like i said before, i know this and how to advoid scams had been posted before, but i want to remind people what to watch out for.
In every game, there are people that will try to scam or "be your friend" just to get stuff. dont fall for this, and hopefully this list could somehow help you.
If you read this far... thanks

I'm not quite sure what you were saying happened here. you said you "check the account", implying you actually logged onto the account he was saying he'd give you, then you relogged and payed him another 10k? Did he just give you the password to his account and not change the email or something? You said something about them running away when you try and pay them the second installment, but I don't understand why they'd run from an extra 10k if they have you convinced the account is yours.

Oh, btw, despite all my questions, nice safety tips

You should have said I'll pay the rest after email change and see how he reacts.

Good food for thought.

I tend to have a habit of PMing people saying "WTB/S GW Account!" and telling them that it's a bannable offenses. Surprisingly I get more "Oh Sh*t, thanks for waring me!" responses than I do "STFU N00b" ones.

i reported 1 time to anet but they didnt reply =/

My advice is to just not buy or sell them. Come what may.

(Though I was in ascalon and someone was asking if anyone had 1k. So being nice I gave it to him. Suddenly I had a bunch of people pvting me begging for 1k also. One person wanted to make the other jealous by having 1k ect... kind of unrelated but it was lame all the same.)

BTW ANet doesn't disclose the details of what happens to the individual, so you don't recieve an e-mail telling you they have been banned.

no i didnt check it he just said to log in and look at it, it was a fake though, said no such email, thats what i meant, i actually didnt log into it, sorry for not explinaing that

If I ever was so bored of GW that I didn't want to play it anymore, what the heck would I do with the in-game gold I get for selling it?
Believe me, when most people get bored of this, it will simply disspear in some faraway drawer, eventually being digged up by your mother and thrown away

Um A.net DOES NOT send you what happens to the person you reported. They simply say they will look INTO IT and you the sender would not know the outcome.

Someone tried hitting me with this not too long ago. I was selling a 5k item. The guy didn't even haggle for less, he just asked me how much I'm going for and said he'd take it. We went tot he trade screen, i placed the axe and he places the money. Only the number "5" was not on the plat area. I saw this and he was like "woops." Afterward he said it wasn't worth it.

...I don't think he had 5k. He was just trying to trick me. Good thing I got a good eye.

What? People scam in GW?

/Sarcasm

I actually paid for my factions account from someone I met ingame. Paid $18 USD for it. Best deal in my friggen life.

Not everyone is a scammer.

I didn't read your whole post and I'm going to. I read up to the part where you said "I got a message from anet saying they banned him for a week."

Anet will not inform on whether or not they decide to take action against the player you have reported. You recieve only a confirmation email that they have received the report.

Don't lie for attention. You're pathetic.

I hate peolpe who sell real things for guild wars gold, Like runescape accounts, *shudder*

those are insanely common, I just wonder if any of those are successful.

Not everyoen is as lucky as u to not get scammed. If gw was reminicinet of real life, itd be the equivalent of living in [put in name of crime filled neighborhood/city]. yes there are some good ppl out there but alot are assholes. I personally have been scammed several hundred k by ppl. if u want soem names, pm me ingame but i cant gvie names on forums. the op put a good guide. should be stickied so noobies will know wut to look out for before its too late.

well then not everyone scams but 95% do.

let's hope gaile doesn't see that
and good job on stopping the scamer

Proof please.

I refuse to believe that 95% of "everyone" scams.

its not proof i just gave a number, go on the game and try some of this. youll be surprised.

Actually, he paid in real money. There's nothing wrong with that. It's just that he met the guy in game, but then bought it in real life.

Yep. That's exactly right.

Yeah, I'll be pretty surprised when it's not 95%. Right.

Wait, I thought buying accounts was also against the Eula.

Buying accounts is against the EULA, and so is buying gold and items for real money, and so is botting.

People still do it.

I don't see how buying an account can be illegal. It's basically the same as buying a game off someone else. Only difference is that the account can have stuff on it (the stuff isn't even real).

Against the EULA does not equal ILLEGAL. I think you misunderstand what was meant. The EULA is simply the license agreement that was created by ANET with regards to this game and it's use. It's not a LAW.

When you're selling something and they guy puts in a way to low offer than what you agreed upon, make him pay 5% more.

Don: "WTS parch"
Sumgai: "I need 100, 80g each ok?"
Don: "ok"
*sumgai puts in 8g and accepts*
* Don waits *
*waits*
*waits*
*waits*
Sumguy: oh OOPS, eheheh, sry
*Sumgai puts in 7k500g and accepts*
*Don waits some more*
Sumgai: u there?
Don: screenshot, pay 85g each or face report+ban

BLACKMAIL PWNS

Sorry, but ANET wouldn't tell you that, and the person who was banned wouldn't tell you that either, well ok they might, but the odds of them doing so are slim to none, and they already have 0 credibility... Which means you're making this up, or what you're saying is probably inaccurate.


P.S. For anyone who thinks the OP is telling the truth, try reading the EULA or ToS on the GuildWars website, I know there's a clause in one of them that states they'll never tell you if any action was taken from somthing you reported

http://www.guildwars.com/support/legal/

^ It's in one of those on that page, most likely the EULA or ToS.

I've reported people before, and they clearly state in their email that they won't reveal the actions taken against the person you're reporting.

And 95% of everyone does not scam.

Its not that its illegal but it is agaisnt the rules of the user agreement section 3.

http://www.guildwars.com/support/leg...-agreement.php

"Subject to the terms of this Agreement, NC Interactive grants to you, for your personal use only, a non-exclusive, revocable, nontransferable (except as permitted in Section 4(a)) license to use the Service, and a non-exclusive, revocable, nontransferable (except as permitted in Section 4(a)) license to use the Software in connection with the Service, without charge except for new Chapters which will be charged on a prepaid basis according to Section 5.

You may not (a) sublicense, rent, lease, loan or otherwise transfer the Software or the Service (or any part thereof), including without limitation access keys; (b) modify, adapt, reverse engineer or decompile the Software, or otherwise attempt to derive source code from the Software; (c) create any derivative works in respect of the Software or the Service; or (d) otherwise use the Software or the Service except as expressly provided in this Agreement. You should keep your access key in a safe place and not share it with anyone else. The access key can be used only once. Title to the Software, and all rights with respect to the Software and Service not specifically granted under this Agreement, including without limitation all rights of reproduction, modification, distribution, display, disassembly and decompilation and all copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret and other proprietary rights and interests are reserved to NC Interactive.

"

And I know for a fact it isn't allowed because when I asked it was a gw gm that gave me that answer.

http://www.execulink.com/~whisp1/gui...untselling.JPG

Anyways if people get scammed its their own fault and reporting what happened when buying and selling an account is just reproting your own wrong doings hahaahh.