What is the most pathetic scamming attempt that you encountered?

Some guy tried to scam my runic blade using the unyielding aura thing. I wanted to have fun so I played the game. The problem was that he was a warrior, so it took like 10 minutes for him to rezz me. Once he succeded, I dropped a tournament token. Seeing the gold text, he stops unyielding aura, get the token and start saying, "hahahahaha I got you!!!!"

5 minutes later he pm'd me saying "OMFG YOU SCAMMED ME IT HAS NO USE1!!1"

another one...
when gw became 1 year and the mini invasion came, i wanted to buy some minis. a guy wanted to trade me 1 major illusion magic rune, a starter necro rod and a puple dye. He told me that if i buy that those things would magically change into a mini rurik, believe it or not...

I said tomeS, like.. multiple tomes. I think it were 3 elite necros and 2 elite monks. So no, I didnt scam myself

When Sorrow's Furnace came out, some guy in droks was offering to run people to a supposed new area called Diamond Mines for 5k each. There were people calling him a scammer in all channels. Pretty funny since I ran the whole area and saw no such place.

Sometimes, when buying something for 1.5k, I have offered 1 plat and 5 gold by mistake. >_<

Buying Ectos 9k each.

There's usually a guy in LA selling moa eggs for 2K. They usually get mad when you offer them for free.

Some stupid ppl said they can melt Frozen ecto into regular ecto in Ember Light Camp at a cost of 1k each and they'll come back in 5 min.

Just saw someone trying to sell for 8k...
I don't see a problem in selling them for 2k, although it would be nice to give them away for free. Some might buy them, as they don't have the Ascalon-area on their map (if they came from NF or Factions) and would have to get a run for some k. (But I wouldn't do it)

Most annoying scam is still... if they try to pay 5g instead of 5k etc...

And there are not only scammers out there. I once made a mistake and paid 10x the price we agreed on. Few seconds after the trade I noticed it, and the seller gave it back to me immediately.

^_^

worst/best scam to me was wen i asked the scammer to have my 200 ectos back and he said ok:S

when i was level 17, i was in lions arch when someone said they'd run me to anywhere i wanted for 200 gold. I didnt even ask, it was completely out of the blue..
so i asked him if hed run me to kaieng city (to see if he was scamming) he said yes.. so to make sure he was scamming i asked if hed run me to "skarming buugr" and he replied "yea, but that'll cost an extra 100 gold".

The worst attempted scam I've ever encountered was about a year after release, so I don't remember the details. But some person in Ascalon City was advertizing that they could forge a special weapon for people out in Old Ascalon, so I PM'd that person and they said that they could do it, but they'd need 250g for the process to work (whatever it was). My final question was "Should we go outside, or should I just report you for scamming now?" The answer I got was something along the lines of "OMG! Please don't report me! My mom will kill me if I get banned!

Personally I think all scam attempts are pretty pathetic. This is a game where having a lot of wealth doesn't make you a better player. The super rich are on equal footing in battle with the average player. Just play the game and you'll make more money than sitting around in Ascalon looking for suckers.

The only time I've been scammed was in Temple of Ages. I joined a group asking for 4 trappers for UW. He demanded 250g from everyone for entry fee and we warped in. He immediately aggroed all the Aatexes and got us killed. He survived and said he wouldn't rez us so we should just leave. He said he had a solo build and only brought us to pay the entry fee for him. Now that's pathetic!!!

This wasn't exactly a scam, but I saw a guy spamming in Kaineng for hours:
WTB mini panda 4k!!!!!!
I have a screenshot of it around here somewhere, but can't find it.

Noob had 2 globs of ectoplasm, and he thought they were worthless.
So he went to me and said Ill give you 2 ecto's for 500g.

I traded and he started whispering me going "LOL NOOB!"
And then whispering how, "Ecto's are worth nothing lololol"

I told him to check the rare material trader, he whispered me again telling me to give it back =P

I guy put in an awesome Fellblade in a trade box. All gold, req 8 and everything. Then he said "hold on", trade box was empty, then it showed a white unmodded Fellblade. I guess he didn't know that they now have it show with the big red letters "TRADE HAS BEEN CHANGED." Very clever sir monk.

My *FAVORITE* has been when this Mo/A (secondary profession important) PM'd me about this Zodiac sword I had put up for auction. He invited me to his party and then he zoned out. He walked far back and said "hey could you drop it so I know it's legit?" Immediately I thought "Oh HELL no, he ain't pulling this shit on me!"

Luckily, I had a crappy 14-21 damage gold and umodded FDS, so I dropped that instead, he shadowstepped over, picked it up, and logged off. When he logged back on, he gave me a big "F U" and ignored me. Goooood days.

Was selling my eternal shield for 100k once in kamadan and there was that guy who was a famous scammer in eu eng as he was there everynight doing it. [he even got a fow -.-]

he offered a low price[which i dun remember] and i refused
So he came to trade with me and offered 1g +2e
I waited while thinking how to get back to him and he cancelled trade.

pretending to be stupid i said, "oh wait you wanna buy at 100k+2e"
Scammer:"yes yes" [lol]
quickly come back to trade with me offered the 1g+2e
I put in a crap purple r12 eternal shield and he was so quick to accept:P
2e for merch food :P sure why not?

100 gold versus 100k has been attempted on many transactions of mine.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Ebon_Escape

Although I take your point about getting the item deleted.

You could go outside with that guy and double click to release your pet, see how he would grab it from you.

was selling a high end item, guy put stack of murssat tokens instead of ecto in window, i laughed alot, then he logged out....