What is the most pathetic scamming attempt that you encountered?

How is that even possible? If one person's viewing the cut scene, everyone is. Right?

I actually, as a joke, spammed "will strip for gold" while on my female ranger & had guys giving me money. There are alot of pathetic people out there.

I said WTB 200 ecto

guy opens trade and puts up 250 mursaat tokens

Thirsty river scam relies on you not knowing whats going to happen. Scammer tells you to stand at mission start and drop your loot, while he goes up next to ghostly hero NPC "To prove its not a scam". Soon as you drop the item he talks to npc, pulling you up there with him. He runs back to get your item cause you still trying to figure out WTF just happened.

Basically, guys use the NPC cutscenes to teleport you away from the item you dropped. He then uses speed buffs to run over and pick it up before you can figure out what is going on and run back to your item.

Same thing used to be done in Dunes of Despair mission. Talk to the ghostly after beating the mesmer boss... bah... group gets teleported.

Most pathetic scamm attemt....
probably when a guy tryed to tell me his item was a new introduced invisible weapon, i then said, "would you take 30 Invisible Gold? they are new and are worth 10 platnum each". Guy says "OMG, Rippof, no way!"

Me: "WTB bolts of Damask"
Scammer: "I have some for u"
Me: "cool, how much u want for it?"
Scammer "<insert current going rate here>"
Me: "ill buy it"
*trade commences*
Me: "This isn't Damask it's bolts of Linen"
Scammer: "I fail"
Me: "So...do you have Damask then?"
Scammer: *silence*

actually,

all scammers are pathetic. its a game, if any are here, listen to this: try playing the game and stop ruining other peoples fun.

Already been posted but here goes:

lol omg that is SOME OWNAGE, gz

Just equip it then ^^ just to poke their eyes out hehehe

Thanks for that heads up!

My experience: A guy wants to buy my Kuunavang for 75 sapphires, which would have been around 150k @ 2k each if I recall right.
Obviously I was on alert, and indeed he offered 75 "heart of ice" quest items.
I took a screenie, reported him, and 1 week later the image of the ice and heart of ice got changed. I hope the guy got a huge ban.

I was with my friend, he was running me to Sanctum Cay while I was on my level 4 with Elite Templar (lol....I was bored.).

Anyway, my friend wanted to take people so that he can make some money. Some guy wanted to come so we took him. Along the way he kept saying that he would pay half at ToA and half at Sanctum. We got to ToA, and the guy kept cancelling the trade, saying he'll pay half at ToA.

...We were there. But he kept acting like a freakin' retard. So, my friend ignored it and just kept him along, and said he should pay at this other town...forgot what it was called, but it was on the coast.

In the zone near the town, my friend said for the guy to pay there, or he wouldn't go anywhere. The guy kept cencelling the trade, so my friend just decided to abandon the guy at the town.

It's a shame that there are so many retards in the world. My 9 year old neighbor who plays Runescape comes up with better scams than this.

500g!? It's dropped since I last ran it. I used to get 1k for it. People would come in and ask for a runner so I volunteered whenever I saw it.

I still don't understand how people can bring themselves to do that. It takes almost as much time to map travel to kaineng as it does run from the marketplace.

I saw someone the other day who wasn't just advertising 500g runs to kaineng..oh, no: these were Pro 500g runs to kaineng.

O_o

Best 500g I ever spent. /sarcasm

Didn't happen to me, but happened to my b/f. Not a major deal, but the person was horribly irritating.

He sells stacks of materials for reasonable prices (that is to say, many people buy them without complaint), and spotted a person wanting to buy stacks for ridiculously low prices.

He whispered them with his price (250 x trader price divided by 10, minus 500- 800g), and the person then persistently started spamming him with 'noob', 'scammer', and that they could sell materials (in this case, wood) for 3g to a material trader for every ten. His attempt to explain his method of selling failed, and the person then went offline and continuously spammed him.

Boy, did I feel sorry for him.

Oh well, he moved on to the next person, who happily accepted his offer, and hopefully the weirdo he had to deal with failed to buy materials from other people.

Otherwise, there're the people who proclaim that you're selling something at too high a price, then try to trade you a weapon that is 'extremely rare' and the same price as what you're selling.

dupe under the tree near droknar...lame...
and one in thirsty river i believe...

Okay, I get it. Thanks for the explanation Hawk and Socrates. No one's ever tried that one on me or anyone I know.

#1 - Xg in place of Xk
Haven't fallen for it, the well known, "Ok I gotta log off quick, so let's make this trade fast!!"

#2 - The Mesmer NF skin that's the same as Rago's Staff.
Happened in Droks. They put up Rago's, then modified the trade, put up the junk, and cancelled the trade all in like 10 seconds. I was in "Mid mouse hovering over item" when the window closed.
Must've been obvious I knew and was double checking myself

#3 - ***ANET's FAULT!!!***
Update - Monday February 19, 2007
Fixed a bug that sometimes caused trade offers to be displayed incorrectly.

Selling perfect r9 Zodiac Shield 100k+2e (Paid 75k on here) in LA.
"Ok I'll buy it for 12 ectos"
The guy put up 12 wood, didn't dawn on me it could've been a 'scam' since it was through trade and the skin of ecto and wood are obviously different.
So he puts up 12 ecto after modifying, I saw the little 12, I probably hovered my mouse as well.
I hit accept. I noticed chat says "Glob of Ectoplasm" .. I was like hmm, I open inventory, and indeed... I received 1 ecto instead of 12.

Like 3 days later, I see the update notes and thought, Gee thanks ANET!

Ahh well. I bought the shield for Koss anyway and since I don't use wars except for Talon or Devona, I decided to sell it.

And el oh el @ Dfrost. The top of the chat screenshot says "Doublicating" lmao

i was doing this to one guy... (sorry)
but i saw this guy had a collassal scimatar( max dmg energy +5 20% enchants) and wanted a price check, and i said it would be only 5k and i said ill buy for 10k and he said ok. than i felt guilty and i gave it back to him and he gave my money back and said it costs a lot.