i got scamed 100 k + 125 ectos...
i was offered saphirs for it.. worth like 100 k + 140 ectos... he showed me them looked exactly like real saphirs and i even read the name suddenly he changed them i didnt notice... so i got a bunch of fake saphirs for miniyeti when it was worth 100 k +125 ectos
i then reqvested to anet to help me.. they say we will investiagte this and any action taken will be discused etween the account related and anet.. so the next day i looked the guy didnt get banned he was still scaming people.. i GOT SOO ANGRY .... i then scamed around 50 people just to bring anet the attention of this scam...
thanks to my mass scam fake saphirs got changed skin after 2 -3 days lol ^^ <<<
What is the most pathetic scamming attempt that you encountered?
Spanky HB
Spanky HB
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Originally Posted by Kikuta
I decided to have some fun with the 'recall scammers' today.
Playing as my D/Mo, I started advertising that I was selling my req9 perfect Crystalline (of course I don't actually own one). VERY quickly did I have someone asking if they could see it outside. So off we go, out the front of Lion's Arch. He loaded before me and of course casted recall on me the second I appeared and fired off his commands that I should go and stand far away. I trotted over to the water-bed, and asked him "Is this good?". He was happy enough. He wasn't happy at all when I cast Contemplation of Purity and started yelling at him for shadow stepping to me just before I was going to drop the sword. He actually apologised and asked that I move a lot further away. Just before I agreed - and before he could cast Recall on me again - I cast Vow of Silence and started walking over to a different spot. He left before I'd even left his agro bubble. |
BenjZee
Don't often trade but when i do it's quick transactions. I just make sure i read every item before i accept. I feel sorry for the people that still dont know about the assasin step trick
BenjZee
whats great actually is when u play along with the stupid long scams on purpose then just as he trioes to make it final say u have screenshots of the whole event and will /report if they don't pay up. beat a scammer by scamming them
X Salvation X
One person decided to wing it and ask me for my email and password straight up. True story.
Ninian_Grace
in the first days I started playing, (when the game came out) some dude tried to sell me a fiery dragon sword and tried to make me beleive that when you equiped the sword and typed in an emote you would change into Rurik...
Taurucis
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Originally Posted by Spanky HB
i got scamed 100 k + 125 ectos...
i was offered saphirs for it.. worth like 100 k + 140 ectos... he showed me them looked exactly like real saphirs and i even read the name suddenly he changed them i didnt notice... so i got a bunch of fake saphirs for miniyeti when it was worth 100 k +125 ectos i then reqvested to anet to help me.. they say we will investiagte this and any action taken will be discused etween the account related and anet.. so the next day i looked the guy didnt get banned he was still scaming people.. i GOT SOO ANGRY .... i then scamed around 50 people just to bring anet the attention of this scam... thanks to my mass scam fake saphirs got changed skin after 2 -3 days lol ^^ <<< |
You could have just made the issue between you and Anet. You didn't have to scam 50 other people just because you were too dumb to double-check a trade.
Basically, you're no better off than any of the scammers. In order to prevent a scam, you scammed 50 people. You're not getting a halo anytime soon.
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I saw a guy who seemed fresh out of Runescape, he claimed that he could "15k trim your armor" for 5k a pop.
Negligate
actually saw a scammer today,
was selling some high end wares when this guy (call him guy 1)approach and said he was interested, then another guy (call him guy 2)came and said that the guy 1 wants to buy his stuff too.
guy 1 then said he wants to see what guy 2's stuff look like so we went outside.
guy 2 then walk away and drop the items so guy 1 can see them.
then guy 1 walked away to a a diff spot and drop his items too so guy 2 can choose and pick what he wants. guy 1 then ask me to drop the item i was selling so he can c.
thats when i say "i wont even try"
he was w/a....
and then he knew that i know he was scamming, he tried recruiting me and showed me all the things he scammed. wpns/pets valued at 400k i would say.
i told him it wont work, and he said, im an expert...
guy 2 was on it too, they were double teaming me.
Beware of this scam.
was selling some high end wares when this guy (call him guy 1)approach and said he was interested, then another guy (call him guy 2)came and said that the guy 1 wants to buy his stuff too.
guy 1 then said he wants to see what guy 2's stuff look like so we went outside.
guy 2 then walk away and drop the items so guy 1 can see them.
then guy 1 walked away to a a diff spot and drop his items too so guy 2 can choose and pick what he wants. guy 1 then ask me to drop the item i was selling so he can c.
thats when i say "i wont even try"
he was w/a....
and then he knew that i know he was scamming, he tried recruiting me and showed me all the things he scammed. wpns/pets valued at 400k i would say.
i told him it wont work, and he said, im an expert...
guy 2 was on it too, they were double teaming me.
Beware of this scam.
Yichi
Standing in Great temple ad1 the other night. I see WTS keys - 2k ea. Well I know somethings going on because these gor for 4-5k easily. so I pm the guy (ok I admit I figured I could easily double the profits) and say Ill take his keys. We go to storage, open trade and hes selling ascalon keys.
LMFAO. If the guy wanted to at least try and scam, get a key that looks similar, not completely different.
LMFAO. If the guy wanted to at least try and scam, get a key that looks similar, not completely different.
Turtle222
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Originally Posted by X Salvation X
One person decided to wing it and ask me for my email and password straight up. True story.
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Him/Her: "Give me your password and email"
Me: "no"
Him/Her: "you suck"
Smile Like Umean It
LMAO
Points for having the balls to try it?
Points for having the balls to try it?
Stolen Souls
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Originally Posted by Turtle222
hehe i think i had the same guy.
Him/Her: "Give me your password and email" Me: "no" Him/Her: "you suck" |
I think I saw that once too, actually. >.>
FrAnt1c??
2 guys spamming in kamadan,
One guy was spamming:
"W T S Runic Maul Q9 15^50 etc...."
The other guy:
"W T T My panda for a Runic Maul Q9..."
Reported em both for spamming in All Chat
One guy was spamming:
"W T S Runic Maul Q9 15^50 etc...."
The other guy:
"W T T My panda for a Runic Maul Q9..."
Reported em both for spamming in All Chat
onerabbit
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Originally Posted by FrAnt1c²
2 guys spamming in kamadan,
One guy was spamming: "W T S Runic Maul Q9 15^50 etc...." The other guy: "W T T My panda for a Runic Maul Q9..." Reported em both for spamming in All Chat |
here one i had..
WTS Eternal Shield req9 inscribable b/o 100k + 5 ectos / c/o 100k + 8 ectos..
i was like ok .. wtf. pm the guy, hey il take the b/o price lol.
he was like no, you have to bid over 8 ectos
so i said 10 ectos.. he said ok il inform last bidder.
5 mins later, ok he said 14 ectos, want to go higher? ..
me: na thanks, to much for me..
him: ok, il do it +12 for you.. il tell him you bid 16 or something
at this point i smell something fishy and say
na, +5 ectos or nothing, the other bidder isnt real obiously..
hen says, ok we meet kamadan, il show the other guy is real.
he brings the other guy to kamadan, and add me to party, we go outside..
hes like, yeh i want the shield bla bla..
im like ok, gl and left.
5mins later, the guy pms me
you want to buy the shield? +10 ectos final deal..
im like, mmm ok, we traded..
he then goes haha you fing noob, the other guy wasnt even a real bidder.
i go yh, i know, but you just lost out, ima sell this on guru now for +20+ ectos..
hes like omg noob, thats not even worth 100k..
same day i sold it on guru +24 ectos.
this was when NF was pretty new.
You can't see me
If you want to see a really bad scam that's robbed practically everyone in the game by making nearly all weapons worthless, check this out.
http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Zaishen_chest
http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Zaishen_chest
onerabbit
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Originally Posted by You can't see me
If you want to see a really bad scam that's robbed practically everyone in the game by making nearly all weapons worthless, check this out.
http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Zaishen_chest |
Rushin Roulette
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Originally Posted by Turtle222
hehe i think i had the same guy.
Him/Her: "Give me your password and email" Me: "no" Him/Her: "you suck" |
Him/Her: "Give me your password and email"
Me something like : "[email protected] and iwasgankedbyababy ... why do you want to know?"
Him/Her: "Haha noob, Im going to jack your account now" -and logged off
Couldnt stop laughing for an hour after that
Darkhell153
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Originally Posted by Rushin Roulette
Lol, I think I saw the same one aswell, but the conversation went more like this;
Him/Her: "Give me your password and email" Me something like : "[email protected] and iwasgankedbyababy ... why do you want to know?" Him/Her: "Haha noob, Im going to jack your account now" -and logged off Couldnt stop laughing for an hour after that |
Dallcingi
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Originally Posted by Dograzor
What is the worst and stupidest scamming attemt you encountered?? I was selling a req 9 Stormbow perf for 75k.... the buyer agreed, and put in 75g and tried to convince me to press accept.... lol...
if you're sleepy you might fall for it... but this is the bottom i've reached... |
Master Sword Keeper
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Originally Posted by Rushin Roulette
Lol, I think I saw the same one aswell, but the conversation went more like this;
Him/Her: "Give me your password and email" Me something like : "[email protected] and iwasgankedbyababy ... why do you want to know?" Him/Her: "Haha noob, Im going to jack your account now" -and logged off Couldnt stop laughing for an hour after that |
heh heh people like that give me a [skill]Migraine[/skill]
Kusandaa
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Originally Posted by Rushin Roulette
Lol, I think I saw the same one aswell, but the conversation went more like this;
Him/Her: "Give me your password and email" Me something like : "[email protected] and iwasgankedbyababy ... why do you want to know?" Him/Her: "Haha noob, Im going to jack your account now" -and logged off Couldnt stop laughing for an hour after that |
boxterduke
An incident happened to me just last week (been a while, more than a year since someone tried to scam me)
I farmed me up 250 destroyer cores and was selling them for 100k+2ectos.
A guy told me that he is interested in them so I went to him and opened the trade window and he only put in the 2 ectos and not the 100k.
When I called him on it he just closed the window and ran away.
I LOLed at him and told him nice try, I got a screenshot of it so I can lol at it again a couple years form now.
I farmed me up 250 destroyer cores and was selling them for 100k+2ectos.
A guy told me that he is interested in them so I went to him and opened the trade window and he only put in the 2 ectos and not the 100k.
When I called him on it he just closed the window and ran away.
I LOLed at him and told him nice try, I got a screenshot of it so I can lol at it again a couple years form now.
RhanoctJocosa
probably the scam where they get you to drop your stuff in that rock in the desert and they activate a cut scene and run for it. basically because i knew what he was doing i just messed around with him. fun`
Chrono Re delle Ere
Lol I've just met guys trying to:
shadow step scam,
gold instead of plats scam.
The only "funny" one was when I was buying ectoes for my fow and he offered me 10 Mursaat Tokens, that was when there was not displayed yet the name of the items...I was nearly accepting zomg xD Lucky I noticed before
Nobody has never managed to scam me anyway
Lol and the nice thing is to put them on ignore and keep talking to them with a lot of "sarcasm" and they can't even answer xD The funny part is that they are too stupid to even put me on ignore...LMAO
Edit: now I get why most people leave party when I ask them to show out the skin... meh that sucks :l
shadow step scam,
gold instead of plats scam.
The only "funny" one was when I was buying ectoes for my fow and he offered me 10 Mursaat Tokens, that was when there was not displayed yet the name of the items...I was nearly accepting zomg xD Lucky I noticed before
Nobody has never managed to scam me anyway Lol and the nice thing is to put them on ignore and keep talking to them with a lot of "sarcasm" and they can't even answer xD The funny part is that they are too stupid to even put me on ignore...LMAO
Edit: now I get why most people leave party when I ask them to show out the skin... meh that sucks :l
TheRaven
I saw a guy in Ascalon yesterday spamming all chat with the following:
Scammer: Hey everyone! I just found a neat trick!!
Scammer: Type in your account name and password in local chat and it will display as asterisks!!"
Scammer: ******** **********
Scammer: See, I just did it. Cool huh? Everyone try it now!!
Unfortunately one noob fell for it. I hope he put in a fake account name just to fool with the scammer.
Scammer: Hey everyone! I just found a neat trick!!
Scammer: Type in your account name and password in local chat and it will display as asterisks!!"
Scammer: ******** **********
Scammer: See, I just did it. Cool huh? Everyone try it now!!
Unfortunately one noob fell for it. I hope he put in a fake account name just to fool with the scammer.
Masamune Saiyan
"If u don't give me g for storage, Anet will ban you."
I've never seen the /laugh emote, laugh so hard.
I've never seen the /laugh emote, laugh so hard.
Whisper Evenstar
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Originally Posted by Ninian_Grace
in the first days I started playing, (when the game came out) some dude tried to sell me a fiery dragon sword and tried to make me beleive that when you equiped the sword and typed in an emote you would change into Rurik...
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(and I say this in fun, I was once newb as well)
t h i n e eyes b l e e d
the first time I got scammed was at droks.... I was selling my first black dye ever. it was the time when ANet had JUST changed the trade window to show the platinums and gold seperately. so first of he ofered 10k thats what I came up with so he offered the 10k and then closed the trade window and gave me another offer of 10g instead of 10k.... I still HATE that update and still the scammers almost get me.
EmptySkull
I zoned into L.A. one day and notice someone spamming-"can double you money, up to 50k, no scam." or something like that. So I figured I would see what he/she was talking about. I pm'ed. They said grab some gold up to 50 k and come out into zone with me. I said ok I was ready. We went out and he said come over here and die. I did as he instructed. He rez'ed up with Unyeilding Aura. Then told me stand over here and drop my money on the ground. I refused. Lol, I even said riiight, as soon as I drop it you gonna let me die pick up my money and I'll never see you again. He began to berate me and left. LOL
Tender Wolf
Someone kept screaming something like, "750k Kurzick guild, full hall, cape, etc. only 5k".
Solus Spartan
Some guy : Give me your name and password
Me : naw
Somw Guy : Noob
Me : naw
Somw Guy : Noob
lungshen
The lowest scam I have seen is this one time I was in Ratasum and saw a guy spamming "WTS black dye for 2K!" over and over
I check the merchant, black dye is still at about 7K each, thinking that this is a too good a deal to pass up, I rushed to the guy and say "I will buy I will buy!!"
He opened the trade window and guess what? He put a gray dye (um...100g worth?) in the trade window. Immediately I knew this guy was going for a scam so I lost my temper and start dropping F bombs on this guy...lol.
I still had the screen shots but don't know if it will be against the forum policy to post it.
I canceled the trade window. I am glad that I moved my mouse over the item to verify it, because a gray dye and black dye does look alike.
scammer: what is wrong?
Me:F**king scammer. Get the F**k away from me.
Scammer:what? what did I do?
Me:It is a F**king gray dye, dude. Nice try buddy.
Scammer:Oh, I don't know. Someone just sold me this dye so I assume it is a black dye.
Me:Yeah, whatever. You just been reported for scamming. Expect a ban comming up shortly.
Scammer:did you just report me?
Me:Yeah I did. gg.
Scammer logs off in few seconds, lol.
Of course I didn't bother to report the guy, after I heard that Anet takes forever to investigate things like this. But surely I had my fun scaring that scammer sh*tinng in his pants.
I check the merchant, black dye is still at about 7K each, thinking that this is a too good a deal to pass up, I rushed to the guy and say "I will buy I will buy!!"
He opened the trade window and guess what? He put a gray dye (um...100g worth?) in the trade window. Immediately I knew this guy was going for a scam so I lost my temper and start dropping F bombs on this guy...lol.
I still had the screen shots but don't know if it will be against the forum policy to post it.
I canceled the trade window. I am glad that I moved my mouse over the item to verify it, because a gray dye and black dye does look alike.
scammer: what is wrong?
Me:F**king scammer. Get the F**k away from me.
Scammer:what? what did I do?
Me:It is a F**king gray dye, dude. Nice try buddy.
Scammer:Oh, I don't know. Someone just sold me this dye so I assume it is a black dye.
Me:Yeah, whatever. You just been reported for scamming. Expect a ban comming up shortly.
Scammer:did you just report me?
Me:Yeah I did. gg.
Scammer logs off in few seconds, lol.
Of course I didn't bother to report the guy, after I heard that Anet takes forever to investigate things like this. But surely I had my fun scaring that scammer sh*tinng in his pants.
Chrono Re delle Ere
Actually I once bought a black dye for 2k when they were worth 10k each... lawl xD
the best scam was at my first few seconds in gw. I dropped as VERY FIRST ITEM a black dye. Ofc I didn't know how much it was worth (in pre-searing...) and I used it on starter armor, and the armor did not even dye!!! that pissed me off when I noticed they were like 15k each xD
the best scam was at my first few seconds in gw. I dropped as VERY FIRST ITEM a black dye. Ofc I didn't know how much it was worth (in pre-searing...) and I used it on starter armor, and the armor did not even dye!!! that pissed me off when I noticed they were like 15k each xD
MrSlayer
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Originally Posted by Kikuta
I decided to have some fun with the 'recall scammers' today.
Playing as my D/Mo, I started advertising that I was selling my req9 perfect Crystalline (of course I don't actually own one). VERY quickly did I have someone asking if they could see it outside. So off we go, out the front of Lion's Arch. He loaded before me and of course casted recall on me the second I appeared and fired off his commands that I should go and stand far away. I trotted over to the water-bed, and asked him "Is this good?". He was happy enough. He wasn't happy at all when I cast Contemplation of Purity and started yelling at him for shadow stepping to me just before I was going to drop the sword. He actually apologised and asked that I move a lot further away. Just before I agreed - and before he could cast Recall on me again - I cast Vow of Silence and started walking over to a different spot. He left before I'd even left his agro bubble. |
(For the idiots/slow witted...that was SARCASM. A quick 20 second test in GToB shows this isn't possible)
Please don't try and glorify your anti-scammering.
Shakti
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Originally Posted by MrSlayer
So you're saying casting Contemplation of Purity on yourself removed HIS enchantment? I'd be very interested in seeing you manage to do that.
(For the idiots/slow witted...that was SARCASM. A quick 20 second test in GToB shows this isn't possible) Please don't try and glorify your anti-scammering. |
Maybe he had moved out of range? Recall will end if the allly u cast it on is out of selection range...dunno, trying to find the loophole so he doesn't have egg ALL over his face, because you're right. CoP will NOT end recall. Recall is a maintained enchant of the CASTER not the target
Chrono Re delle Ere
Uhm I remember that when I was playing with a friend of mine he kept using on me a sin skill and I managed to remove it and force him to shadow step to me...could be a skill update? I clearly remember that I could do something like that.
Ultra Mega
Recall did use to appear on the person it was casted on. It was changed in a skill update. So at one point CoP would have removed it.
EinherjarMx
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Originally Posted by MrSlayer
So you're saying casting Contemplation of Purity on yourself removed HIS enchantment? I'd be very interested in seeing you manage to do that.
(For the idiots/slow witted...that was SARCASM. A quick 20 second test in GToB shows this isn't possible) Please don't try and glorify your anti-scammering. |
Snow Bunny
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can't remember any old good ones. other than top guilds charging people to join for like 10 min, then booting them after they get a screenie with the cape.
<---even this one is kinda old now. |
20k an invite, boot after a couple hours.
Ms Utena Tenjou
everyone remember the guild cow. Yeah well the main guy was doing guild invites 2K so i was like scam.. but ... i could not resist wasted the 2 k saw what he was doing.. capped everyones pic in alliance and what not and then i got booted but then i contacted every person to let them know this asshat was scamming .. yeah i heard he is guildless now