Why are people still falling for the oldest trick in the book?

If you are nice and empathetic to scammed people and hold their hand, etc, they get scammed again. "Hard" lesson shouldn't be softened.

And naivety is not excuse. Most scams work because people are too overeager to sell something to apply common sense. AKA Greedy. Which is easy to abuse for lots of reasons.

The lack of common sense in this thread is disgusting. Why do people assume that everyone is always in fear of being scammed? Could it be that people actually never in their life were in danger of being scammed and therefore assume the same ingame?
What is that common sense? Is it inherited like red hair or does someone have to teach it to you?

no reason to be empathetic to ppl who didnt know any better.
besides the fact that the scammers played within the rules of the game - anything on the ground is up for grabs, they didnt use hax, etc - feeling sorry for somebody wont get them their item back.

I like those full-time scammers. Have fun with them. Last time someone wanted me to drop my minipet I was trying to sell, I played dumb like 10 min to get his hopes up. I then dropped 1 Gold Coin and left, not without wishing him good luck next time.

I wonder if he actually took that coin, and if so: Did he feel something? Must have been a wonderful experience for him.

You can't get any lower than that, can you?

If someone was so sheltered, I'd go so far as to say that it may even be a good experience for them, as it may teach them to watch out in real life; better to lose a few pixels in an online game than real money in real life, imo.

after working in customer service for many years I have come to the conclusion that people are just stereo-typically stupid....there can be no other explanation!

--though getting scammed is not something most people think about, so they just arent expecting it.....look at all the old people that get scammed everyday.....

well since im bored and hoping for an interesting discussion at 3am my time...
how should i come across the common sense that you wish there was more of in this thread? should i have inherited it or should somebody have taught me that some people might be more sheltered than me?

If it didn't work, it wouldn't be used by scammers.

Simply put, it wouldn't be the oldest trick in the book if it didn't trick anybody.

Btw - I doubt that came across the way you wanted it to come come across.


I actually don't consider that to be stupidity.
It's an "oops!"-moment.

Stupid is as stupid does.

Admiral Akbar should be programmed into every game to pop up on screen and shout "It's a trap!" at maximum volume to prevent these kinds of things from taking place.

That's the only way I can see this problem getting fixed...

EDIT: Haha exactly like that Rhamia

IT'S A TRAP!!!



you mean like that?

People were willing to pay big money for the new min-pet (my buddy who had quaffed a beetlejuice potion and followed me around). I have no doubt they'll easilly fall for the drop it on the ground scam.

Idiocracy. Sad but true.

See it like this, it only happens to them once.

IF it happens twice they should have their brain checked because there's something seriously wrong.

well said. If they don't get the point of not trusting people after the 1st scam, they deserve no symphaty. But they dont deserve to be called idiots and retards only becouse they fell for it once...just leave them be. they already learned the lesson (in better cases), no need to call them names too.

You also have to remember the widespread demography of the game players. Most likely the ones scammed by this are young kids (11/12 years old and such) who often haven't had the life experiences to not trust people at face value.

I used to drop my voltic spear on the ground all the time then somone got me with ebon escape i vry almost lost it and i almost shat my pants

but hey just a voltic spear.

( i was teasing him not showing him what it looks like so he can buy)

Surely they need to playing with parental supervision, if I remember the EULA correctly? Which would mean that the parent (usually with world experiences) would tell them that it's most likely a scam.

I am quite amazed that there is something to be discussed regarding this topic. You people are never bored of the same topic

But I guess I am the same

When I read threads like this it honestly makes me ill to read some of the mean spirited replies.

Not every player is experienced, not every player walks around distrusting everybody, not every player has been scammed, not every player is an adult with enough experience to know better.

Players that have been scammed will hopefully learn from a very unfortunate situation. It's bad enough as it is, and they surely don't need your insults.

Why don't you send all that negative energy to the low life scammers? to the abusers that cheat and take advantage of people? They are the ones that deserve name calling.