Similar-char-name scam?

Just curious if this is a known scam:

I traded with someone, and then a few seconds later someone showed up with the same name except one letter in the middle changed. She sent several PM's like "How many ectos did I just give you?" It got annoying, so I just logged off for a while.

My trade didn't even involve ectos, so I'm pretty sure it wasn't just the same person bugging me, because that would be a lame scam attempt . But if it's a third-party, then perhaps she was playing the odds and hoping to convince me that she was the same person but accidentally overpaid me or whatnot...

If it wasn't the same person, then how would that person know the name of the person you were trading with?

Half the people in GW wouldn't even consider trading back if the person was like "OMG I overpaid, plz give sum ectoz", they'd just laugh their asses off. Doesn't seem like it would be a worthwhile scam.

Happened in GToB right? Yeah there's tons of dumb nerds who do that all day long, just don't trade in GToB.

Sometimes i'll run up to people as if i'm trading them, leave for a min, then come back and watch like 2-3 people come into the district with a name like mine. It's fun.

I see lots of people with two chars standing side by side, very similar names, same guild tag, and they're always sync dancing. I've never been scammed by one of them, but I think it's a pretty lame attempt because it's so obvious it's the same person or at least a guildie with a PVP character looking like their friend's.

yup, old scam, happens constantly. take a screenshot and send it into support. I have gotten at least 3 of those retards banned that way already.

Yeah just report they probably won't do anything about it but you can feel good about yourself

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Just reply none..and you aren't the person I traded with. I'm screenshoting this and don't like scammers. That should make them go away. If not just put them on ignore

I don't get it? Someone explain please.

This happened to me once, I think they asked "How many did I just give you?"... after I traded some junk to one of my own storage accounts in GToB , and they were impersonating the character on my storage account with a slightly misspelled name. Fail.

your display pic amuses me so ill explain. You have traded a possibly high end amount of money for an item with a player. 10 minutes later someone who happens to notice you did the trade creates a character with similar name and pretends to be them exclaiming that "you may hav been overpaid"....this has many problems with it yet still could hav leaded to possible scam

..How could anyone fall for that? Seriously.

Anyway, thanks.

If someone can fall for these they deserve to be scammed

I think its not so much the factor of some idiot falling for it but the idiot themselves attempting the scam that baffles me

why on earth would anyone give money back anyway?

He'd have to be a friend and then he'd be on my list/guild.

Someone tried to pull that one on me a while back. I'd been trading with my best friend in order to move something from one of my accounts to another. Then someone with a misspelled variant of my name showed up, trying to tell my best friend that there was a problem with the trade, and she'd need the money back.

Well, she sure didn't fall for that one. 1) I didn't show as online on her friends list. 2) The scammer had gotten the trade's direction wrong. 3) The scammer had absolutely horrible spelling and grammar, which made her sound very much not like me.

So my friend told me on MSN, and I hopped on again to report the scammer. *shakes head* Do they really expect people to fall for that one?

In a way, it's good to know it's not just me people try to pull that one on, though.

same person with 2-unlimited accounts

question to jray14
did you interact in whisper or have you at anytime chat in the local chat channel when you ask to buy stuff off the seller? Could any third party had "overheard" or was spying on you?

This happens to people who haven't advertised that they are trading in anyway, no local/trade channel conversations... just two characters walking up to each other and standing still for a while... as I said above, this happened to me when I was trading a few items between my accounts in GToB, near storage.

Exactly, Nerel. When it happened to me, I hadn't said anything in any channels that would be shared by anyone but me and my best friend. The hashing it out was done over MSN or in whispers. So I guess the fact that we were standing still next to each other made some people assume we were trading. In our case we were, but I wonder if they've ever done that to someone who *weren't* trading, just standing still near each other.

Makes me wonder how much time these scammers waste on making characters with similar names and looking for people who're standing still next to each other.

Might belong in the potentially dumbest scam ever attempted catagory.