I just got scammed *warning*

well i dont know if this is a popular scam but it can be avoided by being very attentive

well i was selling ectos for 100k and someone opens trade puts up 100k i put up ectos and after i accept he/she click cancel making it seem like i might have money or the trade isnt going through. Well after this happens about 4 times im just trying to get the trade to go through so i just offer and accept and not knowing he puts up 10k and i just scamed myself.

so watch out for this dum scam and make sure you check that its 100k and not 10k.

im guessing because of the way it happened i cant /report because i clicked accept (and he left as soon as he got his ectos) and support never does anything to help so w/e just watch out.

Report him anyway and send screenshots.
My son was scammed out of 100k for presents and because he too was in a hurry, the guy put in 100 gold and my son accepted. We reported him and added the guy to our friends list, he has never appeared online since, so I can assume his account was banned.

This scam has been around for ages, they basicly make it so that your so pissed at the trade canceling they you don't look at the amount. Sorry man, but you feel for one of the oldest scams in the game.

http://guildwars.wikia.com/wiki/Common_scams

Sorry its a common scam always take your time always

Unfortunatly

Sorry for your loss try to report since you have a log I would screen shot it right away. the agreed price and the transaction one. Don't know if it will help but it is wurth a try

If you report people who intentionally do this especially if they advertise buying at an amount take screen shots and report them. I've done it an support looks into and replies to you. They likely will receive a temporary ban like a month. If they continue to do it and get reported the ban might be longer if not permanent. send support ticket with screen shots and /report. But you'll never get anything back that you lost.

I highly doubt that account was banned. It was most likely a mule/bot account that wasn't used again after that trade. The worse that could have happened to that account was a temp ban of anywhere from 72 hours to a few weeks. Nothing drastic.

Anet doesn't perma ban accounts for such miniscule trade amounts, well, perhaps including 100k and definitely above, but not below 100k.

If say you got scammed out of a 2k run, nothing will happen to the person that scammed you, unless it was like the 100858975983475th report.

support is a lost cause, i sent the stuff anyway but im not expecting my money back. it not that bad i guess, at least i only lost in-game money and not real money. If anything this might be good lol its made me so mad i dont even want to play gw anymore guess ill take a break and come back later.

so i just talked to the guy i told him i wanted my money back he swore and ignored me, if i cant get him for scaming i can get him for verbal abuse

now that just made my day

you assumed wrong. people don't get banned for that. sorry if i ruined your happy idea that people who you think are bad get what you think they deserve :/. self-righteous condemnations to hell aside, your son didn't get scammed; he made a mistake. it isn't against the rules to offer 100g in trade to someone who wants 100k - that's what the reject button is for. hastily clicking the accept button is similar to signing a contract without reading it; the consequences are binding and you'll have no one to blame but yourself.

You're quitting because you lost a mere 25 or so ectos (100k total value)?

Tsk tsk. Learn to check trade before you hit accept.

The worst that would happen to that guy's account is either a mark or a 72 hour ban. Or nothing at all. It was your fault for not checking the amounts.

You won't get anything back from Anet. Period.

Yep not a scam just your fault.
Next time check trade first thats why there is a ACCEPT BUTTON!.

lol hapenned to me like a week ago but i didn't fall for it..

i didn't know it was a scam, i just thought the buyer was confused xD

I wish people would stop being bastards and posting just to trash the OP. He made it clear and is well aware that he made a mistake and fell for the scam but people post *just* to reiterate what he already said. Get a grip. What sort of sadistic satisfaction do people get from seizing the opportunity to kick someone when they're down?

And there's no doubt it was a scam. It was just taking advantage of a vulnerability from the other party.

i think the best advice i can give as a trader is assume EVERYONE is a scammer.

always check, double check and triple check everything before you hit that accept button

a sadistic sort.

When dealing with large transactions like that you check EVERYTHING EVERY single time.

When someone puts the right stuff in the window and so do you and they cancel it the first time you must automatically become suspicious because that is always the start of a scam. When someone also says it won't go through or something like lag of the sort, this is also a scam because the trade system and the game work as one, the trade system is not going to lag out yet the game be fine.

Just be very careful next time my friend. Always check and never just hit accept after a few canceled trades just wanting to get it done and over with. There are more scammers out there than legit players.


Also this sort of thing isn't new and has been done since the beginning of online games. Things like this date back to diablo 2, probably even further than that.

Scammer always makes it look like there's a problem with the game and makes it cancel every time.

You might also want to try to contact support, you never know you might get lucky, but higher chances say you won't.

Just be more careful is all we can say at this point.

Maybe you have never seen him online since because he sets himself on offline constantly... or added you to his ignore list?

What OP described is a scam, and people do get banned for scamming. Go on and report him.

I actually have a similar story to share. I was selling something like 8 ZKeys for 32k or so at GtoB. A guy comes along and initially puts up 32k and says, "this be my r5 zrank. i want to thank you. here's a present."
He cancels the trade and puts up a mini-Juggernaut and money. While I was pondering how much mini-Juggernauts go for, I noticed that he put up only 3.2k. Although it was pretty obvious at this point, I just told him that he misplaced the amount of money. The conversation that followed went something like,
"Hey, you only put up 3.2k."
"?"
"You are supposed to give me 32k."
"??? click accept"
"..."
"??"
"Seriously..."
"wut"

I canceled trade and saw him run along, advertising buying ZKeys at 10k or something. I told him that if he did not quit trying to scam people, I would report him. He whispered, "????" back before leaving the district.

This is NOT a scam, it's meerly your mistake. NCsoft cant do anything about what happened except POSSIBLY give the guy a three day ban if you provide screenshots of him agreeing to pay 100k and not 10k. NCsoft will not give you your money or ecto's.

Your fault if you choose not to check the trade before clicking accept, im sick of seeing this crap on these forums. inb4lock.

This same thing happened to me, i was selling ectos in kamadan 23/100k a guy buys 3 batches in quick succession, then, on the fourth shot, he doesn't put up any cash. Needless to say since i wanted to get rid of the ectos and the first three trades were fine i clicked the accept button without checking and got scammed. a few screen shots and a few days later he got suspended for 10 days.