An Old Scam Making a comeback? Might wana watch out.

A long time ago there was the scam were the scammer would cast recall on you after asking to see the item outside. He then would run out of your bubble and ask you to drop it to "See the mods". They then take off recall (Tele'ing them to your location) and pick up your item leaving you with nothing. Of course any person with common sense would just leave but i know there are some newer players out there and hopefully this can help a few people not get scammed. Of course i didn't fall for it but i hadn't scene it tried in a VERY long time and i have scene it at least twice now in just the past couple weeks.

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that's a pretty clever trick. usually when people try something like that on me I just tell them to go wiki it up or that I'm not an idiot and they'd best take their efforts elsewhere .

Scams don't really go out of style unless they become impossible to do.

Regardless, if it's not something new, we don't need a thread discussing it. It's not new if it used to be popular, went away, and came back.

I don't mind taking a weapon outside. I've done it a few times for people. Dropping it however is another matter. They can look at it in the trade window to see the mods. If they don't like that, too bad.

Drop 1g/a collector item on the ground instead. They generally pop over via teleporting and ; + spacebar immidately. Screenshot when they teleport in and steal it (some will mock you for falling for the scam before they realize you didn't drop the actual item), plus screenshot the entire conversation. They submit a report ticket to A.net and they will be banned.
Best part about this is, A.net will ban people for scamming you, even if they only scammed you for 1g.

Ya. The second it happened i took screen shots and sent in a ticket. The only thing was i dropped a random gold i had that was merch food and he didnt tele over. I just hopei got enough info in the screen shots that i did get.

recall? thats so old school. its all about ebon escape. any wammo can hide that in his bar.

i snagged a pair of destroyer gloves off someone who was trying to setup the scam on me. i asked him to show a sign of trust and drop his gloves, and he did. i bet he started trying to scam people only because he got scammed in the first place. poor guy.

Drop a white; watch them teleport and pickup the white; press PRTSCRN for ANET support ticket

Cost: 10g(cost on white) + 1 Calory from pressing PrtScrn
Facial Expression of the Person if you could only see it: Priceless

Sounds about right

yup next time i show someone a weap with any/a lol i am so gonan do that

Would be hilarious if you had a junk account, and a new way to dupe items arose, dupe the item and drop it (the dupe) for the scammer and then he gets banned for owning a dupe item. LOLZ.

That's awesome and you should feel awesome for doing it.

I'd actually like to do this. Where would I go about finding someone who would be trying to "scam" me? I'm guessing anyone advertising a trust drop in kamadan maybe LA? I'd love to do it just to build his adrenaline up as if he is ready to scam and then waste his time and make him really really pissed off. What's he gonna do? Hack me? Hahaha!

do not drop anything on the ground unless you meant to give it away. use the trade window, can see fine, mods and stats on that window, anyone wanting to see anything any other way is out to scam you

Someone tried this with me about 30 minutes ago when I was trying to sell something. Out of all the scammers I encountered today, he was the most amusing. Bad chinglish, asian name, sob story about being poor and needing images for his guild website... calling me "guy" every other sentence...

OMG! I'd love to drop a few of stacks of ecto on the ground for "only 3 seconds" so you can take a screenshot for your website... who wouldn't?!

lol anyone who's gonna drop an item on the ground for any reason completely deserves to get the all living shit scammed out of them.

Well, to be fair, your statement needs adjusting;

Anyone who's gonna drop an item worth a decent amount of money on the ground for any reason completely deserves to get the living shit scammed out of them. Or be banned for gold buying...because clearly they aren't smart enough to acquire money the real way.

I agree with Fenix. It's a minor set-back for new players and might give them a bit of a sour taste for the game. But anyone who's been around long enough to accumulate something of value should know better.

Its good that the OP is reminding us and making us further aware of scams and this particular one. Perhaps there should be an awareness thread about scamming if there already is not one on guru.

The only thing I'm going to say is "common sense".