Official GW Scams Thread (no posting names)

some quick fixes I would love to see:
1. be able to click/collect items when you are dead to add to your inventory
2. change colors of text to different colors<<<help tell the diference between drops for you and other party members

Trip to UW costs one single platinum. Doing all that just for free trip doesn't make any sense.

its because its easier for M/Wo to get past aatax's since the nerf, so they basicaly use you to pay them in and clear a way for them to the smites to then leave you high and dry.

and also they would be serial farming and the plat would add up. I also heard the drops are better ... think about it your a serial farmer and some group comes along that hasnt been in UW for ages...so their drops are better... if they time it right they can pick up your rare while your dead, all thay have to do is wait.

I happen to like doing UW as a Monk Warrior and I'm as honest as anyone in the game. I'm not even sure I understand what this scam is about. So, if any of you see me looking for a group to do the UW, please add me. And don't reject me just because I'm a W/M. I had scammers as much as anyone.

On our second trip to UW--first trip was good but we had lots of new people join us for #2--we had a M/W come along. He wasn't trying to scam us, in that he didn't try and kill us and take all the stuff. BUT he did not reveal his build, which hadn't been as common knowledge in our circle at the time.

He got pissed when we wondered about how he was killing stuff. "If you ask me my build one more time I'm leaving!" Plus, the unexpected, unmitigated BOREDOM for the rest of us.

It would have been nice to know ahead of time that only res sig would work on him when he eventually went down. The only sig we had needed recharging, everyone else had useless rebirth for him. So he did end up leaving when no one could res him, and we went on to get wiped as well.

So by being all secretive and nutso, he did ruin our trip for us.

Two ways that A-Net can solve this problem.

One... Re-nerf 55 build monks. Worst thing to do is to make a class complete useless and if A-Net is smart about this. They would find ways to nerf the ability of 55 build monks without pissing off that most of the community.

Two... Redo the drop system. I agree that the drop system need some slight changes. Like be able to get your drops while your dead seem to be a good idea. But if you make the drops to only be assigned for certain players than like the above poster say. If the team is out of res and say a gold storm bow dropped or a gold fellblade. Than your out of luck. The best method would be to allow players to click on the drops (as long it's within your range or aggro circle) than you can still pick it up even if your dead.

I think the best way for A-Net is to rework the drop system since nerfing skills would only get more complains and angry from the community.

omg a solo monk cant afford 1k, how sad. Why is such a good game drawing in all these losers

I'm not for nerfing the 55 Monk but it doesn't make sense to bring one into either UW or FoW with a group doing a quest. Anyone who is secretive about anything before going in should be dumped. This is about teamwork, not individual play.

Funny, one of my UW group got a 55 build monk and boy does he suck. Keep trying to aggro all the enemies and got slaughter. The whole team laughed at him till he left.

I guess he was new to it, once the build "came out" every1 said, I need to make a monk/war! just look at monk runes they were sold out at one point. I made more with a sup-monk rune once than I did with sup vigor lol

always take a few extra secs and read over what up for trade, it never hurts if they cancel for u "taking too long" there scammers, who cant wait a few extra seconds?

Name and shame. Apparently this monk has been doing this in Deldrimor War Camp Dist 1 (saw a warning yesterday about them as I was heading out to do an SF run).

I was selling Bortak's Grim Cesta.

This is the conversation between us. Minus all the crap from Trade and Local.


The deal:


Once I said that I screenshotted it, she canceled the deal on me and left.

Yes, you were ripped. Dragon swords suck.

Even if the 55 monk build gets gimped, we will still own your ass and all other class farmers. There is another build out there you'll find quite nice. You'll see it more once we get the nerf bat again.

i dont think a-net will nerf 55 monk builds

1-they are against BOTS, not farmers

2-the random NMs and the scorpion things in dessert do a lot to stop bots (IMO)

3-i hope they dont, i have one ^_^ (never scammed my way into a party though, hm...actually one time i was invited and i accepted and started to spam my health, they didnt catch on a go on ahead without checking if it was ok...was that bad?)

you can sell weapons that are equipped in your seccondary weapon slots, it may have changed since the last time i did this, but once upon a time i lost a 300k sword to this+a well-timed lag spike.

I heard all those horror stories of people getting scammed out of gold, items, etc. I *knew* it would never happen to me-no, I was too smart for that. I was dead wrong.

Well, I was having a good day yesterday. I broke a few financial records, etc. In fact, I had enough money to throw around, that I thought "what the hell, I'm going to buy a Razorstone". So I bought the Razorstone, and a bit later I get kind of bored with it and decide to sell it back for around the same price (79K-It was 77k before). Well, suddenly, a monk in the Warcamp named (Name removed for his/her privacy-more like security) comes up saying ''i'll buy''. I put up the axe, she puts up the gold, she cancels, saying that her inventory is full, and to try again. (This was late at night, and my sister was behind me pestering me for no good reason) So she says ''Try again'', I open the trade with her, put the axe up, distracted, I look in the general direction, see a "79", click accept, and the rest is history. I went to the storage agent to deposit the money, expecting to see numbers fly. I saw a small jump. I immediately checked my inventory, 0 gold. Then my stomach started to churn. I checked the chat logs, ''Traded (Name removed for his/her privacy-more like security) Razorstone for 79 gold." I immediately messaged her, threatening to report her, heck-I even offered her 30k if she would just give me my axe back (Knowing that all this was futile).

She ignored me for a while, until I saw another guy in the War Camp say ''Hey N W do you mind giving me my axe back?!?!?". A few minutes later she comes back and offers an invite (which she used to find me on the map). She comes up to me, /bow's, and says ''sell ur armor'', (which actually made sense, since I had 15k plate on, dyed black) and then she signs off. Poof-there goes 77k. Now, I am not nearly as ticked at her as I am at myself. In fact, I am not even going to report him/her. Wow, Anet might suspend him/her for 3 days. It won't make much of a difference. She played her cards right, and she won the loot. Needless to say I will always quadruple-check the money values from now on.

I'm not making this thread for sympathy, nor do I want to hear ''n00b, pwned'', it's your fault, etc. Why waste the skin cells on your fingertips to re-iterate what I just said? I am just saying #1: Watch out for N W in the War Camp and #2: Regardless of the situation: always check the price until your eyes bleed. I don't want you all losing half of your fortune in 20 seconds.

Too bad for ya man. As you said, it was late, so you're brains aren't that active anymore :P
I almost got scammed too... Some guy selling the IDS for 30K, I was OK with that. He puts up the IDS in the trade channel, and I submit the 30k, then he goes: "Oh wait, i'll give u a xmas present..", then, he changed the IDS to a stupid BLUE dyed FDS...
Lucky me i didn't accepted that

And like you said, double-double-double check if you are buying something that is worth alot... Sometimes I get so close to the screen, in case i might see another name, "I .. I C Y, ... Dr .. a .g ..on.. s..wO.rrd"

Please dont mention the name of the scammer, unless they want there name to be on here. Just for future reference, or you can edit your post.

~Agent

Well, sorry but I am going to be sympathetic as I had a similar experience. The 'stomach churning' brought it all flooding back. We will learn from our experiences - it's just a shame that these scumbags won't.

newbs get pwned. ha ha ha

ur so l337..can u t each me to b as l337 as u? prz?

Any big trades (a big trade for me is over 25k) i do through here, so that i'm less likely to get scammed as people don't want a bad reputation on here.

I've had a few people try this scam on me, but as i don't trust anyone (even santa got padded down) i haven't had a nasty experience yet.

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P.S. My First Post was as much a joke as this one. :-)

The same thing almost happened to me a few moments ago. I was trying to sell the Rago's Wand that I just got, and someone offered 87k for it. Of course, I immediately accepted. They then said that they needed money, and asked if I would sell it for 85k. Naturally I said yes, and they modified their offer. I looked at the offer, and lo and behold - 85 gold. Needless to say I promptly cancelled the trade and told them what I thought of them in no uncertain terms.

I got hit with the same thing for 10 ectos... waste of 100k. Oh well.

I sold Villnars Glove, or Claw, for 6k. I don't really care though, no use in getting worked up about it.

I nearly got scammed before when i got Malinon Shield. Guy want to buy it for 85k. I said ok, so he opened a trade window. Put in 85 gold on the first try, i cancel the trade. He did it again saying that he made a mistake and again its 85 golds. I cancel the trade and laugh at him and called him that he a no good RED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GOing scammer!

I once got scammed into thinking that someone was selling a 10/10 sundering axe haft for 10k. I'm like, hmm I should buy it off her and sell it for 15k more.
Well I bought it, went to LA dis 1, and as soon as I tried to sell I already got a buyer. So I sold it for 25k and I see the message: You Have Traded(name here)Sundering HAMMER Haft for 25kHe got so pissed, started swearing at me than ignored me. That was the best scam that ever happened to me.

happens alot to me, i sell iron ingots for a living and i usually do 10 a piece. People think its funny to knock a extra zero, you gotta watch out for that.

too bad... good thig i havent got any money. Cant be scammed

I will never get scammed.
D:<

yes (head down in shame) i just got scammed yesterday after thinking that this would never happen to me. (sounds like the beginning of a penthouse story)

anyway, it was busy and the transaction was for 100k + 4ecto. after the trade screen blinked a couple times, i got scammed for 99.9k. keep an eye on both ecto and plat box when trading 100+k. 100k is really no big deal to me, just the idea of getting scammed by dishonest people is what bothers me. what bothers me even more is that i did report this scammer with anet and they responded saying they would investigate him and the log files (which will obviously show his scamming since he had the nerve of trying to sell it back to me for 4ectos + 30k) and he's on today. so no action seems to be taken

I bought Grognar's Sword for 50k, but the first time I accidently put in 50 Gold....and the guy accepted! The trade screen shut down because he already had too much money on him. He cashed in at storage, appologizing, came back and we made the deal for 50k. I've often wondered if I would have done the right thing if the deal had gone through the first time....

ok i didnt read everything cause theres to much
but this is a typical scam that people try to pull on me
i type " WTS 'item here' for xxx k "
someone says "ill buy"
i open trade window i put item then...
they put gold instead of platinum and hit accept really fast
tis sad what people do for money

lol i know i shouldn't had but i cheated a bot hehehehehe it was so funny, bought this okish sheild for 50 gold. and this nice sword for 1k.

I just wanted to see who would try and rip me off so


Me: Whats a good price to sell this black dye for? 300 gp?

NotJerk: They sell for about 8000.

Me: I know, Im just seeing who will scam me

Jerk: I WILL BUY

Me: O rly?

Jerk: Yeah, your a little pricy though

Me: Yeah, the dye trader is real expensive, 8k! *owned*

Jerk: Oh ----...

Me: see yah scammer, and your an A + two S's also

Jerk: Im gonna report you

Me: For?

Jerk: Saying that curse word

Me: You can turn filters off in the game you know?

Jerk: Yeah i was just Jking

Me: see yah lamer

Me: You are being ingnored

I tried Selling my IDS the other day, for 65K. Not a very expensive price.
Three different traders in a row people wanted to buy it.
And Three different traders all placed 65gp in the trade box.
Its getting really lame... I did not sell it and still have it in my inventory.
Trading is just getting bad in general.

Also the splitting of the ectos in UW is getting lame. People wont split on the second ecto drop saying that they'll split after they finish. Once the player gets 2 ectos in a row and wont give u the second, quite simply, quit. Dont waste your time. So from now on I solo only.

Also about a month ago my account got hacked... dont know how it happened..... but they were stupid hackers... lol
They got into my account and all my characters ended up in Ascalon City. They took all my money from my characters, shards, ect.... I lost around 200K. But they left all my money and items alone that were in my inventory.
lol. I was lucky... Just a reminder to everyone to keep changing your passwords on a regular basis. Since then I change it every few weeks.

I reported the hack but Anet told me there was nothing that could be done.... blah blah blah... I never gave out my info or anything and have a Firewall ect... But point being there are hackers out there....

the reason for splitting at the end is actually pretty simple. in the event of an odd number of ecto drops, it makes a difference who gets the extra one. if the person shared at the second drop and you get the 3rd, you will have 2 and he will have 1. if splitting was done at the end, you would have 1 and he would have 2. some people care about little differences like this.

Me: WTS Rune of Superior Vigor
scammer with obvious spam-bot name tries to add to party
Scammer: i by
Me: (price)
Scammer: k
trade is opened, scammer offers 50k, I hit accept and he cancels trade
Scammer: inventory full sry 1 sec
item is offered again, scammer offers 50g
Me: Nice try scammer
I cancel trade and say in local chat that he's giving away free sigils