Curse

Johnny_Chang · Dec 05, 2007, 10:20 PM // 22:20

In my 2 1/2 years playing i've never been scammed... but boy you should hear some of the stories of how i scammed people. it's amazing...

ca_aok · Dec 05, 2007, 11:25 PM // 23:25

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Yes if you can't take the time to read 5g and realise its not 5k your an idiot.

Back in the day instead of listing 5000g it just said 5 platinum... so it wasn't quite idiot worthy, you just need to triple check your trade every time.

I've had people try the scam on me where player A tries to sell some worthless item for a large amount (i.e. WTS Sskai's Sword, 80K) and then you see a second player spamming "WTB Sskai's Sword, 100K+2E". The funny thing is I had a Sskai's sword and kept trying to trade the guy but he just started cussing me out in whisper

Kikuta · Dec 06, 2007, 09:53 AM // 09:53

I decided to have some fun with the 'recall scammers' today.

Playing as my D/Mo, I started advertising that I was selling my req9 perfect Crystalline (of course I don't actually own one). VERY quickly did I have someone asking if they could see it outside.

So off we go, out the front of Lion's Arch. He loaded before me and of course casted recall on me the second I appeared and fired off his commands that I should go and stand far away. I trotted over to the water-bed, and asked him "Is this good?". He was happy enough.

He wasn't happy at all when I cast Contemplation of Purity and started yelling at him for shadow stepping to me just before I was going to drop the sword.

He actually apologised and asked that I move a lot further away. Just before I agreed - and before he could cast Recall on me again - I cast Vow of Silence and started walking over to a different spot. He left before I'd even left his agro bubble.

杀TanK杀 · Dec 06, 2007, 12:14 PM // 12:14

I got the unyielding aura today in kamadan tryna sell my fellblade..

We went outside, and you cud obviously see it from the start.. A/Mo casted it so obviously on me it wasn't funny..

Anyway he runs away and tells me to drop it so I could look at it,
so i say.. promise me if I dc youll give it back..
he says.. dude I would never even try to scam someone its just not cool
at this point i am rofl

So im looking thru my inventory for something to drop.. and decide upon my ID kit..

So I drop my ID kit and instantly im dead,
two seconds laters ; 'Wtf you noob, not an ID kit'
and zones out...

I found it pretty funny how scamming just wasn't cool in his opinion, and how I was a noob ...

Guildmaster Cain · Dec 06, 2007, 01:10 PM // 13:10

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Originally Posted by Kikuta

I decided to have some fun with the 'recall scammers' today.

Playing as my D/Mo, I started advertising that I was selling my req9 perfect Crystalline (of course I don't actually own one). VERY quickly did I have someone asking if they could see it outside.

So off we go, out the front of Lion's Arch. He loaded before me and of course casted recall on me the second I appeared and fired off his commands that I should go and stand far away. I trotted over to the water-bed, and asked him "Is this good?". He was happy enough.

He wasn't happy at all when I cast Contemplation of Purity and started yelling at him for shadow stepping to me just before I was going to drop the sword.

He actually apologised and asked that I move a lot further away. Just before I agreed - and before he could cast Recall on me again - I cast Vow of Silence and started walking over to a different spot. He left before I'd even left his agro bubble.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!

O man, I wanna do this too... but ive never encountered these recall scammers before.. Do they only lurk in american based servers or is this europ?

Anyway, I kinda did the same thing with ectos in the old days. EVERY time anyone was offering more for an ecto then they were worth, they tried to scam me for it. Offering 10g instead of 10p. So I ended up selling Mursaat cookies for 10g each

sterbenx2 · Dec 06, 2007, 02:13 PM // 14:13

OMG just read the P-P-P-Powerbook story! lol holy crap. EVERYONE should be able to stick it to a scammer like that, if you haven't read it, do it now..awesome.

Mork from Ork · Dec 06, 2007, 02:26 PM // 14:26

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Originally Posted by Mystic Reaper

a freind was telling me, that last x-mas event, a guy tried to sell him those frozen globs of ecto at normal ecto price. when he mentioned to the guy that they r not real ecto, the guy replies saying they will "thaw out" if he takes them into sorrows furnace. friend cancels trade window, tells him its a scam, guy logs out, then comes back a short time later on another name, same sale ad.

This probably fits under how someone pwned themselves but after the last Christmas event there was someone going around kamadan offering to buy the frozen ectos for some outrageous sum because they were convinced they would eventually thaw. I think I sold him 15.

artay · Dec 06, 2007, 02:27 PM // 14:27

Uhg... this just happenned to me. LA to Beacons.

I didn't really report him, that would have been futile, not really worth it anyway...

I hate runners... All he took was healing breeze, no running skills. He didnt even take that much from me, just the nerve....I feel sorry for him.

dont feel no pain · Dec 06, 2007, 02:33 PM // 14:33

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Originally Posted by artay

Uhg... this just happenned to me. LA to Beacons.

I didn't really report him, that would have been futile, not really worth it anyway...

I hate runners... All he took was healing breeze, no running skills. He didnt even take that much from me, just the nerve....I feel sorry for him.

thats happened to me quite a few times too lol, funny one was where he gloated about scamming me of 250g and i just was like wtf lol.

SimonSez · Dec 06, 2007, 10:02 PM // 22:02

one time there was a person who spammed like "join my little game and you can win 10k, entry fee 500g" it was like me and just another person who joined. We payed him and the game started. the first was "Catch" He runned away a bit and he told us that the first who traded him in 5 minutes would get 1 point. We chased him for 2 minutes, then I thought that I could get some sugar in storage to run faster. Hee hee I think and start chasing him. When I start comming closer, he starts to count donw 3,2,1,0. I got a little "wtf... oh well" then the next game was 3 quizes. I dont remember them all... but they where not logic at any point. Remember only on.

Q: What is Round and white in GW
A: A fat necromancer with armor dyed white....

Then the game is over and he leaves.

KANE OG · Dec 06, 2007, 10:16 PM // 22:16

When EotN first came out, you could stand in Ascalon and shout, "See Gwen all grown up! Only 500 gold! Join party and we'll go outside!"

Add Gwen as a hero, run outside, say ty and leave.

KANE

Croco Clouds · Dec 06, 2007, 10:47 PM // 22:47

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Originally Posted by artay

Uhg... this just happenned to me. LA to Beacons.

I didn't really report him, that would have been futile, not really worth it anyway...

I hate runners... All he took was healing breeze, no running skills. He didnt even take that much from me, just the nerve....I feel sorry for him.

P.S Not all the names are censored in the screenshot (XXXXX has accepted your offer)

It happened to me too, well some sort of... The runner asked me to pay in the middle of a run (Not in a town) then he just left and I killed by the mobs and then he pm me 'rofl noob' and blocked me. I have the screenshot too, but didn't report him.

Mirikashitakuari · Dec 06, 2007, 11:45 PM // 23:45

I see lots of Docks runners who end up taking the 500g it costs

Phaern Majes · Dec 07, 2007, 12:40 AM // 00:40

Thats why I mostly run for tips.... If they choose not to tip then I reserve the right not to run them again, but at least I don't get a bad feeling of being scammed by the people I run.

jon0592 · Dec 07, 2007, 12:42 AM // 00:42

"i trim ur armer blek"

The guy must've came from RuneScape. In RS they have God armors and well, trimmed armors. They are the normal armor with colorful lines and many people did not know how to get them. The trim scam was pretty popular but now it's impossible to fall for it.

IAL · Dec 08, 2007, 03:16 AM // 03:16

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Originally Posted by DFrost

Already been posted but here goes:

Done this, so funny when they get desperate, and think you will actually put something out there if they cry about it. And yes i ss'd took tag and reported, luckily enough this guy had showed me 5-10 kuunas 100k and alot of other items to really prove that it worked, these i ss'd aswell

Justice is sweeet. (and yeah this was quite some time ago now)

bigtime102 · Dec 08, 2007, 03:47 AM // 03:47

*I look around and see naked warrior*
*ding*
Naked Warrior: I look ridiculous huh?
Me: ?
Naked Warrior: I got nothing, I made a bet with my friend tonight and lost all my stuff.
*beggar alert*
Naked Warrior: Could you help me out and give me some money for crafting materials and a stater sword?
*laugh to myself and dont even dignify it with a response*
5 minutes later
Me: hey did your scam work?
Naked Warroir: no, you got any ideas?
LOL, I give him credit he was creative and I had to ask.

Thats the closest thing I seen to scam and it really wasnt it was a creative beggar. I never knew how getting scammed in GW was even possible until I read this thread. And after reading this thread I still believe getting scammed in GW is impossible. Anything short of a hack or bug exploit is not a scam. Everyone has to hit accept. There is no scams in GW. The sooner Anet realizes this the sooner they can work on more important stuff, until then not 1kb should be wasted on scams or scammers unless its a hack or bug.

Divinity Sword · Dec 08, 2007, 02:05 PM // 14:05

These are always pretty funny.

Seller:
"wts GW accnt have proph, facts lvl 20 | 50k."

Me: "So you have more than 1 account right? Otherwise the money won't do you any good.."

Seller: "???!?!?!"

Me: "That's what I thought

."

Seller never replied.

Onarik Amrak · Dec 08, 2007, 02:27 PM // 14:27

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Originally Posted by Divinity Sword

These are always pretty funny.

Seller:
"wts GW accnt have proph, facts lvl 20 | 50k."

Me: "So you have more than 1 account right? Otherwise the money won't do you any good.."

Seller: "???!?!?!"

Me: "That's what I thought

."

Seller never replied.

Hahahahahaha. Classic.

Lest121 · Dec 08, 2007, 05:16 PM // 17:16

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Originally Posted by Shadow of Light

Guy: WTS Kuunivang 80k!
Me: *still wishing I'd bought Collector Factions and not having seen Kuuni below 90k* I'm interested
Guy: ok
Guy: just so you know, the mini comes as an egg
Guy: but it appears as the dragon when you use it
Guy: ok?
Me: .oO(Wha? o_O)
Guy: ok??
Me: ok... *busy messaging guildies about shenanigans*
Guy: *opens trade window. the 'egg' is a Burning Heart or some such... a Fire Imp drop)
Me: ... you are so stupid
Guy: it's an egg!
Me: and it makes a good screenshot!
Guy: sorry! ok, I lied, pls dont report me!
Me: why not? *now busy watching guildies laugh*
Guy: someone scammed me like this so im doing it to get my money back

The thing is, I could almost believe a stupid scam like that would have worked on this guy. o_O

OMFG i think the same dude tried to scam me LOL.