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PanicAcid · Aug 22, 2005, 10:57 PM // 22:57

I hate getting scammed. The feeling is terrible, when your stomach sinks and you realise that you just lost somthing you worked so hard for /and/or paid for. The first time I ever got scammed was back when I was 11 on Diablo (ONE lol) Long before bobafetts came out and killed the game entirely. I got Merchimitses Reaver, if anyone recalls it was one of the best and best looking axes in the game. Some guy I thaught was a friend as Id being playing with him for 3 hours told me he could dupe using pots. (a glitch I had seen done but could never master (as I never lagged)) So I dropped the axe.. and hes gone... I litterally cried.. Yes.. Like a baby.. because that shitty feeling inside hurt like a kick in the nutz. I then got scammed for GuildWars.. No not in game.. FOR the game. I couldn't afford to buy the game as I was out of work since february. So i found a site known as KTZ (I won't post the link) And there was SOOOOOOOOO many people wanting BF2 keys for GW keys etc.. So I offered up a fake BF2 key.. Hoping to scam some one for a GW key.. (yes.. I'm as bad as they are..) Anyway it didn't work as they were all pro traders. So I figured.. Screw it, I don't play HL2 or CSS etc anymore. So I'll trade my steam account (with about ??150's worth of games on it) So anyway a guy comes on, gives me the GW account and pass (sure not a key but an account will do if I can change the pass) so I logged in.. seemed fine. So I handed over the Steam account and pass. When it came to changing the password.. I couldn't I needed to do it via the play NC site.. different login details. I was horrified at first. So I emailed him and asked him the play NC info he said he didn't know as he got it off a friend.. I figured what the hell aslong as he doesn't use the account it's only me thats got it.
Anyway after 2 days hard grafting with a nerco/mo (first ever build what can I say) I got logged out as some one else was using it.. I was horrified like WTF!! I logged back in.. The char was looted and the other 2 that were already there were too... Turns out over 20 people have that account name and pass and all struggle day after day to use it. I felt so bad inside.

Also today I've found out my GWs key was suspended because I purchaced the game and key off ebay. Gutted again.

Yeah it hurts to get scammed.. But you don't often take that into concideration when you do it to some one else..

I also think theres abit of human nature that comes into it when scamming. Why pay for it when you can get it for free right?

Hickory · Aug 23, 2005, 03:31 AM // 03:31

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Originally Posted by PanicAcid

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The first time I ever got scammed was back when I was 11 on Diablo
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... I litterally cried.. Yes.. Like a baby.. because that shitty feeling inside hurt like a kick in the nutz.

I feel your pain.

I'll tell you my story about scamming as a youngster, and then getting ripped off myself.

Halloween night as a sixth grader with 4 or 5 friends. We all had makeup on our faces as one costume and backup full faced masks as a second costume. When we'd come to a home that gave away an unusual amount of candy or football cards, we'd walk out to the driveway around the corner and put on the masks and take off our sweatshirts to go back to the door for seconds.

Well needless to say that year as a sixth grader was my best haul ever. My friends and i were standing on a driveway gloating and flirting with some girls who had joined us, when a couple older teenagers came round the corner. My friend, Chris backed up the driveway away from the sidewalk, but i stayed where i was, unsuspecting, with the pillow case full of candy, football cards, and the scamming mask inside hung over my back. Swoosh! Away went the pillow case and the whole night's work with those 2 punk teenagers who ran off and jumped in a car waiting for them.

This is where the shitty feeling part happens, kicked nuts, crying...all that.

But hey! I was a little scammer myself that night, so it was some quick justice that the scammer turned into the scammie. (yes i know that the teenagers stealing the pillowcase of candy doesn't qualify as a scam, but i needed a little therapy session here. Do you mind?)

So all you scammers out there listen up. What goes around, comes around. Mine came fast that Halloween night. Yours may not come so fast, but it will. Just give it some time. Muwahhahahaha.

Blu_onyx · Dec 03, 2005, 10:10 PM // 22:10

Yeah well for any of you who believe there is some form of intelligence to scamming like this...... then your just as sick as the scammers themself!

THERE IS NOTHING SMART and or INGENIOUS about preying on the goodwill of others!.

IT IS neither HARD nor requires any brains, WHAT IT DOES REQUIRE HOWEVER
is just a plain, selfish disregard for other people!!!!

Maxiemonster · Dec 03, 2005, 10:25 PM // 22:25

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Originally Posted by The Hated

5 wood planks 50g
20 gold to process into parchemnt 20g
Time to run to pikens, and to return to droks to sell it is not worth 30g profit

50000 wood planks 50000g
20000 gold to process into parchemnt 20000g
Time to run to pikens, and to return to droks to sell it is not worth 30000g profit

Not if you multiply it with a huge amount.

Blu_onyx · Dec 03, 2005, 10:31 PM // 22:31

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Originally Posted by fog_of_redoubt

Please post more threads about getting scammed...

I love reading these... Kind of like watching Americas Funniest Videos. It is really quite ammusing to see the naive things some of you do?

I'll offer 5 ecto to the person who has the best story about how easily they were scammed... When I pay you the Ecto, I'll need to hold 10 of your Ectos, then I'll give you 15 back.

What kind of delusion of grandur are you experiencing ? and who the hell are you to call me or any of us here "naive" ?

THE VICTIMS OF THESE "SCAMS" are nothing more then DECENT, well meaning people .

The only ignorance found here lay's with the sick screwed up outcasts who find enjoyment in ripping others off ! , then within their empty loveless self, finding a distorted sense of pleasure in doing do.

WHY you find this amusing in the slightest completly escapes me ?

A SCAMMER is a SCAMMER is a SCAMMER, weather it is for your next Home Loan, your next shopping purchase, or within a online game world such as Guild Wars.

There is NO DIFFERANCE whatsoever, between a online manipulative theif, and a real life theif/con-artist.

THE SAME INTENTIONS are in place, and that is a PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE SELF LOATHING, PROJECTED ONTO OTHER HUMAN BEINGS!.

The one common character trait shared amongst these sad sad people.

Ultimatly if you take pleasure in ripping others off, or preying of the kindness of other human beings, you have some SERIOUS F***KING ISSUES! and a LOT
of growing up to do.

When you are ready to stop hating yourself, and projecting the hollow emptyness you feel inside, onto the rest of the human race, then and only then may you see how very WRONG you really are !!!!.

remmeh · Dec 03, 2005, 10:33 PM // 22:33

someone wanted to buy Fleshcleaver for 20k and an ecto... and I had one, so he opened up the trade, and showed 20k. Then he said to me "whoops forgot the ecto", put an ecto into the trade, and he cleverly changed the 20k to 20g. Then I hit accept and walked away.

Blu_onyx · Dec 03, 2005, 10:40 PM // 22:40

Another perfect example.

Savio · Dec 03, 2005, 10:41 PM // 22:41

We already have another thread about posting scams:
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...ead.php?t=9859

To prevent people from replying to 3-month-old posts, closed.

Dec 03, 2005, 10:10 PM // 22:10	#63
Blu_onyx Ascalonian Squire Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Sunny Australia! Guild: Terminal Ferocity Profession: E/Mo	Yeah well for any of you who believe there is some form of intelligence to scamming like this...... then your just as sick as the scammers themself! THERE IS NOTHING SMART and or INGENIOUS about preying on the goodwill of others!. IT IS neither HARD nor requires any brains, WHAT IT DOES REQUIRE HOWEVER is just a plain, selfish disregard for other people!!!! Last edited by Blu_onyx; Dec 03, 2005 at 10:35 PM // 22:35..

Dec 03, 2005, 10:41 PM // 22:41	#68
Savio Teenager with attitude Join Date: Jul 2005 Guild: Fifteen Over Fifty [Rare]	We already have another thread about posting scams: http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...ead.php?t=9859 To prevent people from replying to 3-month-old posts, closed. __________________ People are stupid.

Aug 22, 2005, 10:57 PM // 22:57	#61
PanicAcid Ascalonian Squire Join Date: Aug 2005 Guild: Bringers of Chaos Profession: E/Mo	I hate getting scammed. The feeling is terrible, when your stomach sinks and you realise that you just lost somthing you worked so hard for /and/or paid for. The first time I ever got scammed was back when I was 11 on Diablo (ONE lol) Long before bobafetts came out and killed the game entirely. I got Merchimitses Reaver, if anyone recalls it was one of the best and best looking axes in the game. Some guy I thaught was a friend as Id being playing with him for 3 hours told me he could dupe using pots. (a glitch I had seen done but could never master (as I never lagged)) So I dropped the axe.. and hes gone... I litterally cried.. Yes.. Like a baby.. because that shitty feeling inside hurt like a kick in the nutz. I then got scammed for GuildWars.. No not in game.. FOR the game. I couldn't afford to buy the game as I was out of work since february. So i found a site known as KTZ (I won't post the link) And there was SOOOOOOOOO many people wanting BF2 keys for GW keys etc.. So I offered up a fake BF2 key.. Hoping to scam some one for a GW key.. (yes.. I'm as bad as they are..) Anyway it didn't work as they were all pro traders. So I figured.. Screw it, I don't play HL2 or CSS etc anymore. So I'll trade my steam account (with about ??150's worth of games on it) So anyway a guy comes on, gives me the GW account and pass (sure not a key but an account will do if I can change the pass) so I logged in.. seemed fine. So I handed over the Steam account and pass. When it came to changing the password.. I couldn't I needed to do it via the play NC site.. different login details. I was horrified at first. So I emailed him and asked him the play NC info he said he didn't know as he got it off a friend.. I figured what the hell aslong as he doesn't use the account it's only me thats got it. Anyway after 2 days hard grafting with a nerco/mo (first ever build what can I say) I got logged out as some one else was using it.. I was horrified like WTF!! I logged back in.. The char was looted and the other 2 that were already there were too... Turns out over 20 people have that account name and pass and all struggle day after day to use it. I felt so bad inside. Also today I've found out my GWs key was suspended because I purchaced the game and key off ebay. Gutted again. Yeah it hurts to get scammed.. But you don't often take that into concideration when you do it to some one else.. I also think theres abit of human nature that comes into it when scamming. Why pay for it when you can get it for free right?

Dec 03, 2005, 10:33 PM // 22:33	#66
remmeh Wilds Pathfinder Join Date: Nov 2005 Guild: Apathy Inc [AI] Profession: R/Mo	someone wanted to buy Fleshcleaver for 20k and an ecto... and I had one, so he opened up the trade, and showed 20k. Then he said to me "whoops forgot the ecto", put an ecto into the trade, and he cleverly changed the 20k to 20g. Then I hit accept and walked away.

Dec 03, 2005, 10:40 PM // 22:40	#67
Blu_onyx Ascalonian Squire Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Sunny Australia! Guild: Terminal Ferocity Profession: E/Mo	Another perfect example.