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

This never went away. You can find everyday at some point a guy in Kamadan or Temple of Balthazar paying 2k for someone to show him a rare weapon equiped "outside".

Agree 100% ... Only a person with like no brains whatsoever would ever fall for that well imho

I agree that awareness of scam techniques is a good thing, but as for making an awareness thread it would only need to contain a link to the wiki page...
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Scam

We don't need all these threads about scams coming back, nobody cares.
If you're stupid enough to get scammed send me a pm so i can give it a shot and make some gold off you too

Unfortunately, "common sense" doesn't appear to be all that "common".

had this happen to me a few weeks ago. i didn't bother saving the chat. but the only change was the guy wanted to take "pictures for his website" and then he wanted "to take a picture of it on the ground" so he asked me to drop it.

I lol at him and zoned to /reported him. then moved on.

still have his name on my list and haven't seem him on for the past two weeks.

That skill was changed and now as soon you get out of the bubble you're teleported back.

This scam has been increasing in Kamadan over the last 3 months...Nothing new

+1

Because there's nothing more to say,ALL scams have dodgy premises and are easy to spot.

This type of scam is easy to avoid..the problem is when you need and forced to trust in others, then the scam is harder to avoid...2 days ago a guy scammed me with z service (the guy is now banned thanks god),with triple drop option...he get the keys,log out and he put me in ignore list.
Btw the justice reach him!!

Hopefully it wasn't a large amount of zkeys. Otherwise a temporary ban won't hurt him much. He'll still be richer then he would've been had he not scammed you. Which also means he may have the last laugh.

Fun when you drop a chitten frag or a crappy white weapon and poof there gone.
Keeps me laughing for a while especially when you get a PM later saying "I" scammed them and I will be reported.

I always carry around a few Hunks of Fresh Meat or Taro leaves just in case anyone asks me to drop any item.

Give the GM's a laugh and send a support ticket over stolen meat.

They don't always teleport, so you may walk away rolling your eyes instead of giggling.

The same guy from lastnight PMed me two more times today, so I armed myself with some worthless junk and went outside with him the second time. He didn't seem to want it.

Were just 20 of them, 100k.....
Btw you cant know if ppl are scammer or not in those type of services..If someone ask to drop somethin you can avoid it, if someone put less money in trade you can avoid it (for example xx ecto for 1k or 10k instead 100k),or if the put the wrong items..all easy things to avoid..but Z service?you are forced to trust in others, maybe this is the reason why this type of scam increase every day.

"hi can i take a picture of your minipet outside for my guildpage?"

To protect the innocent, I've black out his first name:


Guess he has it down and just copy and paste. I've open a case w/ ANET. Hopefully, ANET gives him a 30day to 90day banned since he's doing this non-stop.

Ahhhh Junjjn...

He's already been reported... twice. In game and through support with screenshots. He was online when I logged in today, but I got a canned response from support a little while ago and haven't seen him on since.

I doubt he cares about CNY.

lol, emphasis on the thread title word "old". I remember this kind of jazz from DII days...

If ANET doesn't do anything about it, than I can see a WHOLE lot more scammers doing the same thing knowing there will be no action taken against them.