Remember this scam?

[Lhancelot]

I seen a Leatherfoot Raider Skullcap for sale in EC, and then it reminded of the time a guy was selling the exact same named item in EC that had no WC instant portal effect.


The Scam:

Seller pretended to be selling:

http://i.imgur.com/ebdFW1K.png (http://imgur.com/ebdFW1K)


But in actuality was selling:

http://i.imgur.com/gMGgAQT.png (http://imgur.com/gMGgAQT)
Anyone else remember this scam or any other scams from back in the day?

[LostCause]

no but i remember in 1999 when i sold my accounts many times and just called verant up got them back THANKS BRAD

[mickmoranis]

Im sure the person who was way richer than you and had no addiction to this game and stopped playing long before you decided to continue to tailspin into loneliness depression and unemployment didnt even notice.

[Rygar]

No idea why this was posted in Rants and Flames. I'm hearing neither rants nor flames in the original post.

[Ella`Ella]

The ole fungi tunic and cloth tunic switch-a-roo. I cleaned up real good with that one back in the day.

[Freakish]

I was told if I tracked I would get Dragon loots.

[skarlorn]

someone once scammed me in runescape by convincing me i could drop my black armor and then hit alt f4 to dupe it

[Nerrp]

"did you hear about the new patch? If you type "/ex" it shows you your experience points to next level"

[maskedmelonpai]

someone once scammed me in runescape by convincing me i could drop my black armor and then hit alt f4 to dupe it

did you ever use this new knowledge to dupe? maybe it not work on items, but I could see it being effective on people :3

[Swish]

credible early entry for "shittest rnf thread for August" <3

[Cecily]

I was told if I tracked I would get Dragon loots.

I also fell for this. Wonder if it was the same scammer? But it's like they say, fool me once, shame on you. Fool me for 3 consecutive years, well you can't be fooled again.

[skarlorn]

no, i upgraded to a member account and then bought coal from the free server peasants and then upsold it to member royalty for 150% ROI and became a Runescape millionaire; i used that gold to lend it to friends in middle school and made them pay me $20 a week to borrow a cool mil; they often stole the money from their parents so they could keep up with the payments before ultimately giving me my runescape money back

i used that cash to buy caffeinated BAWLZ candies and caffeinated soap and shit. ROCK ON DUDE!

[dafier]

Deetoxx once sent me a /tell saying "if you come to our guild, you will have your Earth staff first"

I didn't buy it. :(

[xKoopa]

The ole fungi tunic and cloth tunic switch-a-roo. I cleaned up real good with that one back in the day.

Did this on rallos, took 3-4 tries before someone fell for it :D

Twinked out a ranger then managed to pk a lvl ~10 in misty thicket and looted his faceguard of bentos (huge item on rallos)

[Valura]

recently ive had a lot of people get mad at me when i refuse to do the "give me the money and ill get you the item on my other char".

[skarlorn]

recently ive had a lot of people get mad at me when i refuse to do the "give me the money and ill get you the item on my other char".

works well with ur avatar gif

[dafier]

recently ive had a lot of people get mad at me when i refuse to do the "give me the money and ill get you the item on my other char".

I am very positive if you were robbed that this breaks the 'play nice rules' policy and Sirken would get angry and wave his wand around after stiffening.

[Dreenk317]

I am very positive if you were robbed that this breaks the 'play nice rules' policy and Sirken would get angry and wave his wand around after stiffening.

Ya pretty certain that's how it works. I do it all the time, buy something with cash from my tunnel mule. Log the chat I want the item on to receive it. Saves me the hassle of doing a transfer. Just get them to agree to payment from one toon to receive on another, that way it's logged and you have proof if you do run in to a bad egg.

[mcoy]

I am very positive if you were robbed that this breaks the 'play nice rules' policy and Sirken would get angry and wave his wand around after stiffening.

This is how I buy pretty much everything. Never had an issue. Always assumed the above anyway...

-Mcoy

[maskedmelonpai]

This is how I buy pretty much everything. Never had an issue. Always assumed the above anyway...

-Mcoy

same, but I don't demand they gimme the item first neither, which sound like what valura was suggesting people doing to her.

[Swish]

On live EQ I used to run a casino scam. For an hour or two I would post my casino messages (/roll 1-1000 deal) claiming there isnt a limit on platinum, and if they want I can post my Plat in trade proving I can payout if they win.

I proceeded to have a friend log random chars openly betting while talking in /say and /shout about winning. At the same time a second friend was openly condemning my casino, saying it's a scam and not to trust me. This went on for a good hour or so like I said, and then my friend who claims I'm scamming throughout ooc "plays" my casino with 10k bet and won triple the amount, apologizing profusely in occ that I am not a scam what so ever.

At that point people would immediately flock to me giving me platinum for bets that ranged anywhere from 100pp to 30k one time. I keep doing the "casino rolls" accepting bets and giving no payouts until they catch on. Log off, transfer all the Plat and high end loot I was wearing (more "proof" my lvl 30 Alt has a rich main that can afford to do this casino). Get another char PLed and do the casino again a week later.

Eventually I had a GM issue a cease and desist through tells and I got suspended for ignoring it while arguing casinos aren't against the rule of the game. Bastards.

lol

were you the guy who was offering a fungi if the roll landed on the right number? One number in 1000 ? Can't remember what the cost was to play.

I remember that guy spamming rolls in the emptyish offpeak tunnel til he hit the right number then posting it on the forums as if someone had just won it.... yeah right lol

[Lhancelot]

On live EQ I used to run a casino scam. For an hour or two I would post my casino messages (/roll 1-1000 deal) claiming there isnt a limit on platinum, and if they want I can post my Plat in trade proving I can payout if they win.

I proceeded to have a friend log random chars openly betting while talking in /say and /shout about winning. At the same time a second friend was openly condemning my casino, saying it's a scam and not to trust me. This went on for a good hour or so like I said, and then my friend who claims I'm scamming throughout ooc "plays" my casino with 10k bet and won triple the amount, apologizing profusely in occ that I am not a scam what so ever.

At that point people would immediately flock to me giving me platinum for bets that ranged anywhere from 100pp to 30k one time. I keep doing the "casino rolls" accepting bets and giving no payouts until they catch on. Log off, transfer all the Plat and high end loot I was wearing (more "proof" my lvl 30 Alt has a rich main that can afford to do this casino). Get another char PLed and do the casino again a week later.

Eventually I had a GM issue a cease and desist through tells and I got suspended for ignoring it while arguing casinos aren't against the rule of the game. Bastards.

I always seen this very same /ooc and /say interactions going on around casinos rofl. So you were one of them guys. haha.

[Matalus]

Not so much a scam, but I played on a pvp server. People would sell KEI in PoK(safe zone), we would port them and kill and take there plats, they caught on later and started doing it by banks

[Swish]

Not so much a scam, but I played on a pvp server. People would sell KEI in PoK(safe zone), we would port them and kill and take there plats, they caught on later and started doing it by banks

lol

[omfgeq991001]

I had a friend once that lost a duel where the mage pet killed him. He lost xp and lost a level! He got so mad he threw all of his stuff on the ground and deleted his character! (he was a fucking spazoid) Well, my other friend whom defeated him in the duel picked up all his gear. About 15 min went by before friend A realized what he did and he begged the GMs to get his character back for him. They returned the character with all of his gear! So the friends sold the dropped gear and made pp! They did this like 3 or 4 times and never got caught! Another friend tried this, and the GMs must have caught on, and didnt get his character back or his gear.

[Triiz]

I seen a Leatherfoot Raider Skullcap for sale in EC, and then it reminded of the time a guy was selling the exact same named item in EC that had no WC instant portal effect.



That's a pretty shitty scam, all you need is a Dragoon Dirk to turn non-port Leatherfoot Raider Cap into standard clicky Leatherfoot Raider Cap. Not sure why people would even bother to do that since Dirk's are so easy to get.

I've never sold WC caps but before I started self-recharging I would keep a standard clicky WC cap on all my toons and the non-clicky cap + dragoon dirk in the bank in case I couldn't find someone to recharge.

I never understood how people fall for the old switcheroo. It takes 2 seconds to check the item in the trade window, and for 99% of items that don't have the same name the server tells you "Person has offered you A Fungi tunic" or whatever.

[Jimjam]

That's a pretty shitty scam, all you need is a Dragoon Dirk to turn non-port Leatherfoot Raider Cap into standard clicky Leatherfoot Raider Cap. Not sure why people would even bother to do that since Dirk's are so easy to get.

I've never sold WC caps but before I started self-recharging I would keep a standard clicky WC cap on all my toons and the non-clicky cap + dragoon dirk in the bank in case I couldn't find someone to recharge.

I never understood how people fall for the old switcheroo. It takes 2 seconds to check the item in the trade window, and for 99% of items that don't have the same name the server tells you "Person has offered you A Fungi tunic" or whatever.

There is a third hat you can get by killing Halflings in nek forest. This is probably the one that was being used to scam with.

[Tupakk]

Gundum is the reason why we couldn't have nice things. I ran a legit casino and sometimes would win sometimes I would lose a lot. Games weren't rigged albeit some harder to win than others.

[AzzarTheGod]

I was told if I tracked I would get Dragon loots.

lmao

[AzzarTheGod]

lol

were you the guy who was offering a fungi if the roll landed on the right number? One number in 1000 ? Can't remember what the cost was to play.

I remember that guy spamming rolls in the emptyish offpeak tunnel til he hit the right number then posting it on the forums as if someone had just won it.... yeah right lol

credible post because this guy types exactly like the casino guy same tone and rhythm.

its him.

[Lhancelot]

There is a third hat you can get by killing Halflings in nek forest. This is probably the one that was being used to scam with.

This is right, he was using the cap from the halflings in Nekt Forest.

Jimjam on a roll lately, going hard in the paint on the forums!

[Swish]

credible post because this guy types exactly like the casino guy same tone and rhythm.

its him.

You wouldnt be pointing fingers if you werent hiding something...did I just identify you?

[Tupakk]

You wouldnt be pointing fingers if you werent hiding something...did I just identify you?


Don't distract from your true identity. Llandris!!!

[Shrubwise]

After Luclin came out, my friend would go to the bazaar, so a search to see which PC vendors had a fungi, and then just whisper them. A successful exchange would go something like this:

Him: hey
Vendor: sup
Him: I started a new warrior alt :)
Them: who's this?
Him: guess :P
Them: (begins guessing a bunch of friends)
Him: (picking one of the random friends) Ya it's me <friend name> haha anyways think I could borrow that fungi for a couple days? Just to get out of these low levels!

...and more often than not they would hand this complete stranger their fungi, he would transfer to another character and erase all existence of the toon he used to dupe them.

I successfully tried it once, but my conscious got the better of me and I found the guy a day or two later and returned his item back to him.

[nostalgiaquest]

the ol' firepot scam was always my favorite, back when you instantly dropped money on the ground without an "are you sure you want do drop this?" message. Made mucho plat doing that on different servers until they eventually changed the money dropping procedure.

[Zekayy]

someone once scammed me in runescape by convincing me i could drop my black armor and then hit alt f4 to dupe it

Damn thats rough but something like that happened to me but I got my whole account taken in runescape

[Swish]

Don't distract from your true identity. Llandris!!!

Button it Cylock we don't need to get into this :mad:

[Whirled]

I never knew I had stupid rich relatives that want to give me crazy amounts of some money from another country. Where do I sign up? PM me more info so I can give you my credit card quick!!!

[fan D]

I was told if I tracked I would get Dragon loots.

HAHA, ty , i fell for the same scam as this guy

[trite]

no but i remember in 1999 when i sold my accounts many times and just called verant up got them back THANKS BRAD

why do people admit to wire fraud on p99 forums to impress nerds they've never met?