What my friends and I called "the Teain Scam"
Pre velious, again on the prexus server, a buddy of mine had a lvl 52 ranger named Teain that he had quit playing. Had planer gear, epics, lots of no drop stuff. None of our other friends wanted the account, so we decided to use it for scamming instead.
Find a guy selling something mildly expensive, 25k ish range. Ask the guy "hey man I know this sounds weird, but i'll trade you a lvl 52 ranger for that item, all you gotta do is take over the billing." Usually the guy would suspect a scam, so we'd let him log onto the account, run around for a bit, maybe even give him a few hours to decide. We'd promise to give him all the necessary info once the trade was completed.
Of course, once the trade was completed, we'd change the password and screw the guy.
It worked for a solid couple weeks, but it eventually got to the point where everyone trading in EC was aware of our little game and it stopped working. So then we just ebayed the account.
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