EC Scammer: Gerun/Olympia

[Gaffin']

Originally Posted by dav [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

He is a Warrior, and has been on the server/in IB for about 4 years now. Highly doubt he would be scamming someone for 4k, as I've lost more to him on a bad hand in Pokerstars. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Gerun most likely used his name to gain your confidence.

[Brooks2728]

This person must have been doing this for some time now. I don't remember the name of the char who did this to me, but atleast 6 months ago the same thing happened. I got burnt for 10k on a sash of the dragonborn (he did it in reverse from how the OP was scammed - I was buying the sash but gave the money to the char he was on in EC at the time first. He told me that he would be right back on a char named Olympia with the sash). I petitioned also but never heard anything back from it. Just want to give the heads-up to use caution as this person must have been at this scam for some time now.

[Aerar]

Originally Posted by Brooks2728 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This person must have been doing this for some time now. I don't remember the name of the char who did this to me, but atleast 6 months ago the same thing happened. I got burnt for 10k on a sash of the dragonborn (he did it in reverse from how the OP was scammed - I was buying the sash but gave the money to the char he was on in EC at the time first. He told me that he would be right back on a char named Olympia with the sash). I petitioned also but never heard anything back from it. Just want to give the heads-up to use caution as this person must have been at this scam for some time now.

EQ Classic took the stance of - Trading is your OWN RISK, in saying so they made it possible to scam. But they also made it the person trading responsible for their own losses.

While it sucks you got scammed, these have been around for 14 years now and people should be well aware of the, "let me just switch characters" line.

If you ever hear it;

Either A DONT DO THE TRADE
or B Make sure you are the person holding all the cards, never give away anything for something later.

[Loke]

Olympia has been secretly scamming low to mid end items from people in EC for the past 4 years because cheaper items allow him to fly under the radar and avoid detection. However, he clearly didn't count on master sleuth Strifen cracking this case wide open!

You're just lucky all you lost were material goods. He stole my heart a couple years ago in a xfer scam that went sour.

[Relictor]

never do this type of trade unless you know the person is legit(had he actually logged on oly or something in this case)

[Iliilliill]

Any time I'm buying for an alt or having to pay with my mule I always pay up front and then hop over. Run the same risk of getting scammed, so you gotta be careful who you're buying from or selling to in that type of situation.

Sorry to hear about it man, hopefully name & shame will bring justice if it's really a scam instance.

[Aerar]

This is truly the oldest trick in the book, at least 14 years old. You are lucky it was only a 4k item. Seen it done with 60k items. ALWAYS BE THE ONE HOLDING THE GOODS DURING TRANSFER. If he wants to have seperate characters do it, get the money first then give him the goods.

Remember you only are at as much risk as you allow

[Aaron]

You probably shouldn't have fallen for this.

Also, this has happened before. Pretty sure it's the same dude using Olympia's name. But mayeb coincidence.

[Wotsirb401]

I hate to see this, doing crap like this for 2 and 4k items really? I never have a problem with anyone in the tunnel. People generally see my FE tag and i list my toons and they accept that i will pay on my mule

[Kohedron]

This doesn't make me feel any better about buying Jboots.