EC Scammer: Gerun/Olympia

[Yumyums Inmahtumtums]

Pretty sure there are numerous reputable entities that offer trade and escrow services for a cut of the purchase price.

Would highly recommend these services for every MQ or situation where you need to forward money. Or better yet you could just request to reverse the transfer where they front the item.

[Langrisserx]

what, the RMT'ers who scam EC on other characters to make people turn to their escrow "business".. those?

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[kaev]

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

what, the RMT'ers who scam EC on other characters to make people turn to their escrow "business".. those?

be sure to buy Nortons Antivirus too, 100% effective only 39.95 plus tax

Wow, that's some heavy-duty tinfoil right there.

[Yumyums Inmahtumtums]

Xploiters gonna xploit. Baby out with the bathwater and all that...

I'd rather be out 6.3k (assumed 5% cut) with something to show for it than 6k with nothing and a black-eyed forum post.

In Bob we trust.

[Sidelle]

Sorry you got scammed. Glad you posted though. Some of us keep track of this kind of thing and keep shit lists..

[skorge]

This could have been easily avoided, as other's have said, by making sure you get your plat the same time you trade your items. Hopefully other's never make this mistake.

I wouldn't even call this a scam because you should never make trades to total strangers without getting your items/plat up front.

On another note, the best scam I've ever seen, and the only scam that has worked on me, was back in early 2000.

Someone was selling Forest Loops. Back then, on my server, Veeshan, they were going for 2k, which isn't a large amount. Anyways I told a guy I would buy his, so I put up 2k in the window and he puts up the Forest Loop (you know how they look because of the unique graphic, it's the only good earring with this graphic). So I clicked trade. A few minutes later I found out he gave me a common vendor item earring that had the same graphic, lol.

The reason I fell for it was because the guy was a genius for coming up with this scam - he knew that most people wouldn't spend the extra few seconds inspecting the graphic because it's just a 2k valued item. He also knew that most people wouldn't blow up over losing 2k, so yea that was probably the best scam I've seen.

[kaev]

That's hardly genius skorge, it was an extremely common type of scam until they added auto-link of items placed in trade window. It replaced the bait & switch bullshit that used to happen before they made the secure trade window. fungi/cloth tunic was probably the most infamous version of it.