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Have you ever scammed someone?
gargantroo
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One time...
On Ultima Online, there was a veteran who had just returned. He had played pre-ren so he didn't know anything about the game nowadays.
He was riding on an ethereal swamp dragon and approached me. I was riding an armored sweamp dragon. He asked me how to put armor on it and I was suprised he didnt know that you couldnt armor an ethereal swamp dragon. I traded him an armored swamp dragon (worth about 10k gold lol) for an ethereal one (worth millions). Then, I told him it wasnt a fair trade since mine had armor and made him give me some of his vet rewards 
I still feel bad for it to this day. I think thats the only scam i've ever done, and I'm usually helpful. However, with the money I went out and bought a nice 18x18 3 story plot in Trammel
Have you guys done a scam this bad? Or worse?
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In Eve Online Only the top 1000 charachters (out of around 180,000 or so), have more than 1billion isk.
Ive scammed more than that in the last 7 days.... :P
I am incredibly rich but I just cant help myself; i love outwitting other people.
I am not going to divulge my methods, but lets just say I have at least 4 major and successful methods, and Ive never seen anyone else do any of them.
I was going to say that it would be quite foolish to scam people as there is a difference between what is easy and what is right,
However as long as you are anonymouse, and does not involve a game's economy that has to do with real life currency, you might be fine with that.
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I have too big of a conscience to scam people. I have tried before but everytime I am about click accept or trade, I feel guilty and stop it.
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This is the largest scam ever done online to my knowledge, it was also featured in PC Gamer magazine.
http://eve.klaki.net/heist/ It took a full year to pull it off. The value of the items scammed were estimated at $16,500 of real money if they were to be sold. I'm not involved, im just passing it a long, its a good read.
Its old but still some people might not be aware of it.
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im more or less of a beggar. dont scam but rely on the generosity of others
(no im not one of the ppl who just spams asking for money, i have a more detailed and less annoying way of procuring the free funds, mainly i have a silver tounge when i need to)
I don't scam, but I've been very lucky...
In EVE in the Fountain Alliance, someone put a top-of-the-line gun on escrow for 7isk (worth 70mil isk)...good profit that day.
Then in WoW I accidently put a stack of linen cloth up for 14g (meant it to be 14s) and it sold...if I knew the person I'd give it back.
I remember somebody stealing my pile of ORE in UO once. Long time ago. I was angry at the time, but now I realize its one of the non-grinding interesting times i've experienced in a MMO.
Now all we do is grind, or like some loser, buy items on E-bay. PATHETIC!
Have you ever scammed somone? No
Would you scam somone if you have a chance? Yes, if i dont like you
Yes, I'll admit I used to scam many years ago when I played UO (but I played a thief & murderer for years, so conning people was was kinda part of my job), but after that I grew older and more mature and realized it's just a lame thing to do, and that I wouldn't want people doing it to me, so I stopped permanently. Since then i've had plenty of opportunities to rip people off that trusted me with something valuable, but I have integrity now so I wouldn't do it.
What it boils down to is, people who scam are emotionally immature, stuck at around 12 years old mentally, and they deserve a good kick in the ass to jolt them back into the human race.
i haven't personally, but the crowd of people i usually hang out with scam people like mad. they usually share their loot with me, so that kinda makes me a scammer? lol
My favorite scam instance is in the game Tibia. Years ago a character named Alex, a friend of mine, pulled off an amazing scam. The best sword in the game was for sale, it was GM crafted, and there was no other. To this day, 4 or 5 years later, maybe 6 or 7, no other copies of this sword exist. The amount of money was so high that a GM had to do the transaction, because the auto trade system couldn't cover it. Dear Alex managed to swipe the payment, and the sword. I don't remember the details or I would share. I know that the developers of the game put the story into the official lore of the game though. If I can remember the details I'll post them. Weaker swords in the game sell for 1kUSD a pop.
And oh yah. I don't remember ever scamming anyone but I'm sure I've tried it. I'm not really into scamming
people, I'd rather have more friends than items. Just me!
scamming... another reason these carebear mmos are stupid. you cant even do anything back to the person. report to a csr... lmao yea like that works. in old UO you could just kill the guy, or hire someone(s) else to.
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The noob formally not known as not being the formally not unkown known APEist; The Stone Cold Killer of Tarq.
Haven't scammed anyone, but I was scammed myself once. I wasn't paying attention in EVE when I went to buy a Caldari shuttle for a quick jaunt to a nearby star system that I didn't have instas for (I was in my Raven-class battleship at the time, which isn't exactly a fast ship), and bought one off the market for 9 million ISK.
That was for a shuttle that was worth, perhaps, 9 thousand. Luckily, I usually have a few hundred million in the wallet, so it wasn't that big a blow. Still, on a bad day, that's about half an hour's worth of work to replace (on a good day, it could be ten minutes).
-Wrayeth
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Meeeh... kind of...
In UO year 1, before they made it so exploding boxes gave a murder count to the tinker who made em... I used to go and do trades with exploding boxes. Id pass the box to the buyer and when it blew up, Id take back my box, the money and all thier stuff
Not so much a scam as a N00bness test hehehehe
Had to stop doing it when they gave murder counts for exploding boxes coz I needed my tinker to be able to go to town...
Damn those was the days...
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I was a beta tester of lineage 2, before the US beta I beta tested in korea.. ya.. I learned how to translate
to make long stories short everyone knew how to exploit shops. I did a lot of WTS (in fact bought) a lot of top grade items. basically you put up a shop that said you wanted to sell something for very little..rare drops. in fact you had a shop set up to BUY the item for little of nothing. You position yourself in an area where you know said items will be taken for trade and you end up buying all their shiney's they just harvested from wherever.
its a wierd sort of justice. you have these people who "think" they have spotted somebody that doenst know any better selling rare drop items for a fraction of their worth and you just picked one up knowing its worht a hell of a lot more..usually more than twice the worth. so they figure, what they hell they'll but it and resell it down further in the market area. when they accept, what actually happened is they SOLD the item they just harvested
its an exploit, an exploit of some nubs intelligence
as the game went on people learned that SELL shops and BUY shops were colored different. on release you could totally take advantage of people just by putting WTS in your shop for extremely cheap prices, when in fact you were BUYING the item if they happened to have it in inventory.
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Yeah similar things in UO before Carebearammel, I mean Trammel...
You could hide out near a popular vendor and wait for some mule to show up to buy reagents. If you wanted the regs youd let them make thier purchase then smack them down... if you wanted the cash you kill them before they buy
Thats the one problem with true mules... they were easy targets...
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"Far away across the field, the tolling of the iron bell, calls the faithful to their knees. To hear the softly spoken magic spell" Pink Floyd-Dark Side of the Moon
No, never scammed anyone, and never will.
I've also never been scammed.
I have had chances, but I will not do it.
Never done it, but happens to me one time in Asheron's Call. It was very early in the game probably 2-3 months after launch. My patron had just gave me a brand new and shinny mattie coat.
Someone come to me and ask me if i knew how to double the Armor Rating of the coat. Being relatively new to the game i thought well maybe it's possible, i said no and he says to click the coat and type a word, i don't remember which word, but one of the letter was use to drop the item to the ground.
Well guess what happened, i started typing and next thing i knew my coat drop on the ground and the guy took it from me. Newbie mistake.
I've never scammed anyone, nor would I want to. I guess do on to others as you'd have them do on to you means something to me.....though I have no idea why.