Eliash
Jan 18, 2007, 03:02 PM
Meseta Dupe Scam
Credit: Sychosis
Description:
Scammer will attempt to get people to drop meseta on the ground by telling them they will create lag and have them both pick up the meseta at the same time and dupe it.
Suggestions:
- Don't drop meseta on the ground even if you think this is plausable. As far as I know there are currently no meseta duping techniques other than that used by hackers.
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Present Scam
Credit: Laranas
Description:
Scammer takes a rare item (could be a moon atomizer X) and gets it wrapped by an NPC and tries to sell it off as something else. There is no way to tell what a present is except by the star rating, but even then it only tells you how many stars it has.
Suggestion:
- Never buy rare presents from strangers, or from anyone in fact.
- If the person says that the rare is inside the present tell them to unwrap it first and sell the item directly to you.
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Rare Drop Scam
Description:
Scammer starts a party and waits for people to join and during the course of the mission they ask the new player to drop the rare item because they would like to see how it looks on the ground and/or to trade it with them. Afterwards they either boot the player from the group and take the item, or run and grab it.
Suggestion:
- Never drop valuable items in a game when you are not leader and when there are other people near you. If you decide that you will drop a rare, ask to be made party leader. Or better yet, never drop valuable items.
- If they ask how it looks tell them "It's like a normal weapon, but in red". If they don't believe you for some reason tell them to take your word for it or get a for them to drop a rare, also try to check their equipment, if they have a rare weapon or something they could easily drop it to see what it looks like for themselves.
- If you want to bait them into booting you, you can try dropping some common rare such as a Moon Atomizer X board, however, they may realize the difference between the fake rare and the real one.
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Trade Window Scam
Description:
Scammer usually spams that they want to sell something for a price that is usually much cheaper than normal. Prompts a trade with the customer displays item and waits for the buyer to place meseta and confirm the trade and quickly takes out the item and confirms the trade with the buyers meseta still in trade but the item is taken out. After finalizing the scammer now has the buyers meseta while the buyer does not recieve anything.
Suggestions:
- When trading with someone make sure you keep an eye on the item.
- If the price is very cheap and/or you suspect the person is a scammer ask them to place it in a shop for you to buy it.
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<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Eliash on 2007-01-18 12:10 ]</font>
<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Eliash on 2007-01-18 13:00 ]</font>
<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Eliash on 2007-01-18 14:15 ]</font>
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Credit: Sychosis
Description:
Scammer will attempt to get people to drop meseta on the ground by telling them they will create lag and have them both pick up the meseta at the same time and dupe it.
Suggestions:
- Don't drop meseta on the ground even if you think this is plausable. As far as I know there are currently no meseta duping techniques other than that used by hackers.
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Present Scam
Credit: Laranas
Description:
Scammer takes a rare item (could be a moon atomizer X) and gets it wrapped by an NPC and tries to sell it off as something else. There is no way to tell what a present is except by the star rating, but even then it only tells you how many stars it has.
Suggestion:
- Never buy rare presents from strangers, or from anyone in fact.
- If the person says that the rare is inside the present tell them to unwrap it first and sell the item directly to you.
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Rare Drop Scam
Description:
Scammer starts a party and waits for people to join and during the course of the mission they ask the new player to drop the rare item because they would like to see how it looks on the ground and/or to trade it with them. Afterwards they either boot the player from the group and take the item, or run and grab it.
Suggestion:
- Never drop valuable items in a game when you are not leader and when there are other people near you. If you decide that you will drop a rare, ask to be made party leader. Or better yet, never drop valuable items.
- If they ask how it looks tell them "It's like a normal weapon, but in red". If they don't believe you for some reason tell them to take your word for it or get a for them to drop a rare, also try to check their equipment, if they have a rare weapon or something they could easily drop it to see what it looks like for themselves.
- If you want to bait them into booting you, you can try dropping some common rare such as a Moon Atomizer X board, however, they may realize the difference between the fake rare and the real one.
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Trade Window Scam
Description:
Scammer usually spams that they want to sell something for a price that is usually much cheaper than normal. Prompts a trade with the customer displays item and waits for the buyer to place meseta and confirm the trade and quickly takes out the item and confirms the trade with the buyers meseta still in trade but the item is taken out. After finalizing the scammer now has the buyers meseta while the buyer does not recieve anything.
Suggestions:
- When trading with someone make sure you keep an eye on the item.
- If the price is very cheap and/or you suspect the person is a scammer ask them to place it in a shop for you to buy it.
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<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Eliash on 2007-01-18 12:10 ]</font>
<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Eliash on 2007-01-18 13:00 ]</font>
<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Eliash on 2007-01-18 14:15 ]</font>
<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Eliash on 2007-01-18 14:16 ]</font>