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Do people ACTUALLY ever fall for the scams in Jita?

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Ifly Uwalk
Perkone
Caldari State
#21 - 2012-09-27 17:19:02 UTC
I inadvertently scammed myself one time when I put up a sell order for a faction BS for 350K or however much they were at the time.

That's right, "K" not "M." Straight

That was the fastest I ever sold a faction BS. Oh, and it was an order of 2.
Pak Narhoo
Splinter Foundation
#22 - 2012-09-27 18:45:43 UTC
Warde Guildencrantz wrote:
the ones where they put a contract for a plex at cheap prices and ask for a plex in return as well sneakily probably are sometimes accidentally accepted by people who are trying to get into plex selling and don't know a lot about contracts.


Its more like that the you pay part is broken up into 2 pieces.

One above 'you get' and one completely at the bottom where you don't expect it.
CCP humor I guess, easily overlooked.
lanyaie
Nocturnal Romance
Cynosural Field Theory.
#23 - 2012-09-27 19:17:40 UTC
Marigin trade scams complete quite easily in less populated trade hubs also(easy way to gain ISK so please come do it )





PS: Do not clear your escrow and use a item sold in another hub for a low price thats the best way to margin trade scam and do it around Rens or Dodixie

Spaceprincess

People who put passwords on char bazaar Eveboards are the worst.
Momoyo
Rivinshield Trading Inc.
#24 - 2012-09-27 20:33:37 UTC
I paid 400mill for the amarr cruiser skill book once...needless to say i make sure to check the decimal places a bit better now and not buy stuff at the end of the day when I can barely keep my eyes open.

Though market scams are a bit different from the ******** contract scams in local. The tears when they moved faction ships then faction items to market were hilarious.
Tarinara
Doomheim
#25 - 2012-09-27 21:39:17 UTC
On my very 1st 'Toon ( who was biomassed he was so bad ) I fell for the only buying 1 of a mineral when the description says bunches. Chalk that one up to new char who didn't know how things actually work. Luckily that one didn't cost me a whole heck of a lot. 2nd one was a 'supposedly' rigged Raven which instead had the BPO's for the rigs in the hold. I *swear* it looked like it was the actual rigs...

You live and learn. You're also more careful reading any contract in the future... Lol
Ager Agemo
Rainbow Ponies Incorporated
#26 - 2012-09-27 21:50:54 UTC
Friends of mine actually got hit by the marging trading scam, i think they bough some weird rig for god knows what about electronics for like 450 mill and when they tried to sell it for 1 bill guess what...
James Amril-Kesh
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#27 - 2012-09-27 22:14:26 UTC
I once tried a couple of scams on an alt. I never could get them to work though.

One was the Charon/carbon scam. I sold carbon in a contract along with the caldari freighter skillbook for 2b. A few people called me ********, other people thought it was clever. Nobody fell for it.

Then I bought a Guardian and a Vexor...

Enjoying the rain today? ;)
Dersk
Perkone
Caldari State
#28 - 2012-09-27 22:40:07 UTC
Given the availability of the (would be) scammer's name, you can use that to check contract history. My casual browsing of scammers' contract histories suggests most get about one scam a day, give or take for activity.

You're free to look through the history of the people that accepted those contracts, too. It's almost like reading the obituaries looking for someone you know.
Selinate
#29 - 2012-09-28 00:15:23 UTC
not as often as people make it out to be, but yes, people do fall for them...
Ghazu
#30 - 2012-09-28 00:56:28 UTC
Well didn't get scammed but lost money, changing the price on my sell order, typed in 1 less digit and pressed enter, poof sold my thing for 7.8 mil instead of 78 mil.

http://www.minerbumping.com/ lol what the christ https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=2299984#post2299984
Akirei Scytale
Okami Syndicate
#31 - 2012-09-28 00:59:05 UTC
Mr Epeen
It's All About Me
#32 - 2012-09-28 01:14:05 UTC
Darth Bri wrote:


What's the worst scam you have fallen for? Own up here!!!



I will admit to getting nailed on a margin trading scam. Not as bad as it might have been since I actually had the items requested. All it cost me was time to transport and confusion when the sale failed. I had no idea what the trading skills did at that time. And, as did many before me and since, thought it was some kind of bot or hack. The whole margin trading scam thing is a hard one to get your brain around when you are first trying to figure it out. I believe it's the only skill you can train that is only there for scamming. It has no other practical use.

Oh and I bought a 2.7 million shuttle. But that's not a scam, it's stupidity.

Mr Epeen Cool
Tinja Soikutsu
Perkone
Caldari State
#33 - 2012-09-28 01:20:01 UTC
Darth Bri wrote:
They just seem so blatantly obvious that it seems like no one would ever fall for it.


Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
Shizuken
Venerated Stars
#34 - 2012-09-28 01:21:59 UTC
Darth Bri wrote:
They just seem so blatantly obvious that it seems like no one would ever fall for it.

What's the worst scam you have fallen for? Own up here!!!




I havent, but I did hear of one last night I totally would have fallen for. Its the one where they contract you a T3 cruiser and then include the subsystem skillbooks instead of actual subsystems... It looked so legit to me in the contract window
Natsett Amuinn
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#35 - 2012-09-28 01:49:52 UTC
Guy was posting a contract for a faction item he was selling at 1.5 billion the other day. On the market was a buy order for that same item at 2 billion, which was 1.5 billion more then the next highest buy order in Jita. The buy order was listed for four of them, and had the minimum volume set to 4.

I'm sure that the same guy that with the contract is the same guy with the buy order. I pointed it out in passing in Jita, it was just way to smart not to say anything. I'm pretty sure someone fell for it.

I think that's the most impressive scam I've seen in Jita.
Tesal
#36 - 2012-09-28 02:11:10 UTC
Just assume that everything in Jita local is a scam, because it usually is.
Creedling
#37 - 2012-09-28 05:04:20 UTC
I lost assets in Phaser Inc scheme, but that felt more eye-opening and awesome to be a victim of since it was on such an epic scale.

Was one of those moments that made me realise what a great place EvE can be and got me even more invested in the game.
Touval Lysander
Zero Wine
#38 - 2012-09-28 05:12:25 UTC
I do remember buying a "really cheap" BPC once for some cool-sounding pirate mod.

Until I went to buy just one of the mats required to make it which just happened to be listed by same dealer.

Loss was only the cost of the BPC but it could have been much worse. Would have taken a while to setup.

"I've always been mad, I know I've been mad, like the most of us...very hard to explain why you're mad, even if you're not mad..."
Kult Altol
The Safe Space
#39 - 2012-09-28 05:55:01 UTC
So since ccp doesn't give a crap bout scam bots where do I get one?

[u]Can't wait untill when Eve online is Freemium.[/u] WiS only 10$, SP booster for one month 15$, DPS Boost 2$, EHP Boost 2$ Real money trading hub! Cosmeitic ship skins 15$ --> If you don't [u]pay **[/u]for a product, you ARE the [u]**product[/u].

Cipher Jones
The Thomas Edwards Taco Tuesday All Stars
#40 - 2012-09-28 06:24:46 UTC
Darth Bri wrote:
They just seem so blatantly obvious that it seems like no one would ever fall for it.

What's the worst scam you have fallen for? Own up here!!!



paid for a load of mex one zero too many once.
one zero too many on a DCUII once.

The worst ones so far have been somer blink and eve hold em. Blink because I willingly participated in a lottery, and Eve Hold em because I assumed there was no collusion simply b/c its against the rules.

Ironically one of my Eve buddies was a professional poker player. He was able to make money IRL and on every website, and was only able to break even on Eve hold em by having anti-collusion collusion.

internet spaceships

are serious business sir.

and don't forget it