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How was your first time getting scammed?
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oien cabrereas
Gold Trading Inc..
#1 - 2013-01-19 05:38:14 UTC
Well I finally got scammed in eve not by contracts or jita local but a kill right. Yup I got greedy seeing a punisher sitting still in space went and bought a kill right for 200k isk but when i look at my wallet it was 200 million -_- which is allot for me.

So how was your first time getting scammed? did you get mad at your self? was it by accident?Roll
or you just laughed your self to oblivion Big smile


Discuss
Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#2 - 2013-01-19 05:39:26 UTC
I was in a hurry to get somewhere so I bought a shuttle really fast, it was the 2nd best 9m isk shuttle I've ever bought Big smile

"Little ginger moron" ~David Hasselhoff 

Want to see what Surf is training or how little isk Surf has?  http://eveboard.com/pilot/Surfin%27s_PlunderBunny
Bienator II
madmen of the skies
#3 - 2013-01-19 05:59:25 UTC
i once bought all "bane" torpedos of the whole region to be able to fulfill profitable looking a sell order. I still have them.

how to fix eve: 1) remove ECM 2) rename dampeners to ECM 3) add new anti-drone ewar for caldari 4) give offgrid boosters ongrid combat value
Doctor Ungabungas
Doomheim
#4 - 2013-01-19 06:05:10 UTC
Bienator II wrote:
i once bought all "bane" torpedos of the whole region to be able to fulfill profitable looking a sell order. I still have them.


I haven't fallen victim to a real scam, but once I scammed myself by buying mechanic parts instead of mechanical parts for a chain of POS I was setting up.

Shocked

I was so annoyed with myself I just dumped them back to buys and bought the real stuff.
Jake Warbird
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#5 - 2013-01-19 07:03:37 UTC
A really good friend of mine introduced me to Eve....

Sugar Von MurdererTits : Jake Warbird gets my vote for most intriguing and attractive male character in Eve.
Cowboy Nuggets
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#6 - 2013-01-19 07:22:19 UTC
Bought toilet paper at walmart, found out the rolls were tinier than normal rolls of TP Twisted
Max Doobie
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#7 - 2013-01-19 07:25:38 UTC
Cowboy Nuggets wrote:
Bought toilet paper at walmart, found out the rolls were tinier than normal rolls of TP Twisted



aw man, don't you hate when the cheap ass paper tears and you get TP bits all stuck in your butt crack???

seriously....SUCKS....
Skorpynekomimi
#8 - 2013-01-19 08:11:17 UTC
I accidentally paid 3mil a unit for a few hundred veldspar a while ago, but that was more typing into the wrong boxes and ignoring the warning.

Never actually been scammed, per se. I'm very good at spotting them.

Economic PVP
Renton Brax
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#9 - 2013-01-19 08:24:51 UTC
Took an attractive courier contract. Exploded en route. How was it? Expensive.
Seetesh
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#10 - 2013-01-19 08:28:32 UTC
Only careless people get scammed.
I Love Boobies
All Hail Boobies
#11 - 2013-01-19 08:28:50 UTC
I can happily say I have never been scammed in my 7 years of Eve life. Lol I have always read the forums about the scams and latest tricks from my first day, he he he.
terzslave
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#12 - 2013-01-19 08:38:06 UTC
I have not been scammed because I'm not a ******.
Tarpedo
Incursionista
#13 - 2013-01-19 08:44:01 UTC
First I was too poor to be scammed, later I became too paranoid to be scammed.
Andracin
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#14 - 2013-01-19 08:53:28 UTC
I remember reading the description on a bunch of mines when I was a nooblet and thinking how much fun they would be to drop around a gate used by courier mission bots. I bought a pile to discover that they no longer worked in game. I kept them for awhile then passed them on with love to another nooblet as "rare" items.....
Whitehound
#15 - 2013-01-19 14:35:29 UTC
How was it? It was terrible! Evil

I went to Jita to get the last missing science skills, went through my skill sheet and bought each of the missing ones. A few days later did I notice a loss of 5b ISKs and it was because I had bought Astronautics Engineering. After a long search of what this expensive skill does did I realize that it was an obsolete skill, and players had been tossing it around like stinking turds to a spiralling price of 5b ISKs.

I petitioned it and demanded a replacement skill. CCP let me choose a new skill and later did they change the description of Astronautics Engineering to show its uselessness. Someone else got rid of an ill e-peen skillbook and with 5b ISKs more in his wallet.

Loss is meaningful. Therefore is the loss of meaning likewise meaningful. It is the source of all trolling.
Ildryn
IDLE INTENTIONS
#16 - 2013-01-19 14:48:39 UTC
Has not happened yet.
GreenSeed
#17 - 2013-01-19 15:21:47 UTC
had to move a mission item for a storyline, didn't fit on my ship so i bought an industrial in a hurry... most expensive iteron III in history at 100m...

still i don't really think i got scammed, i was just careless and dint really pay attention... i mean i expected a sign to pop up since usually they sell for 50% - 100% over what they sell on local hubs, so i spam clicked without even looking... never expected a 10000% :o

and yes... i must confess that the first thing i did was to add the seller to my blocked list. Straight
SB Rico
Sumo Wrestlers
#18 - 2013-01-19 16:00:22 UTC
Tarpedo wrote:
First I was too poor to be scammed, later I became too paranoid to be scammed.


this

Scammers are currently selling killrights on this toon for up to 5mil, if you have paid for this service demand your money back at once.

Killing me should be for free.
Nariya Kentaya
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#19 - 2013-01-19 17:02:04 UTC
Never been scammed, then again, i was never at the trade hubs much, went straight from being a grunt in a highsec mining corp, to cammanding my own lowsec pirate corp, then from there straight to high-end merc WH alliance.


so yeah, never gotten scammed. yay me.
Kamden Line
Sovereign Citizen and other Tax Evasion Schemes
#20 - 2013-01-19 17:27:59 UTC
Bought a 1 billion ISK warp scrambler II.

Fool me for not counting the zeros.
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