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Kim Plausible
Squid Squashing
#41 - 2013-11-19 11:09:28 UTC
http://community.eveonline.com/support/knowledge-base/article.aspx?articleId=27


Scams

A scam is what happens when someone takes advantage of your misplaced trust, temporary confusion or ignorance of game rules, and robs you via legal in-game means.




How is what you have done through ingame means ?
Arji Otsito
For the Love of Ore
#42 - 2013-11-19 11:11:24 UTC  |  Edited by: Arji Otsito
Kim Plausible wrote:
http://community.eveonline.com/support/knowledge-base/article.aspx?articleId=27


Scams

A scam is what happens when someone takes advantage of your misplaced trust, temporary confusion or ignorance of game rules, and robs you via legal in-game means.




How is what you have done through ingame means ?

You honestly believe you are right don't you? Please stop, your about to make me laugh even harder.

1) Please tell me what out-of-game mechanic i used.
- I can setup a whole website to advertise, Like Blinks for example, I just used something supplied by CCP

2) I Did not even use any mechanics for this, the scammed people did all the work, they just believed me.

3) Carry on posting, everyong is being amused
Crumplecorn
Eve Cluster Explorations
#43 - 2013-11-19 11:13:11 UTC
Kim Plausible wrote:
How is what you have done through ingame means ?
The money was transferred in game...

Also @OP I love you

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Not Liking this post hurts my RL feelings and will be considered harassment
Inquisitor Ageri
Doomheim
#44 - 2013-11-19 11:13:53 UTC
Kim Plausible wrote:
takes advantage of your misplaced trust


That's your particular issue right there.

CCP draws a very clear line between scam and exploit.

Because EVE.
Kim Plausible
Squid Squashing
#45 - 2013-11-19 11:14:14 UTC

Dude if scamming via the forums was allowed how come yours is the only scam thread ?
Gregor Parud
Imperial Academy
#46 - 2013-11-19 11:16:02 UTC
It's stories and threads like these that, if shown to the people with the right mindset, will lure more players into EVE. Either because they want to do it themselves or they're looking for a game where you have to enable your brain. The ones that don't get it, hate it or rage against it are the ones we can do without.

Well done sir.
Samoth Egnoled
Caldari Provisions
#47 - 2013-11-19 11:16:29 UTC
Arji Otsito wrote:
So I setup a little ad, selling BPO's that are not even in-game yet (ad can be seen bellow).

I "sold" 27 billion worth of Rubicon BPO's... that's 27 billion profit in 4 days.

To All you IDIOTS who after 10 years of eve still cant tell what the most basic scam of all time looks like. (gimme your money now and you get 'it' later)

Of the 107 people who willingly sent me their money, 101 of them wanted it delivered in Jita.

Let me make this clear -> THE BLUEPRINTS ARE BEING SOLD AT JITA BY THE NPC's

Thank you eve for supplying sufficient Idiots that i can now buy my Nyx, in 4 days.


Original Link : https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=296218&find=unread

Arrow Posting the BEST hate mails as it happens


You sir are a genius. I wish i'd thought of that. Enjoy your Nyx :D
Kaarous Aldurald
Black Hydra Consortium.
#48 - 2013-11-19 11:17:25 UTC
Plot twist, Kim Plausible is an alt of one of your "customers".

"Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws."

One of ours, ten of theirs.

Best Meltdown Ever.
Kim Plausible
Squid Squashing
#49 - 2013-11-19 11:18:06 UTC  |  Edited by: ISD Ezwal
Crumplecorn wrote:
Kim Plausible wrote:
How is what you have done through ingame means ?
The money was transferred in game...

Also @OP I love you



*Snip* Please refrain from personal attacks. ISD Ezwal


You advertised a product for a price on the forums, just took the isk for no product.
This is clearly not allowed, it would make a mockery of all the sale specific channels.


CCP - Please could we have a definitive reply on this please.
Arji Otsito
For the Love of Ore
#50 - 2013-11-19 11:19:04 UTC  |  Edited by: ISD Ezwal
Kim Plausible wrote:

Dude if scamming via the forums was allowed how come yours is the only scam thread ?


Hahaha I'm not scamming in General Discussion *Snip* Please refrain from personal attacks. ISD Ezwal (not that that matters). I'm just gloating about it.

Open up Want Ads & Trades or Sell Orders. If you cant see atleast 1 scam in each of those.. then you will be my next victim, i guarantee that
Arji Otsito
For the Love of Ore
#51 - 2013-11-19 11:20:05 UTC
Kaarous Aldurald wrote:
Plot twist, Kim Plausible is an alt of one of your "customers".

No doubt
Mhax Arthie
Doomheim
#52 - 2013-11-19 11:20:09 UTC
If you love reading, your already a winner. No matter what game we talk about, patch notes are always a gold mine. Also, God bless SiSi.
Eugene Kerner
TunDraGon
Goonswarm Federation
#53 - 2013-11-19 11:21:31 UTC
Tippia wrote:
Not even my triple facepalm is enough to cover this. Lol

Can someone please provide a picture of a larger facepalm than that?


How about that one?

TunDraGon is recruiting! "Also, your boobs [:o] "   CCP Eterne, 2012 "When in doubt...make a diȼk joke." Robin Williams - RIP
Kim Plausible
Squid Squashing
#54 - 2013-11-19 11:21:43 UTC
Generally in-game scams are allowed and considered a valid tactic as long as they are done via normal game mechanics.



How are the forums game mechanics ?
Mara Rinn
Cosmic Goo Convertor
#55 - 2013-11-19 11:21:49 UTC
Kim Plausible wrote:

Dude if scamming via the forums was allowed how come yours is the only scam thread ?


Mostly because the opportunity for a forum scam that works only comes once every other expansion or so.

Here are the key points that should have tipped you off that it was a scam:

  1. A person you don't know
  2. offered you a service
  3. for ISK upfront
  4. with no collateral
  5. without using item exchange contracts


Sad but true, part of the game of EVE is sculduggery and confidence games. It is unfortunate that you had to learn this lesson so expensively, but it was a brilliant scam: perfectly pitched, beautifully timed.

At least you still have the shirt on your back! Cold comfort, I know, but you will eventually come to see that no loss in EVE is permanent, and that it is in fact the danger of loss that makes the game more interesting than theme park grind fests like WoW.

Day 0 Advice for New Players
Anomaly One
Doomheim
#56 - 2013-11-19 11:22:18 UTC
Arji Otsito wrote:
Kaarous Aldurald wrote:
Plot twist, Kim Plausible is an alt of one of your "customers".

No doubt


what just about to say that

Never forget. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8sfaN8zT8E http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l_ZjVyRxx4 Trust me, I'm an Anomaly. DUST 514 FOR PC
Sabriz Adoudel
Move along there is nothing here
#57 - 2013-11-19 11:22:59 UTC  |  Edited by: ISD Ezwal
Kim Plausible wrote:
Crumplecorn wrote:
Kim Plausible wrote:
How is what you have done through ingame means ?
The money was transferred in game...

Also @OP I love you


*Snip* Please refrain from personal attacks. ISD Ezwal


You advertised a product for a price on the forums, just took the isk for no product.
This is clearly not allowed, it would make a mockery of all the sale specific channels.


CCP - Please could we have a definitive reply on this please.



*Snip* Please refrain from personal attacks. ISD Ezwal

The useful part may be a stretch, but the OP no doubt considers you useful for something. Like funding her/his new super carrier.

I support the New Order and CODE. alliance. www.minerbumping.com
Bloody Slave
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#58 - 2013-11-19 11:25:22 UTC
LMAO.

Best thread for weeks!

Only thing negative on this is that most of the wannabe scammers would be filling the forum pages with ridiculous scams from now on, maybe they can even create bots to write that, OMG...Cry

Props at OP! Well done Sir, I love greed as well. Blink

If your balls are hurt and bleeding don't sit in a pool full of piranhas (note to myself: don't complain in GD)
Sabriz Adoudel
Move along there is nothing here
#59 - 2013-11-19 11:25:42 UTC
Kim Plausible wrote:
Generally in-game scams are allowed and considered a valid tactic as long as they are done via normal game mechanics.



How are the forums game mechanics ?


They are where every ponzi scheme prior to Currin Trading was carried out.

Currin Trading was so successful because it didn't use the scam-infested forums but instead was organized by EVEmail.

I support the New Order and CODE. alliance. www.minerbumping.com
NOT Mohammed
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#60 - 2013-11-19 11:26:32 UTC
See plenty of scams in market discussion forum, people need to research more before they open their mouths. Day 1 lesson in EVE is trust no one, guess the people who sent you isk never learned that one