EVE General Discussion

If you cant spot the sucker in the first few seconds of EVE then you are the sucker.

There was this one time at band camp...

I honestly don't know how you fall for the double ISK scam.

Just a victim of bad posting as a result of a certain scammer.

I think that is going on is that isk doubling is a mind trick. It preys on a mark's greed for easy isk. Most of the isk doublers end there, simply keeping monies sent.

But it seems a few go further by actually doubling small sums. This causes the mark to want larger sums and engenders the fear of missing out. Money keeps on going back and forth until it is at a stupendous sum, then when the scammer safely has the desired isk in their custody, the money stops.

Some then go yet further, exploiting the sunk cost fallacy within the mind of the mark with the use of bonus rooms and the like. When the scammee sends their money and they are invited to a bonus room, the scammee might for a brief instant think that they received something special and elite and better than what regular people receive. This illusion is quickly shattered when they don't received their expected doubled isk. They are told to have absolute faith, and hand over yet more assets. With themselves unable to say anything for fear of losing already sent isk they feel they have no choice but to comply. Soon all of their stuff is in the custody of the doubler and they are made to do humiliating things on TS. Eventually the doubler refuses to give them their assets; the mark is stripped of their stuff, their isk, and their dignity and left with only the feeling of being had.

While I've never given isk to an isk doubler, I sometimes feel the urge, maybe this particular isk doubler is legit, or it's only a little bit of money. Beware though, that's what the isk doubler wants you to think. They may as well have some old man riding shotgun waving their hand and trying to put such ridiculous notions in your head.

I got married once so there's goes my high horse.