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have you ever been scammed?
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Seven Koskanaiken
Shadow Legions.
SONS of BANE
#1 - 2013-04-11 19:19:40 UTC
what happened and how much did they take you for?
Holgrak Blacksmith
Prophets of Motav
#2 - 2013-04-11 19:22:41 UTC
Yeap, today ccp re-released a load of "limited edition" ships. Scammed me for a few bil.
Solstice Project
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#3 - 2013-04-11 19:40:49 UTC
I fell for a margin trading scam.
Once.
That's the only scam i ever fell for.

Luckily. ^_^
Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#4 - 2013-04-11 19:44:40 UTC
No. It was always too obvious.
Solstice Project
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#5 - 2013-04-11 19:45:36 UTC
Tippia wrote:
No. It was always too obvious.
*looks at you, suspicious*
Jenn aSide
Soul Machines
The Initiative.
#6 - 2013-04-11 19:48:03 UTC  |  Edited by: Jenn aSide
Seven Koskanaiken wrote:
what happened and how much did they take you for?

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Just once, it was a scam called "Marriage", she lured me in with promises of intercourse, and we all know how THAT goes after you say "i do" (I thought I would mention I was married...to a woman..simply because I'm a man and wanted to prove that I am getting some on the Regular...oh wait, wrong thread).

But for real, yea, I once bought a mod that was supposed to be 1 million isk for about 100 mil because i was in a hurry. All i could do was mail the seller a 2 letter message:

GF
Riot Girl
You'll Cowards Don't Even Smoke Crack
#7 - 2013-04-11 19:51:17 UTC
Holgrak Blacksmith wrote:
Yeap, today ccp re-released a load of "limited edition" ships. Scammed me for a few bil.

Haha, that's a funny story.

Oh god.
Emma Royd
Maddled Gommerils
#8 - 2013-04-11 19:57:31 UTC
Lost about 1 bil isk to a margin trading scam, before I knew what a margin trading scam was.

I was more annoyed since I thought I'd been in the game long enough to know better at the time, but meh 1 billion isn't the end of the world, I was just confused as to what had happened. Now I know and I won't fall for it again.

I did petition it to see what had happened as I couldn't understand it, wasn't wanting isk back, just to try and understand what had happened, and also to see if they had a sense of humour to rename Jita to Scamsville but they didn't Cry
Darwins Hammer
Doomheim
#9 - 2013-04-11 20:03:31 UTC
Been losing $15 dollars a month for quite a while now
I Love Boobies
All Hail Boobies
#10 - 2013-04-11 20:04:48 UTC
Nope, never been scammed.
Azami Nevinyrall
172.0.0.1
#11 - 2013-04-11 20:11:10 UTC
Been scammed?
No.
Scammed others?
Yes.

...
RubyPorto
RubysRhymes
#12 - 2013-04-11 20:19:28 UTC
Yep. First week in EVE accepted a courier contract to EC-P8R, 20m collateral.

Had just bought my first set of +2s, to boot.

"It's easy to speak for the silent majority. They rarely object to what you put into their mouths." -Abrazzar "the risk of having your day ruined by other people is the cornerstone with which EVE was built" -CCP Solomon
Josie Alland
1st Tax Avoidance Brigade
#13 - 2013-04-11 20:31:07 UTC
Nope, because I am not :
A) Greedy
B) Stupid
Setaceous
Nexus Prima
#14 - 2013-04-11 21:11:25 UTC
One of those scams where the sell items on contract that they've created high buy orders with min/max quantities attached.
Spent 800mil expecting to make an additional 600mil at the station. Was sad when I could not.


Fortunately the guy who did it made a mistake, his minimum buy order was for 10 and he was selling contracts each night with 5 each. So I grabbed the next nights contract and completed the buy order :)
Ckra Trald
Federal Defense Union
Gallente Federation
#15 - 2013-04-11 21:43:08 UTC
i officially bought my 7th 10mil isk rifter today

http://www.rusemen.com/ Join Tengoo xd
Georgina Parmala
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#16 - 2013-04-11 21:53:38 UTC
Josie Alland wrote:
Nope, because I am not :
A) Greedy
B) Stupid

I'm not either.

But I was
C) Tired
D) In a hurry
E) Getting nagged to log off already

So I tried to grab two items off the market for what I though was 280k, and only one showed up. Turned out I didn't have 560 Mil in my wallet at the time, but sadly still enough for one of them. And it happens to only actually we worth ~150-200 mil with somewhat slim chances to move.

It's still sitting in my hangar somewhere. Never took the time to try to move it, beyond posting it back up for three months at the price I fell for.

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Gogela
Epic Ganking Time
CODE.
#17 - 2013-04-11 22:07:06 UTC
Funny... fishing for scam ideas?

Scamming is a good way to make isk. GL to you OP. Big smile

Signatures should be used responsibly...
Daimon Kaiera
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#18 - 2013-04-11 22:10:57 UTC
I don't talk to enough people to get scammed by them.

I wish they would just come and talk to me.

For once.

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Shadow Lord77
Shadow Industries I
#19 - 2013-04-11 22:28:09 UTC
Way back in 2008 there was a man who said he was leaving for null sec. And oh, what's this? He's selling off some of his ships that he can't move at a bargain price! Hurray!

Long story short he traded a raven to me named "Raven Navy Issue" and I didn't understand trade mechanics well enough to understand that you could do that. I bought a raven for well over the standard price for a Raven. Dat ******. It made me write an angry peition to CCP demanding they enforce scamming laws. lol. Ever since then I've been a bit easier when it comes to scammers and scamming. It's just a game.
Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#20 - 2013-04-11 22:36:06 UTC
I got scammed in a trade window... guy was selling me a navy raven and I went to go scam him because the idiot was doing a trading window.

Payed 1.5m isk for a navy raven and ended up with a crappy regular raven Evil

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