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have you ever been scammed?
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Rahmiro
Dark Venture Corporation
Kitchen Sinkhole
#41 - 2013-04-12 16:58:43 UTC
I was scammed once. In my tween years I was meeting my gf and her mom at the mall. On the bus ride over there was a guy playing the "shell game" and this woman who couldn't figure out which shell the pea was under. Well, I knew which shell the pea was under.
The guy and the woman got off the bus together a couple stops later with my $20.00.

I never seen these people in my life. I don't recognize them Your Honor
Super spikinator
Hegemonous Conscripts
#42 - 2013-04-12 17:22:31 UTC
some capsuleer once was running a double isk scam. I purchased two blocks of actual double isk out of him and started spamming chat saying that it worked. I never got anything of the cut but they said they did quite well later when they cottoned on that I knew.
Untanas Volmyr
Perkone
Caldari State
#43 - 2013-04-12 18:48:04 UTC
In eve. No. However. A certain bank tried to charge me 900$ for a cheeseburger once.

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Thor Kerrigan
Guardians of Asceticism
#44 - 2013-04-12 19:26:59 UTC
I once traded a SoJ for a Gheed's Fortune back when unique charms could not be traded via window.
Obunagawe
#45 - 2013-04-12 19:33:55 UTC
Thor Kerrigan wrote:
I once traded a SoJ for a Gheed's Fortune back when unique charms could not be traded via window.


All SoJ are duped anyway.
DeMichael Crimson
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#46 - 2013-04-12 20:25:50 UTC  |  Edited by: DeMichael Crimson
Seven Koskanaiken wrote:
Have you ever been scammed?

How about being falsely accused of scamming?

A couple of days ago I received an Eve Mail message from someone who obviously thinks that.

Sent: 2013.04.10 10:36
Quote:
Hello DeMichael,

or should I rather say Liliana Rahl? Anyway, you've scammed me once, but I won't let you trick me twice. You did a good job last time and I failed (cudos for you, and a facepalm for me), but your test-alts won't harm me further. And for the sake of god, if someone wants me dead for less than 100 mil, you are way to cheap :D Consider that next time you use one of your alts to make an "offer" ;)

regards,

-

The person who sent me this mail has me blocked.

I know for a fact that Liliana Rahl is a character owned by the same person who also owns XXSketchxx and Emperor Salazar. I've had plenty of forum wars with the owner of those characters, especially with the character Emperor Salazar. I have those characters blocked due to getting mail and convo requests in-game.

I am definitely NOT an alt of the owner of those characters which is something I know other players can verify.

What I find strange is this person seems to have done some research due to mentioning Test alts but for the life of me I can't understand how I got included in with them.

I guess the scam here is having other players believe my character is owned by the same player who owns those other characters. Does that make sense?


DMC

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Skorpynekomimi
#47 - 2013-04-12 20:41:19 UTC
Not that I know of. I've not lost huge amounts of ISK to anything but my own poor judgement on where to fly ships or what to loot.

Economic PVP
Alaric Faelen
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#48 - 2013-04-13 00:22:45 UTC
no

I don't count your CEO running off with the corp assets, Trusted positions are always going to be a potential threat and no one is going to eat your lunch over that..... Unless you're a sad gamer dork that gave access to a female voice on TeamSpeak, then the mockery is in fact, doubled.

But if you even have local open in a trade hub, other than to watch out for war targets, then you're doing it wrong already. Trust me when i say this- there is even less useful content in local chat than on these forums. Lol

I thoroughly check even internal Alliance/Corp contracts (for mistakes, not scams) and yet people hit ACCEPT on contracts from strangers???

Eve is like your town. You don't know, care to know, much less stop and do random business with- the vast majority of the people. You either rely on a trusted source or look within a much smaller population of trusted people for your needs. Outside of my corp/alliance and a few friends I made in Eve- you all might as well not exist unless I can lock and shoot you.
That's not mean, that's the grim, meathook reality of Eve Online.

Likewise, if I have something to sell, I put it in a station market or on contracts. If someone is trying to hawk something outside of those legit channels, there is probably a (nefarious) reason.

Vortexo VonBrenner
Doomheim
#49 - 2013-04-13 02:18:33 UTC
Bi-Mi Lansatha wrote:
A recruited painted fairly pretty pictures... the Marines turned out differently. The got four years of my life, but I got the better of the deal.



LOL! ikr? I was shown pictures of guys jumping out of planes, zooming across the desert on motorcycles, coming up out of the water like Rambo, and I was like "YES! YES!" Hit that IRL accept button and next thing I knew I was going through the mud with a big pack on my back wondering how many leeches were enjoying their meal on me and when the cool stuff started. :D ...at least it was..."interesting"... You made my day, man, ty! A clean-drink-off-screen moment. RL awox ftw! :D

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dark heartt
#50 - 2013-04-13 08:11:05 UTC
Roime wrote:
Quinzel Nikulainen wrote:
Occasionally I undercut/outbid my own alts.

Then later I'll be playing on my alt and I'll purchase my own stuff to find out whose undercutting me.

Not exactly a scam, but it does cause me personal loss (taxes and time), so it seemed like as good of a place for it as any.


0.01-ISKing yourself is priceless feeling

I've also bought stuff from myself and smiled because it was so cheap





I have yet to do that one, but I'm sure it will happen eventually haha

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Ivana Twinkle
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#51 - 2013-04-13 11:45:05 UTC
There are no scams in Eve.
Quinzel Nikulainen
Kokako Acquisitions
#52 - 2013-04-13 11:59:10 UTC
Ivana Twinkle wrote:
There are no scams in Eve.


The blue doughnut isn't real.

Ex-Kaalakiota citizen. Ex-Hyasyoda citizen. CEO of KŌKAK, a Nugoeihuvi affiliate corporation.
RubyPorto
RubysRhymes
#53 - 2013-04-13 12:37:58 UTC
Quinzel Nikulainen wrote:
Ivana Twinkle wrote:
There are no scams in Eve.


The blue doughnut isn't real.


At least one of the above statements is true.

"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
Doc Severide
Doomheim
#54 - 2013-04-13 16:34:40 UTC  |  Edited by: Doc Severide
Would this be considered being scammed? I contracted a guy in my alliance about 40 million worth of stuff to move. But he took my stuff and 4 Billion worth of stuff from the Alliance CEO and just took off with everything and quit the alliance/corp. Turned out he didn't even own anything he could have used to move it all...

I didn't feel too bad when I told my corpies and they were all pissed that someone in our alliance did that. I ended up getting about 300 million in ISK donations to make up for my loss...
Beckie DeLey
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#55 - 2013-04-13 16:46:48 UTC
A couple months ago i sold a Loki to a 500.000 ISK buy order in Molten Heath.
That was ... annoying. Especially as i was selling it when i really needed the ISK.

My siren's name is Brick and she is the prettiest.
Ta'Sling
FreddyEagle inc.
#56 - 2013-05-30 20:58:46 UTC  |  Edited by: Ta'Sling
WOW some stories, good for the LOL

I been scammed a lot!

1. CEO corp scam
2. Faction ship trade scam
3. Contract Collateral scam
4. Market min-buy order "scam"

1. when i was noobie and thought every one in EVE was friendly and help full. Got into a "nice" corp, worked in mining and ratting for the corp and put a lot of stop into corp hanger. Few days later the CEO had left with all the stuff. I convo-ed him and asked wtf? he replied, " welcome to EVE"

2. Ones when I thought i could make a quick buck, got an EVE-mail, that guy needed to get ridd of few faction ship before he left for 0 sec. i thought WOW i can sell this on market for quick profit. Contract looked real and all so i accepted. Later on i realized he had just renamed his regular ship to faction *doooohhh*

3. this was also on my rookie years. When i thought i could make ISK via carrier contract. found one with nice ******* reward, not that difficult to transfer me think! Put up the collateral and was on my way. Few jumps later get get ambushed by a gate camping fleet.., popp goes my ship!

4. maybe not so much a scam, but when you don't pay enough attention to the market you can lose isk quite easily. Some one put up a Buy order of higher than market average, but has min buy of 30+. You don't realize that untill you have out-bid on an item that is not even half as much wurth as you paid for. This can happen a lot if you pay the trading-game.

... I have seen new scam recently, the RISK-ISK game..you send a guy idk 30m and he'll send you 200m back or so. any one got scammed by this?
Grimpak
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#57 - 2013-05-30 21:04:10 UTC
got scammed once. stupid me read the price as 450 and not as 4500000.

stupid me.


I cried for a millisecond for my stupidity and life went on as I went back to explode people.

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Josef Djugashvilis
#58 - 2013-05-30 21:07:22 UTC
Yes, on an annual basis from my bank account.

But then, I like Eve so I do not mind CCP scamming me.

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Victoria Sin
Doomheim
#59 - 2013-05-30 21:11:42 UTC
My first ever experience in Eve (beta 6) was being scammed. Mined 200 units of Ark in a noob ship (yea, took hours), ran to station, sold. For 1 isk.

Recently I *nearly* fell for a margin scam in Jita. You know, the toon puts up the buy order to make it look like his sell order is a steal and then cancels it before you manage to sell what you just bought from him. Basically when it comes to things like that, I always remember if it looks too good to be true, it's usually a scam.
Mr Epeen
It's All About Me
#60 - 2013-05-30 21:27:12 UTC
For all the people that say they haven't been scammed, y'all were just too stupid to know it. It's likely you are still being scammed. The smart folks are the ones that figured it out and never let it happen again.

Mr Epeen Cool