EVE General Discussion

kraiting; /kreɪtɪŋ/ - trying to bait* someone into buying a moderatly priced killright (usually around 50mil isk and made availiable by an alt or a friend of the kraiter) while idling near a gate or station in an, by comparison, relatively cheap t1 industrial. other forms may include freighters and 1bil isk killrights, where the kraiter actually turns a profit on the insurance money, which can net him/her, minus the cost for the freighter and the insurance, up to 700mil isk overall.
some kraiters will even try to dock up (if possible) or jump through the near stargate in the hopes to get away to avoid losing the ship at all.

as mentioned below, some kraiters might even set auto-pilot routes for their ships in an attempt to appear like an unexperienced or unaware player hauling cargo from A to B. this practice, however, could be more tempting to, in turn, new and unexperienced players, especially if they did not scan the ship and do not realize that in most cases it has either valuable cargo nor any valuable mods installed, if any at all.



*this is a textbook example of a bait and not a scam. for it to be a scam it would need at least two more steps - the approach, which can be even a public announcement in local, and the trust building, where the scammer tries to make the scam appear legit through some kind of prove, like a third party testimony, a fake API key or a good devised story.

It's hardly new.

We recently had a whine thread about it as well.

Your non-whiny, informative thread is appreciated, even if it's not a new thing.

I really wonder who always comes up with these ****** names.

Kraiting.
Hyperdunking.


Sheesh!

i have to admit that this practice is rather new to me, since i never checked ships on route for kr's, and they now may strike special attention due to the overview changes a few updates back and the therefor better visibility. or because more and more kraiters pop up around jita (or forge region in general) lately.

but, this post is not about the practice itself but rather about giving it a name and to explain how it's done exactly... maybe even getting it its own place in the scam sections throughout the various wikis.




well, in this case i did. ...you're welcome!

This has been a thing since December 4, 2012.

You can also just bump a wealthy miner and hope he has no clue how killrights actually work. Also this is old.
http://i.imgur.com/m4ycUR0.png

Much precision, such wow.

What a trend setter. He needs his own blog.

... or Krapping for those who do it on autopilot.

Yeah! From now on when I see someone autopiloting with a killright, I'm going to shout, "IT'S A KRAP!"

ya? why is that?


obviously not otherwise there would be a term for it or any kind of description for this practice.



so now seriously, hands down, what is your problem with me trying to get this out there? noone i know or talked to knew of or anything about this kind of scam, at least not in the way ppl know about the isk doublers or drunk buy order scam. maybe you already knew about it, but the vast majority doesn't seem to. when the kr's finaly showed properly in the overview there were maybe 1 or 2 guys hanging around jita 4-4. now there is 5 and another 5 on various gates on the road to uedama. so apperently this has become a more wider spread scam - a thing - worthy of mentioning.

don't like my term? you can call it "one-legged-fool-humping" for all i care...