The fine art of silkroad scamming

[shoto]

Now every time I'm on SRO...there is at least on high lvl shouting into the global that he had been scammed. How are people scammed so easily. like on weapons. I don't understand how you can be scammed on an SOS weapon...i means you see it and you see the price...you pay the price if you want it or you don't....Where is the Scam??

[Innovacious]

if people are buying from you in exchange they might change the money at the last second, i always check the price abotu 4 times before i sell. when you are buying in exchange sometimes the person will swap the armour/weapon they are selling for an npc version at the last second, again, i always check, lots of people dont though, like some one in my guild didnt, he was lvl 45 lost a lvl 42+3 sos spear

[i play silk road]

Now every time I'm on SRO...there is at least on high lvl shouting into the global that he had been scammed. How are people scammed so easily. like on weapons. I don't understand how you can be scammed on an SOS weapon...i means you see it and you see the price...you pay the price if you want it or you don't....Where is the Scam??

true, but ts because the x price isnt worth as much s most people sell it

and u will get some moron who spends 30m on lvl 1 sos

whe they are 1-3m

[truez]

if people are buying from you in exchange they might change the money at the last second, i always check the price abotu 4 times before i sell. when you are buying in exchange sometimes the person will swap the armour/weapon they are selling for an npc version at the last second, again, i always check, lots of people dont though, like some one in my guild didnt, he was lvl 45 lost a lvl 42+3 sos spear

Best and te safest option... ask them to Stall It b4 buyin or sellin.. i suppose they cant scam u then

[shoto]

Best and te safest option... ask them to Stall It b4 buyin or sellin.. i suppose they cant scam u then

YES ! exactly I always tell them to stall

[[SD]Master_Wong]

im soo catutious i just prefer exchange no chance of someone else popping in and buying iv had that happen to me twice before and its ..... annoying

[ioulian]

accept - *wait* - approve - *wait* yea, how people can be scammed? (this is when you're exchanging)

[OldSoldier]

Stalling FTW!

[Stallowned]

I think also a lot of people get scammed by "friends" or guild members.
Too many people are too trustworthy, or believe it won't happen to them.

Your average joe scammer, petty thug if you will, is the one that suckers morons at the exchange window or ins talls, you end up paying 400k instead of 40k, or you get wind 6 instead of wind 4, or wahtever.

The good scammer is teh one you least suspect. He's the one that's been in your guild from the start, he's the one that's friendly with everyone, he's the one that helps out all the time, basically the last person you'd expect to scam.
But then it happens, whether it was because you shared your account information with such a trustworthy person, or you let him borrow that bow you grew out of, or some other type of opportunity arises.
Too many times, people fail to realize that we're on the internet after all. Often people are not what they seem to be, and in the eyes of a thief, a simple guild tag or friendship will not stop them, instead they see it as an opportunity.

To summarize- no one can be trusted especially online.

[Vandango]

Greed Takes us all sooner or later

[ShizKnight]

What Stall said is accurate. Generally, if you get scammed by a person you don't know, it could have been easily prevented. The second...

[Hunter_Orion]

I never have got scammed and never will. Countless people have tried and failed. I don't usually ask them to stall, I just make them look stupid when they offer 5mill for something and there is 500k down (thats when I throw in the "you probably look pretty damned stupid right now" and take a screen shot).

[daydreamer21]

if people are buying from you in exchange they might change the money at the last second, i always check the price abotu 4 times before i sell. when you are buying in exchange sometimes the person will swap the armour/weapon they are selling for an npc version at the last second, again, i always check, lots of people dont though, like some one in my guild didnt, he was lvl 45 lost a lvl 42+3 sos spear

Best and te safest option... ask them to Stall It b4 buyin or sellin.. i suppose they cant scam u then

you can still get scammed through stalls. Some guy was selling weapon elixirs for 50k, he opened the stall, as soon as i went buy the the price was changed to 500k Luckily i only had about 300k on me, so i got away without losing anything

[shoto]

you can still get scammed through stalls. Some guy was selling weapon elixirs for 50k, he opened the stall, as soon as i went buy the the price was changed to 500k Luckily i only had about 300k on me, so i got away without losing anything

Ah interesting observation, i had never though of this....its ingenious!!! i might use it ... hehe just kidding

anyways, that sounds terrible. i know that could have happened to me easily since i negotiate prices and then have to buy the item quick before other people do in stall....

[nightbloom]

http://www.silkroadforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=18325

I wrote that a long time ago. It still holds true.

[senapanaga]

Wow....


That was a beautiful description....


Thank you Stallowned you have truly brightened my day.

[[SD]Twysta]

Lol one of these days a scammer got me... He really had some kills in it haha, instead of cursing at him and globalling him, i laughed my head off.

Normally i check the prices, i've been scammed once and since that moment i check the price all the time. But this dude....

He was walking around in JG while i was cheap-sos-hunting, he kept on trading me for about 5 minutes, i kept on rejecting him. He was starting to piss me off that much... Then i finally accepted after i noticed he didn't say "10K PLIZZ" and he showed me a lvl 20 nonamed wolf... then he said 400 k and in the rush i was, i added 400 k and pressed accept, and the smartass took the wolf out and accepted that quik.. he must've had some kind of trick, hes still scamming ppl every day. Anyways i laughed my head off it was so funny

EDIT: nice 1 there stallowned.

[Kaigar]

The good scammer is teh one you least suspect. He's the one that's been in your guild from the start, he's the one that's friendly with everyone, he's the one that helps out all the time, basically the last person you'd expect to scam.

*ahem* *cough cough* xX_Lucky_Xx from Hellzangelz*cough cough*

[Grimjaw]

You might not believe this but i also never got scammed.

Since i insinst on buying from stalls alone.

After reading globals 24/7 you tend to grow a 7th sense.

[AMON-Ra]

I never have got scammed and never will. Countless people have tried and failed

That sounds like a challenge methinks

[Fat_Smurf]

I never have got scammed and never will. Countless people have tried and failed

That sounds like a challenge methinks

*making a char on oasis*

[i play silk road]

I think also a lot of people get scammed by "friends" or guild members.
Too many people are too trustworthy, or believe it won't happen to them.

Your average joe scammer, petty thug if you will, is the one that suckers morons at the exchange window or ins talls, you end up paying 400k instead of 40k, or you get wind 6 instead of wind 4, or wahtever.

The good scammer is teh one you least suspect. He's the one that's been in your guild from the start, he's the one that's friendly with everyone, he's the one that helps out all the time, basically the last person you'd expect to scam.
But then it happens, whether it was because you shared your account information with such a trustworthy person, or you let him borrow that bow you grew out of, or some other type of opportunity arises.
Too many times, people fail to realize that we're on the internet after all. Often people are not what they seem to be, and in the eyes of a thief, a simple guild tag or friendship will not stop them, instead they see it as an opportunity.

To summarize- no one can be trusted especially online.

my guild master gave me a wolf

all my guild/uion are freindly, some of them share pw and usernames to buy each other silk

but u get ur noobs sometimes

[sloth24]

forget about my post.

[PR0METHEUS]

accept - *wait* - approve - *wait* yea, how people can be scammed? (this is when you're exchanging)

Exactly! I don't see much of a problem with exchange. The problem comes when the seller is too eager to make the sale. He just puts his SOS in, hits confirm. Sees the buyer put in the right amount of gold, but doesn't see him change the price before approving.

If you'll just be more patient, it's easy to avoid being scammed in an exchange window. Don't hit the approve button until the buyer puts the correct amount of gold in (and possibly other items if trading) and the buyer's section is greyed out (he hit confirm).... THEN you hit approve because the buyer can't make changes at that point.

Sorry to say, if you get scammed in an exchange, it's your own fault.