This may seem obvious, but people are still falling for this and being scammed.
The Story to watch out for:
A friend this weekend fell for this and against our advice and decided the person seemed genuine enough to take the risk. He loves collecting mini pets and even bought more character slots in hope that we will get a birthday gift like he got in GW1.
The deal was send me 60% of the money I will send the pet then you send me the rest. After sending the first amount. The person then just told him that they never received the money, so he would need to send more to get the mini pet. Obviously he didn’t send more, as he realised this person was probably scamming, as he was very careful to make sure he sent the gold to the correct person.
When he told the person he will report them, they just laughed and said have fun reporting me. He did report them in game and to customer support and got the usual there is nothing we can do about it.
The reason for this post:
I dislike con artists so wanted to start a thread to warn people and help others identify a possible scam. I guess the easiest is to say don’t do it, but human nature means some people will still wrongly trust.
Now either this person has hacked someone’s account and doesn’t care whether there is a ban, as the gold is sent off to fund gold selling or nothing is done to stop these people. I have seen Anet’s comments on threads, which suggest they do investigate scamming, but it takes time.
These scammers are using all sorts of stories to con people. Just like people fall for them all the time on the Internet they fall for it in game too. They use all sorts of reasons for not putting it on the TP from I can’t afford the listing fee to others.
So what are the reasons you have heard where people trusted a scammer and stories you have heard people fall for that resulted in them being scammed?
Please don’t name anyone is this thread as it is against the forum rules.
TL:DR: The heading says it all and please help others by telling them of different types of scams and how they gain your trust.
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