How not to get scammed

nightbloom · **Joined:** Jan 2006 **Posts:** 5492 **Location:**

I still see a lot of ppl getting scammed. Legit ppl shouldnt have to deal with that. Here my short, easy tut on how not to get scammed.

You get scammed for one of three reasons: impatience, ignorance or greed.

1. If it seems like a deal too good to be true, it is. No one is dumb enough to sell weapon elixirs for 30K. The bait and price change trick is so noob.

2. Accept a trade slowly, check the item, push accept, check again, push accept. Dont spam the accept button. If possible, use stall instead and again, go slowly, check.

3. Dont pass around SOS weapons. Keep that SOS equiped till you no longer need it.

4. Only lend out an SOS you are willing to lose.

Keep these things in mind and you wont get scammed.

Nuklear · **Joined:** Jun 2006 **Posts:** 3272 **Location:**

I'd like to add don't accept any random party invites/exchanges from people you don't know.

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But that has more to do with getting hacked then scammed. :!:

Gcool · **Joined:** Aug 2006 **Posts:** 198 **Location:**

Plain old common sense will go a long way.

niffnoff · **Joined:** Oct 2006 **Posts:** 72 **Location:**

stating the obvious also, dont try and boost your account by "lending it to some random person" (be it your friend in reallife or a friend on SRO) so they will train your person, chances are they will delete your account or will try and get you ban.

Chaud · **Joined:** Apr 2006 **Posts:** 1950

niffnoff wrote:

stating the obvious also, dont try and boost your account by "lending it to some random person" (be it your friend in reallife or a friend on SRO) so they will train your person, chances are they will delete your account or will try and get you ban.

Uh only a moron would agree to let someone "train their accnt"
Lol, I scammed some moron botter back when the bot went p2u. I told him I would bot his accnt for him, and he gave me the info and I cleaned out his accnt.

ginny · **Joined:** Oct 2006 **Posts:** 86

cyrax wrote:

I'd like to add don't accept any random party invites/exchanges from people you don't know.

edit

But that has more to do with getting hacked then scammed. :!:

How could accepting a random party invite get you hacked? Or even a random exchange?

niffnoff · **Joined:** Oct 2006 **Posts:** 72 **Location:**

chaud wrote:

niffnoff wrote:

stating the obvious also, dont try and boost your account by "lending it to some random person" (be it your friend in reallife or a friend on SRO) so they will train your person, chances are they will delete your account or will try and get you ban.

Uh only a moron would agree to let someone "train their accnt"
Lol, I scammed some moron botter back when the bot went p2u. I told him I would bot his accnt for him, and he gave me the info and I cleaned out his accnt.

big meanie :cry:

luckily wasnt me

but i did say stating the obvious

Kukshin · **Joined:** Oct 2006 **Posts:** 55 **Location:**

ginny wrote:

cyrax wrote:

I'd like to add don't accept any random party invites/exchanges from people you don't know.

edit

But that has more to do with getting hacked then scammed. :!:

How could accepting a random party invite get you hacked? Or even a random exchange?

I agree, hows that possible?

IgsTer · **Joined:** Oct 2006 **Posts:** 151 **Location:**

ginny wrote:

cyrax wrote:

I'd like to add don't accept any random party invites/exchanges from people you don't know.

edit

But that has more to do with getting hacked then scammed. :!:

How could accepting a random party invite get you hacked? Or even a random exchange?

yeah im wondering thsi too..i alwasy seem to get random party invites in town..why would you want to create a party anyway in town with a random person they could be going anywere when they leave the town..

Nace · **Joined:** Aug 2006 **Posts:** 176 **Location:**

for all i know that's just a rumor. nothing real.

Twisted · **Posted:** Thu Nov 02, 2006 7:41 am

I didnt know about the double accept system till now, just thought it was lag. Thanks for posting! :wink:

Davids · **Joined:** Jul 2006 **Posts:** 520

nightbloom wrote:

1. If it seems like a deal too good to be true, it is. No one is dumb enough to sell weapon elixirs for 30K. The bait and price change trick is so noob.

Lol, me! I tried to sell my first Weapon Elixir for 25k.

Drachenklaue · **Joined:** Oct 2006 **Posts:** 420 **Location:**

Twisted wrote:

I didnt know about the double accept system till now, just thought it was lag. Thanks for posting! :wink:

Are you serious?

Twisted · **Posted:** Fri Nov 03, 2006 11:03 pm

Drachenklaue wrote:

Twisted wrote:

I didnt know about the double accept system till now, just thought it was lag. Thanks for posting! :wink:

Are you serious?

lol yeah! playing on 56k for a while made me get impatient lol

billgeta · **Joined:** Apr 2006 **Posts:** 227

u forgot #5. dont trust other players claimin they sell astral/immortal stones

u give them ur item+gold and they flee. lol. common scam

hi_babe_ · **Posted:** Thu Nov 09, 2006 4:00 pm

Doing exchange gold <=> item(s) trough stall is a more safe way to.

about the party req thing, from my old mmorpg i heard that they can get your IP trough pm/party req/exchange with a program. i've no idea if it s true or not and can't give a detailed explanation. maybe it s just rumor but it can be possible also... party req in town sounds weird since theire is party match anyway.

c0kane · **Joined:** Jul 2006 **Posts:** 232

I bought a LVL32 SoS Glavie for 150k. It was too good to be true, but it was.

nightbloom · **Joined:** Jan 2006 **Posts:** 5492 **Location:**

bump

Still holds true.

disclaimer · **Joined:** Apr 2006 **Posts:** 76

Guys.. the whole party dilemma is because of they tell you to make a share item party and then tell you to drop your weapon and pick it up and it will be sosun or whatever. But as you all know, they have a 50% chance of picking up that item if they are in the same party and area as you.

borat2 · **Posted:** Tue Feb 13, 2007 1:47 pm

another kinda lame scam:

offering people money for stuff (gear/char) if they give their paypal account
Paypal will block your account after a drawback and probably the last "legit"transfers you did if those were directed to Joymax your account will be blocked.

Luoma · **Posted:** Tue Feb 13, 2007 10:31 pm

disclaimer wrote:

Guys.. the whole party dilemma is because of they tell you to make a share item party and then tell you to drop your weapon and pick it up and it will be sosun or whatever. But as you all know, they have a 50% chance of picking up that item if they are in the same party and area as you.

No that is a newer scam method. The thing they are talking about is before that. That they can/could retrive information by joining you to a party. Then hack you.

(Don't know if it's true or not but when i play i dont accept party's from random lvl 1-20's)

Nin · **Joined:** Feb 2007 **Posts:** 91 **Location:**

Nuklear wrote:

I'd like to add don't accept any random party invites/exchanges from people you don't know.

edit

But that has more to do with getting hacked then scammed. :!:

Thats just plain stupid. You have a bigger chanced of being hacked by using a forum about the game then in game trading.. come on now...

PR0METHEUS · **Joined:** Aug 2006 **Posts:** 4093 **Location:** Earth

chaud wrote:

niffnoff wrote:

stating the obvious also, dont try and boost your account by "lending it to some random person" (be it your friend in reallife or a friend on SRO) so they will train your person, chances are they will delete your account or will try and get you ban.

Uh only a moron would agree to let someone "train their accnt"
Lol, I scammed some moron botter back when the bot went p2u. I told him I would bot his accnt for him, and he gave me the info and I cleaned out his accnt.

Now that's just sad... a botter that's, not only too lazy to actually play the game, but a botter that's too lazy to even bot his character himself. Botters are just lazy.

Thanks for the info nightbloom. All it takes is a little common sense and patience.

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