Scam Report ! - Realityport

frisca2004 · 01-16-2006, 02:00 PM

I would like to report a scammer by the middle name of Woryor.
I got scammed for 150 ped, like this:
he was pretending to sell skills, very cheap..like 4000 in rifle for 100 ped...and i went to him and i asked him of the skills, me being a noob...didn't know how the skill transfer biz was on ... so he told me he didn't have gsi...i went to buy 2 .. i placed a bid on auction and bought one from a soc leader in nymph..i went back and gave him the first gsi..and then he told me to get neopsion and inserter from tt..and so i did (stupid) and then he told me to give him 50 peds so he can give me the skills...and so i did(really stupid)
and then he told me to give him my armor coz i lose all my items if i equip the skill implant..then i started to .. wake up.
Then i sent a message to a skilled friend and ... i sent it by mistake to the scammer who i already had in my friends list...and he told me in my home language to give him the items..then i realised he was a co-national..bastard
ripped off by my own people...
then he came back to me .. and told me a noob will give him 1000 ped for the armor and a gsi and told me to give him the armor and he will give me 350 peds after he trades with the noob. of course i didn't give him nothing...
and then at my insistations he took me to the "n00b" and i told the noob that i will give him the armor and a gsi for half the price...and he didn't accept...and told me he buys only from woryor...the scammer...so i thought that the scammer talked before with the other player...enigma was his middle as i remember...and they wanted to scam me...so ... i left and didn't give him the armor.(finally something intelligent)
That's how i got scammed for 150 peds. Players beware of this type of scam.
After that my friend neotheone cheered me up with a hunt really nice guy... and everything was ok ... but i can't stop thinking about the scammer...i can't do nothing because mindark doesn't do anything...
Yours truly,
The Tiger

Winston Smith · 01-16-2006, 02:25 PM

Unfortunatley this scam has been going on for ages. It'll be less trouble as the price of GSIs is falling, but that doesn't help you.

Sorry to hear that you fell for this, that's a total nightmare. I've had someone try this one on on me. The only thing you can do is to sell the GSI to them for the market rate, rather than hand it over for free.

bigdeal · 01-16-2006, 02:29 PM

Thanxzz for the warning,

Personaly i am very carefull with trading etc etc.
Always watch your steps, whatever you do.

Unfortunaly there are to many bad people walking around in PE.

But i am glad that there are more GOOD people here who will truely help u.

Greetings,

bigdeal

Kimmi · 01-16-2006, 04:10 PM

welcome to PE.

Epictetus · 01-16-2006, 04:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kimmi

welcome to PE.

Perhaps not constructive but funny.

Yeah, don't trust anyone unless you know them real well. And even that rule has been abused in the past.

Kimmi · 01-16-2006, 04:45 PM

well, if you are supprised by beeing scammed in a game, then you dont have much life experiense. Cuz if you think ppl are nicer in a game then irl your so wrong. beeing scammed is not fun, but they are needed to remind you that PE is trying to be very realistic, and thats why MA dont do someting about it. Being scammed is value experience, your just luck it only cost you 150ped, insted of 15k ped..

EagletonNova · 01-16-2006, 04:47 PM

I meet this type of scammer all day. They always claim they are not a scammer. They also claim they did a skill trade that way before. Lots of people that do this mostly create noobs avatar and mostly begger. I said Mostly, not all. Why they make noobs avatar? Because they make other avatars to escape from the person they scam. Just don't trust anybody. If you really buy skills this way. Make sure they give something in equal value or more of your skill implant. Else don't trust anybody.

The Ripper · 01-17-2006, 12:21 AM

Bad luck mate. Good to see that you were cheered up with a hunt afterwards lol. I fortunately havent had anyone try and scam me so far, but im very carefull too as to not trust ppl that are acting a little strange.

Sometimes scammers a hasty at trying to get your items etc so watch out for little signs that ring alarm bells in your head that somethings wrong

Rip

Xzion · 01-17-2006, 10:23 AM

Awww.. sorry to hear that man..
Honestly. dont trust anyone in this game in any ways unless you got a good resone to trust them.
There are a few people you can trust with buying skills off.
But be very carefull who you give GSIs to.

Like.. be sure the soc they are in can be trusted, if you dont know if the player can be trusted. the thing is that.. some soces are known for scamming..
i donno.. i buy my skills from very few people that i know i can trust.:P
hehe.

Well.

welcome to PE xD

Protoklos · 01-17-2006, 11:30 AM

That sucks, but as other have said dont trust just anyone in PE..
Try to aks on the different forums ( here, EP, EF ) about people you thinking to buy expensive stuff from..
Dont rush into a trade just becouse it looks good..
It's true in rl and in PE, "If it looks to good to be true, it usually is.." =)
I haven't been scamed out off something big, but I have given stuff away to newbies that I have tried to help get a good start in PE..
Some still plays and I have got some stuff back but some have just stoped playing..
But I dont give up on trying to help people starting to play.. =)