Beware of the Scammers

gshawen

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Last night I was approached by 2 scammers(don't know if I am allowed to post their names here) trying to con me thinking I am a young kid. The first one tries to trade me a room ticket saying the ticket is for a very rare trade room, but I decline. He keeps persisting on me trading him and I finally just close the trade window. Before I even have the screen down, the next guy clicks trade with me and wants to trade me for the ticket the other just offered me. I tell him I did'nt trade with him, but he asks me to trade with the guy and get the ticket. I ask him why he does'nt trade him himself and he replies the guy does not like me, so than he proceeds to show me all this stuff he will trade for this ticket. All kinds of magic, rare costumes, rare furniture, you name it, it was there. So I tell him I will trade for the ticket and get it for him.

Now the first guy is still in room, and surprise he is waiting on me, not even trying to trade my mule who is also in there. I brought my mule in so I could report them with my main while they tried to pull the scam on my mule. Ok, so I go back to the first guy and ask if the ticket is free and he says no, he needs bat magic for it, so I proceed to tell him sorry but no thx.

Now I go and report the scam, which takes some time since you can't type scam into the window to vmk. I finally get a reply back that they will investigate the problem and that I can click ignore if a persons chat bothers me.

I know most adults like me on here will not fall for this scam, but some small kids might, so make your children aware that this is a scam, and that once they trade for that ticket, they won't see these 2 players ever again or their items they traded for the ticket.
 
Tag team scamming :sad2:

Thanks for making the board aware of this latest scam. No, you can not post the names(ids)of scammers on the DIS for various reasons, we do thank you though for making us all aware of this.
 
Glad to help, I would hate to see some child lose their best items to some losers that can't earn their own stuff.
 
What amazes me is how these kids come up with theses scams. My mind has nevered worked that way and work not know one thing about scamming. I am sure this Virtual stuff will catch up to them in real adult life. And I doubt the allow VMK in Jail. Wow so sad.
 

Amazing what some people will do to get a virtual item isnt' it? Scamming kids... why does this even happen? :mad:
 
I would have said to the second guy, Ok give me all that your willing to give him and I will offer it to him for his ticket... :lmao:
 
After reporting these people in the game and also sending the info through the contact us link, I am unhappy to report that these same 2 players were online again last night doing the same scam in the same room.

Way to investigate VMK!!!
 














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