Scamming Methods Exposed

[Droid]

Agree with previous poster, most of the scams is so obviuse so noone should fall for it if they use there head.
I falled for it just becasuse I didnt think, I just followed the stream so to speak. Im not whining, its just 20 ped for my part. But looking back on it, it was clear that he/she scammed me and now afterwards I know it and how easy I should been able to tell

I see myself as an experience player, Have been here since feb 2002 and know most of the scams out there, but this time I didnt care, I just wanted to go to CND. Have done this trip lots of times so I didnt think more about it What I wanna say is that even the most experiense player can be blind for obviuse scams sometime if the dont think twice before a deal

/Droid

[Pepper]

And again we see the old armor upgrade scam...Please spread this thread to noobs so that we can stop the thieves.

[polof]

I didn't see this one:
Leeching: A fellow entropian comes up to you and asks if you feel like going on a hunt. You accept and heads of to the selected hunting place. Now then, the loot distribution is set on random and the leacher is only healing or shooting a little now and then. All profit for the leacher and a lot bigger loss for the trusting bugger.

Perhaps it isn't counted as a scam though.

[LarsMac]

Originally Posted by polof

I didn't see this one:
Leeching: A fellow entropian comes up to you and asks if you feel like going on a hunt. You accept and heads of to the selected hunting place. Now then, the loot distribution is set on random and the leacher is only healing or shooting a little now and then. All profit for the leacher and a lot bigger loss for the trusting bugger.

Perhaps it isn't counted as a scam though.

I would call it a scam.
I was once invited on a hunt by a guy, and he set up the team, and we started out.
Then just as we got to the mobs, he says, "I have no ammo. can you lone me 5000 medium cells?"

I threw a grenade into the middle of the mobs, drawing them to us, and then logged out, leaving him to fight the mobs.

[Redfrog]

Originally Posted by polof

Perhaps it isn't counted as a scam though.

Technically, no.
Effectively, yes.

Originally Posted by LarsMac

I was once invited on a hunt by a guy, and he set up the team, and we started out.
Then just as we got to the mobs, he says, "I have no ammo. can you lone me 5000 medium cells?"

I threw a grenade into the middle of the mobs, drawing them to us, and then logged out, leaving him to fight the mobs.

Nice one!

I had some random PM me asking for ammo just outside Twin ring last night.
I was going to do a Walter but they obviously didn't want the ammo that badly

[Pepper]

Originally Posted by polof

I didn't see this one:
Leeching: A fellow entropian comes up to you and asks if you feel like going on a hunt. You accept and heads of to the selected hunting place. Now then, the loot distribution is set on random and the leacher is only healing or shooting a little now and then. All profit for the leacher and a lot bigger loss for the trusting bugger.

Perhaps it isn't counted as a scam though.

Perhaps not a scam, but surely close enough to fit in this thread though.
I remember a similar one that happened to me in my early days, the guy that I was with had the same gun as me, Mk Justifier I believe - but after a while I noticed that he switched to a Jester D-1. When i pointed it out to him he said he "hadn't' noticed". Everyone can make mistakes, but I soon realized that when he thought I wasn't looking he switched to Jester again.
The loot was of course set on equal share. That really toughed me a lesson - especially since this was a guy I knew a bit from before and had played longer than me. Never trust a junkie.

[LarsMac]

Originally Posted by Pepper

Perhaps not a scam, but surely close enough to fit in this thread though.
I remember a similar one that happened to me in my early days, the guy that I was with had the same gun as me, Mk Justifier I believe - but after a while I noticed that he switched to a Jester D-1. When i pointed it out to him he said he "hadn't' noticed". Everyone can make mistakes, but I soon realized that when he thought I wasn't looking he switched to Jester again.
The loot was of course set on equal share. That really toughed me a lesson - especially since this was a guy I knew a bit from before and had played longer than me. Never trust a junkie.

Yeah, the other part of that is to never join a team with someone you don't know unless you like the loot distribution they set up, or set up the team yourself.
They can set it to leader take all, and you get nothing.

[Mojoswoptops]

Same thing happened to me at fury. Well kind of. She came and asked if i'd join, said, ok. Looked at rules, queue. Thought i'm not cool with that, let her start shooting. So i run towards the fef's and she runs to tp! Lol. I didn't shoot anything before quitting. I call that a scam. Not even intending to fire one shot. Always check loot rules in team!

[polof]

Originally Posted by LarsMac

Yeah, the other part of that is to never join a team with someone you don't know unless you like the loot distribution they set up, or set up the team yourself.
They can set it to leader take all, and you get nothing.

Leader takes all were removed in VU 9.0 if I remember correctly, but yea. If you don't like the distribution walk away

[Redfrog]

Originally Posted by polof

Leader takes all were removed in VU 9.0 if I remember correctly, but yea. If you don't like the distribution walk away

I pretty sure it was earlier than that - shortly after PvP4 came in I think.

One of the reasons for it (according to hearsay) was that a leader-takes-all team would go into lootable PvP except the leader to ensure that the team members would only lose their tox shot if PKed.