to trusting - a sad state of affairs

[snake_eyes]

Originally Posted by Walter

ive read your post till this sentence. no more needed


if you know someone irl since 2-3 days, would you give him 100 $?

As for this question. Yes I would. $100 is a pittance.

[snake_eyes]

correction. I wouldn't give i'd loan. People i've known for a long time if they were in depserate need would give the money too with no need for repayment. however, I know that any of my friends that I made this offer to WOULD repay me the $100.

[SnapNet]

I agree with Walter... would you give someone $140.00 to hold for you if you knew them for 3 days in RL?!

It's not about NOT trusting people. Many of the "scamming" that goes on is pretty much self-inflicted, or 100% avoidable. I feel that the majority of people CAN be trusted! However, idiots try to take advantage of this and target those people that blindly jump into things without giving it a logical reason to do so.

You also have to think that this is pretty much a game. People will be a little more tempted to do things IG than they are to do them IRL. I've heard it say before, the best defense against scammers' is to think with COMMON SENSE! Scammers try to deviate you from common sense. Giving this guy 1400 PED's worth of stuff is completely against common sense, PERIOD.

Hope you learned your lesson, and I'm sure in a few days, someone else is going to write a similar post about them being scammed one way or another.

[snake_eyes]

[quote=SnapNet;1430520]I agree with Walter... would you give someone $140.00 to hold for you if you knew them for 3 days in RL?!quote]

I have done before yes.

[Soldat Sol]

Originally Posted by snake_eyes

Well guys and girls it is looking like i've been "scammed" *sigh*. I guess I just have to learn not to be so trusting. Over a week ago now I entrusted 1k of resources with someone to sell on my behalf. The person in question I had only known for about 2 maybe 3 days max. They had been online regularly throughout this time and we chatted a reasonable amount. However, since handing over the 1k of ores I haven't seen this person online once. Now I admit there may be a perfectly valid reason for this but considering how often the person was online prior the couple of days we'd been talking sadly i'm inclined to think the worst. Now this isn't a post about me griping. This is a post about me being disappointed in the fact that it just really isn't possible to trust people nowadays. At the end of the day the resources are worth about $140 and I guess this just proved to "tempting" for the person in question. I know a lot of people will jump up and down saying how stupid I am for handing over the resources without collatoral etc. However, $140 isn't a kings randsom (heck I can and have lost more on a horse race) and therefore if it turns out i've lost it it won't worry me overmuch. After all the person "may" still turn up. What bothers me more is someone that would gain peoples confidences with the sole purpose to rip them off. I have plenty of people on my fl that I regular lend and also borrow peds/items too. There's one guy, even though i've never met him and only know him through here that I wouldn't have any qualms about lending a reasonable amount of peds too. Although of course if it got to a ridiculous amount then i'd secure callatoral.

It's just a shame that as time goes by it becomes harder to trust people.

I never Trust people 100% due to my experiences, sorry you got scammed too.
Mate please please please use paragraphs looking at all of that after 12 hours of working made my eyes ache

[SpikeBlack]

I was going to put that I've never lent anyone anything in game but then I remembered when I lent someone 10ped to 'repair my fap' only to hear them putting the same story to several other soc members, they weren't in the soc for much longer.

I've heard too many stories from not only EU but many other mmorpgs including where people have been killed for selling items they had borrowed http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems...3/s1334618.htm

It could also be that the account was hacked, it's happened to a member of ED. A soc member had their account hacked and the person borrowed an item, we only found out a few days later what had actually happened.

[Immortal]

If I'm lending stuff to somates and friends, I still need collateral.... what If they got locked.... or had some RL issues to attend to...i'd be out in the cold...

Remember that paupers look and sound the same as princes.

[Bones]

Its a shame that this person has sold your friendship , hopefully it is as you have said and he has just had issues getting back ingame.


Bones

[DanielleYourMom]

You say you'd give someone you've known for a whopping 3 days $100 because :

Originally Posted by snake_eyes

$100 is a pittance.

You're a scammer's dream come true, then. Sorry you got "scammed" - but this seems to be a major case of stupidity.

Good luck getting that hangar if you're handing out 1k ped at a time to random people you don't know.

[BULL]

1 of 2 things: You are either a very foolish (dumbass) person. Or, you are trying to garner some sort of sympathy from us to make people feel bad for you and cough up some peds for your loss. Take your pick! Here endith the lesson!