SCAMMERS are increasingly becoming a bane to the game. This has increasingly removed a lot of fun for some hard working players. It is quite hypocritical to turn a blind eye to this matter, botter or no botter. Too often, it is even the botter who scams. I have seen a lot of players, stalling day and night, selling items, just to gather gold. they even borrow from their friends and guild mates.. and then they get scammed. How are scams perpetuated in SRO? Here are the number of ways:
1. Powerleveling or PLVL or taxi. Unscrupulous players make a global about doing ong or wing tribe plvl or farming, and ask for gold for a number of hours. Too often, the first few days are so much fine. Then, they ask for 1 week payment, because the party is autoinvite and autoress and autolog in. The newbie (noob) players, not expecting anything bad, give their hard earned gold willingly... then player plving disconnects or bans the players from the parties... THEN HE GLOBALS --- CHAR FOR SALE... Next time the char logs in -- he claims and says "new owner". Poor New Players --- no plvl, and not even enough gold to grind alone.
2. Trade of Items. Because of the high prices of some items, which is more than 1B, and the limit that joymax just won;t fix (limit is until 999,999,999 gold only, or in the case of exchange, 100,000,000 only), Many people get scammed trying to get a good item. The scam is done like this: for example, a seller is selling a Seal of Nova Bow +9 with no Advanced Elixir used yet(AE). It is Full Blues 100%, and it has great stats. This is worth at least 3 billion as of January 2011 prices. So the seller will say, okay he will sell for 3b. The buyer agrees to the price. so they meet at a hidden place, and Seller stalls 2 bolts, 1 bolt each for 999,999,999. but he does not put the bow, he just shows it. Buyer has to buy the bolts worth 2B. Only then will the seller stall the bow, with 999,999,999. BUT - after the buyer gets the bolts worth 2b, the seller refuses to stall the bow... Poor Buyer. A variation is this: the Seller trusts the buyer and stalls the bolts and the bow, each for 999,999,999. The buyer gets the bow, and does not buy the bolts. POOR SELLER....
3. Selling or trading of Accounts. Let us face it, this situation has become regular. you see people trading/selling/buying accounts. let us not be hypocritical. Most reasons of trading accounts is that either you want a support character, or one simply wants to play another build, and has no time to make one from lvl 1 to lvl 110. Another reason is the character was badly built, and the owner simply wants to start over, but does not want to waste that account. So how are scams done? 99% OF THE TIME, SCAMS are done on this kind of trading. there are two types. The first is the trading accounts scam. The Scammer will demand that he gets the details from the other trader. so the other trader gives the account name, password, and Secret Answer. they trade details together --- BUT the scammer gives fake details.
The second type is the selling acccounts scam. The account is given by the scammer to a buyer. he gives the right accound name, the right account password, but the wrong account secret answer. when he receives the payment, he simply changes the account password again. You have seen a lot of complaints about hacked accounts. well, this happens to almost all the traded or sold accounts. When the character is high level or fuly farmed already, the original owner just changes the password cause he knows the secret answer, and presto, he has the account again. he proceeds to loot the account of everything in that account.People then claim they are hacked.
4. Selling of level 5 guilds, silk, and other items. The same --- the buyer gives the gold first, then is not given whatever he is buying. They simply get scammed.
5. Fake Name, Fake Guild Seller - SCAMMERS will try everything to trick you, including making up fake char names in fake guilds. The most frequently done is to write names that look the same as the real player's names... like Dark S V Vord to fake the name of DarkSword. or Ev i i mind to fake the name of EvilMind. The most frequently done is the letter L and i, and the letter V and W. See the guide on how to easily recognize these letters.
6. The 10k pls or the 100k or 1m pls scam. This is a very irritating scam, and I am sorry if I have to mention this, but this is perpetuated by most players from one geographical location. I do not mind helping people, but --- when you see a lvl 1 person who can earn 10k just by picking up stuff, and instead spends their time roaming around, harrasing people with an exchange request or a party request, mind you, I get peeved, and simply ignore the person. IT IS SIMPLE LAZINESS. I pick up stuff, and sell them at the right time. I buy things from players who do not have the time to stall and sell them, like I did in 10d, with 1m or 2m added, to earn gold.
7. The Free gold scam. This is a very idiotic scam, and yet, some players fell for it by giving their info.. There is no such thing as free gold!
8 The Free Bot/Free keylogger/free software/free porn/free whatever software scam. LOL. yeah right.Download it, and let the hidden trojan software log your data, then send it to someone. They use those to hack your data afterwards. I guess you have to check the hacking guide and read it for more information.
How to avoid being scammed:
There is no 100% surety of not being scammed in most cases, unless the buyer and seller both DO TRUST EACH OTHER. However, there are ways to avoid getting scammed.
1. Powerleveling or taxi. There is no 100% surety of avoiding scams. Just get plvls from trusted players. Also, be prepared for a scam. It is the risk you take for paying for plvl. As much as possible, pay by the hour or by the day. Too often, the characters used for plvl are hacked or scammed characters, and since they are avoided in parties or guilds, they have become useless except for plvl or gold botting. So --- if you value your time and your gold, get plvl from trusted plvlers only. Ask your guild mates or union mates about their experiences. Ask about the player name first. Get advice.
2. Trading. This is a hot topic and somewhat very hard to avoid a scam. FIRST: KNOW WHO YOU ARE BUYING FROM. If he has scammed before, forget it. Don't buy from him. If the price is about 1b and below, always have it stalled inside the town, preferably jangan or alexandria. the center is the best, at least the copy bug will not work there. never trade outside the town, specially outside hotan. REMEMBER THIS: THE COPY BUG HAS NOT YET BEEN FIXED UNTIL NOW. An Alternative is to do it via an intermediary, someone trusted in the server, who is trustworthy, never scammed, and is trusted by you and the seller or the buyer.Give your item and the gold to him first. then he will turn over the gold to the seller, and the item to the buyer. But then -- this is not fool proof... cause some people share accounts, and the scammer might be using that so-called "TRUSTED" Character.
3. Avoiding SCAMS during trading or buying of accounts. SIMPLE -- If you do not know the player, forget about buying the account, not unless you can afford to waste your gold.
I have experienced getting scammed till it was placed right. (I guess I was so desperate for that item then, and trusted the player - simply cause he was from a "trustworthy" guild), I had experienced a lot of scam attempts afterwards.. and when I smelled something fishy -- I simply walked away.
4. Avoiding the fake names scam. The letters w, i, and l are the most common exploited fake char names. So ---- check the name of the person you are dealing with. sometimes, even the names can be tricky. fix how your fonts or letters will look like so you can easily see the letters if the l you are looking at is actually a capital letter I, or the w is actually two letter v's, etc...
5. Make a list of the scammers you know. keep your own list. Confirm if there really was a scam, then, take note of the details. Keeping a list might save you later.
6. Block the 10k pls people from your messages, both server and your side.
7. Always be a clean player. LOL... this reminds me of two scammers, one scammed an EGY staff, the other used a different char to befriend the scammer (Complete with porn pics on FB), and scammed the staff back.
8. Do not use these so called free bots/keyloggers/etc. Simple. Again, read the hacking guide in this forum.
9. If you must play in an internet cafe, where a lot of players have no choice but to play there, be reminded that the pc you are using may have a keylogger running already --- and the one who installed it is the internet cafe owner. I have seen an actual demonstration of this when Oasis server was the big thing then.
1. Powerleveling or PLVL or taxi. Unscrupulous players make a global about doing ong or wing tribe plvl or farming, and ask for gold for a number of hours. Too often, the first few days are so much fine. Then, they ask for 1 week payment, because the party is autoinvite and autoress and autolog in. The newbie (noob) players, not expecting anything bad, give their hard earned gold willingly... then player plving disconnects or bans the players from the parties... THEN HE GLOBALS --- CHAR FOR SALE... Next time the char logs in -- he claims and says "new owner". Poor New Players --- no plvl, and not even enough gold to grind alone.
2. Trade of Items. Because of the high prices of some items, which is more than 1B, and the limit that joymax just won;t fix (limit is until 999,999,999 gold only, or in the case of exchange, 100,000,000 only), Many people get scammed trying to get a good item. The scam is done like this: for example, a seller is selling a Seal of Nova Bow +9 with no Advanced Elixir used yet(AE). It is Full Blues 100%, and it has great stats. This is worth at least 3 billion as of January 2011 prices. So the seller will say, okay he will sell for 3b. The buyer agrees to the price. so they meet at a hidden place, and Seller stalls 2 bolts, 1 bolt each for 999,999,999. but he does not put the bow, he just shows it. Buyer has to buy the bolts worth 2B. Only then will the seller stall the bow, with 999,999,999. BUT - after the buyer gets the bolts worth 2b, the seller refuses to stall the bow... Poor Buyer. A variation is this: the Seller trusts the buyer and stalls the bolts and the bow, each for 999,999,999. The buyer gets the bow, and does not buy the bolts. POOR SELLER....
3. Selling or trading of Accounts. Let us face it, this situation has become regular. you see people trading/selling/buying accounts. let us not be hypocritical. Most reasons of trading accounts is that either you want a support character, or one simply wants to play another build, and has no time to make one from lvl 1 to lvl 110. Another reason is the character was badly built, and the owner simply wants to start over, but does not want to waste that account. So how are scams done? 99% OF THE TIME, SCAMS are done on this kind of trading. there are two types. The first is the trading accounts scam. The Scammer will demand that he gets the details from the other trader. so the other trader gives the account name, password, and Secret Answer. they trade details together --- BUT the scammer gives fake details.
The second type is the selling acccounts scam. The account is given by the scammer to a buyer. he gives the right accound name, the right account password, but the wrong account secret answer. when he receives the payment, he simply changes the account password again. You have seen a lot of complaints about hacked accounts. well, this happens to almost all the traded or sold accounts. When the character is high level or fuly farmed already, the original owner just changes the password cause he knows the secret answer, and presto, he has the account again. he proceeds to loot the account of everything in that account.People then claim they are hacked.
4. Selling of level 5 guilds, silk, and other items. The same --- the buyer gives the gold first, then is not given whatever he is buying. They simply get scammed.
5. Fake Name, Fake Guild Seller - SCAMMERS will try everything to trick you, including making up fake char names in fake guilds. The most frequently done is to write names that look the same as the real player's names... like Dark S V Vord to fake the name of DarkSword. or Ev i i mind to fake the name of EvilMind. The most frequently done is the letter L and i, and the letter V and W. See the guide on how to easily recognize these letters.
6. The 10k pls or the 100k or 1m pls scam. This is a very irritating scam, and I am sorry if I have to mention this, but this is perpetuated by most players from one geographical location. I do not mind helping people, but --- when you see a lvl 1 person who can earn 10k just by picking up stuff, and instead spends their time roaming around, harrasing people with an exchange request or a party request, mind you, I get peeved, and simply ignore the person. IT IS SIMPLE LAZINESS. I pick up stuff, and sell them at the right time. I buy things from players who do not have the time to stall and sell them, like I did in 10d, with 1m or 2m added, to earn gold.
7. The Free gold scam. This is a very idiotic scam, and yet, some players fell for it by giving their info.. There is no such thing as free gold!
8 The Free Bot/Free keylogger/free software/free porn/free whatever software scam. LOL. yeah right.Download it, and let the hidden trojan software log your data, then send it to someone. They use those to hack your data afterwards. I guess you have to check the hacking guide and read it for more information.
How to avoid being scammed:
There is no 100% surety of not being scammed in most cases, unless the buyer and seller both DO TRUST EACH OTHER. However, there are ways to avoid getting scammed.
1. Powerleveling or taxi. There is no 100% surety of avoiding scams. Just get plvls from trusted players. Also, be prepared for a scam. It is the risk you take for paying for plvl. As much as possible, pay by the hour or by the day. Too often, the characters used for plvl are hacked or scammed characters, and since they are avoided in parties or guilds, they have become useless except for plvl or gold botting. So --- if you value your time and your gold, get plvl from trusted plvlers only. Ask your guild mates or union mates about their experiences. Ask about the player name first. Get advice.
2. Trading. This is a hot topic and somewhat very hard to avoid a scam. FIRST: KNOW WHO YOU ARE BUYING FROM. If he has scammed before, forget it. Don't buy from him. If the price is about 1b and below, always have it stalled inside the town, preferably jangan or alexandria. the center is the best, at least the copy bug will not work there. never trade outside the town, specially outside hotan. REMEMBER THIS: THE COPY BUG HAS NOT YET BEEN FIXED UNTIL NOW. An Alternative is to do it via an intermediary, someone trusted in the server, who is trustworthy, never scammed, and is trusted by you and the seller or the buyer.Give your item and the gold to him first. then he will turn over the gold to the seller, and the item to the buyer. But then -- this is not fool proof... cause some people share accounts, and the scammer might be using that so-called "TRUSTED" Character.
3. Avoiding SCAMS during trading or buying of accounts. SIMPLE -- If you do not know the player, forget about buying the account, not unless you can afford to waste your gold.
I have experienced getting scammed till it was placed right. (I guess I was so desperate for that item then, and trusted the player - simply cause he was from a "trustworthy" guild), I had experienced a lot of scam attempts afterwards.. and when I smelled something fishy -- I simply walked away.
4. Avoiding the fake names scam. The letters w, i, and l are the most common exploited fake char names. So ---- check the name of the person you are dealing with. sometimes, even the names can be tricky. fix how your fonts or letters will look like so you can easily see the letters if the l you are looking at is actually a capital letter I, or the w is actually two letter v's, etc...
5. Make a list of the scammers you know. keep your own list. Confirm if there really was a scam, then, take note of the details. Keeping a list might save you later.
6. Block the 10k pls people from your messages, both server and your side.
7. Always be a clean player. LOL... this reminds me of two scammers, one scammed an EGY staff, the other used a different char to befriend the scammer (Complete with porn pics on FB), and scammed the staff back.
8. Do not use these so called free bots/keyloggers/etc. Simple. Again, read the hacking guide in this forum.
9. If you must play in an internet cafe, where a lot of players have no choice but to play there, be reminded that the pc you are using may have a keylogger running already --- and the one who installed it is the internet cafe owner. I have seen an actual demonstration of this when Oasis server was the big thing then.
