Reyes Odysseus

Now i dont write this for any other reason than to warn ppl about these scammers. Funny thing is, once i annoounces in bazaar channel i as scammed, one more ppl sent me tell saying how they were scammed out of money by them.

I also know it is my own fault but ppl need to at least know that these guys are out there doing this and at least have the awarness.

So here is the scam...Meadle..selling fungi..pst...
Reyes how much you asking for it...
Meadle...dunno what you offer...
Reyes can yo take 34k on it..
Meadle..well...can you make it 35k..
Reyes ..actually i have money tied up in trade pieces..cash is 34k and some change..
Meadle...lag sorry ( now tha twas my first sign and i deserver a sucker award for that, the ..lag sorry is a sure, your gonna get ripped off sign)
Meadle ..ok..what you can do for me then..is ..if you buy this piece i need for tradeskills off of this guy..i'll give you the fungi for the difference..hows that..he has me on ignore so he wont sell to me....
(so now i 'm thinking , well cool i'll help this guy out, he helps me out..2nd sign, i took the old , "can you help me out bait" for those of you listening..these are all tell tale signs and you need to know it and retain it)
Reyes..hmm..what is his name and what is the piece...
Meadle his name is Fondew...piece is something for tradeskills...let me make sure of name.....
Meadle...sorry lag...(there it was again, and stoopid me was blinded by the, help the guy out thing)
Meadle...ok it is *item*...he may have sold it though..
Reyes...to Fondew..hey do you happen to have *item*?
Fondew....why yes , i do.
Reyes...do you happen to be selling it, by chance?
Fondew..yes..actually..(now, he wasnt in bazaar, neither was i and he didnt question how i knew he had *item* and it was for sale, that is another chance i had and i blew it)
Reyes ....to Meadle...ok he has it...how much does it go for ??
Meadle...30k usually..what is he aasking...??
Reyes...to Fondew....how much are you asking ??
Fondew....hmmm...25kish i guess..
Reyes.../bazaar pc on *item*
unknown 4th party.... it is used for planer smithing so i think in the middle 20's range..
Reyes to a smithing friend....hey can you pc this *item* for me, plz...
Smith friend....hmm..if i am correct...it is used for elemental or planer smithing..so prolly 25k...- 30k...why ?
Reyes ..well this guy is gonna selll me fungi for this and the difference to 34k ..if i buy this for him....
Smith friend...well it is prolly right..they are for dome kind of gauntlets i think..not real sure though..

(now the parties that pc it said the samething, one was a game friend of mine for long time..and other was some person i dnt know but again said same thing so i thougt pc was good, so i thought i was safe.)

Reyes....ok...i'll do it...where you at??

Meadle...nexus...sorry llaging bad..(what is wrong with me at this point...see how blind i am, if everything was right and this was wrong, i should have know..regardless of everything else..he is setting me up for the ld)
Reyes....ok..cool...brt..
Reyes to Fondew...hey..meeet at pok bank?
Fondew..sure...that is cool..

we do the exchange..

Reyes to Meadle ok..meet in nexus? or pok?
Meadle ....sorry lag..come to nexus....
Reyes..or pok whatever is easier...
Meadle is not online

i knew immediately i was scammed....and i deserve it..but this is again for those of you who are listening...look for the sings..and see them ..and retain them...

Reyes..to Fondew..nice scam..you got me..
Fondew is not online..

After like 5min of saying in bazaar about getting ripped..i get a tell from Taupau who says he was ripped too, now what is suspicious...is...i send tell to Fondew and i actually get him now ...

Reyes..nice scam..you got me...
Fondew...well..you bought it...

Reyes to Taupau...did you petition?
Taupau is not online..

I say suspicous because ...it is common for ppl like this to respond in thier other account, the one the money is being transferred to...to throw the person off, as i was trying to talk to Fondew again...then go to /not online in middle of conversation ...so i believe there is cause for suspicion but i could be wrong and if i am....my apologies...none of the threee came back again while i was for 1.5 hours later.../shrug

Now i know the bashings will begin but i post this ..and my ignorance...for all to take note in some of the tell tale signs so your aware of what to look for and you don't ignore them and save yourself some frustration and gettting ripped off.

To my embrassment ....i post...but..plz...at least use this as a lesson to learn from.../wave

BobbyVella

So you were 'scammed' into buying an item for what it was worth? Why not just sell the item? Or am I missing something...

reximus everburn

Besides the fact that you didn't get the fungi... how does this effect you negatively?

You didn't lose any money, frankly i'm confused.

runno1munkey

more an inconveniance than anything else, but yeah was kinda messed up.

Reyes Odysseus

the item sells for 4 plat on a good day.
:rolleyes :rolleyes

ViBeSJoKeR

He got tricked into buying something he would not have bought was it not if it would make it possible for him to get what he actually wanted the Fungi.

He got scammed, he knows it, he's not crying about it either he's just giving others a heads up.

So thanks for the heads up and don't mind the dumbfucks who enjoy laughing at those who get tricked.

PhineasDied

another scam people might not be aware of...

trader in bazaar is afk and selling an item for 10 or 15% more than it's normal price

a 2nd person in the /bazaar channel says they are buying the same item for 10 or 15% more than what the trader is selling it for, and states they don't have luclin so they can't come to the bazaar

an enterprising person see's a way to make a quick buck and buys the item at it's inflated price from the trader. Soon as he does the buyer camps and they've forced the sell of an item at an abnormally high price, with the sap stuck with reselling the item for a loss.

Reyes Odysseus

For an update, since the initial item involed, never came to fruition, it shows a total intent to defraud and the gm's are not investigating...also, since the other person said same person scammed him...it shows habituality...so go get 'em GM's !! I will update as the updates come in... /wave

Also, thx for the other scam update, if we keep informing one another, maybe we keep the number of ppl getting ripped..to a limited number!!

almadar01

Gonna have to check that out for people trying to make profit in bazaar. Not everyone knows tradeskills, and people can put pretty much the price they want on em, if they got another comp/friends to answer some PC's on it.

Xyln

That makes not a bit of fuckin sense.

Why would YOU have to buy the item for him?

Just pay for the stupid fungi and let his ass buy it?

I am so confused as to how this even works.



I had some guy a few months ago tell me to pay him 34k for his fleshgrinder,and he would call his wife to log on the toon that had the sword because he was crippled and couldn't get up the stairs to log in the character.

And i even asked him how many retards fell for that stupid line,he actually said 3 so far today.

THINK PEOPLE THINK! /sigh