You want me to what?

Gigglesnort - Lost City

When I got up to around 5x I had to pk a same lvl barb for kill stealing.
The next day he was in a random squad that I joined with my faction head.
He asked to be friends and I figured, sure why not.
Shortly after that I had to unfriend him because he was a leech.
Every time he saw that I was on he wanted 500k coin or some pots.
(i never gave him anything by the way)

The other day he found me. He was logged in on an alt and we got to talking for a minute.
He explained to me that he lost the gear off his main while pking without a safety lock and needed a few coin. I told him I was broke, and it was dropped there, so I thought.

He asked how I was doing and all that small talk bs. So I told him that I just finished getting my TT70 gears all put together.

Without hesitation he asked me to give them to him so that he could refine them before giving them back.

I thought to myself for a second about how **** he must think I am before telling him no.

And it got me to wonder about how many people have actually fallen for this type of thing.

Shulkie - Dreamweaver

if you read the number of "i was scammed for being a nub" posts that appear every other week, then you will see that lots of people do fall for this kind of thing -

- "i like your mount/airgear/fashion/weapon/armor. I was thinking of buying that one can I try it to see how it looks on my character" seems to be a popular tack with the sort of scum that attempts this sort of theft.

Airyll - Dreamweaver

There are plenty of people like this on the game and the sad thing is, plenty of people are dumb enough to fall for their blatantly obvious attempts at theft. They profit from these morons who give away their gear out of utter pity for the "poor ickle soul" who got **** or got PK'd or whatever excuse to come up with at the time and thus, they continue to do it.

Blacklist the guy and move on, it's as simple as that.

Boogiepanda - Raging Tide

Men plz give me that barb name. Me want refine my Warsoul helm men. Whisp name in game men plz.

Lesthar - Heavens Tear

I will be frank to you and call him a total deadweight. I also feel he is quite the harasser.
I hope you managed to shake him off.

Take care!

Feito - Dreamweaver

Ha... This is why I don't mess around with randoms too often. They usually end up scammers, leeches, or mutes. During my earlier days, I often ran into leeches. Everybody wants a personal Cleric so I'd get people who'd chat me up then ask one of these magic questions, "So what quest are you doing now?" or "Hey could you help me with _____?" The last time I dealt with a friendslist leech I had to tell her off because she never did anything herself.

What I find surprising about people who give to these leeches and scammers is how they don't use common sense to avoid these things. Even if you don't play games, why would you give your stuff to somebody you don't know.

Gigglesnort - Lost City

Shulkie - Dreamweaver wrote: »

if you read the number of "i was scammed for being a nub" posts that appear every other week, then you will see that lots of people do fall for this kind of thing -

- "i like your mount/airgear/fashion/weapon/armor. I was thinking of buying that one can I try it to see how it looks on my character" seems to be a popular tack with the sort of scum that attempts this sort of theft.

At least I haven't seen anybody try the, "Give me your password and I'll organize your inventory." scam yet.

Airyll - Dreamweaver wrote: »

There are plenty of people like this on the game and the sad thing is, plenty of people are dumb enough to fall for their blatantly obvious attempts at theft. They profit from these morons who give away their gear out of utter pity for the "poor ickle soul" who got **** or got PK'd or whatever excuse to come up with at the time and thus, they continue to do it.

Blacklist the guy and move on, it's as simple as that.

I find it sad that there are both people who do this and people who fall for it.

Lesthar - Heavens Tear wrote: »

I will be frank to you and call him a total deadweight. I also feel he is quite the harasser.
I hope you managed to shake him off.

Take care!

I was actually surprised to hear from him the other day. I unfriended him months ago and hadn't heard from him sense. Well, until he saw me hanging at the AH that is.

Feito - Dreamweaver wrote: »

Ha... This is why I don't mess around with randoms too often. They usually end up scammers, leeches, or mutes. During my earlier days, I often ran into leeches. Everybody wants a personal Cleric so I'd get people who'd chat me up then ask one of these magic questions, "So what quest are you doing now?" or "Hey could you help me with _____?" The last time I dealt with a friendslist leech I had to tell her off because she never did anything herself.

What I find surprising about people who give to these leeches and scammers is how they don't use common sense to avoid these things. Even if you don't play games, why would you give your stuff to somebody you don't know.

I hardly do anything with randoms anymore. I either do things with my faction mates or alone. It's mostly alone now that me and my mates are on different schedules. And I find it so true that everyone wants a personal cleric. I can't do anything in the open world without getting squad invites or friend requests every ten minutes.

I too am surprised that there are people that fall for this, either in game or irl.

ReMakaBo - Archosaur

Lol epic name "gigglesnort" b:chuckle

Gigglesnort - Lost City

ReMakaBo - Archosaur wrote: »

Lol epic name "gigglesnort" b:chuckle

Why thank you.

Alasen - Heavens Tear

Shulkie - Dreamweaver wrote: »

if you read the number of "i was scammed for being a nub" posts that appear every other week, then you will see that lots of people do fall for this kind of thing -

- "i like your mount/airgear/fashion/weapon/armor. I was thinking of buying that one can I try it to see how it looks on my character" seems to be a popular tack with the sort of scum that attempts this sort of theft.

I've actually done that a few times... wanting to see fashion the way it actualy looked (that preview window's a bit tiny... thing's actually do look better (or easier to see everything) actually ON you. guy's full black shinobi male set... couple others... hell even tried out a boreas skylight once. but see here's the difference.... I'm not a d**k... i dont' steal ****, ever lol.

Btw the shinobi fash was on a guy in our faction, but the rest wasn't.

but ya I've run into complete randoms askign to "borrow" **** too.... it's unreal. Hell not exactly borrowing stuff but i killed luminoc for a guy last week. You know what i got instead of a thank you? "Can I have 200k?" >.< I then proceeded to make him look like a total idiot in front of the other 10 people there.

Channman - Lost City

lol i remember when someone pmed me and wanted to buy my mount he said he had his lock on so if i mailed him the mount he would mail me 5 mill back i was like ummm lol b:laugh

MikaMouse - Heavens Tear

_Bad_Panda_ is another character name thats bad about useing people and lieing to still your things.. Just a FYI he's a big time scam/thief and hacker!And no he/she did'nt take me for nothing!.And he has a brother i hear that plays this little game with him to rip people off tho i've yet to find out his suppose to be brothers name,more then likely it's the same person!. b:laugh He did however get my little sister(all of 14 years old),no worries he wont do it again to her anyways!He also has a few accounts on this game and other PWI games and does the same on them aswell....People like him are just sicking!Theyer broke as a joke and just rip people off..So yeah thats all i have to say about that _______!

b:laugh

PS. I WELL PUT YOUR NAME OUT THERE 4 ALL TO SEE,YA FREAKS AND RIP OFFS MAKE ME SICK!SO WHOEVER _Bad_Panda_ is please have the B___'s to post here and say it was'nt you and i'll post the screen shoots she took when she beged you to give her her things back! O.O

Rheaunna - Raging Tide

Gosh, I've stopped and told characters I liked their mount or their gear and wondered why they would just turn around and leave without responding. No wonder! I feel so bad that I've done this not knowing people are out there trying to scam others. This is terrible. I am never going to do that again.

Rheauna

Sarrafeline - Sanctuary

MikaMouse - Heavens Tear wrote: »

Snip to lighten the edit jobs the mods will obviously be having to do.

*Golf Clap* Congrats. You just broke forum rules about naming and shaming, one of the lovely mods will be by to edit your post shortly.

I have no sympathy for you or your sister. Report scamming, and actually WATCH WHAT YOU DO.

No wonder so many people get into serious car wrecks... "Oh, I'm sorry, I thought that tree was part of the highway!"

Escorian - Dreamweaver

MikaMouse - Heavens Tear wrote: »

*Removed* is another character name thats bad about useing people and lieing to still your things.. Just a FYI he's a big time scam/thief and hacker!And no he/she did'nt take me for nothing!.And he has a brother i hear that plays this little game with him to rip people off tho i've yet to find out his suppose to be brothers name,more then likely it's the same person!. b:laugh He did however get my little sister(all of 14 years old),no worries he wont do it again to her anyways!He also has a few accounts on this game and other PWI games and does the same on them aswell....People like him are just sicking!Theyer broke as a joke and just rip people off..So yeah thats all i have to say about that _______!

b:laugh

PS. I WELL PUT YOUR NAME OUT THERE 4 ALL TO SEE,YA FREAKS AND RIP OFFS MAKE ME SICK!SO WHOEVER _Bad_Panda_ is please have the B___'s to post here and say it was'nt you and i'll post the screen shoots she took when she beged you to give her her things back! O.O

Naming and shaming is against the ToS and you can get banned for it if i were you i would remove his name from your post unless you want to be banned.