New **** in PWE

/aron - Dreamweaver42

At least it is new to me and, frankly, I am not sure what, if anything, can or will be done about it.

For sake of narrowing it down, I play PvE on the Dreamweaver server so I am unsure if it has been happening on other servers as well.

Out of nowhere, somebody will PM others saying : "Want to see a trick ? How to make 2 things out of 1" and, when people agree, they lose their items.

I have gotten the PMs a few times and always refused since I figured it was a scam of some sort but MANY others on the server are losing their items. Shame on them for falling for it, true, BUT that does not make it ok.

Apparently, how this works is they will ask to see something in the trade window and, without even clicking trade, they get the item anyways. I am not sure how it happens since I always though trades and items were server side things but, apparently, someone **** it or created a program to grab items without people trading them.

I have a list of 4 names who have done it thus far but will not name them on here as I believe this is a "no name or shame" forum.

As for reporting them, that makes it much harder. It would be foolish to report them for simply sending a pm saying "Want to see a trick how to make 2 items out of 1" since, as far as I know, there is nothing wrong with the sentence as it is and, the action itself is just done without anything saying so. You show item in trade window, close the window without trading and then find out your item is simply gone. All you could do is take a screenshot of having the item before and not after but, again, that proves absolutely nothing.

Thankfully I have not been scammed (though they tried) but I do feel for those not wise enough to better than to allow themselves to be victims.

Any ideas from mods, GMs, or others about this issue ?