Worst Scam Attempt Experiances

[caseh]

I'm a Nigerian banker and I have $7.8mil dollar I just inherited but I don't have a bank account, give me your details and i'll pay you 37.8% of my inherited wealth.

On a gaming note, I came across an interesting one this morning. Some guy whining about aimbots in CoD games on the consoles, to which I replied there are none on the consoles (to my knowledge) or there would be video footage of it on the tube by now...

The guy responds with this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBqedzC9Sqk

Its an 'aimbot' for ps3/xbox360 that you just extract, put onto a usb stick then put into your console...and like magic it just works.

If you believe that you should have been shot at birth. Social engineering at its finest.

 

[joe-h2o]

WoW used to be full of people who would troll for gold - they'd hang around in the major cities and keep bugging you by opening trade windows and begging for gold "for training".

Sometimes if I was just chatting with guild mates waiting for a raid or something I would enthusiastically say "ok!" and put 2000 gold in the trade window and then just leave it like that. They'd keep saying "press accept!" "you need to press accept". Then either they'd get bored and go away or I would need my character for something other than chatting. I figure I was doing a service to the community by tying up the scammer with the greedy eyes thinking he's going to get all that gold.

Other in game scams were more typical and usually involved crafting materials. You'd ask in trade for someone to make a rare item, or enchant something and that you had the materials, then someone would just come up to you and open a trade window with you and you'd pile all your mats into it, only for them to say "lol, thanks" and log off. Blizzard encouraged people trading mats for these purposes to get the details in writing (in private message or in trade chat etc) from the character you were trading with to create a trail they could follow if the guy skipped out on you and stole your materials, but the scam was always a possibility and recovering your stuff took time.

 

[Findlebob]

Eve online

"if you send me some isk (eve money) I will quadruple it, you can try with small amounts first if you like".

 

[Nerexor]

The silliest scam was that terrible "Evony" online game. Where the ads started as being the standard fantasy fare, showing off a castle and talking about rescuing a princess... fair enough. A month later I saw an ad for it that was just a pair of barely covered breasts and the game name. Really, guys? I had checked out the game based on the initial ads and it was just some kind of farming/city building game that was clearly "pay to win" and I later learned was loaded to the gills with spyware. I guess they figured "OMG BOOBS" was a better marketing strategy...

I also keep getting emails about my Runescape account being hacked despite never having played or signed up for Runescape.

 

[joe-h2o]

Eve online

"if you send me some isk (eve money) I will quadruple it, you can try with small amounts first if you like".

Oh I forgot about Eve, but then I figure nothing is really more a scam than anything else since the entire premise of the game is "trust no one".

System chat: "Offering help to newbie mission runners"

"Sweet, I need help"

"ok, fleet with me"

*warp to newbie, blow up ship, loot gear and salvage*

 

[Eddy-16]

On a pokemon type game someone offered to train all my friends monsters to the highest level in half an hour all he had to give the guy his password. He fell for it and lost all his monsters as a result.

 

[imnot]

The silliest scam was that terrible "Evony" online game. Where the ads started as being the standard fantasy fare, showing off a castle and talking about rescuing a princess... fair enough. A month later I saw an ad for it that was just a pair of barely covered breasts and the game name. Really, guys? I had checked out the game based on the initial ads and it was just some kind of farming/city building game that was clearly "pay to win" and I later learned was loaded to the gills with spyware. I guess they figured "OMG BOOBS" was a better marketing strategy...

I also keep getting emails about my Runescape account being hacked despite never having played or signed up for Runescape.

Have you seen the new ads for Evonys sequal? They actually say 'Click for a roman orgy' and the sad thing is people do click them.

 

[Kordie]

My favourite, almost more of trolling than any sort of serious scam attempt;

Joe: ********
Joe: Cool, the game censors your password!
Bill: What are you talking about?
Joe: type your password in chat, it gets censored1 ********
Bill: Password7
Bill: aww damnit...
Bill has gone offline.

 

[butternut]

I remember in my Runescape days, there was some Zamorak shrine or something on the edge of the wilderness and if you try to steal something from it you'd get killed. Well a scammer took me there and said, "Take that emblem, its worth loads" so I thought I'd have a bit of fun. I stood in front of the emblem and then said "Im trying to take it but nothing is happening" and he told me "You just have to click it" and I kept claiming that I was but nothing was happening. This went on for about five minutes until I said "Maybe you can't take it anymore" and then he tried it himself and got killed and I got his stuff!

 

[snagli]

Well, there was this guy who sent me a message on Steam (His username was "Admin Community"), claiming that I was given a present for being such a good customer. He said he "workd at Staem", and that I just had to go to a link that was under the domain of an online store, enter my username and password, and receive "EVERY GAME ON STEAM WITHOUT PAYNG!!!1!!". It was really funny since he had no idea how to sound official, used "u" instead of "you" and used no punctuation at all but I went along for a while, until I just asked how stupid he thought I was, and all he said was "verry".

I also received a nice mail from Westwood (you know, that company that doesn't exist anymore?), saying that I had won a state of the art computer because I had bought a copy of Red Alert 2 with a golden ticket inside! Yaaaay, Tanya and the Soviet War Factory!

 

[The_Lost_King]

Knights of the Old Republic 2. I spent 1000 credits on a holocron to find out it was a fake.

I feel your pain got conned too by that.

Also got conned by a bloke in Divinity 2 dragon knight saga selling gear which looks purple and above quality. But then you buy it....and well it makes me wish i could of just decorated hes market stand with hes body parts.

The worst part was You couldn't kill him to get the credits back. Even if you were a sith. I wanted to rip his intestines out and strangle him with them(cookie if you get the reference).

 

[Xannidel]

Oh God Runescape, those were the days back in 2005-2006, I remember people giving "tours" through the wildy and then killing them, I remember the old "drop your items, then press alt + F4 to double/quadruple the amount of items you got," or one of my favorite, trading a "mithril" chestpiece for gold when it was really an iron chestpiece.
I stopped playing Runescape after one of my friends hacked me and stole all my dragon weapons, all my rune gear, all my magic logs, all my runes, all my gold (around 1M) and a bunch of other shit.
It was fun way back then but now a days it just seems silly to think about that game again.

 

[Mikeyfell]

I ordered something used off Amazon and about 2 days later I got an Email from the seller saying there was a problem and he needed my credit card number and the security code etc...

definitely one of those "Nice try, now fuck off" moments

 

[nuba km]

a guy asked if he could see what colour a pearlescent(rarest type of gun) gun in borderlands, I knew where this was going, but I decided to drop my worst pearlescent gun, why you may ask me. Well borderlands has a glitch were you can clone items by quitting a game after dropping it and before it saved. So when he stole the gun and left the game I just turned off my console and nothing was lost, and maybe that guy wouldn't try to steal a gun form anyone else.

 

[Nuuu]

Eve online

"if you send me some isk (eve money) I will quadruple it, you can try with small amounts first if you like".

Thats EVERYWHERE in Runescape, i remember trying to troll a guy saying "Doubling Money" by putting 1g into the trade and asking him to double it. He wasn't very happy with it. Other times i just ask them to do it in one trade.

 

[Worgen]

I got scammed in wow once, it was one of the xmas holidays and everyone would get presents from under the trees, there was someone running around giving out gifts and asking for a bit of coin for them, I knew it was a scam but I had lots of extra and I was in the holiday spirit soto speak. Most expensive snowball ever.

 

[TheBelgianGuy]

The silliest scam was that terrible "Evony" online game. Where the ads started as being the standard fantasy fare, showing off a castle and talking about rescuing a princess... fair enough. A month later I saw an ad for it that was just a pair of barely covered breasts and the game name. Really, guys? I had checked out the game based on the initial ads and it was just some kind of farming/city building game that was clearly "pay to win" and I later learned was loaded to the gills with spyware. I guess they figured "OMG BOOBS" was a better marketing strategy...

I also keep getting emails about my Runescape account being hacked despite never having played or signed up for Runescape.

Evony also stole those pictures of half-nude women from magazines, they stole building/technology descriptions and the like from games like Civilizations


I had some of those emails about runescape too, as well as WoW, and some other mmorpg's I've never played... pretty common scam, I think.
Apparently these scammers steal data from forums where they know lots of gamers are active, to get email accounts to spam to.

 

[The Funslinger]

I remember the whole, armor trimming business Runescape had(s) going on. I've gotten a couple people with that, but I returned everything the moment that they signed back in. It was to show the people I got, how this scam works and how to avoid it, and why it's awful to be caught in.

I've met more than enough scammers playing MapleStory, ConquerOnline, Eudemons and several other MMOs, but the worst one to get caught in is the armor trimming crap.

I'd heard about that, but I never knew how it worked.

Edit: The worst ad-banner one was the picture of a guy holding a giant check.

They'd forgotten to photoshop the shadow he cast.

 

[Longstreet]

Well, apparently my WoW account has bee hacked multiple times and has participated in scamming activities.

No worries though, they know I was hacked and all I had to do to help fix it was go to this totallylegitblizzardsite.com and fill in my information.

They just forgot the fact that i have never touched Wow at all. And never would without at least a 10 foot pole.

On a blast from the past Runescape note. I can't remember exactly what happened, but the gist of it was this. Either he tried, or actually succeeded, to scam me. I did however still had him in my friends list, and he didn't block me, so I could see where he went. I then proceeded to chase him through 20 odd severs before he gave up trying to scam other people (since wherever I went i warned them.) Throughout this he kept screaming "HOW DO YOU FIND ME EVERYYYTIMEE!!!1111eleven!1"

fun day

 

[Blatherscythe]

I remember in my Runescape days, there was some Zamorak shrine or something on the edge of the wilderness and if you try to steal something from it you'd get killed. Well a scammer took me there and said, "Take that emblem, its worth loads" so I thought I'd have a bit of fun. I stood in front of the emblem and then said "Im trying to take it but nothing is happening" and he told me "You just have to click it" and I kept claiming that I was but nothing was happening. This went on for about five minutes until I said "Maybe you can't take it anymore" and then he tried it himself and got killed and I got his stuff!

Zamorak is really protective of his wine. Taught him a lesson, and you got some items for your troubles.