Scams in EVE Online: Difference between revisions

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As with courier ganking, no-access contracts can also be recognized by their unusually high reward payout and disproportionately high collateral for their cargo.

===Manipulated Buy Orders===

The contractor will advertise a contract for several copies of the same item at an inflated price but will put in buy order at en even slightly higher price. As soon as you buy the contract the scammer withdraw the buy orders.

====What you see====

A contract for several copy of an item. The market shows buy orders for this item at a higher price, potentially giving you net benefits if you take the contract and sell the items immediately on teh market.

====How it works ====

Prices are example:

*The scammer create a contract for 3 items for a total of 500 Misk

*The scammer also places 3 different buy orders for 200 Misk each, making you think that you can buy and resell immediately for 100 Misk profit

*As soon as you accept the contract the scammer withdraw their buy orders. If the actual market price is 100Misk, you have lost 200Misk

*Making 3 different buy orders makes it longer for you to resell all your items, the buy orders usually have .1 isk difference so a lambda will usually try to sell the items one by one. Giving more time to the scammer to remove the other buy orders. Even if you manage to resell 1 of the item before the buy order is removed, you have lost 100Misk

====How to recognise the scam====

*Contract price suspiciously higher that current market buy order prices

*For a given item, a couple of buy order prices with a much greater price than the others

==Other Miscellaneous Scams==

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 As with courier ganking, no-access contracts can also be recognized by their unusually high reward payout and disproportionately high collateral for their cargo.
+===Manipulated Buy Orders===
+The contractor will advertise a contract for several copies of the same item at an inflated price but will put in buy order at en even slightly higher price. As soon as you buy the contract the scammer withdraw the buy orders.
+====What you see====
+A contract for several copy of an item. The market shows buy orders for this item at a higher price, potentially giving you net benefits if you take the contract and sell the items immediately on teh market.
+====How it works ====
+Prices are example:
+*The scammer create a contract for 3 items for a total of 500 Misk
+*The scammer also places 3 different buy orders for 200 Misk each, making you think that you can buy and resell immediately for 100 Misk profit
+*As soon as you accept the contract the scammer withdraw their buy orders. If the actual market price is 100Misk, you have lost 200Misk
+*Making 3 different buy orders makes it longer for you to resell all your items, the buy orders usually have .1 isk difference so a lambda will usually try to sell the items one by one. Giving more time to the scammer to remove the other buy orders. Even if you manage to resell 1 of the item before the buy order is removed, you have lost 100Misk
+====How to recognise the scam====
+*Contract price suspiciously higher that current market buy order prices
+*For a given item, a couple of buy order prices with a much greater price than the others
 ==Other Miscellaneous Scams==