Scams in EVE Online: Difference between revisions

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=Chat and Market Scams=

==Begging==

~~This is the~~ simplest scam around, where a player asks for ISK donations in popular channels (trade hub local, NPC corp chat, etc.), and tells a story about how they lost their ship, just started out or even lost all their belongings to a scammer!

The simplest scam around: where a player asks for ISK donations in popular channels (trade hub local, NPC corp chat, etc.) and tells a story about how they lost their ship, just started out, or even lost all their belongings to a scammer.

===What you see===

The player will plead for help in the local trade hub, sometimes apologizing for having to "beg". Where the character is created for this purpose there is sometimes a tendency to use a female avatar and name to exploit sexuality. The language used will be purposefully naive and constructed to express little knowledge of the cruel harsh aspects of the game.

The player will plead for help in the local trade hub, sometimes apologizing for having to "beg". Where the character is created for this purpose, there is sometimes a tendency to use a female avatar and name to exploit sexuality. The language used will be purposefully naive and constructed to express little knowledge of the cruel, harsh aspects of the game.

===How it works===

Sympathy for the unfortunate is the aspect of human nature that they are tapping into and hoping to trick the more altruistic players into donating funds, ships and equipment to help the new unfortunate victim of the harsh game mechanics. In its most basic aspects it is social engineering of the human trait to help others who are a victim of circumstance. Though it is of course possible that they're telling the truth (you could ask for the link to their combat log), if you observe the dialogue in the channel it will be too consistently touching the right buttons to be evident manipulation of sympathy responses.<br>

Sympathy for the unfortunate is the aspect of human nature that they are tapping into and they are hoping to trick the more altruistic players into donating funds, ships, and equipment to help the new unfortunate "victim" of the harsh game mechanics. In its most basic aspects, it is social engineering the human trait to help others who are a victim of circumstance. Though it is of course possible that they're telling the truth (you could ask for the link to their combat log), if you observe the dialogue in the channel, it will be too consistently touching the right buttons to be evident manipulation of sympathy responses.<br>

==ISK doubling==

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 =Chat and Market Scams=
 ==Begging==
-This is the simplest scam around, where a player asks for ISK donations in popular channels (trade hub local, NPC corp chat, etc.), and tells a story about how they lost their ship, just started out or even lost all their belongings to a scammer!
+The simplest scam around: where a player asks for ISK donations in popular channels (trade hub local, NPC corp chat, etc.) and tells a story about how they lost their ship, just started out, or even lost all their belongings to a scammer.
 ===What you see===
-The player will plead for help in the local trade hub, sometimes apologizing for having to "beg". Where the character is created for this purpose there is sometimes a tendency to use a female avatar and name to exploit sexuality. The language used will be purposefully naive and constructed to express little knowledge of the cruel harsh aspects of the game.
+The player will plead for help in the local trade hub, sometimes apologizing for having to "beg". Where the character is created for this purpose, there is sometimes a tendency to use a female avatar and name to exploit sexuality. The language used will be purposefully naive and constructed to express little knowledge of the cruel, harsh aspects of the game.
 ===How it works===
-Sympathy for the unfortunate is the aspect of human nature that they are tapping into and hoping to trick the more altruistic players into donating funds, ships and equipment to help the new unfortunate victim of the harsh game mechanics. In its most basic aspects it is social engineering of the human trait to help others who are a victim of circumstance. Though it is of course possible that they're telling the truth (you could ask for the link to their combat log), if you observe the dialogue in the channel it will be too consistently touching the right buttons to be evident manipulation of sympathy responses.<br>
+Sympathy for the unfortunate is the aspect of human nature that they are tapping into and they are hoping to trick the more altruistic players into donating funds, ships, and equipment to help the new unfortunate "victim" of the harsh game mechanics. In its most basic aspects, it is social engineering the human trait to help others who are a victim of circumstance. Though it is of course possible that they're telling the truth (you could ask for the link to their combat log), if you observe the dialogue in the channel, it will be too consistently touching the right buttons to be evident manipulation of sympathy responses.<br>
 ==ISK doubling==