Scams in EVE Online: Difference between revisions

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===Sale of intangibles===

This is the epic tale of selling someone the Golden Gate bridge: someone's selling something that either has no worth, is not verifiable, or simply does not belong to them. For example selling a bookmark to a wormhole with any kind of assurance of what is or is not in there (in terms of sites to run as well as presence of a hostile corporation inside). Another example would be ransoming your ship and pod for the assurance that they'll let you go, then destroying you anyway.

~~====Mining Permits====~~

Mining permits get special mention because they're part an organized effort. The ''New Order of Highsec'' claims "sovereignty" over all of high security space, and requires that miners purchase a mining permit from them and conform to a standard of behavior, otherwise they will kill you.

~~=====What you see=====~~

~~Either someone will talk to you in chat about the mining permit, or they may just attack you without warning.~~

~~=====How it works=====~~

This is a fairly standard protection racket form of the sale of intangibles, combined with piracy and no small amount of role playing. As with all of the scams of this type, it rests on there being no in-game mechanism to enforce the agreement. This is true of any sort of permit or ransom. Once you transfer ISK to someone it's gone.

===Trade Window===

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 ===Sale of intangibles===
 This is the epic tale of selling someone the Golden Gate bridge: someone's selling something that either has no worth, is not verifiable, or simply does not belong to them. For example selling a bookmark to a wormhole with any kind of assurance of what is or is not in there (in terms of sites to run as well as presence of a hostile corporation inside). Another example would be ransoming your ship and pod for the assurance that they'll let you go, then destroying you anyway.
-====Mining Permits====
-Mining permits get special mention because they're part an organized effort. The ''New Order of Highsec'' claims "sovereignty" over all of high security space, and requires that miners purchase a mining permit from them and conform to a standard of behavior, otherwise they will kill you.
-=====What you see=====
-Either someone will talk to you in chat about the mining permit, or they may just attack you without warning.
-=====How it works=====
-This is a fairly standard protection racket form of the sale of intangibles, combined with piracy and no small amount of role playing. As with all of the scams of this type, it rests on there being no in-game mechanism to enforce the agreement. This is true of any sort of permit or ransom.  Once you transfer ISK to someone it's gone.
 ===Trade Window===