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Scams in EVE Online: Difference between revisions

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removed Margin Trading Scam - no longer relevant.
Manipulated Buy Orders: Margin Trading scam no longer possible due to removal of the skill
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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.
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.


Note that since this is highly time-sensitive, requiring the scammer to constantly monitor the market and be ready to change or cancel the order at a moment's notice, it's very unlikely that people actually do these type of scams with normal buy orders. More commonly they combine the contract with buy orders using the [[#The Margin Trading Scam|margin trading]] scam listed above to give them plenty of time to adjust their buy orders without having the risk of them being filled before they can change them.
Note that since this is highly time-sensitive, requiring the scammer to constantly monitor the market and be ready to change or cancel the order at a moment's notice, it's very unlikely that people actually do these type of scams with normal buy orders.


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