Scams in EVE Online: Difference between revisions

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===Begging===

This is the simplest scam around where a player asks for ISK donations in popular channels (trade hub local, NPC corp chat, etc.), where they tell a story about how they lost their ship. It is of course possible that they're telling the truth (ask for the link to their combat log), ~~but~~ it ~~doesn't take long~~ to ~~get back on your feet in Eve, so there's little reason to give handouts~~.~~ ~~

This is the simplest scam around where a player asks for ISK donations in popular channels (trade hub local, NPC corp chat, etc.), where they tell a story about how they lost their ship.

It's a Trap

The player, whom is sometimes an alt created for the occasion 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 it's most basic aspects it is social engineering of the human trait to help others who are a victim of circumstance and 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.

===ISK doubling===

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 ===Begging===
-This is the simplest scam around where a player asks for ISK donations in popular channels (trade hub local, NPC corp chat, etc.), where they tell a story about how they lost their ship. It is of course possible that they're telling the truth (ask for the link to their combat log), but it doesn't take long to get back on your feet in Eve, so there's little reason to give handouts.<br>
+This is the simplest scam around where a player asks for ISK donations in popular channels (trade hub local, NPC corp chat, etc.), where they tell a story about how they lost their ship.
+<br>
+<u>It's a Trap</u><br>
+The player, whom is sometimes an alt created for the occasion 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.
+<br>
+<u>How it works</u><br>
+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 it's most basic aspects it is social engineering of the human trait to help others who are a victim of circumstance and 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.
 ===ISK doubling===