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===Margin Scam===

This is a market scam based on the skill Margin Trading. A player with Margin Trading can place buy orders and only place a portion of the required ISK in escrow and when someone sells to that buy order the rest of the ISK is taken from their wallet. However, if they don't have the ISK available, the trade simply fails. This allows the character to place "fake" buy orders by placing ~~the orders~~ and then transferring all of their ISK to another character. The scam comes in where an item (usually a rarely traded one so the victim has difficulty determining its real value) is offered on the market by sell order or contract at a hugely inflated price, and a fake buy order is set up for more than that price. A victim looks at the contract, sees that they can buy the item and then immediately sell it to the buy order for a huge profit and goes for it. The buy order then fails and the victim is left with the worthless item while the scammer pockets the ISK.

This is a market scam based on the skill Margin Trading. A player with Margin Trading can place buy orders and only place a portion of the required ISK in escrow and when someone sells to that buy order the rest of the ISK is taken from their wallet. However, if they don't have the ISK available, the trade simply fails. This allows the character to place "fake" buy orders by placing an order and then transferring all of their ISK to another character. The scam comes in where an item (usually a rarely traded one so the victim has difficulty determining its real value) is offered on the market by sell order or contract at a hugely inflated price, and a fake buy order is set up for more than that price. A victim looks at the contract, sees that they can buy the item and then immediately sell it to the buy order for a huge profit and goes for it. The buy order then fails and the victim is left with the worthless item while the scammer pockets the ISK.

==Big Schemes==

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 ===Margin Scam===
-This is a market scam based on the skill Margin Trading. A player with Margin Trading can place buy orders and only place a portion of the required ISK in escrow and when someone sells to that buy order the rest of the ISK is taken from their wallet. However, if they don't have the ISK available, the trade simply fails. This allows the character to place "fake" buy orders by placing the orders and then transferring all of their ISK to another character. The scam comes in where an item (usually a rarely traded one so the victim has difficulty determining its real value) is offered on the market by sell order or contract at a hugely inflated price, and a fake buy order is set up for more than that price. A victim looks at the contract, sees that they can buy the item and then immediately sell it to the buy order for a huge profit and goes for it. The buy order then fails and the victim is left with the worthless item while the scammer pockets the ISK.
+This is a market scam based on the skill Margin Trading. A player with Margin Trading can place buy orders and only place a portion of the required ISK in escrow and when someone sells to that buy order the rest of the ISK is taken from their wallet. However, if they don't have the ISK available, the trade simply fails. This allows the character to place "fake" buy orders by placing an order and then transferring all of their ISK to another character. The scam comes in where an item (usually a rarely traded one so the victim has difficulty determining its real value) is offered on the market by sell order or contract at a hugely inflated price, and a fake buy order is set up for more than that price. A victim looks at the contract, sees that they can buy the item and then immediately sell it to the buy order for a huge profit and goes for it. The buy order then fails and the victim is left with the worthless item while the scammer pockets the ISK.
 ==Big Schemes==