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<u>It's a Trap</u> | <u>It's a Trap</u> | ||
The scammer offers to double any ISK sent to them by another player. They often add an aura of legitimacy with alts or friends (cohorts) responding in local that they just had the large amount of ISK they sent, doubled back to them. They will also double back small amounts to some players in order to 'drum up business' by them also responding how they got their ISK doubled.<br> | The scammer offers to double any ISK sent to them by another player. They often add an aura of legitimacy with alts or friends (cohorts) responding in local that they just had the large amount of ISK they sent, doubled back to them. They will also double back small amounts to some players in order to 'drum up business' by them also responding how they got their ISK doubled.<br> | ||
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<u>How it works</u> | <u>How it works</u> | ||
Greed, is the mechanism that they are tapping into, that aspect of the human mind that is attracted to something for nothing. The scammer will respond by doubling your ISK when you make low amount 'testers', to lure you into sending larger amounts of ISK. When you make a sufficiently big enough transaction, they will take your ISK and not send any to you. When you ask for it they will even sometimes say that is not arrived to make the unwary send it again, though eventually they will block you. | Greed, is the mechanism that they are tapping into, that aspect of the human mind that is attracted to something for nothing. The scammer will respond by doubling your ISK when you make low amount 'testers', to lure you into sending larger amounts of ISK. When you make a sufficiently big enough transaction, they will take your ISK and not send any to you. When you ask for it they will even sometimes say that is not arrived to make the unwary send it again, though eventually they will block you. | ||