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<u>How it works</u><br>
<u>How it works</u><br>
Greed and instant riches (if you are quicker than others), are the primary mechanisms that they are triggering. Its the speed and greed that makes this work so very well, when the player checks out the buy order they will at first glance see it is offering to pay ten times the sale price of the item. Seeing the instant opportunity for increasing your ISK balance by ten or more times they can feel compelled to fill the buy order before the next person sees it.<br>
Greed and instant riches (if you are quicker than others), are the primary mechanisms that they are triggering. Its the speed and greed that makes this work so very well, when the player checks out the buy order they will at first glance see it is offering to pay ten times the sale price of the item. Seeing the instant opportunity for increasing your ISK balance by ten fold or more, they can feel compelled to fill the buy order before the next person sees it.<br>
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But this is so much more, this scam makes the scammer ISK in many ways<br>
But this is so much more, this scam makes the scammer ISK in many ways<br>