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Once you've been scammed all you can do is set negative standings to the scammer and hope you catch them at a disadvantage one day in lowsec or nullsec. | Once you've been scammed all you can do is set negative standings to the scammer and hope you catch them at a disadvantage one day in lowsec or nullsec. | ||
==Common Schemes== | ==Common Scamming Schemes== | ||
===Begging=== | ===Begging=== | ||
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Overall this can can net the scammer hundreds of millions in an hour as many will on impulse buy up the items (only work 20k for millions) and then find they cannot fulfill the order unless they buy twenty. Then they may realize too late that the cost would be twice that of the buy order returns. Even if they complete the buy order it will be rejected as the persons alt that place the buy order does not have suffficnet funds to pay for it. | Overall this can can net the scammer hundreds of millions in an hour as many will on impulse buy up the items (only work 20k for millions) and then find they cannot fulfill the order unless they buy twenty. Then they may realize too late that the cost would be twice that of the buy order returns. Even if they complete the buy order it will be rejected as the persons alt that place the buy order does not have suffficnet funds to pay for it. | ||
===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 an order and then transferring all of their ISK to another character. The buy order then fails and the victim is left with the worthless item while the scammer pockets the ISK. | |||
==Common Contract Scams== | |||
===Ambush courier=== | |||
Related to the ambush sale (in that a scam victim is lured to low or null sec). Instead of offering a good price on an item, this scam involves a courier contract routing you to or through low or nullsec where the scammer is waiting to destroy you. He then gets the collateral (which will be far far higher than the item is worth). Be especially careful if the destination is a player-owned station, where you may lack the standings required to dock at all, in which case you cannot complete the contract and the scammer will get the collateral when it expires. | |||
Avoiding this scam is the same as the ambush sale: always check the route before accepting. | |||
===Double WTB contracts=== | |||
In this scam, a contract appears to be a typical want-to-buy contract (possibly offering a slightly above average price) but in fact the contract is asking for 2 of the item and not 1. It can be an easy scam to fall for in cases where you have the 2 items and are not carefully reading the contract.<br> | |||
Always take time to verify what a contract is asking for, and if you want a failsafe: only ever keep a single copy of an expensive mod on hand when selling to WTB contracts.<br> | |||
===WTS/WTB contracts=== | |||
In this scam, a contract appears to be a typical want-to-sell contract (probably offering a below average price) but in fact the contract is selling an item for cash <b>and</b> the item. For example, a contract appears to be selling 1xPLEX for 400m ISK, but is actually trading 1xPLEX for 400m ISK + 1 PLEX. This is not always easy to spot, since the item up for "sale" and the price you pay are next to each other at the top of the screen, but the item you give is futher down the screen. | |||
Always take time to verify what a contract is asking for. | |||
==Other Miscellaneous Scams== | |||
===[[Can_Flipping|Can flipping]]=== | ===[[Can_Flipping|Can flipping]]=== | ||
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To avoid this scam, always check the route that will get you to an item. (Checking the sec status of the destination alone is not fool-proof as some highsec systems require traversal of low or null sec.) | To avoid this scam, always check the route that will get you to an item. (Checking the sec status of the destination alone is not fool-proof as some highsec systems require traversal of low or null sec.) | ||
===Fittings without ship=== | ===Fittings without ship=== | ||
This is a very common scam. Usually a scammer will link a contract selling a ship (often a Hulk) for a seemingly very low price. They'll say that they're offering the ship and all the fittings, while in fact the contract will only have the fittings. This relies on people not properly checking the items in the contract. | This is a very common scam. Usually a scammer will link a contract selling a ship (often a Hulk) for a seemingly very low price. They'll say that they're offering the ship and all the fittings, while in fact the contract will only have the fittings. This relies on people not properly checking the items in the contract. | ||
===Multiples of 1000=== | ===Multiples of 1000=== | ||
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This scam works can be assisted by someone announcing in local broadcasting the contract and announcing they are selling at the lower price when the contract is actually selling at the higher price. | This scam works can be assisted by someone announcing in local broadcasting the contract and announcing they are selling at the lower price when the contract is actually selling at the higher price. | ||
===Similar names=== | ===Similar names=== | ||
This is yet another contract scam where a scammer will advertise a ship or module as its faction variant (sometimes a faction variant that doesn't even exist!) and rely on people not checking the actual item being offered. (Someone might, for example, advertise a normal Raven as a Raven Navy Issue.) This can also work with modules with similar names such as a Pith C-Type in a contract advertised as an A- or X-Type. (A unit of the element Carbon masquerading as the valuable [[Charon]] freighter is a good -- and amusing -- example.) | This is yet another contract scam where a scammer will advertise a ship or module as its faction variant (sometimes a faction variant that doesn't even exist!) and rely on people not checking the actual item being offered. (Someone might, for example, advertise a normal Raven as a Raven Navy Issue.) This can also work with modules with similar names such as a Pith C-Type in a contract advertised as an A- or X-Type. (A unit of the element Carbon masquerading as the valuable [[Charon]] freighter is a good -- and amusing -- example.) | ||
==Big Schemes== | ==Big Schemes== | ||