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===The Three-ships Trick=== | ===The Three-ships Trick=== | ||
The | The scammer will link a contact that is followed by a countdown before the next one is offered, usually in a set of three contacts offering the same faction ship. The player is openly enticed to take try and get a bargain by making a snap decision to buy before someone else does<br> | ||
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<u>It's a Trap</u><br> | <u>It's a Trap</u><br> | ||
The . | The Three-ships Trick is like the 'hide the lady trick, and is a basic contract scam that relies on the player making a quick decision to buy an opportunistic bargain and not see the additions of zeros to the contracts that follow. | ||
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<u>How it works</u><br> | |||
The Three-ships Trick is another one of those scams that works on the mechanisms of greed and speed. | |||
The first ship contact offers a (usually) faction ship that is at a considerably lower price than market value. The person who clicks on it and on see the extremely low price finds they are just too late, in truth the contract was deleted as soon as the link was made but before it was offered.<br> | |||
The second contract ship offered will be the same ship, but just below the average market price, so the player who buys it will not have made much of a bargain.<br> | |||
The third ship is the sting, having made two misses, a player not wanting to miss out again will race to click on that one, not noting the additional zeros that change the ship from for example 20 million to 200 million.<br> | |||
This is another one of those scams that plays on human competitive nature and greed to grab a bargain before someone else does. | |||
===Courier Contract Ganking=== | ===Courier Contract Ganking=== | ||