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*Someone using chat to offer strangers the opportunity to make a lot of money. | *Someone using chat to offer strangers the opportunity to make a lot of money. | ||
*Look for buy orders with minimum volumes. Multiple sell orders can fill a single buy order, so there's no good reason for them. | *Look for buy orders with minimum volumes. Multiple sell orders can fill a single buy order, so there's no good reason for them. | ||
*The buy order is for a low-volume item that you're not familiar with. If EVE-Central has any others on record, they're far away and way cheaper.<br><br> | *The buy order is for a low-volume item that you're not familiar with. | ||
*If EVE-Central has any others on record, they're far away and way cheaper. | |||
This is one of the trickiest scams, since so far as you can tell from the market interface it's all genuine - there's no sure way to tell that a listed buy order is fake. If the scammer has been lazy then inspection of the sell orders can tip you off that they were all placed by the same person, such as identical expiration dates, but a decent scammer will add some jitter to make it look real. Your best defence is not to trade expensive items that you're not familiar with the value of. If you're still tempted to trade an unfamiliar item then look it up on Eve Central to see what the price is in other regions.<br><br> | |||
==Contract Scams== | ==Contract Scams== | ||