Scams in EVE Online: Difference between revisions

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Sometimes they'll have alts or buddies chat in local indicating they've won and it's legit.

There is another variant commonly named, "the Bonus Room." In this version, after the victim has delivered the inital ISK, the scammer will inform the victim that they have randomly been selected for, "the Bonus Room." The victim is then told to join a certain Teamspeak/Mumble channel, and will be told to do all sorts of activities, including linking a full API, singing, contracting all property over to the scammer, and/or being ~~repeatedly~~ podded to destroy your ~~learned skillpoints~~, all with the promise of multiplied ISK if you can perform all of the tasks.

There is another variant commonly named, "the Bonus Room." In this version, after the victim has delivered the inital ISK, the scammer will inform the victim that they have randomly been selected for, "the Bonus Room." The victim is then told to join a certain Teamspeak/Mumble channel, and will be told to do all sorts of activities, including linking a full API, singing, contracting all property over to the scammer, be verbally abused, and/or being podded to destroy your implants, all with the promise of multiplied ISK if you can perform all of the tasks.

{{expansion past|Until the Rhea update in December 2014, having your pod destroyed carried the risk of skillpoint loss upon death. This could be prevented by purchasing upgrades to your medical clone, sometimes at significant expense.

Past versions of the Bonus Room had the victim be repeatedly podded, ''without'' purchasing these clone upgrades beforehand. Months or even years of training time could be lost in this way.}}

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===The Margin Trading Scam===

''The Margin Trading Scam'' exploits the mechanic where a character with the Margin Trading skill can place buy orders and only place a portion of the ISK in escrow. If they then transfer all of their ISK away, the order will fail when someone tries to sell to it, essentially allowing them to make a ''fake'' buy order. It is also known as ''The Drunken Buy Order'' because it is often announced in local that a player must have been drunk when they placed a buy order. There are a couple of variations, but they all depend on margin buy orders failing and/or upon the victim not knowing the true value of the item they're trading.

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 Sometimes they'll have alts or buddies chat in local indicating they've won and it's legit.
-There is another variant commonly named, "the Bonus Room." In this version, after the victim has delivered the inital ISK, the scammer will inform the victim that they have randomly been selected for, "the Bonus Room." The victim is then told to join a certain Teamspeak/Mumble channel, and will be told to do all sorts of activities, including linking a full API, singing, contracting all property over to the scammer, and/or being repeatedly podded to destroy your learned skillpoints, all with the promise of multiplied ISK if you can perform all of the tasks.
+There is another variant commonly named, "the Bonus Room." In this version, after the victim has delivered the inital ISK, the scammer will inform the victim that they have randomly been selected for, "the Bonus Room." The victim is then told to join a certain Teamspeak/Mumble channel, and will be told to do all sorts of activities, including linking a full API, singing, contracting all property over to the scammer, be verbally abused, and/or being podded to destroy your implants, all with the promise of multiplied ISK if you can perform all of the tasks.
+{{expansion past|Until the Rhea update in December 2014, having your pod destroyed carried the risk of skillpoint loss upon death. This could be prevented by purchasing upgrades to your medical clone, sometimes at significant expense.
+Past versions of the Bonus Room had the victim be repeatedly podded, ''without'' purchasing these clone upgrades beforehand. Months or even years of training time could be lost in this way.}}
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 ===The Margin Trading Scam===
 ''The Margin Trading Scam'' exploits the mechanic where a character with the Margin Trading skill can place buy orders and only place a portion of the ISK in escrow. If they then transfer all of their ISK away, the order will fail when someone tries to sell to it, essentially allowing them to make a ''fake'' buy order. It is also known as ''The Drunken Buy Order'' because it is often announced in local that a player must have been drunk when they placed a buy order. There are a couple of variations, but they all depend on margin buy orders failing and/or upon the victim not knowing the true value of the item they're trading.