>14 year old me >playing runescape around 2009/10 >"friend" messages me >"hey dude, I'm struggling, I want a fire cape but I can't complete the caves, can you help?" >he wants me to do it for him >I'm initially reluctant to do it but he eventually convinces me with payment after I do it. >before he gives me his his pass, he acts sly and logs on another one of his accounts >he adds me , pretends to be someone else and asks me a bunch of questions to see if I'm gonna scam (he thinks I'm retarded) >I play along and earn his trust >eventually get his trust and get his password > i message him "dw bro, you will have that sweet fire cape in like an hour or two" >I double log and trade all of his shit to my account >10mins later he logs on >messages me "why" >I respond with "because life is cruel"
i was retard but i have always felt bad about being mean to people even if they are some person i'll only interact with online for a minute and never see again
Cooper Jenkins
Did some of the small time buying expensive items with message "WTS 4k" scam in Lineage 2.
Logan Myers
Inb4 vscape shills show up
Evan Rodriguez
Someone tried to scam me out of some csgo items. Sent me an obviously bogus steam trade request with 4 of my items in it. I was about to cancel it but then I went and looked through his inventory, where he had the exact same 4 items. So instead of denying the trade request I sent a counter-offer back to him that looked identical to the one he sent me. He thought I had accepted his offer, and eagerly accepted mine instead. A few minutes later he sent me a steam message that just said "nice" and blocked me.
It was only like $7 but I felt pretty great about it.
John Lewis
>In a clan >Have a green phat >Some fucker in the guild has one too >Say we should stake them for the screenshots of the spoils >He agrees >He beats me twice and gives me back my phat back each time >I win the third time, claim his phat and log out for a couple of hours
Jose Rivera
I traded trimmed rune chest armour for nothing once. So yeah I was a retard and got scammed
Jason Brown
Man, that's amazing if that actually happened.
Samuel Evans
Aren't you brainlets capable of telling a story without green meme arrows anymore
Nathaniel Martinez
y-you gave it back eventually right?
Dylan Roberts
No I even remember the poor souls rsn
Young Zhou
Tyler Reed
>private store says WTS... in yellow fuck you if you did this
Xavier Hughes
I became friends with some guy on wow to the point where we would play on each others account. I still have him on facebook I think
Carter Lee
>wow during wrath >give someone a bunch of mats to make me a chopper >give him the mats and he makes it then tries to trade it back >says something like "wtf i can't trade, try /reload ui" >loaded back in and he was gone >reloading ui clears chat history and his name had a couple special characters in it
I opened a ticket and got all my shit back, but it was pretty clever
Charles Bennett
Yep. That's me.
My main trade was level4 PK outside of elf city, killing over and over retards who didn't know the city has two exists.
Bentley Bailey
>14 year old me >2009 Kill yourself
Michael Richardson
Fucking kek.
I remember being part of this clan. I was really good friends with the leader. I asked him if I could borrow a few mill because I really wanted claws. I was genuinely going to give it back too. Couple days later, I start getting messages from clan members saying if I don't give the money back, they would all report me. I took the chance and just left the clan. As expected, nothing happened and I gained a few mill out of it. Lost a cool friend in the process but oh well.
Elijah Lopez
>save a shit ton of money >want to buy Kanaxais Axe from some dude >have around 70 plat + mats + dyes and other shit >clog up the trading screen with mats >dude was to focused on the mats instead of looking at the 70 plat >didn't notice I forgot to put in the 70p >press okay >he accepts >put him on the block list afterwards and run away after i noticed saved 70p I feel like scum
Thomas Lopez
You're either underage or a senile old cunt
Ethan Clark
>I opened a ticket and got all my shit back DId they take it off him or just dupe it for you?
Logan Edwards
5 of us at school played and we all told eachother our password. That same evening I logged on two of their accounts and drop traded their shit to my pure + I drop traded my mains shit to my pure too to not be on the suspect list
They all blamed one guy who we ended up neglecting for a whole year
Joshua Young
>long ass fucking time ago >Endless online >know this gril >she just can't get through hell to complete that one quest >asks me to do it for her, gives me her account details >run the quest for her, leave it there >3 months later she takes a break >log in, steal her baruta, sell it for 25M
Carson Wilson
That's not scam, that's betrayal. Scam is when you fuck up someone you don't know.
Robert Garcia
>why cant we do things like on the reddit website
Christian Carter
Fucking hell user. That is some deceitful shit right there. I applaud you
Easton Stewart
No idea, but I doubt they didn't remove the chopper from him and punish him. They have trade histories and saw who it was, just wouldn't disclose what they were gonna do to him
Joseph Perry
Tell your story in prose or fuck off newfags, green text is for quoting
Christopher Powell
go back to /r/autism
Jacob Bennett
>newfag thinks he's smart because he read the FAQ you have to go back
Andrew Campbell
Not trying to take a side, but calling someone newfag for writing in green text is pretty silly.
Joseph Powell
Green texting is the norm. How new are you?
Tyler Wood
That would make him 22 now. Calm down, grandpa.
Evan Nelson
You forgot the obligatory "Who are you quoting"
Blake Nelson
>tries to play off as an oldfag >gives self away gg wp
Nathaniel Allen
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Ethan Phillips
Hello le friend! :) Are you lost? Le front page of the interwebz is right this way! >>>/reddit/
Henry White
>be me >2003 >diablo 2 LOD, open battle.net >4th grade or some shit, like 9 >you can use single player characters on open battle.net >cool >go to open battle.net >get my fucking ass kicked bc everyone is using hacked charms >hmmmmmmmm.jpg >eventually find out you can alter item attributes with jamela's hero editor >kekekekekeke.weeb >small charm >120% experienced gained each kill, 120% increased movement speed, teleport, add XYZ amount of damage for specific damages, mana shield, instant mana regen, instant health regen, the FUCKING WORKS >looks legit, but its still a shit charm with a fuck load of attributes >make the charm able to turn player model into werebear >unequip every item (so if you had too much in the inventory they would drop) >freeze character >couldnt remove from inventory
best part
>dupe the fuck out of them into my cube, and start handing them out in random PVP games for """extra boost""" >start servers "free hacks" >everyone was getting them, and everyone was getting fucking PISSED
eventually, those who knew how to use a hero editor could easily remove them, but the items lost were gone4good unless they had a copy of them for the hero editor those who didnt know how to use a hero editor, were pretty much fucked
stupid fucking hackers and their stupid fucking charms, kiss my fucking ass
Aaron Hall
I seriously never understood how people fall for video game scams that don't at the very least involve some kind of glitch abuse or otherwise unexpected game malfunction.
Even as a 10 year old I wasn't gullible enough to fall for runescape scams. The very first thought in any trade or interaction was always "how does this benefit the other person, why would they do this?".
Is this a regional thing? Are people in the US not taught from a super young age to never trust or interact with complete strangers?
Justin Lewis
i was scammed twice online
once was in some f2p browser mmo. i had bought all of the best armor in the game (with real money) and was walking around one of the starting zones. some guy came up to me and told me if i gave him my password he would dupe my gold. i was reluctant until two other people entered the zone and started thanking this guy for duping their gold. i gave him my password and he told me to logout for five minutes. i was never able to log in again, lol.
the other time was in roblox, back before you could wear two hats at once you could do something called a double hat glitch to wear two at the same time. this guy i knew told me he would do it for me, so i gave him my password. he did do the double hat glitch for me but he also transferred my group of 800+ people to his account. RIP Devil May Cry Demon Hunters.
Nathan Stewart
Is summer here already?
Andrew Carter
I commend you for getting this many retards to fall for your obvious bait
Jonathan Rodriguez
wtf thats me you fucker give it back
Andrew Gray
I did that with a guy in vanilla. We would play each other's characters in battlegrounds and shit, was fun. Shame he became a shizo drug addict.
Joshua Gonzalez
most of the time it's new players or people that haven't been scammed before, so hey're unfamiliar with the value of items, unfamiliar with the trade UI and still trying to figure things out and therefore more gullible to what people say
Joseph Sanchez
This didn't happen to me but an old high school friend who was DEEP into Runescape
>2nd or 3rd year of High School >He's highest level and played the longest out of all of us >Gets involved in a clan, all of them seem like cool guys >They have forums and he wants to sign up >One of the options was to link his account so people can "add him easily and set up some clan networking" >He falls for it >Next day he logs in, all of his shit is missing and he's in the middle of the Wildy >Day after that he can't log in because his password got changed >He just gets a message on the forums from one of the guys he talked to a lot saying "lol"
You've never seen a kid become more heartbroken and defeated before, he just FINALLY got his first 99 skill. He was upset about that for weeks and discussing Runescape around him was playing with fire.
Jonathan Fisher
Kill yourself
Jordan Fisher
Welcome to your first day here
Owen Cox
how much of a retard do you have to be to give your password away twice?
Xavier Cooper
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Owen Hill
i knew the guy really well in roblox, i interacted with him pretty much every day in my rp group
Brayden Torres
It's all fun and games for you, what you don't realize is if we fail to tell people who genuinely believe in things he wrote to go away, they will stay.
Jace Turner
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Easton Morales
actually thats wrong you fucking retard
Brody Bennett
Not really scamming but some goy added me for trading in tf2 wanting my Strange pistol (value about 1 reclaimed metal). he put up some shite items who pretty much matched the price but i said nah since i rather keep the pistol. Then he just put in a key (value around 25-30 refined)(1 ref = 3 rec) and just accepted. never heard from him again /blog
Alexander Murphy
>2004 or so >always thought scamming was rude and childish >walking through world 1 wearing that red/blue castle wars armor >some idiot walks up to me >"hey can u dye my armor" >conflicted, don't want to tell him that isn't possible >but it's also his own fault for not doing his research >and I needed better armor anyway >take his armor, switch worlds, block him >continue on my way
It's no wonder there were so many scammers in that game when it's more difficult to not do it than to do it And I think it was just mithril anyway
Jason Reyes
I prefer my stories in little easy to read blocks
Blake White
Not scamming, but I used to go to popular drop trading places in runescape and steal peoples shit
Oliver Hughes
>mfw I fell for this I was but a wee bairn new to Runescape.
Nathaniel Perez
Man how fucking old are ya ? because you must be atleast 14 to try to fucking enforce such arbitrarily dumb shit.
Caleb Roberts
>that fag who tries to trade with you then fills the trade window with worthless items before trying to replace the actual item at the last second You little shits made merchanting a pain in the arse.
Carson Rivera
Who is this semen demon
Christopher Campbell
Top kek. How can someone who is in their second or third year of high school be dumb enough to fall for this shit. I'd understand a young kid but 17/18 year old?
Connor Lee
I don't understand the psych of this kind of morons. What's your endgame? Are you the type of dipshits who apply to become janitors?
Liam Watson
>crafting sandstone drake in wow >get all mats traded to my lvl 1 bank char > send to main and delete bank Lol some people were so stupid, only did it once though
Jacob Johnson
2nd/3rd year highschool in Scotland. We would have been around 13 or something.
Carson Walker
Let me write my Runescape story in a 50 page screenplay for you hold on
Fag
Evan Murphy
>Some guy came up to me and told me if i gave him my password he would dupe my gold.
Please tell me you were like 5 years old at the time an high on dental anesthesia or something.
I literally cannot process what would kin of brain activity or more accurately lack of there-of would have to occur for someone to fall something like this. Why would someone dupe your gold for no reason? Why would they nee your password for it?
This is like "Greasy old hobo told me he would give me candy if I came with him to his hobo cave, I did, and I got raped" tier stupid
Sebastian Martin
Oh right. I guess I could see that happening then. Still though at 13 I would expect someone to be a bit smarter. Then again, we are talking about Scotland here
Eli Foster
>we are talking about Scotland here I would try to argue that but you're not wrong.
Cameron Brown
le 9 years old haxxor xdxdxD
Oliver Walker
I started in 2003. Me and my friend scammed all the time. Mostly one time little things because people were retarded.
Here's the best one.
>there's an item on Karumja called a proboscis >before summoning I don't think it was used for anything at all, but it was tradable and rather common >Player A would sit in bank saying "SELLING PROBOSCIS 5M CASH" >Player A would find some rich lookin guy and PM Player B his name >Player B would whisper him and be like "yo, you got a proboscis?" >the target usually goes "wtf? no idk what that is lol" >Player B says "ok, I'm trying to find one, willing to pay 10M gp for it" >target says "ok w/e" lol >Player A casually walks around the bank, making sure to be within range of the target but still as far as possible to avoid suspicion >target notices Player A's spam >realizes the flip he could do >buys the worthless item for 5M gp >we both log
Me and my friend seriously made over 400M gp off that in like 2007 before it finally caught on, so retarded.
Eli Evans
Falling Furni in Habbo
I remember starting out and fucking retards couldn't tell my hobbled little shitshow was a scam since I clearly didn't have anything good beside some HC couches but the little idiots were desperate to win. Started making the big bucks to scam even harder when I got enough capital to start get good trading to make my shit look more legit
Cooper Diaz
>he doesn't like hobo candy What a fag
Jackson Flores
>"buying full rune 200k" >trade window pops up >he offers full rune >I put up 200k >click cancel on purpose >"Sorry man, misclick xD" (normies love smileys) >"NP ^^" >puts full rune back up >put 20k up and click accept >full rune for 20k
did this multiple times, it worked a lot.
Normally I'd start selling it next to them right away too.
Ayden Cox
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Kayden Baker
How does shit like this work. The text on gold would change when it went above 100k. People are retarded.
Alexander Hall
Yeah i used to scam people alot on WoW back in wotlk/tbc.
Part 1 of the scam >Make a character on the ptr >Offer to trade accounts with some random dude >Send him a screncap of my ptr char as proof of my char, take his account and swap passwords.
Part 2 >Start selling ´´spectral triger´´ codes in orgrimmar, where it was still required to go to BB in order to turn in the code (using the stolen acc) >Ask people to pay half the money upfront, send them to bootybay, and meanwhile when they are not on trade keep spamming trade chat >Through multiple accounts launder the gold onto my own account
Get rich as fuck
Chase Johnson
>Normally I'd start selling it next to them right away too. >>buys the worthless item for 5M gp
Alexander Foster
>do this but with a halloween mask >back then the font made the '4' kind of look like a 'k' >almost paid 19k gold for a 19m blue h'ween mask
he accepted the 2nd window but declined 0.01 sec before I hit accept
Connor Harris
t. underage
Aiden Garcia
That's a classic Personally i used the beads from the witch quest.
Christian Jones
>15 year old me playing SWG > AT-RT mount just comes out as a bonus for buying Complete Collector's Edition >tell guy I will trade a BARC Speeder for it >don't have one >rename trash pet worth 15000 credits >it's name now shows as (BARC SPEEDER) >tell him when i'm trading it that it's a glitch and looks like a Kadu >he falls for it and we trade >I walk away with an AT RT(worth 14million credits) >his brother starts sending me whispers that he is crying now and they contacted a CSR about it >a few days later I see the guy i scammed with an AT RT, dunno how he got it
>Another Swg story >guy is selling his BARC Speeder for 10 million credits >I don't have enough money to buy it >we initiate trade >menu lets you input the money you want to trade between the two players >I type in 1000000 to the trade window >he doesn't bother to read the amount of zeroes >I get the BARC Speeder for 9 million less >he tries to contact CSR about it >nothing happens
John Stewart
Absolutely fantastic. Its stuff like this that makes me realize why some people fail and others succeed
John Clark
>When you get nostalgic for a skinnerbox.
RS is shit now. The community is completely different and RS3 is high level trash.
Bentley Rogers
>tfw countering a retard trying to the ol' close window repeatedly and swap and getting their bait offer for next to nothing
Sebastian Moore
How many people play Runescape actively right now? (New)
Asher Gutierrez
ye several times
biggest scam was 1.6b (1600$ or so back in 2010-2009)
so ezzz
Aaron Young
me and my friend went to to a private server once and scammed with Achey logs using the same method
Since pretty much none of these players played on members they never did big chompy bird hunting so they had no idea wtf they were
I wouldn't consider myself a bad person, but I was really cruel in runescape.
>"Free trip from lumbridge to varrock for new players ^^" >get loads of new people following me >walk them straight into the stone henge with the wizards and watch as they melt - >beat someone in PVP >get a tell right away saying "please man give me my stuff back" >"Sure, come to varrock I'll give it back :)" >wait for him to find me and then sell it to the NPC right next to me >"check the NPC" - >make a fake formspring account to jack passwords >call it something stupid like "Runescape level grinder" >multiple people fall for it somehow >get a max level cook and add it to my character database
People are fucking stupid.
Oh also, I always used to offer armor trimming for 25k, people knew it was a scam if it was free, but actually thought it was legit if you charged.
Psychology yo.
John Gray
New-tism
Jordan Richardson
I don't know numbers but I'll warn you that when 07fags start to dickwave, their numbers are inflated by bots
Jonathan Williams
>Scamming on a private server L M A O
William Price
>forsooth, I wasth upon mine computing cube >upon the 4th channel in their digital entertainment podium >zounds! a homosexual doth take the center stage, proclaiming away the verdant-arrowed text of our forefathers >alas, t'was but the queen's jester taking the guise of an unaddled man
That enough prose for you, limp-wrist?
Jaxson Howard
>11 years old >me and my two pals in sixth grade are broke af in runescape and figure out we can scam people in rs >don't even bother with any clever shit like trimming armor at first >spam in chat that we need 1 mill and will pay back 2 mill in 15 minutes >rarely if ever does anyone question this >fucking set up shop in my friends living room on our shitty laptops scamming people all night on Friday/sat nights >literally made 100s of million of gold doing this through elementary and junior high >[a decade later and I last spoke to one of them 2 years ago when we had dinner after not talking for 5-6 years, and the other one did too much acid or something in high school and now lives in an extended stay motel on the side of a highway smoking weed and living off what little money his dad sends to keep him alive[/spoilers]
good times but I didn't want to remember all of that
Carter Turner
>user doesn't know [current year] have you been in a coma?
Asher Sanchez
fucked the spoiler, fuck it though
Jonathan Thompson
>set up shop in my friends living room on our shitty laptops Man, I miss the days a group of us would just gather round on weekends and play RS all night.
Nathan Scott
>>[a decade later and I last spoke to one of them 2 years ago when we had dinner after not talking for 5-6 years, and the other one did too much acid or something in high school and now lives in an extended stay motel on the side of a highway smoking weed and living off what little money his dad sends to keep him alive[/spoilers] Hahahahaha man thats an emberassing fuck up
Landon Hall
Explain please. Why did they buy them for so much?