Have you ever been scammed on steam, /v/?I have ;_;
>>345453928
no im not a fucking idiot
How do you even get scammed on steam anyways ?
>>345453928
No, because I'm not a idiot.
no because I don't participate in something as stupid as skin and hat trading
oh those ruskies tried already
almost any scam you google was tested on me
i got burned 2 maybe 3 times but those scams were professional as fuck and practiclly undetectable
i learned form the experience and can spot a scam a mile away
>>345454058
>professional as fuck and practiclly undetectable
I'm curious
>>345453928
No because I am not a gigantic idiot
>>345453928
No but I got an email from Steam a few days ago saying someone from Hong Kong was trying to log into my account. Apparently they had my password somehow, but Steam Guard prevented it.
>>345454058
>I was an idiot but now Im not
thats not how it works
![Mighty_No._9_cover_art[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/6ShxrCd.jpg "Mighty_No._9_cover_art[1].jpg")
Yep.
>>345454098
giving this sort of info on a mongolian throat singing website is dangerous
id rather stay out of it
Scams general?
The "tax department" keeps calling me on the telephone and telling me that I'm under arrest for tax evasion unless I buy $1000 in iTunes gift cards to pay them off.
>>345454245
i learned form my mistakes
>thats not how it works
what is school?
Nope. I made a ton of money scamming people in FF11 in a way that I couldn't really get in trouble though.
>>345454280
You can't even give the basic method of how they worked? Like being through a website login, cleverly named URL, or such?
>>345454334
>tax department
>give us iTunes gift cards thatll work xD
jesus christ...
>>345454462
Because that didn't really happen.
>>345454462
website login is a basic phishing scam
URL, easy to detect with a "traffic program" that detects how many clicks the url has
a legit site has 100000 of em but a phishing site has like 200 or 300 but has the same url with a hidden coma or something in it
basically the scam that was professional lasted for 2 years and i stupidly trusted someone on the internet
>>345454532
believe what you will
dont really care
>>345453928
No. For the simple fact that I have nothing of value.
>>345454906
>tfw i want to feel significant
>tfw nobody wants to scam me because im not and have nothing of value
I scam a lot of people by pretending to be a girl. It's great
>>345454865
>says something happened
>won't elaborate whatsoever
Dude, stop being an idiot. Of course he won't believe you when you can't back up your claims you fucknugget.
>>345455150
scum of the earth right here
When I was younger I was looking for a way to get free paid credits for Combat Arms (I don't even remember what they're called anymore).
Of course young me is pretty retarded so I believe everything I see on the internet, and so I found this one video on Jewtube advertising a program to do it. I download that shit expecting it to work, run it and a message pops up in the lines of "you shouldn't have tried this", followed by the disc drive on my PC starting to go apeshit.
Back then I still lived with my brothers so I freaked the fuck out cause it wouldn't stop and didn't want them to see I fucked up the computer. Long story short the task killed itself after a while and it stopped.
The one thing I got from that was being paranoid about any exe off the internet I guess.
>>345455253
all i have of evidence is my word
believe what you will
i wont elaborate because i dont want it used on others
sorry
>>345455150
how do you get away with it? i'd like to try
>phone ring
>hello ?
>*heavy indian accent* yes heeeellllooo my friend this is Microsoft tech support USA we have detected that your version is not...
>start laughing heavily
>he hangs up
I remember when the RMAH was a thing in D3 I got a perfect rolled Mempo, was so fucking happy that I couldn't help but brag in chat. This shit was easily worth $150+
Not even the next day, I had about 20 emails in my inbox all from "Blizzard Support" trying to phish my shit with fake sites, and even a couple of emails that was really from the actual Blizzard telling me there was 3 attempts to access my account that authenticator blocked. Predicatably, all 3 were chinamen
Didnt fall for that shit and didnt get my account jacked, but holy shit those fucks worked fast. Ended up selling the mempo without incident for almost $200, might have sold higher but I cant remember atm.
>>345454782
>A coma
>In an URL
>>345455720
It was a bad example ok?
No but I've watched my friend be scammed right in front of my eyes.
He was selling his knife to some dude and he needed me to be the middleman according to the dood and he was allowed to have a friend be the middle man, I thought it was weird as fuck but I said I'd do it anyway, then since he wasn't fucking communicating with me properly, someone cloned my profile and took the knife from him without him noticing.
Like he didn't audibly indicate anything about the trade he was going through at all, if he'd had I could have been like "dude I'm not trading with you" but instead I'm just sitting there waiting for him and turns out he was being scammed.
Feel free to call me retarded too for not bothering to point out how fishy it was in the first place but it wasn't my knife so it wasn't my place to be careful so I didn't give it any thought really.
I come across scams at work a lot. Only ever fell to one of them and even then, it was after my managers were doing the same thing.
But that's not vidya related.
>>345453928
Yeah one time I bought a Steam game and it sucked. This was before the Steam Refunds went into effect so I couldn't get my money back either.
>>345455791
a nametag and this wouldnt happen
why i have all my friends tagged with some sort of clever nickname
I got scammed on habbo hotel once like 10 years ago
Lost my fucking typewriter
>>345455916
fucking kek anon
>Shady website
ATTENTION FROM MICROSOFT YOUR COMPUTER JUST GOT 13 VIRUSES PLEASE CALL THIS NUMBER WITH YOUR CREDIT CARD
Does anyone fall for that shit? Im curious cause ive been seeing more of em
>>345455395
Oh, so instead of being a good samaritan and informing others on how to avoid an apparently really good scam, you'd rather keep it for yourself because someone might try to use it.
You're a fucking idiot.
>>345455395
Your dad works in Nintendo too?
>>345455579
All I really do is type with a lot of emoticons and talk about anime and video games. Then I hint at what games I want and the thirsty betas will "surprise" me by buying it. The secret is to never ask someone to get you something, make them buy things through subtle ways
>>345456065
my decision to make fuckface
[spolier]:^)
>>345453928
no, I'm not an idiot
Um I guess that one time where I dropped all my items on the ground in Dungeon Siege and someone grabbed them and vendored them all
No but I am nervous as fuck clicking any links through Steam chat, even from IRL friends.
>>345456291
Sounds more like theft kek
>guy at work gets call from robot saying he's being charged for a federal crime
>calls number
>faggot on other side immediately asks for soch
>>345455603
>not adopting an equally heavy accent and telling him that you have detected that his phone version is outdated
>>345455395
You should at least tell people how to be on the look out. You don't have to say how they did it, just how you fell for it.
Like to look for the website identity and registration instead of funky looking urls
>Have you ever been scammed on steam, /v/?
You mean, apart from the installing of Steam itself?
>>345456050
Old people do.
No because I don't play games for shitskins, children, and poorfags and those are the only games you can get scammed in
>ever getting scammed online
They are common as fuck but with basic common sense and a distrust of anybody but family and close friends its impossible to get scammed.
can someone explain to me how technologically illiterate people who hardly even use the internet anyway manage to fuck up their browsers with every toolbar/spyware known to man
my mother keeps doing this stupid shit and she hardly uses the internet or knows how to do anything on the computer, it's baffling
>but I didn't DO anything
fucking
>>345453928
Was scammed like 15 years ago in runescape.
>>345457628
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
FUCKING LOSER
>>345457584
>popup on a website
>oh my computer says my ram isn't up to par! better download more
>got that kunka knife in the first dota 2 pokeball things
>sold it for 200$~
>guy charged back just before the deadline expired
RIP
>>345453928
>Click HERE
never click this
>>345455916
I got scammed on coke music when I was a dumb idiot kid, someone tricked me into being "room mates" and basically took all my stuff and kicked me.
Pretty funny when I think about it now.
Luckily it wasn't until after that, that I got anything worth a damn, just a bunch of shit generic furni
>>345457628
>>345457708That was for playing Runescape, not getting scammed.
When I was like 11 some I gave my password to some dude and he hacked my account
I hope he enjoyed my iron armor
>>345457628
I think at some point all of use have been tricked by the "Hey there's something cool in wilderness" meme
>All the scamming in Ultima Online
>convincing people to trade high value shit with a friend that had max stealing/hiding/stealth and having him jack it
>trading fake items that look very similar hoping they won't notice
>convincing newbies to leave town to help you kill a paragon or some shit and once its dead killing them
>Hiding in vendor houses and popping someone the minute they make a purchase
So many good scams. Lost in time. Like tears in the rain.
I remember having all those russian scam bots add me on steam and trying to get me to click their links, in a weird way I kind of miss it.
It seems like no one wants my unusual Executioner anymore.
>>345458503
He told me he'd give me free stuff so I gave him my password.
I lost my rune pickaxe.
>>345455603
>tfw my dad actually fell for this fucking shit once after "getting a virus" on his smartphone
>tfw he actually gave them his credit card information and we had to get the company to cancel the card
>>345455603
Holy shit I get these all the time, mostly about how there is a virus on my pc.
I play along for a bit, then lie and tell them I don't own a pc and finally start making poo in loo jokes.
Another good one is to tell them you fucked their wife, indian guys get really mad when you say that.
Steam saved me once by telling me a trade could not go through due to something wrong. The scammer had switched a skin out for the same skin but lower wear ($100 in difference) The idiot still tried to get me to trade him after I pointed out the error and I told him to fuck off. ALWAYS double, triple, quadruple check high value trades every second of the transaction and if Steam even says anything other than "trade accepted" then its a scam.
>>345453928
When I was 9, I clicked on a battle.net message in Starcraft saying it was a free copy of Diablo 2. It wasn't.
>>345458736
I had a giggle at these.
"hey mt friend would like trade you here www.steamcommulnity.com/3274764"
I let in a guy in my corp which in turn warped in a covert ops fleet and blew out 3 carriers.
>>345453928
>play TF
>Trade €0,02 weapens for unusual hats
>Make €500 in 2 months
Wasn't making much money but it sure was fun
>>345459389
i've never understood how people in EVE deal with it
>>345459383
I like how they didn't even attempt to make them talk like real people in the slightest, I honestly feel nothing but laughter whenever I hear about people actually falling for such obvious shit.
I did shark a lot when TF2 was more popular.
Thanks for financing my TV losers.
>>345459483
eh, just shilled out the money to the owners of the carriers and then went hunting that nigga
Fuck I use to play some pokemon MMO, it was some weird browser shit but kinda fun.
You could wander around the world but the page reloaded with each step, you used arrow keys to move but you could meet wild pokemon and npc trainers.
The online aspect was trading and I think perhaps battling.
Of course being an MMO it was a huge grind, you needed spend ages to get legendary pokemon or to level up.
So I logged onto some random forum related to the game and posted a fake ad.
Basically I said I could get you any pokemon and level any pokemon up to 100 instantly but you need to already have a level 100 pokemon.
All I needed was your account name and password, send it to this email.
The dumb fucks fell for it, I would get 10 or 20 emails a day, I even posted the same ad on the same forums multiple times and people would send their details even though they had tons of comments.
So when I got their account info, I would log in and trade all their good pokemon for level 1 craps I just caught earlier.
I had a ton of great level 100s and every legendary pokemon, I did not even need anymore but scamming people was just the fun off it.
12 year old me use to laugh at all the angry emails, some guy begged for his level 100 charizard back but I said no.
Then the game got taken down by nintendo, I think it was just around the time diamond/pearl were coming out but the game only had pokemon as far as ruby/saphire.
Fun times.
My grandparents almost got scammed. They thought I was kidnapped and held hostage in mexico and needed to send $1000 or something. My grandma got as far as the waiting line in the bank, but then my grandpa called me and the scam was avoided.
My friend also once lent his moms credit card number to swedes on WoW to get some sick 1 AMERICAN PENNY WORTH alienware computer or something that ONLY swedes get or some shit.
>>345460227
That's a really common one. My grandmothers been called and told by someone claiming to be me that I was in jail and needed money wired to some random account to make bail.
Naturally she called me from her cell phone while talking to him and we had a good laugh. It's pretty despicable though. When you hit the right target they're too old and out of it and will just do things without thinking.
Who else clicks through popups on torrent/porn sites and enters fake info just to see what they try to sell you/where you end up?
>>345459220
>poo in loo
>fucked your wife
I need to try these, I always just get duct cleaning companies calling and then either tell them I'm homeless or that I have a 40-bedroom house or some shit
>>345454782
Or you could not be a retard and look at the huge ass VALVE CORPORATION symbol in the top right of your browser.
>>345454468
They are not aiming for smart people anon. Retards that do shit like that dont go to the feds or cant track an e-mail adress.
>>345458931
>tfw my dad once "won a free iphone", guess who had to fix the fucking computer after that.
>>345453994
>>345454007
What they said.
>>345457584
My mom once looked for a song and downloaded a file called ErosRamazotti.exe.
>Anon, this music file wont play, the computer just shows this stupid message about downloaded applications
No, way too many retards get scammed somehow. It's so obvious.
Seriously, they're the reason Steam has all these mandatory security measures and bullshit trade cooldowns.
It's basically when a few spergs do stupid shit in class and the teacher makes the whole class suffer.
>>345460636
my grandma was called once. they claimed to be a grandkid and they needed money. she told them they would never get any money from her but if they would ever like to have a lunch they should come over.
>>345454334
>Hello I am from Windows Technical Support, your computer is out of date
Thanks Raj
>>345463908
Most Steam accounts are worth 100s of dollars, of course theres a lot of security measures.
>>345454334
>"We are calling you about your computer, as we detect a virus"
>tell them i dont own a computer and haven't for over 3 years
>listen to them mumble and fall over their own words for 10 minutes
thanks for the laughs, Pajeet
>>345454334
>>345454468
How do they scammers benefit from that though? Unless it's Apple running the scam they won't be making any money from the victim buying iTunes gift cards
>>345458748
I've been there anon
I lost an account in Everquest to a guy that had a nearly official email and told me I had been selected to test new content. I had my doubts but a friend made a post on the guild website about something similar and saying 'Oh and look at this cool new stuff I got too' so I thought it was legit.
rip GM event item. Fuck my 13 year old self
I am a scammer AMA
>>345454334
>Indian support calls
>let them on my VM
pic related
>>345464831
They do that because its basically free money laundering. They can sell the gift cards online with no way to track who actually bought those cards. That way they dont have to use any actual information for receiving payment so theres no accounts to track them.
>>345453928
No because I am not a fucking retard
>>345465330
This
>not running noscript at all times
>>345453928
Through a glitch, I was scammed. The trade was just about go well, both parties had our trade boxes ready, right at the last second, the guy removed his fucking hat and took all of my 60 keys.
Never played TF2 again.
>HELLO FRIEND I AM GABEN FROM STEAM SUPPORT I NEED YOUR PASSWORD
Are there any scams more advanced than that one? Because I can't see how anyone would fall for it.
>>345459220
You get them all the time because they wrote your number down and passed it around as a highly gullible person because you decided to fuck with them. Why would you fuck with dirty indians that have nothing else to do with their day but harass people they know are easy targets?
>Play d2
>"Hey bro, want me to dupe something?"
>Sure
>Gimme an item
>Give him some random shitty unique amulet I got from a high level dood
>He grabs it and says "I need to leave the game to make the dupe work."
>It just hit me what just happened
I was not a smart boy.
>>345453928
Thank GOD they got to me in time, not keeping up with software updates leaves you vulnerable to hackers you know.
>>345465129
Explain. EXPLAIN.
>>345464831
Money laundering
They take the cards and sell them for bellow their value on other markets.
They don't get the full $1000, more around $750-800. The money is "clean" however, and can spend it elsewhere.
>>345465129
>MArine Sharpshooter
My nigga. That game was the shit despite being indie shovelware rubbish.
>>345465573
I got one once. Told them to call tomorrow. They did. Told them I don't have a PC. They never called back.
>>345465610
W why ice cream is on normal shelfs?
>>345465129
Please explain this.
>>345465843
It isn't. Can't you see the reflection of the fluorescent lights?
>get my little brothers DS
>take all his eggs
>put public message as "DiancieEgg4shiny"
>net him a bunch of shiny stuff
>>345465853
>>345465659
There's nothing to explain. He made a virtual machine with WinXP( I think, maybe WinME?) and added a bunch of garbage to it like bonzai buddy, then let the pooinloo connect to his VM, which likely caused a lot of confusion. Also the BG looks like indian swear words.
Lost some diamonds to some dude on SMTI claiming he needed some cash, despite being really high level.
Beyond that, I can't remember anything else, beyond just losing vast amount of time on games I wasn't even that fond of [travians, cookie clicker, the like]
>>345453928
Nope, just RuneScape.
>>345453928
I never really trade in any games. I'm too afraid of getting scammed
>>345454334
The reason they make them so ridiculous is so that stupid people who might catch on half way through don't waste their time, and they only get genuine retards who will fall for it and not think twice
Will admit some of the shit scammers have thought of is clever as fuck.
Probably the closest one was when someone adds your friend on Steam, says they're interested in trading. Then tell them to give the item to someone they trust to "make sure it's tradeable and legit, etc", a middleman in a way.
While all this is happening there's a 4th person behind the scenes quickly swapping their avatar to your friends, then they sit in a group chat with the "trader" while the trader tells you to give the item back.
Your "friend" invites you to trade through group to avoid adding, then you give back the item and they delete and run.
It's so easily flawed now. It use to be pretty common too apparently. Then they go full retard after they're busted and try to snag your avatar to trick your friend.
>>345465843
it's shelf stable
>get a message on my phone
>says I'm being sued by the Canadian government
>i need to call this lawyer's number that they have provided in the message
>message tells me good luck if I don't call the number
People actually fall for these somehow
>>345466167
That's what I wanted to know, about the background. I knew what the VM was and all that jazz.
>Get phonecall from some number
>they hang up before you have chance to answer
>ring them back
>premium rate phoneline
Thank god my provider was bro enough to tell me that the number I was about to phone would cost a fair few shekels.
>>345466780
plus waiting for lulzy story(ies)
at least one.
don't leave us hanging
>>345453928
No. I've never traded and I don't really talk to people I don't know. People used to add me to beg for my Bill's Hat back when tf2 was big but I mostly ignored them.
>>345466902
>ring them back
You're an idiot.
>>345464319
kek
>>345467134
This was back when I was looking for work. I hadn't heard my phone ringing and thought they might be offering me a job. The nwhen I phoned the number I got redirected to my provider instantyl and they said "This is going to cost a fuckton. YOU SURE YOU WANNA DO THIS?"
I did not.
>>345465129
Are you downloading boobs again joel
>>345453928
>spent 20-30k on a noted mithril scimitar in runescape
>got suckered into buying WoD + 3 months of
it.
>pre ordered an original 3ds on launch just to play pokemon for years
Could be worse honestly, I have a friend who spent somewhere between 300-600$ on league of legends
>>345466464
That's clever. Good thing I neurotically nickname all my friends because it's hard to keep track of 100 people I barely know when at least one changes their name every week.
>>345465573
Had something similar happen to my email.
I was waiting for a delivery that got delayed for a week. Get a random email saying "reply to me about your package"
Figured they might have fucked the delivery so I did. He replies with the old scam "pay 600 dollar in prepaid cards to the guvermint" so I ignored it.
But now I'm on their "this guy is a retard" list and game flooded with this shit every day. Spam filter gets most of them, but one gets through every day or two.
>>345465129
>Copy (56) of 9CAG0KON...
hahaha
>>345465573
lulz mostly, I've actually stopped getting calls from these assholes and I'm very disappointed.
>>345467412
I do not understand how people spend so fucking much on league.
>>345467563
riot is good at selling shiney pixels.
>>345467412
>>345467563Several years ago I bought all the champions in LoL before it got popular, I regret it
>>345467652
how much we talking here
>>345467785
Fuck knows. $300 maybe? I can't remember...
>>345453928
no anon im sorry
>>345467830
Sounds like you made a bad choice at a better time than suckers now
Thirteen years ago, I played Tibia. I fell for the "hey, drink this cool potion!" trick and was poisoned and looted.
Amazing thinking back that I didn't even check the item description.
>>345453994
/thread
>>345454202
你他妈的柴草,我会得到您的帐户
>>345464696
>Get one of these calls once
>Call him a scamming cunt and tell him to go fuck himself
>Hang up
>He immideately calls back and starts swearing at me in his shit stain of a language
>Laugh until he gives up and hangs up
>>345467416
Yeah, it almost always fails because the scammer needs to private their profile to avoid suspicion, ironically. So you can easily just hover over the avatar to see if it's private with level 0
Not to mention the mandatory trade hold for non-mobile users will fuck them over too.
![giphy[1].gif](https://i.imgur.com/XWw00tt.gif "giphy[1].gif")
Never fallen for a scam, but one guy in Runescape was convinced that he scammed me.
>Hey man, can I borrow that axe for just a little bit?
Here, you can have this bronze axe.
>HAHAHA, I SCAMMED YOU FUCKING NOOB! THANKS FOR THE AXE, FAGGET
>>345467934
I've done way worse anon. So I just put it down to idiotic choices of a man with too much money.
>>345457905
Should have traded for keys and then exchanged those keys into money retard.
>>345468170
>Simplified
>Insulting yet using ning (formal "you" used to convey reverence)
>柴草
3/10
See me after class
>>345468328
I fell for the armor trimming scam.
Never got scammed. Got accounts hacked once, but that is other thing.
I however have scammed in shitty MMOs.
>Place cool named vendor trash in AH for huge prices
>Start spamming how i need it in all chat and gonna pay a fortune
>People buy it and try to sell me.
>>345465129
Holy fuck, is this real?
>>345454334
once in a while microsoft calls me because I have a virus. I need to enter something in cmd which gives an error (they use this as proof) and then tell me to do a bunch of shit. I just tell them im on it while doing something else. Then they find out Im just fucking around. One guy cursed at me for wasting his time.they havent called lately. Which is sad since I had this idea of pretending to be secret service
>>345465538
It is me your brother
>>345453994
First post best post
>>345468409
I just use google text translator xD
>>345453928
Yes, I bought Fallout 4
>>345453928
I've never fallen for any kind of scam in my life.
Like, how do you even manage to get scammed? Do you trust random strangers or something?
My little brother got scammed once because he's a gullible fuck.
You need to wake the fuck up, getting scammed is for dumbfucks.
>>345453928
How the fuck does someone get scammed on steam? I'm legitimately dumbfounded how stupid people are to fall for the scams I've seen on Steam.
>hey senpai please trade, but I can't add you please add me
>hey check out my cool screenshot!
>omg youre giving me all these items for my single valuable item! Whoa I better not double check when the trade is locked
>downloading shit from unknown sites such as that mumble/ts
The list goes on, they're all insanely easy to spot.My favorite one was someone that gives you a CD key they physically own and know your account username
>>345459978
That shit sounds like Pokemon Crater lol
>>345459978
>>345468889
Yeah sounds like Pokemon Crater. That was some good shit.
>runescape in like '06
>Only think of value was a rune full helm
>Everything else was a random assortment of noob shit
>Guy says he is hosting a quiz game in one of the varrok houses
>Me and his friend are playing
>We have to trade our bets to the host and he will hand out the prize
>Wager my rune full helm for his 80k
>"What is my favorite brand of truck"
I was retarded as fuck when I started RS
>>345453928
Nope.
>>345468827
>My favorite one was someone that gives you a CD key they physically own and know your account username
?
>steam link filter
>steam guard
>mobile authentication
>two step verification
Pretty soon this shit is going to be forced because there is way too many idiots in the world
>>345453928
Never. Because I don't parlay my money on useless skins for a shit game.
>>345469175
You can recover an acct with a cd key you own and the accts username. I've done it a couple of times
>>345465129
>MSN
I didn't know you could even download that
>>345469175
I assume they make you activate the CD key, and then they contact Steam support with proof that they own the physical copy, and that the account linked to that CD key belongs to them.
>get a call
>thick indian accent
>talking about my computer having a virus
>obvious scam, but play along for the hell of it
>get to the point where he's asking me for my credit card info
>"hang on let me grab it"
>load up the take the poo to the loo video
>"okay i got it, you ready?"
>hold the phone next to my speakers blaring the song instead of reading out the numbers
>he hangs up
>>345453928
They've tried but it's pretty easy to avoid if you're not stupid
>brother one day gets his RS accoutn drained of all loot
>No idea how it happened
>spent a week trawling forums looking for obscure scams
>Eventually figures out how the scammers did it
It was me Adam. I just looked over your shoulder when you typred in your password one day, and knowing a little bit about you it was easy to guess.
If it's any consolation. I did just give your money to noobs in Lumbridge, so you were a folk hero for a day.
I got scammed once in an MMO, never on Steam though.
>>345468827
As a long time scammer I had best success in being aggressively nice. Most kids are naive. They never see it coming.
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>>345469348
>>345469394
And how do you get their email and pw?
>>345453928
>young teen
>playing ragnarok online, basically all day after school
>iro 1x
>IRL friend is paying for my account
>grind up to full +8/9, full set of shields and armors, ghostring card, multiple MVP cards
>camping MVPs all day, have a giant sheet of respawn timers handwritten, abusing the market while I sleep
>IRL friend stops playing
>need a way to pay the acct
>dad, "I dont want to pay money for imaginary swords"
>msg one of my online friends, we grind and boss together very often. I am priest and he is DPS
>tell him the situation - that I won't be able to play anymore after my account runs out
>he offers to pay for it
>hesitantly ok and thank you
>immediately logs onto my account, changes the password and starts cleaning out my bank
>my entire inventory is being robbed and I'm panic clicking the support website but that takes time to process
Worst day of my gaming life. Lost YEARS worth of gearing progress. Lost faith in all online friends, stopped playing the game
I felt for the gold trimming scam in Runescape when i was young, just lost Adamanite armor set. I never felt again in a scam. You learn life the hard way i guess.
>>345465129
Joel?
>>345466167
>scam english speak people
>write shit in poo in loo hieroglyphics
Makes no fucking sense, I once saw someone using a russian scam exe on a VM and it was all in vodka talk, I mean if you're going to scam at least go the whole nine yards.
>selling my xboner on craigslist
>constant texts wanting to send me 150 over price via paypal and then have me ship it to niger
They all start out with the same badly typed text "hey is the <exact craigslist title with typos> still for sale for <exact price> I hope it's for real and not a scam ha ha"
I just tell them I fucked their mother/wife/etc.
>>345465129
>folder named don't click
Is this MadThad's computer?
some russian got into my account, looked around, saw nothing and left.
>>345470946
can you explain the scam for me please?
>>345453928
No but I got valve to give me a free unusual in TF2 a few years ago because I claimed I got scammed
How about companies that are just basically one big scam?
No.
I used to 'scam' kids out of their unusuals on TF2. Got +1000€ easily.
>>345469618
I'm sure they changed their policy on recovering accounts, but this was around 2010
>hey yo I forgot my login details I can provide a cd key + date used and account name
>provide picture of said cd key
I don't ever remembering needing my email for it to reset, but if I did I do know it was a dead isp email at the time.
>>345470946
I was selling my PS4 and somebody in another state (claimed to be a Marine) wanted to give me money now and send it later on Paypal, I told him I wasn't falling for it and he had me contact his sister.
We met and she payed me fully in cash.
I also got multiple offers for a Hori controller I had with it.
>>345468195
That's happened to my dad twice now, the first time he said it was one of the funniest moments of his life, the second time he was just kinda miffed.
>>345466713
At least they wished you good luck? Did your luck stat improve since then.
>>345472595
I vaguely remember the cd key part but I don't remember the not needing any other info.
>>345466713
>win a cruise
>only need to provide them a credit card number
>ask where I won
>do you want the cruise or not?
>but where did I enter?
>GOOD BYE SIR
I'll never go on that cruise.
>>345471429
I remember getting super pissed that one of the gear pieces dropped and someone ninjad it in Perfect World so I asked one of their GM's to help me get it back cause the guy who got it didn't even have a class that could use the gear piece. They politely refused and I went ape shit crazy on the forums cursing them saying that they were worse than Hitler. That they were basically allowing a murder to happen. That not doing anything was worse than the theft itself. I got banned very promptly. It sure was one heck of a fun ride, though.
>inb4 steam "LINK REMOVED" update
>friend gets friend request and adds him
>gets a msg saying "hey i want that hat in your inventory, trade me here (some shady ass URL)
>friend being a retard clicks on it
>command line pops up for a split second than disappears
>gets logged out of steam and says someone is using it
>guy logged in steals all his tf2 items worth hundreds of dollars
>friend doesn't get the account back for 1 month while the guy uses it cause of shitty steam support
>doesnt get items back
KEK
>>345473734
Therusecruise
>>345474450
Well how do we know it was all a ruse Anon?
>>345469424
I did this too.
Except it was Sanic Hegeheg.
>Mfw I can hear muffled "SEER ARE U THERE???" under Green Hill Zone blaring at maximum volume
I scammed a bunch of suckers on /v/ back when Nintendo sent out Smash codes for the Demo
this ones sort of related to steam and it's the same guy here >>345474385
>recommend friend a cd key site
>friend goes on steam key site to buy Saints Row 3
>buys the key, waits a few hours and gets a email
>"First you must let me login to your account, and the game is yours ;)" along with it translated to Russian
>Insta-nopes
>Can't get his money back, so pissed that he sends an FBI complaint
>Doesn't hear back from the FBI and doesn't get money back
>gets pissed at me so i had to buy him borderlands DLC to basically say sorry
>never played it
>Former friends get Steam worm that hijacks their Skype clients and spread it cross-client as an image link
>They all got hijacked
I'm surprised people fell for that one
Apparently a group of steam friends I used to play with all clicked some suspicious as fuck link because they were all sending me this link followed by a message saying "WAIT DON'T CLICK THAT"
>>345475204
i remember a hack that went around on steam that made everyones image a penquin with a top hat
hey its me ur brother
Couple times on MMOs.
Scammed in a trade with a similar looking item.
They trade you with the real item, then "accidentally" cancel the trade, but when you trade again with the guy the item is something that looks similar, but not what you wanted at all. And since you're probably getting a good deal you're rushing in your greed to finish it quick.
Joined a party "to test a skill damage" only to have the dude kill me. Nothing really uncommon, but you probably should only do this with your friends. Dude used the skill on me twice and killed me. Chased after him, but couldn't get him.
Oh there was also a time when my real friends tricked me with some texts from an unknown number and pretended to be someone I know from an MMO and I said some embarrassing things.
Probably some more I can't remember. I was 12-14 when most of this happened.
>>345460227
My grandfather has an old violin from the early 1800's that he used to play on. A few people came to his apartment asking to "look" at it. He always let them in because he's old and dosen't know any better. Thankfully my family found a good place to keep the violin preserved.
Why is it always Indians and Chinese trying to scam and hurt.
>>345475684
They are not human.
>>345453928
Yes.
>>345475684
Because there is zero repercussions if they get caught.
Also, they are the scum of the earth.
>>345475684
it's in their blood
>tfw nobody will ever message you on steam saying "hey its me your brother!"
>>345467412tfw you can check how much you spent on league and it's 1.4k$
>>345475684
India and China are just the countries where labor is so fucking cheap you can hire people to cold call hundreds of thousands of numbers and if only one falls for it you've still made a profit.
Doing that in any developed western nation is going to cost you a fortune, your scam would have to be insanely successful to make any money from it.
>>345453928
No but I used to scam people on this
>>345454334
Last time i was ever tried to be scammed was when someone tried to sell me a Yakult subscription and wanted me to sign a shady contract.
The second i saw it was more than 2 pages for someone to deliver yogurt to my house i noticed it was something shady and read it and noticed it was going to be expensive as fuck, literally $550 per month for something worth $50 for 2 years.
Good thing i live in mexico, here we barely have scammers because if someone scans someone the scammer knows he will get killed eventually.
>>345475410
My favorite was that TF2 remote code exploit that spread simply by joining a server with an infected player, and all it did was shit up your Steam profile and make you join some group proclaiming you've been hacked
>>345477561
>Yakult subscription
That's a thing?
>>345478234
Yes, for whatever reason it is really popular here in mexico.
got scammed multiple times playing diablo 2.
Once from the classic shako swap, where they replaced it with a shit helm and an emerald in it during the trade.
The other time I was trying to trade hellfire torches and the guy used a drophack/speedhack to keep it on his cursor the moment it hit the ground. The real bitch of it is they tried to sell it back to me immediately after. I cried.
>>345471186
It varies, but the gist is that the payment is bogus and by the time you notice it, the item has shipped off to Bumfuckistan already.
Which reminds me, the P-P-P-Powerbook counter-scam is fucking gold and everyone should read it if they haven't already
>tl;dr idiot uses a bogus escrow service to scam himself a laptop, ends up having to pay $600 in customs fees for a three ring binder instead
>>345454334
The closest I ever got to a scam was a friend spending days trying to get me involved in his network marketing business, i.e. his pyramid scheme. I'm pretty sure he didn't know he was fucking me, he genuinely fell for it himself.
One time my boss came into work bragging about his super awesome best speakers in the world that he got for cheap the other day. When I pressed for details he began to tell me a story about some guys in a van who had some "extra" speakers from a failed delivery they needed to offload etc. etc. It was so hard not to laugh in his face for falling for the very well known white van speaker scam.
>>345474450
kek
>>345456240
>All I really do is type with a lot of emoticons and talk about anime and video games.
I know a girl on facebook and irl who thought I was a girl on the internet feelsbad man all I wanted to do was watch anime and play games with her :(
>>345477561
Yeah, but we get fake abduction phone calls.
I'm sure I've gotten scammed dozens of times in Ultima Online as a kid.
Make friends with someone, take their portal, it's to their house and they murder you 10 seconds later and take your stuff.
I almost got phished by being unobservant.
Someone sent me a "stearncommunity" link and I clicked it, and put my info in.
I didn't actually notice the URL and the fact it was a scam attempt until it was asking me to install some bullshit on my PC, which I figure was a RAT or something.
Glad steamguard exists, at least. It saved my dumb ass.
>>345479473
Never click links on steam.
Common sense 101.
>>345453928
No but some retarded tries scamming me for a hat in tf2 by giving me shit weapons
I remember one time I was looking up Christmas came hentai and one of them has a shota in that I had stumbled on. It popped up saying my IP was sent to the authorities and reported for cheese pizza. Unless I oayed 56$.
Kind of made my heart jump a little bit, but that's about it.
once I tried to login to my LoL account after years and someone else was playing it. I googled the account and it brought up a different account name, but had all my match history from before and the calculated skill adjustment shot down dramatically. I made a new account and started a conversation with her, in poor grammar and spelling she threatened to sue me and said the account was a legitimate purchase.
Riot gave me the account back in minutes and then I never played it again.
>>345453928
>wanna trade with some dude on diablo2
>tells me to come act2 into the bar
>we are supposed to drop our items behind the counter and he on the other side
>it's possible to click through it and he got my shit and left
Holy shit was I a retarded kid
>>345454280
You have to be at least 18 years old to post here, redditor.
>>345477342
Are you that guy that pretended to be my internet gf and then asked me for my password
>play EVE
>fresh out of noob station
>guy messages me asks how I'm liking the game
>wants to give me free ammo but I have to follow him outside system
>didn't fall for it
>uninstall
>>345454270
Severely underrated post
>>345479770
This was back whenever those links were relatively new, so it was one of the first times that happened to me. I caught it a few other times, but this one was so hard to notice at first glance due to "rn" looking so much like an 'm'
>>345455150
>mfw got a pizza by pretending to be a girl once
feelsgood
Sort of a scam but it was just me listening to stupid people
>Get a Dragon Lore during Bloodhound op
>Friend convinces me to trade it for knives because he says that it will lose price and it's worth it to get knives
>He actually just wanted to find someone to trade it to that would end up giving us 2 knives so he could have one, I knew this from the start though
>Tells me to send a trade request to this guy for his 2 black pearls
>Tells me to always put too much in the initial trade offer so they don't just accept the trade if you offer too less
>He says he wouldn't accept the 2 black pearl options though, since they are worth way more than the Dragon lore
>He accepts it within 10 minutes
>Friend telling me we've made at least $500 from it
>Have a bad feeling, ask a previous trader that I was offering the dlore to, and he said that I got mad scammed
>They weren't black pearls, they were both phase 3
>I lost $200 on the trade
>Friend keeps telling me it doesn't matter because I didn't earn the money and that I didn't lose anything.
>>345453928
No because I have no friends on steam;_;
>>345483019
>look up Dragon Lore since I don't know shit about CSGO trading
>Factory New is 1000+
I'm
I'm so sorry
>>345483596
Mine was worth like, $900 AUD or something, I didn't even care about the money, was just so excited to get that lucky and got extremely depressed after losing it, I still don't play CSGO as much as I used to.
>>345483889
I hope you never listened to a thing that friend said ever again, though. I would have been bummed as fuck to lose something that good too.
>that retard at microsoft who thought it would be a good idea to leave the "Hide known file extensions' checked everytime you reinstall windows
This is why so many tech-illiterate people run bonzibuddy.mp4.exe
>>345484128
I still play with him but I never listen to him about trading, I never dabble in trading anymore. When it dropped for me, it was like 2AM, I screamed so fucking loud the neighbors broke into my house to see if I was alright.
>>345484372
>the neighbors broke into my house to see if I was alright
mfw
I tried to get out of trading altogether when it came to Valve games, but starting to play TF2 again suckered me back in to it.
I never spend a fuckload of money on keys or anything like that, just to be safe, I just sit around and trade low-cost cosmetics.
Used to scam people on Diablo 2
I would tell them they can dupe items or bring up a character editor or some shit if they typed /dnd username password.
I'd whisper them right after and hop on their account to drop shit.
No clue how people ever fell for that
>call store
>tell employee you are from corporate HQ and that you need to make sure prepaid cards are being authorized properly on the register
>tell them to scan a gift card
>ask them to type in $500 for the load amount and to tender it as cash, assure them you will void it afterwards
>ask them to read the number off the gift card so you can see if it authorized
>hang up
>>345484825
this seems fake tho
>>345454202
Did you have your VPN on?
>>345453928
I tried to buy csgo once for 3 tf2 keys, but turns out it was a fradulent copy and it got removed.
I got my keys back on steam though
I've been on the internet since 2002 when I was 13 and I have literally never been scammed.
Once in 2005 I almost fell for one of those sites that promised GM powers in WoW if you entered your account name, password and email but I came to my senses.
>>345454202
That's why you don't recycle passwords between accounts you give a shit about. I tend to use the same super simple password between most throwaway bullshit accounts I use, but all the vaguely important ones use unique passwords with no relation
>>345483596
>>345483889
>>345483019
Wait what? that gun is actually worth something? Fuck time to actually start selling some of my steam inventory, I haven't played in ages and thought only knives were worth more than 10 bucks
