It Never Gets Old - Scam Experience

[xDumz]

In my entire journey in PKO, I have never scam nor been scammed because of being meticulous. However, due to stress IRL, lack of foresight, and poor observance of diligence, I got scammed. I know such an act is not punishable since it is due to the negligence of the player himself if he/she gets. Here's how it goes.

As I just had a good gloves, I wanted to make it 110%. So, I spammed world with "B>STR xtals." for almost a day. Then, some random guy named "BillyBones" PMed me and said that he was selling. He probably took the chance of me being desperate as he probably saw my chats or he is just a plain scammer taking advantage of any player-hence, a PRO. Now, after the trade I notice that the xtals stacked which supposedly should not be. To my dismay, it was a "Mysterious Amethyst Fragment". I tried PMing the guy but since he was already offline, I roamed the continents for the same item. It was my premonition that the guy will do the same via stall or chat or any other method. Lo and behold, I found a stall at Argent Teleporter Titled "250k STR crystal ..." by a character named "xAurora"; and when I checked it is the same item used to scam me using the same style of dividing the items so as not to stacked.

I was buying Strengthening Crystal but I got Mysterious Amethyst Fragment .

In short, I am mad and dumb. And I wanted to share to show how stupid I was and to get more knowledge about those characters I've mentioned since I have found my primary suspect.

 

[pooliver]

I've also noticed some of those stalls...other than that crystal stall, i've seen:
Stalling Strange Mask and pretending to be Reality Mask
Stalling Shadow Gem and pretending to be Heart of Black Dragon
stalling Pumpkin Head and pretending to be Pumpkin Mask
stalling Demon Wings and pretending to be Ebony Dragon Wings
those are really disgusting...and players may mistaken them easily

 

[Leptis]

In my entire journey in PKO, I have never scam nor been scammed because of being meticulous. However, due to stress IRL, lack of foresight, and poor observance of diligence, I got scammed. Here's how it goes.

As I just had a good gloves, I wanted to make it 110%. So, I spammed world with "B>STR xtals." for almost a day. Then, some random guy named "BillyBones" PMed me and said that he was selling. He probably took the chance of me being desperate as he probably saw my chats or he is just a plain scammer taking advantage of any player-hence, a PRO. Now, after the trade I notice that the xtals stacked which supposedly should not be. To my dismay, it was a "Mysterious Amethyst Fragment". I tried PMing the guy but since he was already offline, I roamed the continents for the same item. It was my premonition that the guy will do the same via stall or chat or any other method. Lo and behold, I found a stall at Argent Teleporter Titled "250k STR crystal ..." by a character named "xAurora"; and when I checked it is the same item used to scam me using the same style of dividing the items so as not to stacked.


In short, I am mad and dumb. And I wanted to share to show how stupid I was and to get more knowledge about those characters I've mentioned since I have found my primary suspect.

Yes, unfortunately a lot of people take their chances to scam other people. In my opinion this behaviour should be punished as it doesn't contribute in any positive way to the game experience of any player (but the scammer, of course).

Sorry to hear you got ripped off

 

[Leba]

I've also noticed some of those stalls...other than that crystal stall, i've seen:
Stalling Strange Mask and pretending to be Reality Mask
Stalling Shadow Gem and pretending to be Heart of Black Dragon
stalling Pumpkin Head and pretending to be Pumpkin Mask
stalling Demon Wings and pretending to be Ebony Dragon Wings
those are really disgusting...and players may mistaken them easily

Stone Egg vs. Kal Runestone
Dragon Scale vs. Morph Runestone
Sacro Sword vs. Blade of Enigma
Lustrious Gem vs. Gem of Rage

Just to include some more "interesting" examples I've seen people fall for in the past...

 

[Spidpex]

Lustrious Gem vs. Gem of Rage

 

[Developer]

Can someone put it into UserVoice, please?

 

[carmelo]

really? That's all you have to say? .... Scammers like he described should be punished because as Leptis said, it doesn't contribute in any positive way to the game. Thanks god I haven't been scammed and have to ask for your help.

 

[Spidpex]

really? That's all you have to say? .... Scammers like he described should be punished because as Leptis said, it doesn't contribute in any positive way to the game. Thanks god I haven't been scammed and have to ask for your help.

Asked me to help? How can i help if you've been scammed? All i can say is, dont be like me