i have never in my life witnessed what I have today. so this guy was selling 10 primos for 30k, i figured it was a bargain so I decided to take it. I put 30k in the trade window while he had 10 primos in his trade window, so I pressed accept, after like 5 seconds he pressed accept too and I didn't have any primos in my inventory. I never saw a script such as that as I figured scamming worked like taking 10 primos and putting 1 primo in fast enough so the guy you're scamming doesn't notice, but this, this is a whole new level. so I figured in this situation the guy you're scamming must accept the trade first, so I decided to not press accept at the next guy that was selling 14 primos for 40k so I thought to at least get some of my money back. but no. even though he pressed accept first, with me clearly seeing 14 primos in the trade window, somehow there were no primos in my inventory. so, yeah. got scammed for 70k in 5 minutes. on top of that, there are people saying "it's your own fault for being stupid enough to get scammed" wtf? How is there a scenario where a scammer can't scam you in trade window? I tried both ways, accepting the trade chat window first, and second so I have learned my lesson not to EVER do business in trade. Also, reporting the guy and getting him banned does not make warmane community a safer nor better place as it was probably his alt account which he does not care about and which will be unbanned in 30 days, and in the meantime he will enjoy the hundreds of thousands of golds he got from scamming that he sent on his main account, or, if things like that are treated differently such as clearing the inventory of the accounts on his IP adress, or having his IP banned for a longer period of time, I would be delighted, and would definitely be reporting scoundrel like this more often. Thanks for hearing me
Sincerely, your scapegoat
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Member
Got scammed 2 times in 5 minutes (wotlk)
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Member
I had also got scammed like this for 50k...last week..i thought if he accepts trade first then it wont happen....and was going to try it out..but now that i see it wont better not buy primos for a while...
Btw staff what are we to do kindly tell us...there is absolutely nothing we can do to avoid being scammed here...unless we trade via the AH
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Member
Hopefully this gets fixed soon. Sorry to hear you got scammed.
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Forum Veteran
This is why I simply never use trade for valuable exchanges, only AH.
I use trade function only with guild and some trusted people.
Never got scammed. And I didn't wait for it to happen, took preemptive action.
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Member
Somebody promote an addon call safetrade or something which will automatically cancel the trade for you if changes occurred. Maybe you can try that if you want to trade. Or you ask that guy to trade 1 by 1
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Banned
Do u also receive this scam mails where u have to pay gold when u loot the item in it?
Im wondering how much gold the scammer earns with it when he sends this mail to the entire realm.
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Member
How's that a scam mail, it's called cod mail and its a feature of the game, no one is forcing you to buy the item.
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Moderator
It's a scam for being a misleading mail based on exploiting people's trust.
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Member
I got scammed like invisible77 got scammed 30min. ago!
what is this warmane? is there any chance i get this money back? i instantaneously created an ingame ticket, hope that works?
the dude "sold" me 18 primos for 45k but i receaved no primos and gold is gone! he also accepted first. how can people be able to do this? i always thought the ttrade is save. how should i expect it is not?!
pls fix this bull****, really
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Member
Don't use trades when buying stuff, just use the AH and you avoid all scams. Not that hard.
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Member
Wow looks like this scamming stuff is getting serious and out of hand, I didn't even knew you can get scammed via simple trade. This is some next level stuff.
I did recieve some mails from some dude promoting his website where he like sells gold to where ofc I didn't go, I just reported it and delated the mail.
Stay safe out there in theze realmz guys.
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Member
There is literally an entire guild dedicated to scamming on Icecrown alliance side...they recently changed their name because everybody knew they were scammers and wanted to be able to scam again. They've actually said that they have a hack that helps them, but I know nothing about it. So yeah, it's getting really bad.
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Member
Mail scam happens to me once or twice. Fortunately never fall for it.
The trade window hack scam though, damn I'm glad I can't afford any Crusader/Runed orbs in Lordaeron.
I think I'll try getting that SafeTrade addons later...
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Member
A friend told me they might be using Wireshark to change visuals into making you see x amount of primos when there is nothing there at all
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Member
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