Luring vs Scamming.

Are they different?

Discuss.

 

Of course they are.
Luring is just a part of the game.

 

Its your fault if you fall for a lure but if you get scammed then its the other persons fault.

Plus luring is part of the game and isn't reportable.

 

Luring can be bannable. On 29th March 2007 Jagex updated Rule 2, to make "luring someone into the wilderness under false pretences" a bannable offence.

Scamming is almost always against the rules, it is like stealing someones money from their wallet. Before the free trade update, it was nearly impossible to get scammed, but since it was brought back, scams have become more common. Most forms of scamming are bannable.

 

Luring is not bannable. Scamming is.

 

To be honest, they're basically the same.

How is it different if you fall for a lure and fall for a scam?

You're using the same lines to get someone to wild as you would to get someone to give you something.

Ex:
I'm qutting, want my money? Follow me for it and you can be on youtube!

Obviously that's a really bad line to say in order to get someone to the wild but the same can be said to scam someone.


There's really nothing different between the two and Jagex shouldn't have two different rules for the same thing.

 

Both are misleading people to give you money
Both are bad and are your own fault if you fall for them

 

OP brings up an excellent point; I find it interesting that some people legitimize luring over scamming when the two are, in reality, one in the same. Who's to blame for you hitting accept twice in a trade window where you offered you're entire bank? You are. Who's to blame for getting lured into the wilderness? You are.

The fact is both circumstances employ deception to transfer your wealth, they just have different modes of operation

edit:

Not sure why I even posted, this sums up what I said completely and more concisely.

 

Completely different, luring = more skill + more profit
Scamming = low profit, no skill required, unless you get a huge dice game scam <3

 

Isn't scamming on runescape frowned upon on Sythe? Not sure why you're saying

The two involve trickery and the theft of your money. Luring has been popularize and glorified but it is for the larger part the same thing as scamming, just sneakier

 

scamming is bad, and for failures.


lureing is bad, and for failures.


nethier one can earn the money legit. /shrug.,.. killing lurers after a lure makes me happy.

 

I dont think scamming (in game) should be bannable either. If you aren't smart enough to check the second trade screen, then you probably need to be scammed to learn how to be smarter when trading.

 

Luring is bannable now. I think that someone stupid enough to get tricked into the wilderness, even where they are given a warning sign, goes anyways, deserves what they get. Scamming however is just wrong and pathetic.

 

They are both equally bad. That is like saying robbing someone is ok as long as you don't mug them first. Seriously people aren't there any people on sythe that still have morals?

 

People are saying getting lured and getting scammed are different...

but in both situations the victor had malicious intent and deceived the victim in order to profit.

They're the same thing, just executed differently.

 

Luring is tricking another playing into going somewhere, in game, where they do NOT want to go. And then you, or a friend, kills them and takes their items that they did not want to lose.

Scamming is tricking another playing into giving you items, and them expecting something in return. You taking their items they didn't want to lose.


In my eyes, it's the same shit.

 

My point exactly. Well put.

 

Both result in taking someones items or money. Luring relies on someone's greed or stupidity. Scamming relies on someone's carelessness or a sense of trust.

It is no secret I have lured many people in the past and I don't feel ashamed about it because I think people take Runescape for more than it is and reflect real life values into the game, but I don't.

 

There both wrong at the end of the day, but in my point of view i see Luring as more acceptable.