7 ways to catch a scammer!

Hey well in this guide i will be explaining how to prevent yourself from being scammed and also how to find out if your dealing with a scammer. Due to the fact that the "user education" forum is gone I'm now bringing out my 7ways to catch a scammer guide!



7 ways to catch a scammer:


1.

Always make sure you know who your dealing with, scammers act on impulse, meaning that they won't attempt to scam just once, they will try to scam as many members as they can. A good thing to do is to get them to PM you on the site so you can check them out, this way you know what your dealing with.


2.

"the I've got to go soon scammers":

Basically these are very well known scammers, they will make up excuses to get you to fall into the scam, usually making up some story that they've got to go soon and don't have time for MM's. Never fall for this.


3.

"MM's are dangerous and are scammers"

Now this is an obvious scam, a member of the community adding you to basically scam you, the'll make up some fony idea that they don't like MM's because they've had bad past experiences and that all MM's are scammers.


4.

"members claiming there trusted with only 1 post"

These are usually members of the community who will join one community just to scam, they will make a few posts and then add everyone in the black market and one by one try there thing, attempting to make you go first by claiming there trusted.


5.

"you have to go first scammers"

These are members of the community who won't go first and won't use an MM, they have there heart set on one thing and thats scamming, now if you have a member of the community with 2000+ posts and Mod rank then yes they are classed as trustworthy but you should always use an MM, these members are the kind who have 10 posts and just want easy cash.


6.

"adding fake MM's"

Now this is a very dangerous one if you aren't very strict, some members will be working together in order to scam you, e.g. one playing the "mm" and one playing the buyer/seller, a "fake" MM will be added into the conversation and the other member will try to trick you into using this fake MM, making you believe its a real MM.


7.

"I'm a trusted member of the community"

Now this one can go under the lines of pretending to be an official MM, but this time pretending to be a very trusted member of the community, trying to trick the buyer/seller into going first inorder to scam there money. This is a very popular scam so be careful!

Once again I hope this guide has helped you, and you now know some more ways of stopping and catching a scammer.

Thanks.


Credit to waterboy99 from rstrades

 

Thanks. Okay Guide. Basic Knowledge 7/10.

 

4.5/5 Informative, it didn't help me, i'm working on one myself, but it's good, it can help some people.

 

I also hope it can help some people around!

 

Still Gj on taking the time to make this jens. some people are to lazy to do this. So once again Good Job.

 

Thanks man!

 

Nice, but you may have better luck posting in the black market.

 

Its not bad, i see them all on a regular basis lol

 

Pretty good job, but post count doesn't mean anything really. So you should edit out the part that says "scammers will useally just get a few posts and etc...".

 

good stuff. yeah its basic but fuck it: the basics are what people need to know and what anyone who gets scammed has forgotten.

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Omg I've posted it a couple of times in the black market, and still they tell me to post it here. Actually I don't know it anymore where to post it :s

 

Any one with common sense would know that.

 

Good job. This should be very helpful to newcomers

 

Good job man 7/10...its the basics every1 should have a good understanding of it...

 

It's basic stuff, but most of the members are beiing scammed by such tricks =p


♥ Jens

 

Stop posting other people's guide's...Even though you put credit's it's still annoying.

 

Its a good guide for idiots who dont know the basics. 7/10

 

Pretty basic, post it somewhere like black market

 

Anyone who can't comprehend this deserves to get scammed.

 

pretty good 8/10

ps wrong section i think?