Character Sales Scams

[Conman3030]

i think there should be a post minimum to enter like fagex like 250+ posts to enter character sales forum,that will cut down scammers who join the same day with 1 post
and 2 month min to post is a good thing

That would cause lots of spam which we already have enough of. The best thing we can do is make it very clear that almost all the time buying a acc will get you scammed.

 

[Monsieur Noob]

That would cause lots of spam which we already have enough of. The best thing we can do is make it very clear that almost all the time buying a acc will get you scammed.

i Think there should be a rep thing or iTrader thing which shows how much did you do good trades and things like that

 

[Tgump]

Mons, Fagex's ideas are theirs. :/ If any admins want to make changes, they will, but I doubt anymore than a locked sticky will be posted.

"READ - Buying any account can get you scammed!"

 

At the bare minimum, it would be great to have a sticky. At least people know the risk involved, because it's surprising how many do not. We have to remember, many players are extremely unaware of the common Black Market scams. I compare Membership Account trades to Paypal trades, in the sense that there is always possibility of a reversal, even long after the trade is complete. Seeing as there are numerous warnings for Paypal, it's realistic to assume there should be warnings for Account trades as well.

 

[Revenge Darkness]

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[G0t 0wnd]

I dontknow if this goes into this topic but i have bought a level 125 from soem guy for $450.00 usd and 1 week later it got recoverd..

 

[XCrunner007]

People like the guy in that pic of a thread just piss me off. I'm a fairly paranoid person so I highly double he'd be able to get me. We should really do an Ebay kind of thing for trades. It'd slightly better. Here's my opinion on doing black market stuff.....YOU'RE TECHNICALLY DOING AN ILLEGAL THING ACCORDING TO JAGEX!!!! EXPECT TO GET SCAMMED!!!! What makes anybody think that they won't be scammed? There are some good, some okay, and some bad......you're bound to hit the bad people sometime.

@Ways to prevent scamming:
You might as well be Jagex claiming you can catch scammers. It's not gonna happen. They can make new accounts, change IP address(trust me I've changed my IP address quite a few times for a game called Ogame so I can get around IRC IP bans). Not to mention, it's very hard to keep track of 100s of forum accounts through IP unless you're Neo from the Matrix.

 

[lil javier]

A dude i support u all the way and good luck with that.

 

[br00tal]

you can debate this all you want but its not going to change the fact that account buying is a scam, and yes it is. 100% of the time

 

[Monsieur Noob]

It's really hard to kick out those scammers they are everywhere
i have a new idea btw,put more mods on high characters sales like 100-126 because the most scams happenes here

 

[full_tilt]

There is already a sticky in the black market...

 

[steventomas]

It's seems to be great..

 

[Dust Looter]

I agree with this suggestion.

 

There is already a sticky in the black market...

Yes, there's no sticky in the Character forums though. Most people dont see the stickies in the Black Market, they're right at the bottom of the page.

 

[satan-Pwnzor]

Scammed!!!

 

[SlaveOfTheBeast]

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He scammed me...just realized it was him now...wow...