1. Crowd-watching Scam
This type of scam often appears on the shout channel: someone announces that their Magic Sword +16 succeeded, and asks people to gather at XX channel, XX location. Once a crowd gathers, the scammer starts setting up a booth in the crowded area to sell some materials or equipment. Initially, the items are very cheap, such as various crystals for 1 gold each, disasters for 200 each, etc. When the cheap items are snapped up by players, the scammer will place a new round of items. Some might think, 'Ah... I didn't manage to grab such cheap items. So frustrating.' When the scammer places another batch of items, you might think, 'This time I must be quick, and not get beaten to it again.' Then you quickly click to buy in bulk. After the purchase, you may find that several million or even tens of millions of gold are gone from your inventory. By then, it's too late; the scammer has packed up and left.
Summary: This scam has existed since the early days of DNF. The scammer first uses the shout channel to gather a crowd (for example: 'I just got married, come to XX location to get a red envelope, 3 million gold per person, first come, first served'). In short, the goal is to lure you in with curiosity or to tempt you with cheap deals. The more people, the better, since someone will eventually fall for it. The scammer sets up a stall with a low initial price to make it seem cheap and then immediately raises the prices. An item that was 1 gold each could become 10,000 gold each; being careless leads to getting scammed. Preventing this scam is simple: don't join the crowd or chase after cheap deals.
2. Adding QQ Scam
This type of scam usually occurs when you get a somewhat valuable piece of equipment and list it for auction or shout in the channel to sell it. For example: one day, you get a pink item worth 50 million gold and list it on the auction. Soon, you receive a mail. The content of the mail is: 'Hello, can you lower the price of the XX equipment you listed on the auction?'I sincerely want it. Please contact me when you are online, QQ: xxxxxxx. If you go to add his QQ, you know what will happen. The end result is that your account will be stolen. (Ask yourself, is it necessary to add QQ to negotiate the price? Anyone with a brain should be able to figure that out. Can't you discuss the price in the game window anyway?) There is also a type where they message you through the window or by email. The content is roughly as follows: Hello, I sincerely want your equipment, I don't have that many ingame currency, could I add some real money to buy it from you?Here comes the key point: some players think adding QQ isn't bad. Actually, everyone knows how QB transactions work, right? It's basically just asking for your QQ number. Here, some players might think that if they don't add QQ, nothing will happen. But you'd be wrong. Scammers can also say they don't need to add QQ; they just need you to give the QQ number you want to recharge QB on, then they go directly to recharge for you. And they will recharge the QB first. About 5 minutes later, the scammer will appear online in the chat window, leaving a phone number, which seems normal. After posting your items, no one immediately buys them. After a while, someone in the game will come to talk to you, saying to use the 5173 platform for the transaction and to directly list your items for consignment.
Once your items are listed for consignment, soon a call will come to your phone, from a 5173 number. If you answer, the person will say they are 5173 customer service and that they are ready to help you trade your consigned equipment with the buyer. (In fact, the person calling is the same one who asked you for the escrow transaction earlier; he knows your number.) Then, this customer service will ask for your second device password and your mobile token, so they can log in and trade with the buyer. Of course, you'll tell them. After that, you understand, they log in and you get scammed.
Prevention method: actually, this kind of scam isn't very sophisticated, but compared to others, it's a bit more advanced. If you think calmly, you'll notice many loopholes. When posting items for consignment, you just need to understand that once it's listed, you shouldn't worry about anything. Don't respond to calls or the like, that's all.
6: Reinforcement Scroll Scam
Now, +12 and +13 reinforcement scrolls are quite valuable, everyone should know. Let me talk about +12 and +13 scrolls first. Generally, there are two ways to trade +12 and +13 scrolls. One way is that the buyer needs the scroll to reinforce some equipment; after negotiating the price, you strengthen the item and list it for auction so they can buy it instantly. But you need funds to purchase weapons first. Without funds, it's difficult, and there is only one way left: face-to-face transactions. Some people say to use 5173 for transactions. Here, I remind everyone selling +12 and +13 reinforcement scrolls that 5173 now does not support reinforcement scroll transactions. Therefore, many people have been scammed on 5173. I know someone who was scammed this way. I told them not to list the +13 scrolls on 5173, because no one buys them there since it doesn't support reinforcement scroll trading. They didn't believe me, and later said someone had negotiated a 5173 transaction with them. I warned them to be careful of being scammed. Sure enough, 2 hours later, they were crying.He said his enhancement scroll was scammed. (For details on how he was scammed, everyone can refer to the fifth type of scam. In view of the fact that there are other scams on 5173, I won't list them all.) Here I want to give everyone a piece of advice: if you're selling high-level enhancement scrolls, it's best to negotiate directly with the other party. You should prepare some funds—after selling, you'll get back more than what you put in. After agreeing on the weapon and price the other party wants, you then enhance the item, then either sell it on the auction for YXB or through the 5173 consignment trade. This is relatively safe.
Regarding scammers who scam deposits for enhancement scrolls, I'll explain it here. I guess everyone has often seen people collect enhancement scrolls, right? Here's how it works: collecting +5, +7, +10 enhancement scrolls, with a deposit... In such transactions for buying and selling enhancement scrolls, taking a deposit is normal. But scammers start to exploit this. For example, a purple item might normally only be worth tens of thousands or over a hundred thousand. A scammer might say this item is worth 2 million or 3 million. If you don't believe it, you can check the auction price. Indeed, after you check, you'll find that purple item is listed at 2 million–3 million on the auction. Just like that, you give him a deposit of 2 million. He trades the purple item to you, then after you enhance it, he just rejects the deal. Understand? Actually, it's not hard to guard against these people. First, the items they want enhanced are all unpopular equipment, which normally sell for only a few tens of thousands on the auction. But because the scammer wants you to believe the item is worth what he says, he will first sweep all that type of purple equipment from the auction, then post it at a high price with other accounts, so that when you check, you believe the item is indeed worth a few million. This is the so-called deposit scam.
If you don't understand the market value of equipment, it's best not to enhance those junk items. It's best to work on more popular equipment or equipment whose price you are familiar with. Even for a purple item worth 2 million, how many people would spend 9 million or 10 million on an enhancement scroll to raise it to +10?VII: Friend Scam
I believe everyone has some friends in the game, more or less. Well, some scammers take advantage of this. First, these scammers will certainly know which friends you are closer to, ones you often chat with or frequently do dungeons with. Then, suddenly one day, you receive a message from a friend asking to borrow some money (mostly borrowing money), and the amount is not too much. Then a trade window pops up: xxx requests a trade. You've probably fallen for it, thinking that person is your friend, but in fact, the name is exactly the same as your friend's. (If the name has extra spaces at the end, it's not easily noticeable.)
Prevention method: When trading, carefully check the other person's name. Do not accept trade requests they send. Open your own friend list and see if your friend is online, and ask them if they are trying to borrow money or anything similar. Only act after confirming.
VIII: Shemale Scam
This type of scam is the most common in all games, where a man pretends to be a woman. These scammers need a lot of patience and a thick skin. I once encountered a shemale scammer who had many husbands in the game, but he managed all his husband relationships very well. No matter how good or bad a husband's equipment was, it didn't matter; the most important thing was to be good to him and give him items earned from dungeon runs. I actually prefer not to talk too much about this type of scam. It's basically a case of willingness to give and take. Also, from what I know, most real female players I know are playing this game with their real-life boyfriends or husbands. Genuine female players are very few... Not all video or voice calls are what you might think. Some male players, just to get gear, have their girlfriends replace them in calls or videos to scam items. These can be spotted quite easily.
Prevention method: A game is just a game; everyone should stay clear-headed. Why mix gender relations with gaming? Having close friends in the game is the real deal. Regardless of whether someone is male or female, being buddies is more important than anything else.
IX: Gold Cap Scam and Crystal Packaging Scam
Processing colorless items costs 40 each, and packaging 200,000 colorless items costs 7,000,000, with some useless blueprints as a bonus. The trick is to place two blueprints before the colorless items. This way, 20,000 colorless items look like 200,000. But if you think about it, your inventory can't hold 200,000 items.Coin limit scam: For example, someone sets up a stall, selling a Fan-style coat for 2.2 million. Instant purchase. Everyone clicks to buy. But the purchase fails because the seller has reached the coin carrying limit (as everyone probably knows, the coin limit means that a single account can only carry up to a certain amount per day. The formula is: level squared, meaning your own level multiplied by itself. For a level 70 account, it's 70 * 70 = 49 million. Once your daily transaction amount exceeds 49 million, you can't trade coins anymore). Then they take it off the market. Put it up for 2.1 million. Still at the limit. Then put up 2 million + an item that looks very similar to the coat (like a bulletproof vest). Okay. Quick hands might buy it. With the same coin carrying limit, various stall tools at 900k, if bought, consider it a gift. Valuable items listed at 999,999; junk at 999,998. The coins are just one short. But his coin limit can scam you like this once.Listen, they said your QB has already been recharged and asked you to go to the xxxx website to verify it. Alright... after you went to that website for verification, your account got hacked. Everyone should understand that, right? If you still don't get it, then you really deserved to be scammed.
Summary: This type of scam is actually about getting you to add them on QQ and then sending a Trojan horse to you. As for how they send the Trojan, I currently know of two methods: one is by sending a file or picture, but it's not actually a regular image; it's just a Trojan program. The other method is sending the Trojan to your QQ mailbox via QQ; if you unwittingly click on an enticing subject, you are also trapped.
Prevention: If selling equipment, auction it directly and delete or ignore all emails. If a player contacts you to negotiate, agree on a price and then put it on the auction; ignore those who engage in long-winded haggling.
3. In-Map Verification Scam
This scam usually occurs when you get good equipment. You use the shout function to sell equipment, and someone messages you saying: "I want your equipment, but I need to check if it's duplicated. Team up with me in the dungeon, I'll stand far away, you drop the equipment on the ground, and as long as it doesn't disappear, it proves it's real. I'll buy it right after."
Alright... this scam is actually them using a cheat program to verify in the dungeon. The cheat has a full-screen item detection function. As soon as you drop the equipment, it's instantly detected by them from the other side of the map. Then you're done...
Prevention: Use common sense; if there were truly any duplicated equipment, Tencent would have gone out of business long ago. Besides, if you could duplicate equipment, would you be waiting there for them to scam you? It would be you scamming them instead!
4. Master-Apprentice Scam
This scam often appears on the shout channel and usually goes like this: "I am level 30 and looking for a master to train me (or maybe not really looking for a master). I'll pay x points when reaching level 45." (points are very tempting). They might say you can pay half first (even more tempting). So you agree to train them, then they ask you to receive half of the points first, and also ask you to add them on QQ. As for sending a Trojan or anything like that, I'm not sure because I've been busy and haven't experienced this scam recently. In short, it's a scam, and basically always involves adding someone on QQ.
Prevention: Ask yourself, who nowadays would dare to top up points for someone they don't know just like that?Seeking small gains harms yourself. 5. 5173 Scam. Usually, this kind of scam is a bit more sophisticated. For example: one day you get a good piece of equipment or sell some high-level equipment, something quite valuable. Then someone contacts you, asking if you want to trade on 5173? (or you yourself chat)
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