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Prince Ott

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Friend of mine told me of this scam that someone was trying to pull on him:

My friend hadn't been playing RuneScape very long so he didn't have a lot of money yet. He had 2 sets of Rune armor and wanted to sell one to help finance some other items he needed for skill leveling, but he didn't want to wait for it to sell in GE. (It probably would have sold fairly soon).

He was in GE trying to sell it outright and was asking the same amount it would have sold for in the Exchange.

A player approached him and offered a price much lower than the Exchange scale. My friend declined the trade and told him what he was asking was the Exchange rate. The other player pm'ed him and said that the price of Rune has just dropped dramatically and the asking price was way to high, that's why no one would buy it. The player told my friend that he had better take his offer, because that's the best he was going to get. My friend declined his offer.

This may not sound much like a scam, since all a player would have to do is check it out with the Exchange. But sometimes a new player is easily scammed. If you think about it, it could work better outside of the Exchange area if a scammer sounded convincing enough.

I DO NOT advocate that you try this at home nor on RuneScape.
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06-Apr-2012 10:48:58

Prince Ott

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I tried to start a thread like this a few years ago, but a J-Mod deleted it, saying it was giving honest players bad ideas.

I'm glad you got this one stickied. Congratulations, great job!!
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06-Apr-2012 11:48:25

Necromiz
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Don't know what this scam is called but it happened to me a few weeks ago.

Someone advertises lots of money for a favor. I was interested so asked what to do, he said he was trying to buy up all the pike on the grand exchange force the price to rise for a profit. He said he couldn't buy any more pike because of trade limits so asked me to buy him another 10000. He said they sold at about 5k. In exchange for the fish he would give me 65mil, obviously a big profit. I managed to get all the fish for 2000k ea and then sold them to him. He only gave me a little over the price the market price and said he would may the rest later. He never paid the rest and it was not until later that I realised he was selling the overpriced fish on the GE and also he paid me for the fish not based on the cost to me, but to market price, I lost about four mil.

So thanks for thread I won't be scammed any more. Thumbs up.

11-Apr-2012 08:11:01 - Last edited on 11-Apr-2012 08:11:54 by Necromiz

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