I wrote this years ago but I had to snag a copy before the forums vanished it.\u00a0 It’s a shame this game allowed scams; you could not do this in WoW due to the game design making it not possible, but also because of GMs punishing people if they tried it hard enough that most didn’t even bother. Lost the screenshots when my hosting went down, but I wanted to preserve the text as-is for nostalgia.<\/p>\n
Lineage 2 Common Scams Guide<\/b>\u00a0by EllieBelly<\/p>\n
Here are a few of the common scams I found today just in Giran within oh, 5 minutes.<\/p>\n
Crystal Scam.<\/b>\u00a0This one can be done with any of the crystals but I see it on D the most. Notice how they are assuming you don\u2019t notice that the PRICE and AMOUNT are reversed. Works with ancient adena too, anything usually sold in big amounts.<\/b><\/p>\n
Craft Shop Scam.\u00a0<\/b>This is usually done with the lower level crafts, silver mold, VOP, stuff like that. The title will say something like 10a craft, 1-4 crafts, etc. It looks dead obvious but when there\u2019s only one shop in Giran making something you need to craft a weapon you don\u2019t always pay good attention.
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\nBow shaft scam.<\/b>\u00a0The popular one now is for Bow of Peril shafts because everyone wants one, a finished one is around 40 mill, and the shafts are usually 1 mill+ each. And the fact that bow shafts look EXACTLY LIKE STEMS doesn\u2019t help anything. I\u2019ve seen up to 3 shops at once trying to pull this one. Same goes for soul bow shafts.<\/p>\n
A-ss, A-sps, B A-sps scam.<\/b>\u00a0The noob SS shots look almost exactly like the A grade ones, so people try to sell the no grade ones as a-ss. Here\u2019s a picture of the scam and a shot from a real shop.<\/p>\n
Name scam.<\/b>\u00a0I\u2019ve had this tried on me 3 times so far but this is my best example. I\u2019m sitting right by Stiltzz, and someone pm\u2019s me with the name Stlltzz. You can see the real Stiltzz talking in ally chat, and I have him targeted. Usually the person doing this says the EXACT SAME THING as in this picture. That should be the first tip off, I mean how many of your friends talk like such a ****** anyway? Usually if you try to target the faker person, they aren\u2019t even in town, but their alt trying to get your weapon is.
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\nSoul Ore\/A Crystal Scam.\u00a0<\/b>I couldn\u2019t find anyone actually doing this but I know it has been done. I set up shop to show the example. The shop title is A crystals but I\u2019m selling soul ore. I put them side by side, see how very similar they are?
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** Adding**<\/b><\/p>\n
Some other scams are more elaborate.<\/p>\n
One involves items that have the same icon, like the BOP shaft and a stem. Someone starts a trade with a BoP shaft, you see it, they cancel the trade. They say oops, do it again, put in a stem instead, and you lose a lot of money. I hate hate hate trade windows and always tell people to make a shop.<\/p>\n
Another almost no one does, because it takes too much effort but it\u2019s worked before. You yell that you want say, a DC robe. Scammer1 says they have one but they want you to buy X item for them and you can then trade it for the robe. Scammer2 has X item for 20 mill, you think woot I\u2019ll get a DC robe cheap, you buy it, try to get scammer1 to trade you the robe, only to find out X item is worth like 50 cents. Scammer1 logs out off the face of the earth.<\/p>\n
The second one assumes you don\u2019t know what the X item is worth to begin with, and don\u2019t mind running errands for some random person you don\u2019t know. Everytime I think this is the stupidest scam ever, I heard someone falls for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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