I started a wardec with an alt corp on a Saturday afternoon. The target was another True Sansha Medium with four advance mobile labs around it. Sunday morning I log in a scout to check on the POS to see if it's been fueled before I hopped my two Oracle pilots. Instead of fueling it, they were taking it down. The labs and meager defenses were gone, and the tower had 17 minutes left on its timer. There was a Sigil parked next to the tower, waiting it out. I logged in my main and my orca pilot. Jumping into my covert Loki, I got in position about 30km away from the Sigil. The Orca was in place at the nearest planet, aligned to the tower.

At the 20 second mark, I decloaked and hit the microwarp, burning straight at the sigil. A solid bump pushed him 10 km off the tower and the Orca started its warp, landing with 2 seconds left on the clock. The Sigil was getting turned around to burn back to the tower, but I easily scooped the tower into the orca. The 50 million isk wardec had just landed me a tower worth nearly 600 million isk.

I suggested he look at faction towers for their fitting benefits. Sure they were expensive, but in the long term worth it. I told him Dread Guristas was the best, and I happened to have a DG Medium tower in my Orca. I was planning to move it to Jita to sell for about 1.7 billion, but I'd sell it to him from 1.5 bil to save the trip. He agreed, and I made a contract for a True Sansha Medium Tower for 1.5 billion isk. He accepted!

A few minutes later, I got one last line in our convo:

Victim > Oh you son of a b*tch wtf is this

I was never able to get any further response out of him.

tl;dr:
- Wardecced an out-of-fuel POS owner
- Stole the POS when they unanchored it before the war started
- Scammed a guy into buying it for a billion more than it's worth

At the 20 second mark, I decloaked and hit the microwarp, burning straight at the sigil. A solid bump pushed him 10 km off the tower and the Orca started its warp, landing with 2 seconds left on the clock. The Sigil was getting turned around to burn back to the tower, but I easily scooped the tower into the orca. The 50 million isk wardec had just landed me a tower worth nearly 600 million isk.

tl;dr:
- Wardecced an out-of-fuel POS owner
- Stole the POS when they unanchored it before the war started
- Scammed a guy into buying it for a billion more than it's worth

I am not a scammer by any means, but I must say that was a great tactic on getting that tower while they were trying to take it down and I actually enjoyed they story.

I do wonder though, why do so many people not read contracts before accepting them, or maybe they do read them, but they dropped out of english class grade one? It just baffles me.

I do wonder though, why do so many people not read contracts before accepting them, or maybe they do read them, but they dropped out of english class grade one? It just baffles me.

I don't understand why people fall for trade hub scams posted in local. In this case, I spent the time to gain his trust and he blindly accepted the contract without looking closely at it. I'd been a nice guy up to that point and he trusted me when he shouldn't have.

Good stuff will read again.

this is why eve is so awesome.