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Posted - 2005.04.14 10:01:00 -
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 Originally by: Thomas Torquemada
People are not scammed, they ALLOW themselves to be scammed, dont act as if it is some kind of explotable cheat.
Some people are dumb and get themselves scammed, their own fault, no-one elses.
The problem isn't getting scammed, or letting yourself be scammed. The problem is that most scammers use alts to avoid any consequence of their actions. The principle of eve is that you can do pretty much anything you want, as long as you're prepared to deal with the consequences. Bypassing the consequences breaks the basic principles of eve.
Originally by: Ris Dnalor
Do not tell me that my roleplay characters that interact with other players in very different ways must be linked to each other, simply b/c you got suckered
Well then, how do you feel about the "trace the money" option for exposing alts? If your alts are completely different, unlinked, charachters, they have no reason to be swapping money and kit around, so there would be no trail to follow.
If, however, you're using one as a false identity, or as an innocent cash-cow to fund a more nefarious charachter, then there will be a money trail, and that link deserves to be exposed.
Originally by: anter
Whoah what a great idea ... not. If you stop thinking about it for moment then you should reliaze that anyone could make anyone seem like scammer. How? Make alt and trasfer some isk to your 'target' and now grief/scam/whatever with your alt and once players start 'tracking' him down they will be led to the 'target'.
Say you know someone just scammed you for 10 Million isk. You do a finance trace on the scammer. The scammer has done as you suggest and tried to set a false trail. Now, any transfer below 1 mill, you're not even going to pay attention to - it's too small-fry. So the scammer would have to yield a large chunk of their profits in order to fool someone onto a false trail.
And there's a very easy way to avoid being false-trailed - any money you get sent that you weren't expecting, send straight back. The return will show in the scammers trace, flagging up what they were trying to do.
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