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MotherMoon
Huang Yinglong
Namtz'aar k'in
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Posted - 2007.08.16 05:00:00 -
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yes, in eve scamming is part of life.
it's almost a class. :)
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Why didn't we use them 80 man-years to fix bugs?
Well, that's simple. We can't. These are visual ar
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Mirirar
Solstice Systems Development Concourse
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Posted - 2007.08.16 05:45:00 -
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manditory "go back to wow".
seriously, though... how is this a 'sploit? just a newbie as far as I can see.
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Venkul Mul
Gallente
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Posted - 2007.08.16 05:50:00 -
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Yes, the quantity of this kind of scam attempts is annoing but they are perfectly leagl in EVE.
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cal nereus
Bounty Hunter - Dark Legion
Curse Alliance
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Posted - 2007.08.16 05:52:00 -
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The price was clearly listed there. It is simply a case of one player taking advantage of another player's mistake. We can call it a scam. But it is still perfectly legitimate.
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Kylar Renpurs
Dusk Blade
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Posted - 2007.08.16 06:09:00 -
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SCAM LEGALLY!
Heh, sounds like a tautology.
EXPLOIT LEGALLY would be call for concern,,,
Improve Market Competition!
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Sinder Ohm
Infinite Improbability Inc
Mostly Harmless
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Posted - 2007.08.16 06:42:00 -
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Originally by: Tractormech
You obviously have not played eve long if you think its easy to fall for contract scams.
I can only imagine how many more noobs would lose their CNR money if we still had the old escrows.
This ill quote for the truth, I liked escrow :(
Originally by: Rawne Karrde
PVP in EvE is consentual, you agree to it when you login. If you don't like it you're in the wrong game.
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Lord WarATron
Amarr
Black Nova Corp
Band of Brothers
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Posted - 2007.08.16 08:46:00 -
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Edited by: Lord WarATron on 16/08/2007 08:50:02
A While ago - there was a bug in this method. I dont know if the bug is still there just now but what would happen was the countract would automatically add in the amount in words i.e the mark would see the words that say "1.2 Million" so it would be hard for the scammer to get any targets.
However, if the scammer uses a pile of decimal points - the words "x Million" did not show up, probebly got overflowed off the contract window or something.
So insted of seeing, e.g "1,200,000.00 (1.2 Million)" in the contract price. If the scammer added in a pile of decimal points after the . mark, the contract which would automatically add in the words "1.2million" would dissapear, so combined with the Eve Font, 12,000,000.00 would look like 12 bil and not 12 mil since the Textus warning got removed.
So there is 2 issues. 1 = Idiot mark who ignores the automatic contract words that gets created. 2nd issue is taking advantage of a very real contract bug and hoping the mark misreads due to eve font.
Neither of which are exploit in my opinion though.
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Patricia Bateman
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Posted - 2007.08.16 09:53:00 -
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probably 90% of people who get scammed let greed get the better of them in one way or another.
I find intellectual PvP/social engineering rather lame however, and it's proponents lacking in both the intellect and the social. Could you please stop clogging the market/contracts up with spurious buy/sell orders?
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Necronomicon
Caldari
KIA Corp
KIA Alliance
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Posted - 2007.08.16 11:16:00 -
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first rule of contracting is select all regions, select (in any order) Macherial, Navy Issue, modified, then scroll to the bottom of the results, and ADD TO IGNORED for all the WTB at silly prices.
Job done.
Carlsberg dont make Eve Pilots, but if they did, i wouldnt be one of them.
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Taipan Gedscho
Muzzletov Gewaltski Inc.
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Posted - 2007.08.16 11:47:00 -
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Edited by: Taipan Gedscho on 16/08/2007 11:49:03
contracts have been nurfed down to oblivion. if you still get scammed i call that darwin at work.
even the [mineral]x[unbelievable big amount] for [unbelievable low price] scam was rather obvious, when it was introduced, and you really had to look a lot harder than you need to do today.
Pictures, colored text, and a player-made description thats way harder to notice than the engine-generated text make it nigh impossible to get scammed unless you are under heavy medication. Or just a bit... slow by default.
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