Hey all, Jade here with the latest Agent Insights! Today, I'll be talking about a much less known scam. The only name I've seen it called in the past it S14, so we'll be calling it that today. Though this isn't used very often, it's one of the most effective and scary scams out there.
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S14 begins with two scammers sitting in Jamaa Township, usually just far enough away that they can't be seen on your screen at the same time. Scammer 1 has a very good item on trade and is asking for an extremely uncommon item in exchange for it (and not accepting any items other than that). Scammer 2 has that uncommon item on trade and is asking for trades.
Seeing this, and not knowing it was the setup for a scam, a Jammer may decide to trade Scammer 2 for the uncommon item, then trade it to Scammer 1 for the very good item. However, when someone tries this, Scammer 2 will refuse to accept. Because of their continual declining, Jammers will get more and more desperate when trading them, even if the uncommon item isn't that rare. When Scammer 2 finally gets a trade they deem rare enough, they will accept, but then both scammers will leave.
This leaves the Jammer who traded with Scammer 2 with a worthless uncommon item, lacking their rares they traded for it, and not able to trade for the good item they wanted from Scammer 1. Therefore- the Jammer has been scammed!
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This is a very hard scam to avoid if you don't catch onto what's happening very early. However, some things that can help are:
1) Asking someone who seems like a Scammer 1 (the one with the good item for trade, asking for the uncommon item) why they won't accept anything else for the item, even if it's rarer than what they're asking for.
2) Just stop trading with anyone who seems like a Scammer 2. If they won't accept anything reasonable for their item, then it's not worth it to keep trying to trade with them.
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I do hope this helped you all learn a little bit more about scams and how to avoid them! Stay safe out there, Jammers.
This happened to me with tinfoil antlers! I had a light blue pair and someone asked me if I had black ones because they were trading a rim hd and solids and stuff for it.
ReplyDeleteThey scammed my first solid :(
I can't believe how many scammers are out there! One time, a person tried to convince me that a green long wrist was a neon and that it was worth more than my black short. HA!
ReplyDelete1. Neons actually do exist but they're not worth more than my black short.
2. Green long wrists are not neons.
Someone said the same thing to me and they said it was worth my worn spiked collar and my red long lol
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