A few guildies nearly fell for this. The scam that got a lot of people was a guild of scammers running around org and somehow swapping out a Righteous Orb with a pearl of some sort and basically getting people to pay them 80g for a pearl.

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water can't be wrapped.

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Me and several of my guildies had this happen on Horde side Azjol-Nerub last week.

The letter was from a random level 1 that didn't even have an Agrnet Dawn-ish name (Qetasd), and the text of the letter said something about being Nicholas of the Argent Dawn and that we had done so much work helping them fight the Scourge they wanted to give us a gift, we would have to pay for this but it would be worth it, and then report to Light's Hope chapel for more information, etc. The funny part was trying to pass it off as official while still using "U" instead of "you" throughout the letter. Package was a gift wrapped bag with a 100g COD. One of my guildies actually didn't have a COD on his because they missed it or something, he opened it up and it was a blacksmith hammer.

I imagine some people fall for these, but it really shows how out of touch with the game environment a lot of the scammers are, I mean, Argent Dawn...seriously.

You'd think they'd at least make it from the Consortium with some letter about how it is our monthly shipment of jewels or something.

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Hey is that really a verbal harassment if its sent one. I mean I am in law enforcement and by law for example if you give a cashier $10 for a soda and candy bar what ever you may purchase and they give you 20$ worth of change no knowing he over paid ya on the recieving end the cashier ends up having to pay for his mistake. I know theres a huge difference in game and real life but it is verbal harassment if its done to the same person repeatedly.

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I don't think it's a matter of it being "verbal harassment" so much as the GM ticketing system doesn't have a section for to report scammers, exploiters, etc. This type of behavior should definitely be report though, and Blizz has asked the we as a player base police this kind of activity by giving us the means to report players who attempt to take advantage of others. They just need another category on the GM ticket list to clarify what this stuff should be reported as.

They all end up in the same place anyways it seems like, so it doesn't really matter what category its gets reported under.

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It's not the scammer's fault that people are so stupid to fall for this. If you get suckered, it's your own damn fault!

For those of you, who did get suckered, I have the following for you...

/target [stupid person]
/point
/tell HA HA, YOU'RE TOO STUPID TO LIVE! WELCOME TO MY IGNORE LIST
/ignore

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Who really cares HOW you report it (verbal harassment, etc) to a GM?!?! Just report it!!

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I had a character named vus send me a gift wrapped package for 1008g. I reported him as soon as I got it.

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The first thing I thought of when I read the title was the Not Addicted thread about Franky when he was bored with reputation grinding.

http://www.notaddicted.com/forums/showthread.php?t=310

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Prauche, I believe Eliah commented on the report category because there is (still) no proper "spam" or "phishing" category on the list. Try and relax. Save the exclamation marks of the world.

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This happened to me. A blue wrapped package in mail for 88g. LOL 88g?? I was actaully tempted. Then my druid instincts kicked in. You dont use blue wrapping paper in winter. So i didn't except it.
:D

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I have no idea how people are naive or frankly just plain dumb enough to fall for crap like this.

I personally hate the scammers, but honestly, if you're stupid enough to fall for accepting a clearly CoD, unknown item from a stranger, you really deserve to be scammed.

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Well people are still falling for the Nigerian e-mail scam. The other scam is of course high buyout prices at the AH, but Blizz has done a good job of fixing that by making them list last.

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We had this happen a few weeks ago on the Alliance side of Staghelm, where some guy with a mishmash name would send you some worthless item (I heard it was Linen Cloth or something similar) with a 60 gold COD.

I think a lot of people fell for it because it was shortly after BC came out, and the message was something like "Thanks for visiting Honor Hold, ! Here's a little present for venturing out into the Outlands and helping our cause!"

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Haha. I say allow it, if bad/ignorant/n00b players accept it and quit the game as result, more power to all of us. If you have enough gold to pay the COD, you should know not to throw it away for an unknown item.

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Even if they match the name or text to a quest chain, why the hell are you clicking OK to a 66g CoD for a piece of linen.

When you look past all that pointless crap, it's still just a piece of linen cloth and a 66g CoD. If a name like Argntdwn or a subject from a quest can make you blind to the fact that you're paying 66g for a worthless item from somebody posing as an NPC that doesn't need or ask for money to begin with, you deserve what you get.

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I just had this scam tried on me. I copied the letter, deleted the email and reported the offender. I play on the Suramar Realm.

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I got one of these scamgfits a few weeks ago. I don't remember the name, but the letter was bovious BS and full of spelling and grammar errors, not that Blizz's quest text has perfect spelling but their letters usually do. Plus... whatever the guy wrote got cut off halfway down the mail, and we all know that Blizz gets to write long-winded mails if they want to, they don't put those restrictions on themselves. Which makes me wonder why they put them on us.

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