Hi, I decided to make a simple tutorial about scam prevention. They happen frequently and I am sure most people have encountered a scammer and successfully managed to avoid them. But there are enough people who do not have the experience to determine a fraud attempt. Dealing Ingame Most scam attempts happen ingame. In fact, [...]

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Wow, thumbs up. thats a really great tutorial on how to prevent scams. Although, I though i'd be common sense to look at there qi amount, and there items for trading reasons.

This can also be found on the wiki under the Community or Tutorials section.

http://wiki.toribash.com/index.php?title=Scam

as if Redundant hadn't advertised it in enough places

malformed URLs... (in both the wiki and blog article)

Also use sid=-1&username=NAMEHERE so less people will screw up.



"Double check each transaction"
Should be changed to "Do your research" or something, since it only talks about researching the user, not about the transaction itself.



"We will never punish you for reporting something, don’t be afraid."
*cough*




#corrections

Oh, thanks for pointing that out.
I'll let sid know to fix it.

I'll just tell him to replace it with this link.
http://www.torinet.de/ustats/

Great tutorial. I needed those links to see people's inventory, Is there any in-game commands to see it?

No, there are no ingame commands, unfortunately.
But this site is the easiest way to check their inventories. http://www.torinet.de/ustats/

Thanks , this is really helpful , and how bout account hacking ? count as scam ?

Accounthacking is a special case.
Usually we tell people in #support to email [email protected].

I'll add that to the toturial, thanks for pointing that out.

edit: Check this for the up-to-date version: http://wiki.toribash.com/index.php?title=Scam
I'll keep updating it.