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Sep 6 2023 12:48am
Hello. I had a couple of instances over the last few days where oldtimers have done a few dodgy things. They haven't outright scammed me, but one of them created a bogus thread, claiming they are selling something I'm selling at a much lower price (from an account that hasn't posted anything forever), and another was trying to set up and take advantage of a trade - claiming a chat bug, so they couldn't verify the trade ingame, they didn't bin in the thread but sent me a PM, after which I asked them to place a bin message in the thread they placed an "iso these items" in the thread; then refused to answer whispers, came in the game with a different account than the one they input when asking for mediation, had a second account in game as well ... and asking to droptrade. Then came in with a third account that said absolutely nothing, but randomly dropped ~5 unid annis (they were trying to buy 280 from me, so this was supposed to persuade me to droptrade without any confirmation on their end).

All in all, they didn't manage to scam me, cause I was paying attention and felt they could try to play it "well I received nothing, return the fg". They did initially send the fg to me, but without binning anything and with description "game name/password" instead of whatever it is they're buying, the quantity and price.

Is this something I should send to a moderator so they keep an eye and have a note of it?
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Sep 6 2023 12:52am
You can collect all the evidence and send it to one of the trade moderators. If you see that someone is also violating the rules of the forum, press the report post button and continue going to your way. Each report is checked by the staff team

Trade Moderator list --> https://forums.d2jsp.org/staff.php?g=25

This post was edited by Sqnman007 on Sep 6 2023 01:03am
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Sep 6 2023 09:35am
When in doubt, always request a mediator. It is fast, free, and secure.

How to request a mediator:
https://forums.d2jsp.org/info.php?c=4&p=11

As for when doing mediations. Have a strong password for the game. And always do 1 trade per game. Never attempt to do multiple trades in same game. You did the right thing not doing “drop trades” always use the trade window.

This post was edited by Vibrations on Sep 6 2023 09:35am
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