Lately, I've been seeing a lot of JSP users being scammed by people on Bnet impersonating as other JSP users. They somehow get access to your bnet account (either they've done trades with you in the remote past etc, or they get it from your signature etc). They stalk you on trade threads and try to impersonate a user who you have been in touch with. Most veterans know the trick and will avoid this by only communicating via JSP. Some of the more newer members who are still trying to familiarize with the way JSP works are the ones most vulnerable. Case in point, most victims are relatively new users. Of course, there are other ways that people find ways to scam other users

For my proposal. Every JSP user who clicks the trade forum section will get a one time, life time notification Warning them of various scam tactics. Once they read it they can click OK. They will never be shown the message again after that. Just a one time thing. When people see this and read this, they will think twice when they receive in-game whispers from people impersonating others. I feel this will reduce the number of scammers by making people aware. Yes I understand they can read the JSP rules etc prior to trades but I feel most people who make accounts go straight to making threads etc and are unaware.


Something like this



This post was edited by aabdel20 on May 18 2022 08:17pm

Good suggestion but let's be honest, most people are likely to click accept and not read it anyways ...

Voted yes on this one,

however this could potentially scare new users away as well, also add "refrain from posting your gamertags and Battle.net tags in public and in your signature" which is how most people have been getting scammed by impersonators.

I agree to an extent. But I think whats going to scare new users away even more is if they get scammed on FG recently purchased with real money.

Certainly, we could add the forum rules and trading rules to that and add a "countdown timer" of let's say 20 seconds to the message.

I believe this could discourage new users from participating in trades. The majority of trades on jsp occur without mediators and without scams. This would disproportionately impact new users while likely not preventing many scams IMO.

I like the idea of some type of system list of known scamming methods though...

This post was edited by Cascadian on May 18 2022 09:39pm

Plenty of bad wording in that message, especially this: "never trade if someone whispers you in d2".
Yeah I know it was an example, but it's a bad one.

Anyway, there are already enough warnings on this site so I vote no.
People choose not to be careful. You can't change that.

This was taken from here https://forums.d2jsp.org/info.php?p=52

What do you think will happen when a new user gets scammed out FG he recently purchases? You dont think that will discourage him?

I recommend any new user to use the mediation system
I feel this would give new users the wrong impression,scams happen but not at the frequency you think with the 10k+ trades a day on this site
most these scams are scams that work similar all across the internet
New users should always go over the rules and guidelines of the site,if they don't take time to read those they will not read that prompt either