[ZGG] Know Your Scams: Deadspace/Faction Loot
Know Your Scams: Deadspace/Faction Loot
Setup
The scammer advertises in Local:
Deadspace/DED/Faction loot for sale always piques interest from people. Green and Blue modules can be very expensive and very useful fit to ships. This is certainly goign to interest a lot of people.
Looking at the contract there certainly are a lot of Faction, Storyline and Deadspace modules listed and it could be interesting but lets check the price of the contract versus what they are asking for.
What Happens Now
First thing of interest is the price You Will Pay. It is 560 million ISK not 5.3 billion as the advertisement said. Let's use evepraisal.com to see how much the items are worth in Buy/Sell methods:
Ah, now it becomes clear.
The Sell value of the items is possibly 5.07 billion ISK and that is what the advert in local was saying. It's possible that it's right but the buy value is only 10.32 million ISK and, as any trader knows, the smaller the difference between Sell and Buy the more people who want it.
You could buy the contract and try to sell the items for 5 billion but you'd be waiting A LONG time, if it all sold at all.
The scammer has just bought this stuff for around 10 million ISK and offering, what appears to be worth 5 billion, for 500 million he hopes to snare a mark who is not going to look closely at the offering.
How Can You Protect Yourself
Rule #1 in Jita is: anything in Local is a scam to take your ISK.
Is this a scam, it could be argued it isn't but its attempting to prey upon the unwaring so to me it is definitely a scam.
Block the advertiser and think no more of it.
Source: Know Your Scams: Deadspace/Faction Loot
[ZGG] Know Your Scams: Deadspace/Faction Loot
« Antwort #1 am: Januar 06, 2016, 05:36:01 Vormittag »
Know Your Scams: Deadspace/Faction Loot
Setup
The scammer advertises in Local:
Deadspace/DED/Faction loot for sale always piques interest from people. Green and Blue modules can be very expensive and very useful fit to ships. This is certainly goign to interest a lot of people.
Looking at the contract there certainly are a lot of Faction, Storyline and Deadspace modules listed and it could be interesting but lets check the price of the contract versus what they are asking for.
What Happens Now
First thing of interest is the price You Will Pay. It is 560 million ISK not 5.3 billion as the advertisement said. Let's use evepraisal.com to see how much the items are worth in Buy/Sell methods:
Ah, now it becomes clear.
The Sell value of the items is possibly 5.07 billion ISK and that is what the advert in local was saying. It's possible that it's right but the buy value is only 10.32 million ISK and, as any trader knows, the smaller the difference between Sell and Buy the more people who want it.
You could buy the contract and try to sell the items for 5 billion but you'd be waiting A LONG time, if it all sold at all.
The scammer has just bought this stuff for around 10 million ISK and offering, what appears to be worth 5 billion, for 500 million he hopes to snare a mark who is not going to look closely at the offering.
How Can You Protect Yourself
Rule #1 in Jita is: anything in Local is a scam to take your ISK.
Is this a scam, it could be argued it isn't but its attempting to prey upon the unwaring so to me it is definitely a scam.
Block the advertiser and think no more of it.
Source: Know Your Scams: Deadspace/Faction Loot
I Knew I Forgot Something
Periodically I change the force-field password on my Towers and I did this just the other day I notified the people I knew used my towers to idle in when in space.
Except I missed one person and a couple of days later I received an evemail from my CEO with a link to a kill mail.
Ah Fudge
It was only a couple of hundred million ISK and I had totally forgotten this person friend was using it as a staging post as he ratted up his security status.
I could blame my memory, lack of notification from the pilot that he still used this tower but that's not right. I fucked up and changed the password without checking with everyone whom I knew had used the tower.
Restitution
I'm sure we'll laugh about this in a week or two but right now I'm embarrassed about this screw up on my part.
I haven't spoken to the person, I think time-zones are very much against us at the moment, but I have already purchased a new ship and fittings and it should be in his hands in the next 24 hours.
Source: I Knew I Forgot Something
Winning at Eve and Life
It is often said that the only way to “Win at EVE” is to unsubscribe your characters.
Source: Winning at Eve and Life
Most Wanted Status
Hundreds of kill mails are posted daily to zKillboard and most are ignored and mean little other than to the pilots involved.
Capital/Super/Titan kills always generate comments, usually negative by the vocal egotistical idiots, but there are a few kill mails that are interesting for various reasons and today I present one that is interesting.
The pilot in question, Big Lynx, hasn't killed something expensive (it was a shuttle worth roughly 4m ISK). He hasn't done something new or come up with an amazing new tactic, no this pilot has done the worst possible thing he could do.
He has advertised himself as having an extremely rare and expensive ship:
Special
The Guardian-Vexor is a relic of the original EVE Online. It's not a great ship, it's basically a Vexor with an additional missile turret slot but it does have one impressive trait that no other ship (outside of Carriers) have any longer.
It can deploy more than 5 drones at the same time.
Originally the Drone Interfacing skill allowed the use of +1 additional drone per level but in response to latency/lag issues this was changed to the current +20% drone damage per level trained. However the Guardian-Vexor was one ship that had the +1 deployable drone as a trait and not reliant on the skill and has, luckily, retained this over the years.
As a result the DPS the ship can do is very, very good and the extra deployable drone has meant that the value of this ship (and it's rarity) has meant it now commands a very high price to own.
Painting A Target Of Yourself
Originally there were 50 of these ships. In December 2012 it was estimated that only 20 still exist in-game with 5 being held by a single player (Entity).
So showing you have one by appearing on killmails is a sure fire way of asking for the attention of every mercenary or ganker in New Eden.
Congratulations Big Lynx, you're now on the watch list of hundreds more people :)
Source: Most Wanted Status
Most Wanted Status
Hundreds of kill mails are posted daily to zKillboard and most are ignored and mean little other than to the pilots involved.
Capital/Super/Titan kills always generate comments, usually negative by the vocal egotistical idiots, but there are a few kill mails that are interesting for various reasons and today I present one that is interesting.
The pilot in question, Big Lynx, hasn't killed something expensive (it was a shuttle worth roughly 4m ISK). He hasn't done something new or come up with an amazing new tactic, no this pilot has done the worst possible thing he could do.
He has advertised himself as having an extremely rare and expensive ship:
Special
The Guardian-Vexor is a relic of the original EVE Online. It's not a great ship, it's basically a Vexor with an additional missile turret slot but it does have one impressive trait that no other ship (outside of Carriers) have any longer.
It can deploy more than 5 drones at the same time.
Originally the Drone Interfacing skill allowed the use of +1 additional drone per level but in response to latency/lag issues this was changed to the current +20% drone damage per level trained. However the Guardian-Vexor was one ship that had the +1 deployable drone as a trait and not reliant on the skill and has, luckily, retained this over the years.
As a result the DPS the ship can do is very, very good and the extra deployable drone has meant that the value of this ship (and it's rarity) has meant it now commands a very high price to own.
Painting A Target Of Yourself
Originally there were 50 of these ships. In December 2012 it was estimated that only 20 still exist in-game with 5 being held by a single player (Entity).
So showing you have one by appearing on killmails is a sure fire way of asking for the attention of every mercenary or ganker in New Eden.
Congratulations Big Lynx, you're now on the watch list of hundreds more people :)
Source: Most Wanted Status
[TMC] 108B ISK Tri Erebus Down in Scalding Pass
« Antwort #6 am: Januar 07, 2016, 11:18:28 Vormittag »
108B ISK Tri Erebus Down in Scalding Pass
THE STAGE
On January 3 at 11:19 EVE time, in the system of S1-XTL in Scalding Pass, Anasasis Daphiti of Triumvirate lost his
Source: 108B ISK Tri Erebus Down in Scalding Pass
[TMC] 108B ISK Tri Erebus Down in Scalding Pass
« Antwort #7 am: Januar 07, 2016, 12:00:03 Nachmittag »
108B ISK Tri Erebus Down in Scalding Pass
THE STAGE
On January 3 at 11:19 EVE time, in the system of S1-XTL in Scalding Pass, Anasasis Daphiti of Triumvirate lost his
Source: 108B ISK Tri Erebus Down in Scalding Pass
Most Wanted Status
Hundreds of kill mails are posted daily to zKillboard and most are ignored and mean little other than to the pilots involved.
Capital/Super/Titan kills always generate comments, usually negative by the vocal egotistical idiots, but there are a few kill mails that are interesting for various reasons and today I present one that is interesting.
The pilot in question, Big Lynx, hasn't killed something expensive (it was a shuttle worth roughly 4m ISK). He hasn't done something new or come up with an amazing new tactic, no this pilot has done the worst possible thing he could do.
He has advertised himself as having an extremely rare and expensive ship:
Special
The Guardian-Vexor is a relic of the original EVE Online. It's not a great ship, it's basically a Vexor with an additional missile turret slot but it does have one impressive trait that no other ship (outside of Carriers) have any longer.
It can deploy more than 5 drones at the same time.
Originally the Drone Interfacing skill allowed the use of +1 additional drone per level but in response to latency/lag issues this was changed to the current +20% drone damage per level trained. However the Guardian-Vexor was one ship that had the +1 deployable drone as a trait and not reliant on the skill and has, luckily, retained this over the years.
As a result the DPS the ship can do is very, very good and the extra deployable drone has meant that the value of this ship (and it's rarity) has meant it now commands a very high price to own.
Painting A Target Of Yourself
Originally there were 50 of these ships. In December 2012 it was estimated that only 20 still exist in-game with 5 being held by a single player (Entity).
So showing you have one by appearing on killmails is a sure fire way of asking for the attention of every mercenary or ganker in New Eden.
Congratulations Big Lynx, you're now on the watch list of hundreds more people :)
Source: Most Wanted Status
[TMC] 108B ISK Tri Erebus Down in Scalding Pass
« Antwort #9 am: Januar 07, 2016, 08:04:12 Nachmittag »
108B ISK Tri Erebus Down in Scalding Pass
THE STAGE
On January 3 at 11:19 EVE time, in the system of S1-XTL in Scalding Pass, Anasasis Daphiti of Triumvirate lost his
Source: 108B ISK Tri Erebus Down in Scalding Pass
[TMC] 108B ISK Tri Erebus Down in Scalding Pass
« Antwort #10 am: Januar 08, 2016, 12:00:03 Vormittag »
108B ISK Tri Erebus Down in Scalding Pass
THE STAGE
On January 3 at 11:19 EVE time, in the system of S1-XTL in Scalding Pass, Anasasis Daphiti of Triumvirate lost his
Source: 108B ISK Tri Erebus Down in Scalding Pass
[TMC] 108B ISK Tri Erebus Down in Scalding Pass
« Antwort #11 am: Januar 08, 2016, 02:29:58 Vormittag »
108B ISK Tri Erebus Down in Scalding Pass
THE STAGE
On January 3 at 11:19 EVE time, in the system of S1-XTL in Scalding Pass, Anasasis Daphiti of Triumvirate lost his
Source: 108B ISK Tri Erebus Down in Scalding Pass
Memorial Fleet for Shonion
EVE’s Hungarian community is mourning the passing of a beloved player, Shonion, who was the former leader of HUN Reloaded and Free Gates Coalition.
Source: Memorial Fleet for Shonion
[TMC] Crusader Kings II: “Conclave” Expansion Announced
« Antwort #13 am: Januar 09, 2016, 12:00:03 Vormittag »
Crusader Kings II: “Conclave” Expansion Announced
Paradox Interactive’s acclaimed title, Crusader Kings II, is a titan in the field of grand strategy games.
Source: Crusader Kings II: “Conclave” Expansion Announced
[TMC] Crusader Kings II: “Conclave” Expansion Announced
« Antwort #14 am: Januar 09, 2016, 02:08:32 Vormittag »
Crusader Kings II: “Conclave” Expansion Announced
Paradox Interactive’s acclaimed title, Crusader Kings II, is a titan in the field of grand strategy games.
Source: Crusader Kings II: “Conclave” Expansion Announced