GGG, Enough is Enough – Ban These Scammers AND All Their Related Accounts!

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Piousqd#0073 wrote:

Trade scamming is pretty hard to prove, this is why they arent banned. Report the person if you feel they were trading in bad faith, and if GGG gets enough reports against the same account, we can assume some action is taken.


GGG has made a trade system that is pretty good at preventing trade scams, assuming you are paying attention.

-You HAVE to mouse over an item to highlight it green to enable accept trade. GGG can't force you to actually look at the details of that item when doing so, but you SHOULD.

-If you do this, and then the accept trade option goes grey AGAIN, then then item was moved/swapped. This could be an accident by the legit trader, or a scam. Spend the 2 extra seconds it takes, and LOOK at the item again.

Problem solved.

"pretty hard to prove"
you must have took something funny haven't you ? what's so hard about "proving" a scam when you get a direct link from GGG's website directly into the game with the item you requested.
and when GGG can check the chats and see that no different aggreement have been made after that direct message?
the only exception would be if chats happened outside of the game, and although that can be proved since in most cases you will see chat histories in discord and other wise, at the very least you can see if the action have been reperted by the scammed people. and if the scammer gets reported like 5+ times in a day for example or maybe 10 times a week "whatever GGG thinks is the proper number of reports" and every time they have a proper direct link from their website with the item and the scamer put a different one without any further messaging for different agreement.

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zaarakiekenpachi#0320 wrote:

what's so hard about "proving" a scam when you get a direct link from GGG's website directly into the game with the item you requested.
and when GGG can check the chats and see that no different aggreement have been made after that direct message?
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The term "scam" implies malicious intent. You can't prove intent based on a mismatch between the trade request and the trade itself. I.e, a mistake or lack of attention on the sellers part is not a scam.

Proving the seller didn't simply make a mistake is not actually possible. The best GGG can do is trend analysis across multiple reports and make an informed assumption.

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roundishcap#0649 wrote:

Chalk up another reason why an auction house is good for the game.

The reason "trade is bad" in a LOT of cases is because players don't pay attention to what they are trading for, an auction house will not fix that.

I blame Elon Ma

xdd

it's a weird effect but it seems that the higher the trade value, the less attention people pay towards the trade.

might be the sweaty fingers when they supposedly make the deal of their lifetime with a newb?