*Sigh*
Yet another required bump.
Kindda sad right?
Which reminds me of the time when I was just a newb to the game...looking for a way to survive.
At that time, I got a small amount of peds on my hands and reckon that I could try "trading".
So off I went looking at the auction orders...and...concluding that the residue market might look like a decent start, I went around buying small lumps of them, from people, for a tad bit below the auction order's mu.
Things weren't too great I guess. Some people liked what I was doing...some people didn't.
It was during that time, I encountered this player...of a name I shall not quote.
Seemed like a nice fella and kept selling me the metal and enmatt residue that he had gotten. (Not daily, but maybe once or twice a week.)
Gradually, after a couple of trades, and presumably gotten to know each other slightly better, he talked about what I was doing....and I was frank about it to him.
Because of that conversation, he went on to teaching me how to read the auction markup charts and how to go about auctioning stuff to have a slightly better "return rate". (To this, I am very grateful actually...as it made my survival in this game easier to cope with...even until now.)
So days turn to weeks and weeks turn to months....and sometimes, occasionally, I even went on some hunting trips with him and his wife...on plumatergus youngs apparently (since I was so hell bent on trying to loot my own dna for them....cause they looked so cute to me).
Plus I was a newb with hardly much skills...so pluma youngs were decent hunting foes with opalos (in a group of three) and were pretty cheap to hunt too i guess.
On occasions when I was "broke", they would sometimes offer to take me on tp runs to grab new tps...and on other times offer to go for some free sponsored hunting trips, of which I sometimes tagged along just for the skills and return all loot and equips after the hunt back to them.
So to me, they were pretty nice chaps. Both him and his wife.
(And I even joined their soc...even though it wasn't a large one....only a couple of peeps in it.)
--- Fast-fowarding the story a bit ---
Things like this happen for a while and then one day, he talked to me about a "venture". He said that he could profit off the auction...trading things....much like the way he taught me how.
Asked if I was interested to chip in...and all I needed was to give him 1k peds. He would make it (the peds) work for me and I could gain some revenue off the venture.
(Mind you, back then...CLDs weren't even introduced yet.)
It was tempting to me. However, not sure why...but I didn't take up his offer.
Maybe it was because I prefer to do things myself? Maybe it was because I won't even trust my left hand from my right? Maybe its cause I prefer to keep the game as a game? Or maybe its cause I wasn't greedy?
I don't know. I just didn't take up his offer.
BUT...BUT I MUST STRESS...it didn't raise any red flag to me back then either.
I simply thought of it as an offer...from a friend...and...one which I didn't took.
Maybe it wasn't a scam attempt...or maybe it was.
Even if you ask me now, I will still tell you that I don't know.
But one thing is for sure.
Scams are very hard to detect....especially trust scams. You won't know when you might fall for one....and in what way.
You can only be cautious and on the lookout for them.
Good luck...and stay safe.
(PS: If your curious....nope....haven't seen them online much now. Maybe its different timezones or maybe they've quit? I don't know.
Oh ya....remind me to check their "last login" status later...hahaha...forgot we have that now.
- Update -
One's never logged in since the patch with the FL improvement to track last online status. It shows N/A.
The other haven't logged in for > 100 days now.)