Prevent Yourself from Getting Scammed.

[p. Ayorama]

Ok this is a quick advice thread that I made to stop all you sobs from getting scammed over, and over, and over again.

MEETING THE TRADER.
Ok so pretend you meet an interested trader.
You hit it off well and you become close ONLINE buddies. The keyword is ONLINE.
Many scammers use something called social engineering to lure you to trust them as a pal or buddy.
However, in reality, this is an online transaction meaning he just wantas to use you.
You might want to get straight to business during a trade and make sure this person also keeps
straight to the point.
My point is keep straight to the business and trust no one especially during a trade.

INITIATING THE TRADE
Ok, well you guys have both agreed to trade each other and you are both satisfied with the trade.
Scammers usually make their moves now. There are several methods they employ to scam you. Here are a few.
1. They use the ID, PASS, and PIN method. This is when they tell you to give out their information in turns. DO NOT USE THIS METHOD USE AN MM!
2. They use 2 computers to log in both your account, and their account so that you won't be able to access the account you traded.
3. They impersonate as both an MM and the trader try to lure you into giving the account.
My advice, USE AN MM!

SUCCESSFUL TRADE
Right now you have had a successful trade, most likely with an MM. In this case you should thank the MM and the trader, and also rep them on NT.

Some Official MMs:
can be found at the officla mm list. ( only mods+ are allowed to do official NT trades)

Follow these rules and chances of getting scammed will decrease drastically.

EDIT: Only applies to NT forums. And a suggestion try to avoid trading with GzP, very untrustworthy.
Also check the ABUSE section for current active scammers within NT, hopefully you won't end up there.

[p. famous]

Pretty nice the only problem is if you trade someone from a different forum they most likely will not use a NT MM

[e. P159864]

and you should add that you should only use admins/mods and above or people approve by mods/admins. and that the MM should prove that their really them by talking in the shoutbox.

[Clam]

lol. irony. kokee scammed me out of an account once with a fake middleman.

[e. Hitokiri]

AND you should add if you receive paypal money to immediately transfer it into your bank account.

Obviously they can't do chargeback if theres 0.00 in your paypal...

[e. Havoc]

Nice thread, stickied. Hopefully you can add a bit more to it but nice one. As for trading with other forums. I belive compared to other forums NT has a lower scam rate (even though trading is becommign very active and more and more abuse threads comming up). I MM quite a bit and the number of times I get "OMFG THEY SCAMMED ME I HAVE 0 ACCS LEFT" or "THERE MM TOOK MY 120 PRIEST" is ridiclious. The majority are on other forums just for trade or there mod's/admins are usually just scammers. People who are not as familiar with other forums are more easily to be led into using a fake / unlegit one aswell as they do not know the structure aswell. Stick to using a NT MM or your taking a risk. Yeah... They might not want to trade but better having your acc than having none...

[e. Dont Worry]

Very well Kokee =] I just noticed this sorry i dont visit the trade center much these days.

[lilhitch]

thx very much leanred from this lol and okay ididntkno ur not alllowed to trade in that wayi wont doit again

[p. ChaosFX]

For Paypal:

You should give that acc to an MM, and have him log it for 3 days.

Then after the 3 days..the MM can give it back to the person who bought it and he can't recharge it back

[~ [pLore]]

Another point to add, there's a glitch going around with the pins. If you do a pin trade, make sure you don't log out of the account as long as possible (recommeded 3+ days).

Because even though you change the pin, they can still change it back.

I'm not going to say how you do this in fear of other people taking it to their advantage.

Careful trading.