![]() "Let's talk in discord, here's my discord name"ģ - Scammer will tell victim of a good deal offer ![]() "Let's talk in Facebook, here's my FB link" "Hi, This is your Guild Master using a different account"Ģ - Open a private conversation where no one can interrupt the scammer and victim "Hi, I'm a girl and I want to know about you" This type of scamming is executed using 4 steps: There are some individuals who get creative enough to discover the character that causes the DN chat to have a next line - prompting more creative options for scammers.ġ) The player who socializes with you and hopes to gain some information from you while outside the game This Impersonation needs to be an entirely different category in itself. If a trader's name appears to be mispelled from what you remember from a known player, take extra precautions.If you spot a name with an unusual trading scheme and uses a lot of letters that can easily be replaced with alternate shapes, take extra precautions during tradings.If you plan to add m or w in your name, make sure to maximize the 10 characters to avoid getting impersonated by "single-double" replacement method.IlButchII is 4x more likely to be impersonated than ButchDeGaz Make it a point to lovingly name your characters to human recognizable names without making extra characters as a decorative.Name your characters with letters that are hard to replicate using replacement characters.However does not always work for IGN's with full 10-character names.Īs a general rule for naming your characters: Some impersonation attempts to make 2 characters look like other characters. Single Character to Double Character Replacement. Note: Recent character names are not allowed to create names with Cyrillic sets. Characters that make it look or "sound" the same.Ĭyrillic Character replacements. Known Character Switching for Impersonations Victim is pressured to perform hasty decisions.Victim suffers from Dyslexia - unable to read and interpret/transpose information from one medium to another.A perfect example would be that the victim does not distinguish the difference between NostrumX and NosturnX.text messages with extremely short and bad spellings and thus the mindset for reading and comprehension is very forgiving for bad spellings/abbreviations - leading to easy impersonations. Victim is used to short abbreviations e.g.Victims of such trick appear to fall under the following conditions: Name impersonations play a trick with your eyes with the use of special characters or double characters. All incoming messages have a name where you can double-click and choose "Save Name" ![]() You can save player names especially when you are sent a private message. It would be best to save the name and paste it on a notepad using large fonts and find out if a player is indeed the player you were dealing with. A scammer/impersonator will find ways to trade you from your blind-side, be it a view away from your current camera angle, or from a location far away from you. To trade a player "remotely", just type the command /trade. Here are some of the tools that an impersonator uses to fool you: And somehow a name that looks very close to the famous/reputable character is trading you from nowhere. Sometimes, unknown to you, the scammer would send you private messages to you a whole lot even though you are already next to each other. Other players will try as much as trying to come up with ways to make the font or letter look very close to the name. Previously, it was easy to find someone credible by inspecting their gear, but some scammers have gone so far as to establish themselves before starting to scam. Perfect case of impersonation is someone impersonating to be a credible person. In a world where a misspelled name is acceptable, it is different in trading. Then this reputable person had no idea that you were trying to trade him. You were trading with a person whom you thought was a famous and reputable person, then disappears without a trace. There are some items in TH that are said to be worth more than the capped amount (200,000g cap), some individuals prefer to bail out on the first few transactions before disappearing entirely from the deal process.
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