Anyone remember the firepot scam? I made sooooo much money off that.
Back in the day you could drop money on the ground. And it wouldn't give you a message like "are you sure you want to drop this?", it would just drop. Also, fire was considered a wall of sorts, so you couldn't easily click on someone of they were sitting in fire. So what you did was sit in one of the big ass firepots in the EC tunnel and auction off some expensive item for a sweet deal "WTS fungi tunic, 35k, need to get it sold!" and you'd get replies quick. Tell them to come meet you at the firepot in the tunnel. They'd come on over, go to trade their money to me, click the fire instead of my character, and the money would drop to the ground. At that point you're already mid camp and waiting to snatch it before you log off.
I always did it on my little brothers account in case I got in trouble, but I never did. Once he found though out he went to like 15 different servers and scammed hundreds of thousands of plat to sell on ebay. Shortly after he did that there was a patch to fix it.
Good times. Kids are assholes. Wait...so are adults...
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