EC Scammer: Gerun/Olympia

[Strifen]

Just to give you guys the heads up if you come across anyone with these names this guy is just trying to scam people in the tunnel.

He requested to buy a Lammy and HBC from me in the EC tunnel, agree to my purchase price of 6k for both. Said he needed the items on that char and he would log over to pay me back, figured alright never had a problem doing that before and the items weren't all too valuable.

Anyhow he never logged over to pay me back and I'm almost certain this guy is going to be scamming others in the coming days.

Sent in petitions and hopefully a staff remember can look into it and ban this scum from the server.

I know It was totally my bad handing him items first, I just never had a problem doing this in the past. Will never do it again that's for sure.

Just a friendly PSA.

Edit: Olympia is not scamming anyone, this is the name Gerun gave to me as his "main" to gain my trust.

[Strifen]

Char Gerun logged back in after ~20 mins. Told him to give me my plat and he logged off. Does server staff do anything to punish players such as this or is its accepted?

[quido]

Wow, IB scum. Hope you work it out man.

[Lanzellot]

when the big chief ambrassator around, you will have luck and he hammer him in the ground GL man

[Champion_Standing]

You fell for the oldest, most easily identifiable method of scamming in EQ.

I know some people just like to be nice guys, and they would rather avoid confronting people in this kind of situation. If someone ever asks you to do this tell them that you will take the money first and give the items on their other char...they should have no reason to object to this as it is essentially the same thing they are requesting of you. I would only go this route because there may actually be the occasional legit request of this type.

[dav]

Highly doubt Oly is scamming anyone lol.

Probably got disconnected, be patient. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Iliilliill]

Any time I'm buying for an alt or having to pay with my mule I always pay up front and then hop over. Run the same risk of getting scammed, so you gotta be careful who you're buying from or selling to in that type of situation.

Sorry to hear about it man, hopefully name & shame will bring justice if it's really a scam instance.

[Aerar]

This is truly the oldest trick in the book, at least 14 years old. You are lucky it was only a 4k item. Seen it done with 60k items. ALWAYS BE THE ONE HOLDING THE GOODS DURING TRANSFER. If he wants to have seperate characters do it, get the money first then give him the goods.

Remember you only are at as much risk as you allow

[Strifen]

Originally Posted by dav [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Highly doubt Oly is scamming anyone lol.

Probably got disconnected, be patient. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Thanks for the Reply Dav, sounds like Olympia is a shaman that is in IB. I doubt that Gerun = Olympia, I asked Gerun who his main char was before I give him the items and he said that it was Olympia. He is most likely supplying this name because it's a well known person in a high end guild lending credibility to the myth that he will pay you for the items.

[Atmas]

If you have no confirmation on a certain toon belonging to someone I would definitely take that name out of your posts and thread title.