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Thread: So someone tried to bank scam me...funny story though
you wrote:---------I have a new e-mail message. Now this guy has a Surname, his e-mail doesnt. So i check my balance.
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Hi guys,
I need some help here with the fake bank tips and scamming. I am a new doctor and just started to buff. I had some very bad and unhappy experience with very unfriendly and rude people. Even when I tell them not to tip or bank tip me they do very fast and all at once, there is no chance n the world to check what is going on on my bank account. I thought I found two guys which tipped me and didnt have a Surname in their e-mail so i refused to buff them. Instead they where running around yelling that i am scamming. It might have been a mistake on my side because i didnt know that one can have only a single name so they might have paid. After a long dispute i paid them back to get my peace and to give the situation a benefit of a doubt.
The end of the story: I stop buffing people for money and use the buffs only for me and friends to do missions. Still i am interested in how you guys handle the mess of fake bank tips, rude players, line jumping and all the **edit** which happens when buffing players.
cheers
Abbe
I personally have yet to be ripped off (as far as I know). While this happens it's not common and the majority of the playerbase (as well as the devs) look down on this. I still allow bank tips because sometimes people may not have the cash on hand. I like to give people the benefit of the doubt. The last time I buffed for a few hours I made 500K. Some guys may have tried to rip me off but who knows.
The only time you have to worry about it, is if the person doing the bank tip has a single name (like my character on Kettemoor which I completely forgot about when I made him).
If an email comes from a player it will be first name only. If it's generated by the system (like a bank tip) it'll have first name last name.
For example let's take a guy name "IMA PLAYER"
If "IMA PLAYER" sends you an email then the name in the email field will just say "ima" (all lower case). However if they send you a bank tip and the game sends you an email the name will say "ima player" (all lower case)
That's how you tell if it's a bank tip or a player sent email. Bank tips will have first name, last name and player sent emails will have first name only.
All my hard work trying to convince a Rebel that us Imperials actually have a nobler purpose, using good arguments and so on...all to waste. Ah well I made 10k out of it.
chiefccw wrote:
Im thinking of starting a no bank tips policy. Does anyone else have any experience of doing this? is there anything I should do or watch out for?
A flat out "no bank tips" policy is a bad Idea. This is the macro I run.
/say Selling buffs all stats over 2100 for 3 hour, 10k rebels 15k imps and nutrals; ----(you have to have the semi collen in there or it will say evrything in the same bubble)
/say do NOT bank tip unless I know you are going to and have said it's ok, and that I am looking at my bank balence. any bank tip I get without a reason I will consider a gift. thank you for your buissnes.
you would have to change that around depending on your buffs but the secound one plays right after the first one so there usesaly isn't much confusion. the only time I have a problem is when people don't read the whole thing. but that happens rarely and if they do it is their own falt, because it was ALL there, they just coun't be bothered to read it. this has worked very well for me.
