Doctor Archive
Thread: Buff Cheaters Doctors Beware
Same goes for me. I don't buff for money much either, but when I do, my macro says:
"/ttJaysen's Enhance Dwill hit you for 2356 per attribute, lasts 3 hours and 45 minutes, and I charge 9500cr. This is a 110 rated droid, I have +25 wound treatment, and I'm using Bivoli. Please make sure you have under 250 Battle Fatigue, and do not bank tip me unless you ask first."
Works quite well. The droid, wound treatment and bivoli part save me answering the same questions every time I buff someone.
After reading about this on the forums, I decided to try a small experiment.
I had a friend of mine tip me a small amount, then send me a faked e-mail containing the exact same subject and body text.
The only discernable difference that I could see right away, was that the official e-mail generated by the system contained both the First and Last name of my friend, while the personal e-mail contained only the first name.
To my knowledge, there is no way to change your name once your character is created, and as far as I know, you cannot affect the "From" field of e-mails.
It's so annoying as it's such a simple fix. Dev's should provide a Bank statement, simple as that. A record (doesn't have to last more than 1 week) of all transactions on your bank account. I mean come on, what kind of bank would you join where you couldn't obtain a record of your transactions. Any credits received are individually listed, by either mission or from the person sending the money. You can then double check this using, say, /bankstatement to bring up a window against your emails.
I think the solution is even more obvious, as bank tipping used to work just fine before publish 6, when you would get a system message that somebody is bank-tipping. Impossible to forge a system message, and I don't understand why this changed in the first place. But that's what has caused the current problem.
I absolutely do not understand WHY they changed it.
What positive thing came from them changing the format of the bank tip email?
To my knowledge from reading various threads the really easy answer is nothing, they seem to have spawned a scam out of no where.
Devlah wrote:
After reading about this on the forums, I decided to try a small experiment.
I had a friend of mine tip me a small amount, then send me a faked e-mail containing the exact same subject and body text.
The only discernable difference that I could see right away, was that the official e-mail generated by the system contained both the First and Last name of my friend, while the personal e-mail contained only the first name.
To my knowledge, there is no way to change your name once your character is created, and as far as I know, you cannot affect the "From" field of e-mails.
So, if you get an e-mail that says it's from "joe schmoe", it's probably good, while that e-mail that looks official from "joe", is likely fake.
The only exception to this as I see it, is if the person in question doesn't have a last name, in which case, currently, there's no real way to discern by looking at the e-mail alone.
Hope this helps some.
cccya wrote:
Bank tip scammers are the worst, but I did get a pretty good laugh at a guy the other night who didnt even know how to scam right. I was buffing outside of Coronet and this Wookie asks me how much and if I would buff him. I finished the buff and he gave me the customary bow and thanks then I hear an mail come in as he runs off. I open the mail and it is from him and all the message said was buffs! He didnt even know to take the time to type out the simulated message. I laughed so hard I just let him go.
LMFAO.....the best thing is he probably thought he really tricked you, and started bragging to his buddies.
What I don't understand, is why they don't just impliment a quick fix. Like prefacing the sender's name in your email with something.. How hard would that be?!
If they can take the time to put mini Krayts in the starports, I don't think it would be difficult at all to just put a {verified} in front of the sender of an email on bank tips..
Grrrrr
Yeha, refusing bank tips is tough, how do you do it?
Scenerio, #1
"How much for a buff?"
"10k"
Bank tip email comes in before youcan explain you dont take em.
"I tipped you"
"I don't take bank tips"
"Well tip me back 10k"
Now what?
Scenerio, #2
"How much for a buff?"
"10k and no bank tips please"
Bank tip email comes in anyway.
"I tipped you"
"I don't take bank tips, I said that already"
"OH I didnt see it (OR) "OH I tipped you at the same exact time I saw your message, sorry"
"Well sorry I said I don't take bank tips"
"Well tip me back 10k"
Now what?