The History of Scamming | Diablo 2 Scams

[@elevated7650]

Getting scammed in d2 as a child helped me not get scammed as an adult :)

[@Faxy95]

Truth lmao

[@anazolnierczyk5459]

yup. these days everything is a safe space so kids are dumb.

[@joshuanoble5895]

Some of these hacker trade thieves and pkers were pretty damn clever compared to modern call scam centers and rebate hustlers.

[@jarredlkling]

It made me have trust issues on the Internet.

[@xTatsumix]

@@jarredlkling and in real life

[@stvWndrz]

Man, d2 trading was one the more formative experiences in my childhood. Learned how fucking awful people could be, then learned how awful I could be. What a time.

[@ManteIIo]

LMAO, right on point! ...It wasn't us like that, it was the life like that!

[@cpilfold420]

Lol

[@jacob2790]

@@ManteIIo lmao

[@jacob2790]

Dont hate the player hate the game!!!!

[@ajr3605]

I was scammed and became a scammer myself to recoup. On certain entrance set ups (not with a bridge) for A1 you could use your trap sin to lay down inferno traps. They basically look invisible or like a rock if put into the right spot. Mostly the fence would cover them up. It's the whole join my clan if u do a trust drop. U go outside the camp and do it first, proving there's no way u can get around the fence in time to pick up gear. Have the other player go outside camp and do it. Go hostile. Boom dead. Grab their gear

[@AdamNeisler]

AHHH, a true gentleman's scam

[@Riotlight]

I fell for the "wisper your account and password to find out your position on the ladder" scam or something along those lines.

[@MintyLime703]

To add to the last message, don't use the same password on multiple accounts. If one is compromised then they're all compromised. All it takes is for your email/username and password to be leaked on some unrelated website and for someone to then go around trying the same combination on other sites until they get a hit. If you hear about a data breach on a site, change your password on that site. If you have the same password on other sites for whatever reason, change those too. Personally every single account I own have their own password and they're completely random max length strings. Every once in a while an old account from when I was a kid will come back from the dead alerting me to account activity, and sure enough the password is the same one I used to have on everything back then. That password/username combo is still out there being shared and sold. It only takes just 1 company to fuck up web security.

[@royalrepublican3480]

missed when trying to move a item to the trade window and it get closed it would drop the item. or when trying to put the item and it get closed right before the victim would press left click making them drop the item.

[@selynar4889]

Don't forget Unifentified Uniques. Upgrade them in cube, and trade them as something else. Biggies to Shako. I remember the Alt F4 with item in ground damn early shortcuts. My buddy fell for new corpse pop, I saw original corpse pop. Man those were the days. Part of why I never trusted 3rd party sellers. And in all honesty, I corpse popped people.

[@richardhambel648]

I would pretend to be a scammer as a joke and like swap out a gem for some level 1 dagger while trading. It was just for laughs I mean swapping items causes the trade buttons to unpress so they could see it

[@DaveDahBrave]

I was DnD Scammed by a clan I met through my big brother, I've downloaded "Maphack" and the program dropped all my items, I've corpse popped myself in a public game, most recently I was double reg'd in 2018 and lost the best hybrid sin i've ever built lol this game taught us all very important real life lessons

[@Eldred15]

It is worth mentioning that Coooley had to recreate all of these scamming situations in order to give us footage of them. Also I like how the end segment seemed like it was going to be an Ad for some password protection service, but nope it was just Coooley helping out his viewers. Awesome video as always.

[@zxcvbnmjfjf]

Are you sure he did recreate all of these? The bow at 7:30 says "slightly increased attack speed". You would have to download and run very old versions of D2 in order to have a mod like that. I would like Cooley to speak on this, but a lot of the clips look old and different from clip to clip. Why wouldn't he just use clips from other people?

[@casaroli]

I still don’t trust ANYONE in ANY online game when trading because of D2 scams.

[@hazardeur]

it was a good training ground indeed

[@ShinigamiPvP]

I still remember being 14/15 pleading with the scammer/hacker for my items back... Or even 'friends' I had for over a year who I stupidly let MF on my account, lessons hard learned but useful for a lifetime of online gaming

[@AToMexe]

Best feeling ever was finding people who you can really trust. Dropping some high-end gear & dc/re with everything being still there was such a bonding memory.

[@hazardeur]

@@AToMexe yeah, real wholesome. until that final ultimate day when all of a sudden, everything was gone anyway

[@AToMexe]

@@hazardeur Well, happend to me too; it's just a game. I lost much more stuff dying on mf runs. At least you knew who you can trust.

[@nadavattar2863]

I remember my little brother crying hard after getting scammed out of an SOJ Bro that was 15 years ago, I'll never forget it though, people in this game were ruthless 😂

[@tpop3723]

They still are!

[@r6-AgentScorpionParkerKRider23]

I'm on US West NL tell him if he starts up again I'll give him two SOJs to get him started, can't stand those people that rob people in D2...and yes I'm serious...let me know if he starts up again

[@dovion]

@@tpop3723 At this point if they still are, then they have mental issues...

[@triceracop1827]

@@r6-AgentScorpionParkerKRider23 idk man.. sounds like a scam /s

[@john9040]

@Tr Uz i mean ruthless... no different than politics, business or anything else lol. life isnt all disney movies

[@thaddcorbett2148]

I remember watching someone's corpse pop from getting killed (again) by another monster. Grabbed his stuff and gave it back to him in town.

[@hazardeur]

as rare as a unicorn

[@pauld3346]

I remember asking people to move the item around before they trade it... to prove that it wasnt a spoof !

[@Leafgreen1976]

Had a guy trading Tal's armor back in the day for 1 SoJ .I must not have been paying attention and ended up with a Rattlecage.

[@alexandergronbladh1758]

I traded a soj for a Shako. However, it was a socketed cap with an emerald. Lesson learned, if a deal sounds too good to be true, then it's a scam.

[@ManteIIo]

@@alexandergronbladh1758 My fav was socketed hat with emerald when trading shako or any shield that looked like a storm. I was damn good at it - make few legit trade attempts, but purposely make your inventory full then blaming the other person to make space, after a second failed attempt flame a little person for wasting time and asks if he gonna trade or not, so this way most people would get desperate, then in third or even fourth attempt wait for him put all the items first and only then put your fake one and immediately pressing accept button.... worked FLAWLESSLY due to ppl greedy nature and thinking they found someone stupid enough to trade pretty expensive items for half the market price in the end only to get fuked themselves :D

[@Jason-rk4nd]

@@ManteIIo yeah i hope karma caught up to you. People that try to benefit of demeaning others are literally the scum of the earth.

[@john9040]

@@ManteIIo thats genius

[@Middleagedgamer_]

I got item spoofed once. Shit got so common for a while there. You had to ask every single person you traded with to move the items around to make sure they were real. And even then you had to check the item to make sure they didn't art switch!

[@daleyoung4710]

Ah the good old chipped emerald in a shako ;)

[@mikesignorella9249]

@@daleyoung4710 I got traded a few of those in my day lol

[@TimeFunHappy]

Thanks for this, important topic going into D2R - but you forgot the most devastating scam :( - when your online friend of two-three years, with whom you have shared many adventures with, says that it would be great for you to reroll to 'x' class so you can crush noobs in PK better, only to rob you while transferring everything and unfriend you. The desire for gear really brought out the worst in people.

[@rememberDay1]

That ones really sinister; the planning of it makes it even worse. Glad to say I was that poor friend you could transfer your GGs with and never rob you =P

[@toddlabbe3973]

I would have scammed you both. Easasssssy money. Hahahahah

[@013chubba]

damn i'm glad i never found that "friend"on diablo that sounds even worse than just being scammed out of some items might be because i don't trust people i don't know in real life but i feel like every one can fall for this even if in general i don't trust people i feel like if I played a game with them for 2/3 years i feel safe enough around them to mule

[@blizztendo6467]

Bit off topic but I always found it funny the first time a newish friend would xfer ggs around me they would always log back in super quick. Once they trust you they take their time lol.

[@anon18999]

Lmfao hahahhahah

[@erik1993]

Took me 3 months of hard work to finally get my first ever IK set, weeks later I heard about this enigma thing. One day someone offered me the archon plate version for IK armor and weapon, then he said brb need more room, I ended up with a white mage plate, cried myself to sleep.

[@hazardeur]

yeah, i fell for that too and it wasn't even back in the day, it was around early 2010's when i got back into the game again. man, i got a wake up call real quick there.

[@anon18999]

LMFAOOOOOOOOO

[@craigdefrain5607]

Half the problem with shit like that working was guys like you too excited not checking shit before clicking the trade button 😆

[@voiceofreason2674]

He finessed you up off the Maul of the Immortal Kings???? Oh HELLLL No!!!!

[@XDarkStrikerX]

Got caught only with the trade swap back in the day. D2 taught me a lot about how people are in real life in the end.

[@larrygarry1393]

so true, i got scammed by trade swap once too, wanted to buy tal rashas body armor, he had it locked in 3 times and break up very quick due to "lags", however, the fourth time he puts in a body armor which looks excatly the same (the bodyarmor is purple), i just wanted to accept quickly and didn´t look at it the 4. time... things you learn from

[@maryweld5629]

I have sad memories of the Telekinesis scam, back when it could be used to pick up any item. Poor 10 year old me.

[@macmac169]

I got trade screen scammed. I remember the guy wanted my shaftstop and buriza for windforce. I ended up with a blue hydra bow...

[@Bearingcab]

I was a barbarian with a telekinesis ring that did that trick 😅

[@Azidonis]

I was waiting to see him mention the Telekenesis scam.

[@matornot]

Haha yeah, every time I find charges of TK I think of that scam.

[@IamMonikaDLC]

Getting corpse popped, trade swapped and item spoofed was just another month in D2! It was so part of the game culture that I remember my friends just saying 'damn that sucks, oh well'

[@Not.afitnesspro]

Yupp, I did a couple of people like that, I would tell people let me kill you a couple of times and il give you something, I would then kill them multiple times and then give them a weapon and their corpse items would pop

[@Hypno_BPM]

funny how we all just rolled with it, “lesson learned” and moved on. lol

[@michaelhatlevig4410]

You forgot the biggest scam of all honestly. When a group of kids made multiple accounts with names sounding like company or admin names and asked for account information to prepare for the upcoming expansions. That scam alone started the whole "Do not share your password" message that blizzard started sending out.

[@GTFOIMAO]

To this day still happens in wow. Alot in classic. Always named Blìzzard ör something :)

[@cpilfold420]

@@GTFOIMAO yeah I committed this scam a few times lol It wasn’t super effective I think I got like 3-4 accounts with it and just gave up

[@ZacHawkins42]

@@cpilfold420 Got a few people that way myself, I used to be a real bastard.

[@cpilfold420]

@@ZacHawkins42 lol yeah Fun times Can’t hustle a hustler There was definitely a lot of positives that came out of those times

[@rjansvendsen6014]

Yup. Lost my first account to these lowlifes, but gained more brains.

[@hesitatenothing]

I remember the dupe scam. One of my friends showed me, when he wrote in chat ''who wanna learn to dupe say yy'' and then he whispered to ppl to create a game. In the game he asked the person to stand close to the exit of town and drope a epic item. Then hold ALT+F4 .. and like least 8 ppl fell for it.. It was nasty of him but daaaamn.. people learned to not be stupid from now on then

[@michaelmurphy2112]

While it's less vicious, it is fun to see people ask "How do I do 'x'?" and get the response, "Try ALT-F4"

[@NKraven88]

That was the first scam I fell for. Dup an item drop it across the map far away from me, hold Alt, then press F1, F3, then F4. Thankfully most of my gaming was in cyber-cafe with my char on a floppy disk rather then online. But still hurt.

[@davidcantor8349]

I fell for it too. I remember losing my rarest armor and I almost quit Diablo II forever. It actually took me a month to come back, but I learned my lesson. It's much harder to cheat an honest person, so no more "dupes" or "bots" for me.

[@robsnook4512]

Reminds me of the macro i would spam in wow battle grounds that got people to log out lol

[@Grievance87]

Pretty sure this is how 10yo me learned about the alt+f4 function, I never forgot nor really needed it since lol

[@rippan9191]

This game gave me trust issues. That does not change the fact that I love it to death!

[@matttondr9282]

Literally

[@hazardeur]

D2 was the BEST training ground us computer nerds could get to ready us for the real world outthere.

[@Divide]

I got scammed once in the years I played D2. I found my first stone of Jordan, and tried trading it for a shako. Got the ol peasant cap with a green gem in it instead. I remember i was so damn sad. It took a ton of farming to find that damn ring. I still get irritated thinking of it. Lol

[@GTFOIMAO]

Same item graphic is really an issue in d2

[@anon18999]

HAHAHHAHAHAHA

[@lambchopsmtl]

Yeah I stopped playing after I got scammed

[@ramslak]

@ChouetteWoW yeah wtf, i recently lost 15 years of playlists for no reason. Luckily i got my acc back quick!

[@kevinlasher2812]

The first scam I fell for was someone pretending to be my close friend. We shared each other's account details to help each other mule all the time. I'm not sure how this guy figured it out but he pretended to be my close friend saying he was "locked out of his account" and if I could remind him of my account details so he could log on later to transfer some starter gear to begin again. Stupid me gave it to him right away, not even considering it wasn't actually him. Next day I log on to find my account stripped clean and mad as hell at my actual friend who was on who the scammer impersonated and he had no clue wtf I was so upset at him over, lol. I figured it out pretty quickly and started over, just to fall for the item drop scam. Luckily I was quick on the draw though and unplugged my computer after only 1 or 2 items got dropped. 😅

[@john9040]

ouch man

[@camwyant1523]

Sorry man this may have been me lol

[@cpilfold420]

Hilarious to look back on though I was a victim to many of these scams but then I came back and scammed 10x harder lol

[@jewellui]

Why would you need to share each other’s accounts to mule?

[@Frankenslide]

Plot twist, your friend lied and he’s the one who actually stole your stuff and he just played it off brilliantly

[@kylebelcina]

Oh boy this gave me flashbacks when internet cafes started popping

[@Lexsoufz]

We can say that being scammed in D2, is a Rite of Passage 😏 pun intended.

[@wugglesx]

Those punks used to be so tough when you had no idea what to really do lol . But the instant level T_T beautiful... Lol i remember there used to be assholes that would join just to pop a portal at the summit when they were almost dead and leave the game so you had to restart it -_-

[@ahtoshkaa]

Got scammed by the drop hack. Sent drop hack to others. Got also scammed by the corpse popping (I was playing waay before any patches addressed that) The good old days)

[@zc4905]

I had a Paladin buddy who I played with for maybe 2 years. We played almost daily, and one day I wanted help transferring some gear over to my new Paladin. After I had dropped the loot on the ground and swapped characters, he had picked up everything and blocked me. Taught me to NEVER trust anyone who wasn’t a real life friend that played Diablo.

[@Verycoolguy1337]

Thats sad, most people wouldnt do that too a guy uve known for 2 years.

[@spacelord8284]

Dang that does suck. I feel yah on that been through the same thing. Played with someone for year or so like a friend and thought I could trust.....hah nope-ers.

[@Marmotone]

Two years is nothing, especially when you only talk online, trust no one.

[@_DavidLeBlanc]

It wasn't really scamming, but you used to be able to turn most items on the ground into an iron golem, so you could grief people that way! Some people used to be annoying and drop a fancy/hard to find item on the ground just out of your reach over and over again and it was very satisfying to turn their special item into a golem!

[@_DavidLeBlanc]

@@ThirdEyeThriving Yeah! I'm not sure when they got rid of it, I played at release of both D2 and D2X

[@LetsPlayBojangles]

Haha I did this with a tyrials might some dude was dropping on the ground in a low level game. My level 27 necro had a sick golemn for a little bit.

[@Aztal]

I went to a link to "vote" for a guy in exchange for trangs gloves. It took over my character made me run around throwing my gear on the ground. I am not bitter you are bitter.

[@Aztal]

@Ryan Crump it was a valuable lesson, here we are 20 years later and I'm still paranoid about what I click on or what I download.

[@brosephbroheim6428]

@@Aztal Damn straight. Some of my first experiences with shady people came from this game.

[@joshuanoble5895]

@@brosephbroheim6428 I had a character named TheGraveYard a necromancer with his stash inv and cube full of ears in HC from the assassin's trap pk. Drop 5 traps outside along the wall lay a tp over it and put "free items " by the tp. Then watch them from the wall far away from towns exit or the tp. People would dance the exit to see if you were moving or going to chase them but the real danger was already outside. Has been patched.

[@Marcel-sv7lk]

the exact same shit hit me as well, I am happy that i was not alone :D

[@cpilfold420]

Thanks for your items

[@dommerjr]

my inventory was allways empty back in the day because sometimes when someone showed up to brag about how awsome their item was, they would click accept in trade when all their gear was there because they thought you wouldnt have room for all the items :D but little did they know... did that so many times :D

[@vlex8511]

LOLLLL im dead this has happened to me ahahahaha. then they go wait... WTF GIMME BACK

[@rodrigosiebert7475]

Can't believe someone would do that lol

[@chrisstephens2107]

@@rodrigosiebert7475 I had many people do this. They would fill every single space then click trade. I once Transferred my items right before someone did this and walked away with all of it.

[@dommerjr]

@@rodrigosiebert7475 only happened a couple of times but still fun when it worked ^^

[@ManteIIo]

​@@rodrigosiebert7475 Lol, believe it was nearly daily occurrence when people would fill every space in trade window bragging about gear they have and then pretty often would spam accept button couple of times. I may have done myself that as it was pretty impossible to even think that someone's inventory would be 100% empty lol.

[@rememberDay1]

This is so nostalgic. I was only like 9 or 10 years old when i started playing this; but I got popped in the blood moor on my first ever character. Being so young I was pretty bad at the game and generally naive. My character was a werebear. After a couple months of playing I was in the 80s and my best item was The Cranium Basher. (this item was donated to me by a wealthy player btw lols) I took pride in that item though, admiring it and smiling, (though by later patches it was a throwaway item). Anyway, I got popped in the blood moor and my cranium basher was stolen. I remember crying. But I stuck around and a couple years later I was established. Never fell for a another scam after that. Met plenty of good friends online but D2 was pretty cutthroat back then and no one was to be trusted. Unless you got lucky and became friends with a botting sugar daddy. Had one of those =P Another time, I remember being in a pub trades game, and see someone else get drop hacked in front of the 8 of us LOL definitely got a free item or 2. Guy comes back in on his naked character "WTF". This wasn't really a scam, but another thing I "saw" :) was in those lvl 1 name perm games. Usually it's just a bunch of 1s afking. But if you were actually in game but not moving, occasionally a lazy MFer comes in (that 80+ hammerdin or sorc) to use the game to quickly mule without waiting for a private perm game. Lots of times they were just muling to a lvl 1, so town was the easiest place to transfer (if they used a WP there was a good chance it was Cold Plains). Just watch which way they run and then run there right after they log. =P

[@yoloswaggins2161]

Cooley is so right about the passwords being compromised even just once, HAVE to replaced. Better yet use a password manager to generate a different password for every account.

[@mattsmelser]

This video brought to you by LastPass. ;)

[@Jiggerjaw]

Dude, I lost stuff in SINGLE player back in the days when you could only have one corpse. I used to always have lesser gear in my stash, for when I needed to trek out to retrieve my body.

[@r3n4rdx61]

Me too hahahaha like in d1

[@AToMexe]

When I convinced my friend to play D2, he started with barb. He also played single player and when I visited him, I asked why his equipment was so bad for hell. He told me all his good stuff broke. He didnt now that he can get his stuff repaired....

[@derekabshire6691]

The corpse pop..2 years go grinding gone in an instant. I felt my heart rip out of my chest.

[@KevinDrongowskiSmart]

Same here dude. I was so fucking careful not to fall for any of the other scams, and then I got rekt by that corpse pop scam prepatch. Still haunts me to this day.

[@prestonalcaraz1285]

Happened to me too. Didn't know such a thing was possible

[@Existential-Paradigm]

I haven't touched D2 pvp in 20 years because of this.

[@Norrieification]

Sorry dude. A buddy of mine did this. We were immoral fucks at 14 (I stuck with the lowbrow scams mentioned at the start).

[@ManteIIo]

the 1.09 patch was mad mad wild west... only if you played during those times, you can call yourself hardcore diablo 2 gamer, not those scrubs who started after 1.10 when most bugs/exploits/hacks were fixed, hacked items deleted and instead shit items like enigma/annis/torches etc appeared which every player had. I stopped around that time as game felt absolutely ruined, nor that I cheated or did anything on my end, but the spirit was completely different and there wasn't any super rare uniques/hacked items left apart some 1.08v stuff, so game pretty soon turned into boredom.

[@gunny6517]

I remember ALL of theses SCAMS, hence why I always play SOLO 99% of the time.. Just not worth the hassles, unfortunately! Great Video… 🇺🇸

[@BethelAbba]

I've been 100% Solo since I started back in 1995. I had heard all the crap my friends had to go through over the years... and just sat and smiled. I've only ever played one MMoRPG -- Guild Wars -- and even that had it's share of headaches.

[@houndrobertson]

Dope video, thought you were going to do a plug for virus software at the end haha, but nope your just being a good neighbour, good on ya!

[@dustin1033]

Although /dnd scam was "low brow", it was still devastating. They had access to your whole account and could change the password. If the game you were in had somewhat permed, they could log out of their account, log into yours, pick a character and go into that same game. Then just drop all your loot, log out of your account, log back in to theirs, get into the same game, pick up all your stuffs. Rinse and repeat for every character. Makes for a very sad day for the other person if they aren't quick enough or don't know how to get their account back. -Source...me having it happen to me when I was young and naive :(

[@naksonesdk8943]

It happened to me in grade 8 . Then I tried it on other people and by the end of the night I had 13 full accounts . Every item in the game . I know it was bad but man I'll never forget my heart beating out of my chest every time we would get someone's account and change their password . Most memorable night on d2 ever . We only did it one night after it happened to use lol I'd never do it again

[@anazolnierczyk5459]

Not really a scam but I loved guessing passwords for private xfer games like qq1///1 or hijacking a JSP trade, got rich many times from that lmao

[@macmac169]

Dude. I love your content. D2 is the greatest game ever made and your videos are *chef's kiss*. I sent a "maphack" to a naive dude through MSN messenger and it was a keylogger, I raided his entire account. I was like 14 at the time and I STILL feel bad. I try to make up for it by hooking people up, rushes etc. The young me was such an asshole.

[@Coooley]

Thanks man! Many of us did stupid shit like that in our younger years. We basically grew up on games like this! Only thing that matters is who we are now. :) Glad you're liking the content, brother

[@cpilfold420]

Yeah I used to scam the shit out of people But also used to help a lot of people too in various ways Very polarizing creature in those days lol

[@truthbydesign5146]

The corpse recovery element wasn’t stupid. It was a unique way to add real penalty to death, increasing tension. Carried over from diablo 1 for a reason; It got the adrenalin pumping a bit in scary situations. At least it didn’t leave all your items scattered on the ground like in D1

[@john9040]

you should do one on the old TPPK methods, like over the years. i remember when assassins could cast traps outside town and hostile you. boom act 5 hardcore char dead. That's probably the mildest TPPK... I'm sure alot of us lost hardcore chars to TPPKers

[@Lucien_75]

I was Town portal PK by a sorceress I was in a party with in hardcore. One second we're partied together and then the character began spamming snowballs in my direction, im thinking this person is just goofing around. Well almost instantly she ported to town, hostiled me and my paladin was killed by latent snowballs.

[@john9040]

@@Lucien_75 yup that and zons with guided arrow. people preyed on the weak and unsuspecting

[@InversoresDisruptivos]

I used to do the Wirts Leg scam. I gave it to Charsi quest and it gained some yellow properties, but the name instead of yellow was red. Then said to people on A1 that if you wear that leg you became invisible. Then infront of them became invisible (by simply clicking on Warriv and going to Act 2). The red leg was tradeable so people paid a lot for that stupid leg which "made you invisible". Damn now I feel bad I did that.

[@noklar8760]

I remember using a horrible geared character to "scam" a drop hacker :D He got so mad :)

[@hansorsic7387]

Same

[@Moonface00z]

Biggest scam were the rune words You can sell so many fake max or top stats runewords for 500USD each I was a ebay reseller and sold over thousands of them. But blizzard did not ban me and blame on the buyers instead LOL

[@xCombatxFreaKx]

I feel like an asshole for scamming people with p emerald war hats or shakos in the past

[@carlalexander904]

pirates of the caribbean "it's just good business" comes to mind lol

[@Thetwinkly]

That was you! I want my Titans back dude! And my Pul rune

[@resu2026]

Once Someone sold me a 200ed eth Zaka with a PUL RUNE in it. He said someone just socket it in but I could remove it with hel so no issue there. Except for the Zaka beeing 170 ed. I bought it and then realized what happened. The player left and I later sold the Zaka for Profit doing the same thing xD Legend says that the Zaka is still around beeing tradet to the next victim.

[@vano8482]

Coolest dude around 🤙🏽💯... Despite all the scams and dupes This game will always be number one. I just download it after like 10 years just to be reminded that everything in it next to perfect: Music, story, combat and hot key system. I already bought two copies of classic and resurrected as well. True masterpiece💯💯💯

[@JobyD2]

So many scams, I had forgotten a few of these :D UAP is also a big one Great video, almost at 10K subs !!

[@bowlock9901]

A timely warning to new players or returning alike. It's harvesting season and they'll drink from you're skull.

[@ryangrant493]

Alt+f4 clone items baby!

[@gettinyukky]

got scammed once by someone saying he would pay a skullders for the config ini file of my bot because he screwed his up, i remember sending him the file and forgot it included my username and pass, lol, guy drained my high levels but never checked my lvl 18 LLD, which had my most expensive items by far haha. i wasn't even mad at him because it was my fault i fell for it i loved the wild west of diablo 2 and the internet, i wanna go back bros

[@BecauseVikingsCan]

They got me one time, asked for my password (for joining a clan) and I gave it. I was able to reset the password, so after a week or so I did. When I got back in my own account, the 'hacker' actually build a few characters, even got some neat equipment. So in a way, the helped me

[@chriswelcome8102]

I got scammed in act 2 near Atma (Since been patched, many years too late for me...) For my HoZ. Was devastating for me because it was probably the best item I owned for a very long time. After I started wasting scammers time. Jerks

[@awodnik3]

You forgot about ground drop bug at act 1 (Akara) and act 2 (tawern), when You're allowed to catch items through the wall :D

[@MoNk3y5hit]

May I interest you in this bugged Wirts leg?🙃

[@CGamer76]

The dupe hack was something from Diablo 1, where ppl could actually dupe gold and gear. Scammers pulled that over to D2 and would try to convince ppl it actually worked in D2 as well but when you dropped your item they were using an auto loot bot to steal it

[@VintageSecure]

Charsi Dupe worked well in D2.

[@MrLowryX]

Your bit on account recovery may be correct, but what really set it off was the ability for anyone to take anyone's account, anytime! THIS IS WHAT GOT PASSWORD RECOVERY DISABLED. A victim was picked out on the region of choice, say...USEast. If that target account did not exist on ALL regions, it would be taken over because of blizzards own system. Attacker goes to say, USWest and creates the exact same target account name that existed on USEast and registers it. Initiating a password recovery would send an email for that account on uswest, in the password reset email, all one had to do was change automated code in the body from west to east- bam! You just reset the password for tge victim account on East! Whole account muled in minutes. Nobody ever got banned for this one endeavor. If you were an obviously wealthy target, or a dick, you were the first to go.

[@DHAPvP]

We all got scammed at least once.

[@eternalmajin]

The Account Recovery scam I remember was more immediate than the double register mentioned in the video and didn't require CDKey or any other info. If you wanted to "hack" AccountA on USeast, you'd just make AccountA on USwest/Europe/Asia/wherever. Start the recovery process, and when you reply to the e-mail, you just changed the domain on the e-mail from uswest dot blizzard to useast dot blizzard, and it'd reset the password on USEast instead. Very flawed system at that time. Fixed not long after it got widespread and the ladder got wrecked by it.

[@bigcountry4301]

Best one I've seen done in game was getting a player to drop gear out side of town, we're the scammer couldn't reach it by clicking. But they were able to get their powerful mercenary to be outside the wall and once you drop it on the ground. The mercenary kills the player and scammer runs over and picks up gear

[@theboba818]

Or the atma's bar scam where the scammer stands on the bottom and the victim drops their item inside the bar and the scammer just picks it up because you could still pick up items from the bar from the other side XD

[@skykur]

@@theboba818 lost a tal rashas chest this way XD

[@walkingdude7286]

I played D2 BNet for 10 years; yeah, I fell for a few scams. You missed mentioning the Act 1 Player's Stash Hack; I'm glad that I never fell for that one. I'll be back in D2R BNet; watch some fool try trading an Unidentified Tyreal's Might...lol...seen that one too.

[@edinpandzic5838]

the ONLY time I got scammed once was in runescape....someone "trimmed my armor" for me...fml....still hurts decades later

[@theboba818]

My story was traumatizing. It was sort of a hack, not a scam but anyways, it was fucking life changing. I downloaded a maphack (did several times before with no issue previously), and this one contained a keylogger. So i made a private game and was in the process of transferring 40 high runes to a mule and then some random guy joined and picked up a bunch of them, said "rofl" and then left the game. I was freaking out and was still in shock when he joined with another character ON MY OWN ACCOUNT and I watched in utter horror and dread while feeling my adrenaline pumping and heart beating out of my chest as he proceeded to drop all my gg items. I was still on the same char having picked as much as I could but my inventory got full and so I tried to rejoin with another character but it disconnected me. When I tried to log back in it failed because my password had been changed. By the time i made a new account quickly and rejoined everything was literrally gone from all my main account's characters. I fucking wanted to commit suicide. That memory still haunts me to this fucking day.

[@spcjunk]

I don't miss those days at all. What I do miss is the wicked LAN parties we had... : )

[@samuelyeet6006]

I miss those days, idgaf I'll take the scams , just to have that game be as popular as it was then, so much fun

[@jannisschreiber3567]

You definitely forgot the good old "grandchildren scam". I once got scammed by someone who started like this: "hey, guess who's here ...!". 14 yr old me guessed one of my friend's name and (what a coincidence!) the first (or second?) guess was right. He then proceeded by asking me to join a game, showed me his "old amazon he found on this old account" and asking me, if I could drop him some of my items, just to test...

[@wickedrl1523]

I love how you made the DND "password" the name of the audio you were using. I legit tried to log in cause I thought it was something you hid for us to find.

[@crovax17]

Hate to say it. But when I was young in high school. I had a stupid amount of decked and I mean decked out characters from all these scams. Feel bad but it was the Wild West back then. Pindle bot. Dupe scams. And account stealing scams and just unloading accounts in a game with a friend. Yaaaaaa sounds like old d2. Remember all the ith items and white rings and fake shit. Pre patch vamp gaze was tits. Unid hydra bow would make you more then actually just selling it. Ith ruins ect. Yikes it was nuts back then if you played.

[@brosephbroheim6428]

Granted I was a kid and quite a trusting one at that, I still feel stupid for falling for these. Town teleport check Corpse pop check Trojan drophack check

[@OGKNZ]

Gotta say I was a sucker for the Lowbrow once... Made a game "T4 TalRasha" ... Showed me Tals Chest and exited trade screen, young me wasn't paying attention and ended up receiving a gothic plate with an amethyst in it D:

[@Mordra]

Cooley sounding like Herb "Protect yourself at all times" Dean

[@charliee118]

2 ways I got scammed that are not on this list. I entered a game that only had 1 person in it to transfer some of my items. I dropped a bunch of items on a pretty non obvious spot. I then left and rejoined on another character and when I got to the spot where I dropped the items that 1 dude who was in the game was there and had picked up all my items. He must have had a program to track where people are and just waited around for someone to join to xfer so he could rob them... i lost some pretty good items from that scam but the stupidest scam I ever fell for cost me an entire uber barb. I was probably about 12 years old and I had just played all night and at around 5am someone joined my game and was like sup. I was like who is this? He then says who do you think? I said shain? Since he was my only friend who played at the time.... he tells me good guess and tells me he just bought this paladin off ebay and then showed me a full set of 45 life p combs. I was like wo. He then asked me if I wanted to try the character out and I said hell yeah... he then told me the password to his account was ebay123..... he then asked me for my password so he could log on to my account and watch me play his character and being young and stupid and tired I gave it to him.... I left and tried logging onto his account but obviously Ebay123 was not the password... I then tried to log onto my account but the password had been changed... and by the time I was able to change my password and log on to my account this guy had stolen my entire uber barb... needless to say that guy was not my friend shain and he tricked me into giving him my entire uber barb

[@ryu-ken]

I remember when someone scammed me with the ol' switcharoo fake tal's armor. I was mad af but then I later scammed someone with a fake enigma I was happy af. All is fair in love and war 🤣

[@Warrax22]

I got Corpse Popped once before LoD got out, had some seriously good legit rare rings, before they nerf rare rings, I was never able to loot better rare rings since.

[@Cornholers]

Now this is the content I subscribed for coooley keep it up dawg

[@ruanb1268]

He missed 2 of them that I did when I was 15 but I guess they where similar. I would do a fake contest saying I'm off to college and cant play anymore so to win my account pick a new password for my account . Everyone give me what you want it to be and I will raffle it off. Try to log into my account to see if you won. A lot of people gave their own passwords or a similar password to their current account so I could guess. Once logging in to theirs I could ask their friends that they knew in person from friend list saying i need to borrow their account and got their friends password as well. By the time they resetted the account or noticed I had logged in I had their items if I wanted but I instead just played their character and let them keep items mostly until they took back their account. The 2nd scam I claimed to dupe items but used the horadric cube. I had them die and leave a corpse then I asked them to come to corpse and not to click it. Then had then put the items they want to dupe in the cube and pick the cube up without dropping. I could kill them then and the items in their cube would drop. They had room in inventory and didnt think the items could fall just from left clicking their cube and hovering it in inventory. These both worked really well I didnt have to search long to find people and it was sneakier so they were surprised and thought I was hacking.

[@GiovannieMedina]

Great content bro and love the positive message at the end. Look forward to seeing Diablo 2 resurrected content.

[@leighwhite9656]

Playing diablo 2 has helped me in real life I can wheel and deal anyone!

[@bluemon4714]

I got scammed for an anni with the town teleport thing he talked about. I never knew how he did it till now lol. Sad times

[@mikehattamer8375]

It was so easy in A1. You'd have a tele ammy or something on a bard in blood moore. Talk them into dropping everything in town and you could Tele in and grab it. The "town teleport program" seems more difficult than the one I feel for (and continued to use afterwards).

[@TheKrogon]

Item Spoofing Program had a Security Feature when it released. The Scammer had to Change the Programm a bit with a Hex Editor, Otherwise it would say "I am a Cheater, dont trade with me !" when he tried to scam someone (both partys clicked agree) Dont ask me how i know ...... I was young and needed the Items :D

[@phillystevesteak6982]

This is the shit I've been waiting for. Sick work bruh

[@xsiikphyziiksx7205]

Another scam that I did on my own was the torch scam. Basically I had two computers and two cd keys. I would ask to trade torch for torch. Make a game w/password. And tell them I didn’t trust them and told them to drop the torch by the stash in act 1 (where when a new player joins the game that’s where the game puts you.) I would have them drop it there and I would go a little bit from the dropped torch (theirs) and I would open trade menu and place torch into the window. I would type to them to get them distracted while I took my other pc and logged into the game and grabbed the torch. No one showed me this scam. I’m the only one who did it and yet it made me rich :)

[@poonami3169]

so happy to see my comment about the DND scam made it into part 2.

[@Beachedwhale_]

Someone got me with DND when I was a kid. They gave back most of my stuff cause they felt bad. I was their first victim after they had been scammed the same way.

[@n0n9001]

I once thought I was using a map hack but it threw out all of my items, my exile shield, my enigma, hoa. Everything. That’s when I stopped playing.

[@ImVeryBrad]

Ahhh the memories 😭

[@maxTheOG]

All these elaborate scams using 3rd party programs meanwhile, D2 is how I learned what Alt+F4 REALLY does...

[@Bombtrackbart]

All the best scams never required 3rd party programs imo. Trying to get someones gear just by tricking them was a huge part of why some people played this game everyday. D2 is one of a kind and its about time someone started telling the actual story. Love it!

[@ambrosecostanzo3925]

I also remember a scam where a website would say taht they could hack your online character to level 99. All you needed to do was provide the logins. I felt it was pretty sus and refrained from entering my own logins. I did enter some fake logins, and i dont think there was even so much as a confirmation.

[@Max-eg7nx]

I remember seeing that "I'm gonna send you something, It'll be the file we talked about" crap all the time in the early 2000s and never knew what it was but just figured it was something sketchy The biggest thing I ever fell for was accepting trade for a plain old flail when I thought I was getting a near perfect Hoto

[@bliggode]

I actually was scammed with telehack and drop hack. I even scammed someoone with the drop hack afterwards, but I felt so bad about it, that I gave him everything back lol.

[@phoenix0401]

Many years ago, I got my first ever HR (Zod). I wasn’t very good at the game but I was proud of that. I should say I was financially and mentally in a terrible place at the time. I really wanted War Travs since this was the height of the MF craze. Someone agreed to do it. I didn’t pay attention and they swapped the travs and scammed my Zod. I came very close to killing myself that night. I’ll never forget that night, obviously.

[@brianbaker5590]

I Just started D2R on PS4 a few days ago but after reading this I don’t think I wanna play anymore

[@digitaldoom3593]

I got lucky and became friends with a guy from hongkong duping he gave me great items. And wanted me to visit him if I ever came to hongkong was friends for many years..he even set up my farm bot via remote access .. no way I would do that these days lol

[@drewm2763]

HAHAHA. Corpse popping was hilarious.

[@matthewpereida1261]

The exploding body scam was the first online scam that ever got me. I had a very well built lvl 74 sorc and lost everything...

[@alexanderthedrake]

They got me with the first corpse popping method you showed with the 16 killings, equip, one more kill. It did happen to people that way, but you did have to be naieve and trust them.

[@Canadian_Psycho]

D2 as a child gave me real world life experience, involving scammers, and the depths people are willing to go to get what they want. Quite the lesson for a child to learn, but it made me painfully aware of what the world could be like at an early age... Not that I didn't know that already in a lot of ways, but yeah. I'll also mention that I was more of a victim of a hack vs a scam. I went to log on one day, and my password was changed. Account recovery didn't work. I remember that walk to school... 💀

[@EthanBonardel]

All u had to do is tell them fill inv, lemme kill you, then hold this 'magical staff' 😂 now come here and pick up your body. Boom all your shit has been duped 🤪

[@mylenewhalen5375]

Hah, I got my corpse popped once. Luckily I was pretty poor when it happened, so they got nothing, and I learned the lesson before I got rich enough for it to matter.