Scam the Kids

[@arronax3319]

Stranger: "Come with me into the woods." Me: "Aww. Nice try. I remember this trick. The woods are PvP...."

[@dannysmith1425]

Great comment 😂

[@Nameisjeff17]

I remember when Diablo 1 was the only Diablo game. This guy on the chat said he would help me with a level, but instead of warping, there he said, "Let's go outside. It will be easier for leveling up." I believed him, so I walked outside of Tristrim. We walk around for 3 minutes then he turned on me and killed me and guarded my body. So I had to join another game. 😅😢

[@sobanya_228]

Sounds like a quest from Gothic

[@yuji5134]

I mean, at least it works lol

[@yuroyich]

Actual noobs

[@Trevor21230]

I remember counter-scamming the gold doublers in Runescape back in the day. I'd say "Well can you do it with a smaller amount just so I know it works, then we go for the bigger amount?" They'd say sure, and I'd give them like 10k. They'd give me back 20k and I'd be like "Thanks, bye" and teleport away. Some of the funniest shit I've ever done.

[@Jaimyoutubing]

Literally what I did the second time someone tried the shit on me after I got played the first time. Ended up with more than twice the money the second time than I would have ended up with the first time if it was real, as well.

[@ahegpbtrftcotu]

This guy's playing chess

[@TheRealKamizura]

its hilarious when that happens to a gold doubler, if you put up a HUGE stack of millions and then say "wait, i wanna see if it works first then put LESS than say 200k they'll do it and expect you to put a larger sum in next time.. i took about 400k from a gold doubler scammer because he got too greedy thinking of all the money i had that i could potentially give him.

[@OlessanYT]

Nefarious lmao

[@tinnguyen5055]

1. Do 10k 3 times to make sure it work. 2. Do 20k (ur already + 30k wo if they dip u make 10k 3. Do 40k (ur up 50k so if they dip ur up 10k) 4. Do 80k and keep doubling

[@Wakish0069]

In 2004 someone told me to press Alt F4 in Ragnarok and I lost all faith in humanity that day. I thank that man and pass on his immense wisdom

[@magetsalive5162]

Good ol' dev console access key combo, always the best key combo.

[@merendell]

Iv gotten more than a few people over the years with that one. I really don't feel bad pranking someone willing to try opening the dev console to give themselves free stuff.

[@Dreveryn]

Gunz: the Duel, Alt + F4 for God Mode.

[@someoneyoudontknow6083]

Happened to me when someone said that in General chat in SWTOR. Boy was I happy that I was in the middle of nowhere in the field where nobody could see me disappear.

[@AntiKritical]

ragnarok online? O.o

[@Fischbroetchen2k]

I am forever thankful I actually got this lesson from an actual GM back in the day in Ragnarok Online. Dude was like "Oi I´ve seen you grinding this dungeon for days now, you looking for a specific item?" and I was like yeah and he goes on "Well let me help you, show me your gear with the new function (either show gear or some trade screen changes cant remember) So I do and swoop all my stuff was gone and I panicked. Then he told me to chill that he was an GM and checking out the new function to fix potential exploits, which he happened to find and confirm with my naive little pea brain. He gave me stuff back, thanked me and told me how to farm the item. A few days later he whispered me and asked if I got the thingy and I didn´t so he sold it to me from his Player Account for way under market value as a thanks. Really nice dude.

[@WaterFlame3030]

Now that’s a homie you can trust.

[@therevanator-i5w]

a little chaotic but wholesome af

[@gaetanodepaola2ndchannel179]

That is a good friend in the making :)

[@Fischbroetchen2k]

@@therevanator-i5w Cleaned it up a bit, still messy but a bit easier to read I guess :D

[@ninjablade2]

classic chaotic good xD

[@amharbinger]

I got scammed in WoW for 5k gold during the Burning Crusade when a player promised me the spectual tiger mount. A GM got my gold back and a message telling me how if this was real life money it would've been gone forever. Taught me a life lesson.

[@professionalhater3929]

That’s some real sound advice from a gm 😂

[@SENTRY456123]

based GM

[@KermitTheFlogga]

No gm gave your gold back, dont lie.

[@EnbyOccultist]

@@KermitTheFlogga You're right, it was me on my gm impersonation account

[@PainSled]

​@@EnbyOccultistThat's also a scam. And as we all know, two scams always cancel each other out.

[@OofMoment420]

Video games are probably the safest medium to have that kinda encounter lol

[@Hornswroggle]

Exactly. Minimal real life consequences - similar learning effect

[@kodycrifase2786]

I've thought this about gambling addicts. Just find a way to convince yourself that what you're gambling with in the game is real. I think it has the potential to help some people.

[@lordpalandus11]

Depends highly on the scam. I remember one pirated video game that would download software and turn the machine into a bitcoin miner. And so your graphics card and RAM would max out at 100% constantly, and it could take weeks to remove that software. Some people couldn't before the software basically melted their hardware from overuse. Or other games that contain keyloggers in them and then all your passwords, including your banking passwords would get uploaded and you'd lose tens of thousands of dollars. Imagine being a 7 year old kid, having your dad's banking info accessed, and then instead of going to disney land, you are kicked out of your house due to nonpayment because someone stole all your family's money and its all your fault. Yeah... so it really depends on the scam.

[@OofMoment420]

@ I meant to make the “scam” entirely contained in the game, so like the gold thing he mentions, so that only stuff in-game is at stake in these situations

[@bsherman8236]

best training tool ever invented, audio+video+real time consequences

[@zickity4453]

Playing Old School RuneScape hardened me for life. I don't trust a goddamn soul

[@One-EyedCorvus]

Me too brother. Me too. Buying GF

[@Lukken]

I'll be your runeScape girlfriend❤

[@One-EyedCorvus]

@@Lukken This is not a dating site

[@Tr_Fast]

Want a free armor trim?

[@Giantkiller130-t]

100% I remember I got tricked into grabbing a wine of zamorak not knowing that if you did that, you’d be targeted by the monks there. I died, lost some good shit. Never trusted anyone else in games ever since.

[@supersysscvi]

"Wait, did I get scammed in the past? Seems weird..." 'If you run around this pole 64 times clockwise, and 64 times counter clockwise, you'll unlock Luigi in Super Mario 64!' "...oh. Oh, it was a different kind of scam."

[@joshtoten]

Time IS money, after all.

[@Elyvilon]

You just gotta use Strength on the truck to get Mew!

[@BlueShellshock]

Purple Yoshi in Yoshi’s Story. Yeah man, if you collect every coin in the game, you get Purple Yoshi. Trust me, my Uncle works for Nintendo.

[@trevorsreya8277]

Dragonite evolving into Yoshi with 40 elite four wins, and Machamp with strength with a full dex can push the truck and get Mew.

[@SiAttic]

You say that, but now those ARE in games. That shits real now. If I buy an indie game I’m more disappointed if there isn’t an elaborate, impossible to find trick in it.

[@ClifBratcher]

Got scammed pretty hard in the early days of eBay. Ended up building a community around people who were also scammed by this person. The Postmaster General got involved and the scammer ended up in federal prison. Took me almost a decade before I tried buying things online again.

[@GummyDinosaursify]

I got scammed only twice buying things online. On ebay, seller said there was a delay in his manufacturing so I waited. He deleted his ebay account shortly after. Never got the product and he just ran with the money. Second time was on Amazon, the tracking code went to a different state. Immediately contacted Amazon, who said the package was delivered and there was nothing they could do since the delivery was "confirmed". Thankfully I've been doing business online thousands of times over two decades, so only two scams isn't too bad.

[@Drekromancer]

Holy shit. What was this guy's game?

[@parabolicpanorama]

not the people in these comments believing this 😭

[@MrFakefall]

Took you a decade to order *online* because of what happened with an *ebay* purchase that the scammer *went to jail for* ? How does any of this make sense? Its like saying "i wanted to take a shower but the water was so cold I havent showered for 10 years afterwards"

[@slayerking88]

@@MrFakefall back in the early days of online shopping, it was a gamble because there was no buyer protection. A lot of people don't understand that the internet was the wild west back then. Before the convenience of Amazon, if you wanted a specific thing that wasn't available at a physical store, you had to surf the web, find the item, order it, and hope nothing goes wrong. One of the more common scams on ebay was sending an empty product box or if they put a bit of effort, it would have a brick instead. I don't blame the guy for having trust issues.

[@tarbosh917]

Thankfully this happened to my son a few times. He's 8 and has learned the hard way that the 'friends' he made because they played together one time can't be trusted. He let them borrow rare items he spent robux on and then they disappeared. He didn't understand at first and it took a few blunders, but he is sufficiently untrusting of random people now.

[@StCreed]

A great way to learn, tbh. Nothing of real value is lost at that age, except perhaps a misplaced sense of trust, and it prevents bigger losses later in life.

[@DravenWolfe]

I audibly gasped, I have a very hard lined policy about sharing.

[@aycoded7840]

@@DravenWolfeHe know now though

[@DravenWolfe]

@aycoded7840 That is for sure.

[@tribson9788]

When I was 12 I played on a Minecraft skyblock server. I was chatting with this other player for days. One day he said that he got griefed and would like to join someones island. I let him join mine. That very same day my island, that I spent weeks on, was decimated and I don't think I ever got scammed since 😂

[@TheChpowell]

Runescape taught me to sniff a scam a mile away from cloned websites to fake email accounts, to social engineering, to sleight of hand. I 100% agree

[@Nomatophobic]

To gf sellers.

[@nordicxazabik662]

Taught me business as well 😂😂

[@JaySwag77]

I lost everything from "if you type your password, RuneScape stars it out!" Honestly it was probably good for me in more ways than one. It stopped me from playing RuneScape 😂

[@zjoee]

Somehow my Runescape account was compromised, but I didn't know it until I tried to play it again a couple of years ago. They never changed my password, so I just logged right on in. Almost every single skill was at 99 and I had hundreds of millions of gold in the bank. They put in some serious work on my account haha.

[@MrKahrum]

@@zjoee and yet.... you were still poor.

[@anime0wolfs12]

Its basically the "you've never been punched in the face as a kid" mindset.

[@TheFrugalVideoGamer]

Honestly, just pull the simplest, most harmless scam of all. "How do I do {X}?" "Oh, easy! Just hit Alt+F4!" Got hit with that in college, and I *still* remember that shit.

[@kindredbarkmaw2509]

The best part is when you say it with conviction or quickly as if you know the answer it'll work half the time even on veterans of games who just do it trying to fix their shi- and suddenly they log back in either laughing or furious

[@xXDemonRyuXx]

It's a lot less brutal than the "Hey guys! Did you know deleting [system 32] from your Windows files drastically decreases lag / improves frame rate?!" scam

[@octavulg]

I want to produce a game just to insist that one of the loading screen hints be 'press Alt F4 for god mode.' For the public good.

[@DubbaDDave]

i got 2 kids in halo 2 like that one time.. it was epic. i was like hey kid if yoiu hit start up a real fast right before it Launches it starts u with a full over shield... it didnt. it made them quit. half the other team quit it was great.

[@DemraSynfata]

hahaha omg. i was like 7 when I first got that one, i cried 😂 ah, good ol 2002

[@adamboyd1132]

This is why we need to Rick roll the kids these days. Teach them to not click suspicious links

[@monsieurdildo]

Limewire trained us for life 😂

[@jaya7760]

Nah it can't be fun or funny or they'll just assume it always will be

[@IbkAdelekan]

@@adamboyd1132 That's actually what Pirate is talking about, there are no consequences. A Rick roll is not a consequence. It's just a minor inconvenience at worst. I remember getting a virus on my phone when I was younger cause I was trying to download free games. Didn't have a phone for years as a consequence. Guess who doesn't click on shady links till this day? 😂

[@Diviance]

Back in my day, you had to be careful of things like lemon party.

[@jaelin9107]

​@@IbkAdelekan​ there's no line of reasoning I can see that makes a rick roll not have consequences while armour-trimming does. The annoyance and embarrassment of falling for a rick roll *can* be considered inconsequential but losing your gear or money in RS just means you need to play the game some more. So both of the examples Thor gave are "A minor inconvenience at worst" if you have the right mindset. All three examples are subjective.

[@RedJayHead]

He spent 20 minutes convincing me. Sure I was 13, but why would you waste 20 minutes convincing me you are a Runescape dev and you can upgrade my ady shield to gold trim. WHY?!?! It wasn't even a rune shield!!! Why waste the time unless you are actually a Runescape dev and you are just bored at work and want to "help a brother out". Needless to say, it all made sense in my head and my heart dropped when I was standing there for five minutes North of Draynor Village and realized the man wasn't coming back. Must have been something urgent at the office otherwise I'm sure I would have gotten that free trim upgrade. I hope that nice Runescape dev is doing well, wherever he may be.

[@Drothyr]

Lmao

[@shsd7579]

hes still on his way back please just hold on a bit longer!

[@ogsmeller]

I would hide the chat as a kid because if somebody talked to me i was scared so i was immune to such folly

[@Tagerrun]

You misjudge how fun it can be to scam lol. Even if you made no real profit just seeing the effect is enough.

[@BlueShellshock]

What was hilarious is how Jagex didn’t want us talking about scams on forums because it would spread how to do them, but that meant you had to find how the scams worked yourself.

[@TheAwarenessCommunity]

Thor we have the biggest scam in my generation of video games...it's called microtransactions!

[@ferociousfeind8538]

No... not quite... people seem pretty happy with their microtransactions, and the games deliver on their weak promises. We need actual scams, where nobody could actually come out happy. Like losing all your gold in a money doubling scheme. Not just spending too much for a fortnite skin

[@XCC23]

@@ferociousfeind8538 Agreed. Microtransactions aren't scams, they're just predatory bullshit, but you get exactly what you paid for.

[@3XC4L1B3R]

That's not a scam, it's just bad value. They're up front about what you're paying for, and you _do_ actually get it.

[@TheAwarenessCommunity]

Just because it's slightly more legitimate does not take away from the scam practices that most AAA microtransactions have.

[@3XC4L1B3R]

@@TheAwarenessCommunity Again, not a scam. Nobody's forcing anybody to pay $5 for horse armor; if that's not a good deal for you, don't buy it. Consumer-unfriendly business practices, yes, but you ultimately receive the product as advertised. By definition, not a scam.

[@hostjhall]

I remember being too weak for the Witches hut quest. All you gotta do is get some poor kid npc his ball back (and fight a bit along the way.) This guy told me that since the ball can't be traded, he will drop it for me, and I drop my armor (probably a month+ worth of work for me at the time as a kid with limited playtime) so I did, and, when I watched him pick up MY ARMOR, and never saw that ball appear, I remember the moment it clicked in my head, at first my view was "we are making an exchange. I made good on my end, now its your obligation to make good on your end." But after sitting there a while, I realized "but..... what obligates him to actually give me the ball? He has the armor, I don't, and then..... why does he ever feel the need to talk to me again?" It's really changed perspective on a lot

[@Titan.TheWolf]

The difference between using logic, and having a temper tantrum and playing the blame game. I commemd your intelligence, my friend

[@americantoastman7296]

​@@Titan.TheWolf weirdcore comment

[@Titan.TheWolf]

@@americantoastman7296 It's only weird if you can't find a relatability.. which means you're the one who does the temper tantrums and blame games. Not only that, but because I say the guy here is using logic, and I commend him for that, because you can't relate; It's assumed from your part that I'm insulting your intelligence.. which is why you find it weird. Crazy how the world works, huh?

[@abcron3788]

Getting scammed in video games is much better than being scammed in real life (except when you're getting scammed BY video games)

[@jumbo9380]

People who bought Fifa games for the 121 times.

[@stefel7765]

Once my steam account got hacked and 20 cents of value were stolen from me. I see everything on the internet with a different eye because of that lol

[@po-prostapoziomica5559]

same, altho i didnt lost anything because God bless steam support, but just like you. I don't trust anybody anymore

[@yuji5134]

Bro stealing 20 cents is insane tho

[@OffisianO]

@@stefel7765 i lost like 5 pages of cs go cases back then it was just a couple dollars but now i woulda been rich if not for my dumbass younger self

[@nosuma6418]

Yeah my first CS:GO inventory got stollen because I feel for some trading link phishing scam. I lost 150€ of my birthday money but learned a very valuable lesson in cybersecurity.

[@wambamthankumam]

​​@@yuji5134 For real that's just pitiful.

[@Litepaw]

"free armor trimming" and trust trading was the wake-up call I needed when i was 12 😂😂

[@colourman2126]

Playing an mmo game with a trading mechanic has led me questioning human action in every possible way.

[@Katt--]

Growtopia.

[@fishbiter9409]

The first time I traded something with someone in an MMO they scammed me. Great introduction to online games.

[@johnross7526]

ultima online jaded me

[@AustrianEconomist]

Yep, runescape and ragnarok online LMAO. It's unbelievable the level of human creativity when dudes are trying to come up with creative ways to scam or lure people.

[@pkfiremain710]

​@@Katt--Growtopia is a fake game. Not that it doesn't exist, but the fact that nobody I think has ever talked about it ever.

[@Xenrel]

I never needed to get scammed because it was enough for me to see OTHER people get scammed. I think the biggest difference is that not enough people learn from the mistakes of others, while too many people fail to learn from even their own mistakes.

[@Unknown_Genius]

Yup, that's true. People fall for it because they either believe they'll never fall for anything or because they're lost cases (leaving out the ones that didn't know any better). There's frequent visitors at police stations that always fall for the exact same scam every few weeks, which pretty much always existed - never forget that.

[@thomac]

I got scammed IRL, so no need for more scams in games. I got to play the scammer in-game instead (benign stuff mostly)

[@SchizoetryOfficial]

Exactly. I've never got scammed because I know what to look for from the past experience of others. I have such trust issues when playing online games that I don't even trust my own friends with stuff like my in-game money and items. Mostly because I know that they are kind of assholes and they know that video game items have no real value so they will try to rip me off in a game as a prank or something. I don't really play survival games with them anymore because they like to grief my buildings

[@satibel]

nah, I'm better than those chumps, I'll definitely make millions off of hawk tuah coin.

[@betteaage8845]

"The more you give me, the more I'll double it" had me laughing so hard.

[@ticktockbam]

He'll double it so hard that he might as well just triple it

[@moonmilk15]

Tax3s work the same way

[@donfolstar]

Sitting at the gate of Qeynos, watching the sunrise. That armorsmith guy sure is taking a long time. I mean, he took half the money up front for supplies, so maybe he has to run all over town for them. Sitting at the gate of Qeynos, watching the sunset, crying.

[@romanseight3614]

Scammer: “Hey look Jagex blocks your password when you type it!” Naive self: “kb clicks of impending doom”

[@MichaelRainey]

It works on KZbin too. My password is *******. See? Try it.

[@Xeonort]

Man, I remember that scam. I never fell for it because that one sounded way too on the nose. I fell hook line and sinker for the armor trim scam, and the quick switch of rune to iron equipment scam though.

[@imacds]

I have a memory of my password on Runescape being close to a dictionary word and the game censoring the word when I used it in a sentence in normal conversation (in a way you could guess the word through context). I think it isn't a real memory tho, because the server shouldn't actually know my password let alone a word within my password.

[@Sucrose__]

hunter2

[@TyphinHoofbun]

​@@Sucrose__ I was going to be legit sad if I was really the first person to say hunter2. ^.^

[@unboundsoul3582]

"Armor trimming in RuneScape" THE ONE EVERYONE THOUGHT OF

[@One-EyedCorvus]

Doubling 100k *LEGIT*

[@daltoncole4405]

@unboundsoul3582 legit dude. He says scam, I instantly think of the old runescape bank scams lol

[@SirusDiarota]

That hurt. Deep.

[@sashimiturtle]

Never played runescape... GW was my first MMO and then WoW.

[@adub1300]

@@sashimiturtlego play it it’s fun

[@capnhoek2509]

The amount of times I’ve been told to stop being so negative while I’m trying to prevent people from getting scammed out of expensive things online baffles me. Do people rlly just blindly trust random strangers?

[@teebob21]

Yes. Yes they do. The world needs to have the bubble wrap taken off of it. Make the Darwin Award great again.

[@vladildikan]

my mom and sister...

[@slayerking88]

People are too trusting

[@jesusjesus272]

My brain grew 3 sizes the day I got scammed hard in a video game.

[@One-EyedCorvus]

The amount of scams my dumbass fell for in RuneScape growing up has made me deeply suspicious

[@serge263]

Kinda sus bro.

[@CardTrickmedia]

I think Thor is forgetting crypto bros and nft people. Those guys have been scammed to hell and back and keep going for more. They're helpless

[@CMUrecyclemania2008]

There’s a psychological effect where people who have been scammed in the past (by e.g. Nigerian Prince scams) are more likely to fall for other scams in the future. It may be related to the ego protecting itself from recognizing that the person screwed up, but I’m not positive about that. So yeah, some people learn, but others unfortunately do not.

[@amixofgeekcontent]

oh my god, really? That's so sad.

[@1lI1l1Il]

@@CMUrecyclemania2008 "Sunken cost fallacy"

[@desitri2956]

some peoples destinies is just to serve as an example to others

[@toomanyaccounts]

@@CMUrecyclemania2008 it has to do with lack of thought power. there is a reason those emails have lots of spelling mistakes. Its a filter to remove smart people from interacting with the scammer since a smart person would detect something was off and not fall for the scam

[@cainthecrow]

Sadly, as someone part of the younger generation in queston, this is VERY true.Many of my peers don't look into things before jumping into it. One of my friends found out August of last year that the reason his PC was under performing for the last two and a half years was because he had several viruses running bitcoin mining programs.

[@CapeBretonFishin]

“Give me 1400 Microsoft points and I’ll give you max prestige”

[@lukebentley1341]

The guy selling PICTURES of a ps5 for $ 499 and having a full description stating in no way was it anything more than a fresh off the printer picture of a ps5. Not all heroes wear capes

[@lordpowell3788]

I was a runescape coal dealer. I sold so much fkn coal. U wouldn't even, u got no idea how much coal i moved. Every day i was at the same corner with more coal. I traded with the same people for like months. I was like 12 years old at the time. I was the coal guy!!

[@brysonkaffka8260]

@@lordpowell3788 sounds like you were a miner. An underage miner at that. A minor miner, if you will.

[@siechamontillado]

You're the one kid looking forward to Santa putting coal in their stocking. I don't know whether you should be applauded or locked up.

[@starc3968]

@@siechamontilladohe’s the kid who hooked up Santa’s coal supply

[@D.R._Iris]

So in this case... YOU were the scammer...? 😅 or, were you trying to send a different message but just put it on the wrong video? Lol

[@ghost2coast296]

I was a coal miner and if you were active at fally east bank during the summer of 04' we likely did business

[@foxidkwhattowrite8339]

Great title to have as a notification "PirateSoftware - Scam the kids"

[@leodavis4242]

Omg the bit about people reading stuff and believing it because no one would lie on the Internet is so real. My 11yo sister keeps mentioning stuff that she's read and believes, despite it being obviously true. It's honestly infuriating trying to explain to a child who insists she's correct, that she's fallen victim to misinformation etc etc.

[@kenmorrisproducer]

I’ve noticed another trend amongst our younger brethren: they don’t seem to think something exists until they discovered it for the first time.

[@diomarkov2794]

and then they believe the only narrative they've been presented with (once or twice if at all) and fight any other option to death

[@Giantkiller130-t]

YES! What is this about?

[@LynnLyns]

Fr i don't understand why

[@medicineman152]

They also tend to believe they thought of it first.

[@TheSidetrackYT]

​@@diomarkov2794 also known as: all of humanity, for all time, forever

[@GendrisVilor]

I agree 100% Sometimes negative experiences do far more to teach and strengthen you than positive ones.

[@tyler4475]

Totally agree. I’m 21 and my brother is 8. Seeing him on KZbin all day is literally like looking in a mirror from when I was his age. He doesn’t have any bullshit meter and believes pretty much everything he sees. Growing up when I did made me so internet shrewd and for that I am eternally grateful.

[@d36dan]

What is more sad is that not only kids believe everything on the internet, but old people too

[@musicbyethan]

im a middle aged game developer and you just made me laugh out loud. godspeed you young man. this generation needs more devs like yourself. ☮️

[@HappyLittleTurtles_]

The bank in hollow knight was this exact phenomenon for me…

[@thatguy9569]

The moral of Hollow Knight is never trust any authority figure or institution.

[@WaterFlame3030]

Only yourself.

[@Riotmedic009]

Saw this as a recruiter, high school kids who grew up with and use technology would get squirrely with analog things but trust tech without question. It was actually fairly terrifying.

[@DaCatmasterX]

I got scammed playing LOTRO a few years back. Lost my account cause somebody posted in world chat “Free gift to all players” in the admin font. Apparently it worked so well they couldn’t keep up with the scammed accounts. Devs got my account back for me, learned a lesson, lost nothing.

[@pedropimenta896]

Earned wisdom, gg!

[@NathanJoseph-fk7eb]

We all know we sounds like doctor T from boom beach😂

[@donsolos]

This is too relatable, giving my adamant armor to a guy kindly offering to trim my armor was a harsh lesson as a kid, but a very neccessary one

[@FFKonoko]

Related note. Kids dont know to use multiple save slots. Even in a game with manual saves, that gives them a list of save slots. Even when they get themselves glitched...they will try to save and quit to fix it and manually save over their ONLY save. Yes. This has been happening with the sr1+2 remasters and it is painful to watch everytime. At the very least, use a different slot when you have broken something. Don't preserve the glitched state over your entire game to date 😅

[@fnors2]

FFT taught me to use two saves, always. Wiegraf was a stupid fight if you weren't prepared. When the game even tells you that you can't leave a series of fight, and you save in only one slot, only to soft lock yourself because you are unprepared... It sucks. Especially when it's 20-30h in.

[@StarTrekGeek47]

That's the sort of stuff that is amazing to me that it isn't (apparently) just Intuitive. It makes me wonder if it's an IQ problem. I understand only one save slot as a challenge, but unless you are familiar with the game and trying to challenge yourself, I don't understand not backing up stuff just in case things happen, especially since things often happen.

[@rn8567]

I remembered getting stuck on a death loop in half-life 2 because the game auto save right before an explosion Quit after a few loops of trying not to die but failed

[@livedandletdie]

I'm a single save state guy. Because I'm going to be real with you, I had playstations as a kid, and savefiles was expensive, I have 5-6 memory cards, and even a 64MB memory card, for storing my stuff on, because the others got full. So yeah, single slot saving is a choice.

[@DeusExDraconian]

Happened in Diablo 2 for me when I was young. A guy claimed to be able to dupe items. I was curious and wanted to see if it could even be done. I had far more valuable items on me, but I gave him a yellow for him to prove it. He immediately logged off with it. Stupid on his part. I was young and gullible enough that I would have had him do it with some far more rare, but he thought he was clever and ran with something worthless. I felt stupid for failing to realize he could just run with it, but at least I had the presence of mind that I needed him to prove it first before giving him something really valuable.

[@zackblake526]

"Give me your gold I'll double it" triggered me 😂

[@GothicOctopus]

“Armour trimming in..” Dear Lord. The flashbacks.

[@katekyojp6338]

I remember I was 12yrs old and I was too excited with a good deal so we traded. They showed the item, I put in my gold then they pull out the item but I was so excited I kept pressing the OK button, only to realize later that the item is missing. Damn, that was an eye opener and an intro to many more forms of scam and social engineering I encountered as a gamer. It all started on that fateful day back in 2006

[@LFSPharaoh]

Really teaches you to slow down and contain the excitement (or a portion of it at least) before “alls said and done” (whatever the task may be). I was always the calm/laid back one and yet this one was the one scam that got me. Ever since that I’ve just tried to go step by step, take the emotion out, take it easy until after I have whatever it is IN hand safely lol

[@medicineman152]

Here's a classic from Diablo 2 chat, circa 2001. "******* Weird. Blizzard doesn't let you type your password in chat."

[@Kyoptic]

Got scammed by exactly the same thing in RuneScape many years ago...

[@Reelix]

@@Kyoptic KZbin got wise to that, so don't allow people to type their KZbin password in comments. You can try - It just comes out as stars.

[@impishlyit9780]

​@@ReelixClassic. I saw people try this in a Minecraft server a couple years back, was absolutely hilarious to watch someone fall for it in real time. Even funnier with everyone who was in on the joke typing in joke passwords as well, really cemented it!

[@clerothsun3933]

​@@Reelixhunter12

[@gorrillawarfair]

Bruh...​@@clerothsun3933

[@TheUbiouS]

At this point I’m convinced Thor can sell me ANY idea and make it sound genuinely 100% logical

[@torstikinnunen3801]

I remember an item trade scam some people tried to pull. "I can trade this item X for your item Y. Look how much item X is selling on the auction house." No, that is what someone - possibly you - is asking for the item. The item sitting there for days suggests that it DOESN'T sell for that much.

[@5000Famous]

This is a hot take I actually agree with. Falling victim to one myself (albeit WAY less severe) did harden me to the scams a lot. So yeah, uh... I won't personally condone it but if it's to teach them a lesson I'm not going to fight you with it.

[@pretzelbomb6105]

It’s like getting vaccinated with a weak strain of a serious disease except with crate keys instead of cowpox.

[@Akechi444]

I do agree with his bit about the younger generation needing to see the harsh side of things but I still wonder why older generations are like this as well. Is it stubbornness? Adverse reactions to change? Fear?

[@5000Famous]

@@Akechi444 Honestly, probably a mixture. I'm not one of those "old people" so I can't really say for sure.

[@kyleduddleston4123]

I still remember the first Nigerian prince that left me $5 million. I was so excited. Lol

[@aboxthatdr0x0ls]

Note to self: Scam the oblivious kids.

[@mrtinz5704]

I got scammed on Steam for some TF2 items a couple years ago. I now never accept random friend requests, never give my info to randos, and I never put my info into 3rd party websites without looking them up and doing some research first. I learned that the hard way, but it was good for me.

[@Airhawker45]

Same, I fell for a phishing link OP Skins scam on one of my unusuals, and I learnt a lesson that day that I'll never forget.

[@Gaarafan007]

Friend: "I'll beat your entire team with just my Ratatta." The level 100 Mewtwo nicknamed 'Ratatta': >:D Me: >:(

[@nightlion4968]

That is darn clever but birth of a troll

[@NotAdachiPeople]

Focus sash, Endeavor, and extreme speed.

[@Gaarafan007]

@NotAdachiPeople Pokemon Red and Blue

[@NotAdachiPeople]

@@Gaarafan007 Probably just try to proc freeze on it then. If you manage it, you can win by whittling it down, while it can’t attack.

[@Gaarafan007]

@NotAdachiPeople About 25 years too late for that

[@bladewolf39]

Honestly? Yeah. The amount of bs on TikTok kids believe these days is honestly concerning. Kids dgaf about online safety anymore and yet when something bad does happen, they sit, complain and cry until its fixed and guess what? It happens again! Not one lesson learned, just living life on autopilot, its insane.

[@Serophous]

"Lifehack! How to get free money from your bank's ATM!" Congrats kids! You're about to learn what a FELONY is!

[@gamertyper6476]

"they haven't gotten an armor trimming in runescape" LMAO iykyk 💯

[@casuallyexisting2401]

I never got scammed but I heard of those who did. Self-taught how to not be scammed due to this.

[@Giantkiller130-t]

That’s still just as good. It means you think critically and actually process information that you receive.

[@fnors2]

A smart man learns from his mistakes. A wise man listens to the smart man and learn from their mistakes.

[@casuallyexisting2401]

@@fnors2 Precisely.

[@mikac4036]

100% true. Diablo 2 was my teacher, got scammed a few (different) times and learned a valuable lesson at a young age - never fully trust people, especially when something of value is involved. It was devastating then but now I think the price was extremely cheap for what I learned.

[@medicineman152]

The tremendous level of butthurt I reached the first time my account was raided... I don't know if I've ever been as simultaneously sad and angry as I was then. It's been 24 years.

[@wingmann6493]

Same here. I had someone ask me to vote for them on a website. Once I did all my gear I was wearing fell on the ground and the guy picked it up and left. Never saw my soj ever again.

[@bcalath]

Or the guys duping torches...like sure I'll let see my almost perfect stat one...wait why you leave...and duped lol

[@mikac4036]

@@wingmann6493 Drop hack was one of the worst... made you watch as it drops all of your items one by one and can't do anything about it.

[@mikac4036]

@@medicineman152 Want me to send you a bot? Sends a keylogger that blocks your internet and steals everything from your account and deletes all the characters. D2 was brutal.

[@irishrager3644]

Wasnt scammed, but the turning point was when I was a sophomore in high school. Got super excited to see Blizzard adding wings to WoW as a mount. Only for it to set in that it was April 1st.

[@impishlyit9780]

Yeah, April Fools' Day as a kid taught me not to trust people. It probably sounds pretty weird, but I have a deep-seated mistrust of other humans, and that's one of the major contributing factors. Like, yeah, there's just a day when our culture has decided it's okay to make other people upset because you were "just kidding". Turns out, our culture just thinks that hurting other people to make oneself laugh is perfectly acceptable, as long as the hurt is perceived as temporary! (It's pretty much never temporary)

[@TheGentlemanBear]

Losing a full suit of rune armor teaches a man something special

[@pik4chu]

It was so ironic how our parents were always going on about not trusting strangers and all that when they are the ones getting dumped so hard on the Internet. From straight up scams to fake news and echo chambers. And at the same time they won't believe us when we tell them they are getting duped

[@GaussianEntity]

Sadly irl scammers are much more sophisticated. They're much better at using the victim's own shame and other vulnerabilities against them, causing them to be more vulnerable to future scams. Some scambaiters go into this in more detail.

[@BigBrownMemes]

Bro pulled out the armor trimming from runescape 💀

[@silvermist1859]

I remember losing literally all of my TF2 cosmetics by getting scammed when i was like, 11 or 12, and that put the brakes on my trust in the internet. Honestly kinda thankful for that, didn't even have any Unusuals lmao hope that 15 bucks was worth it

[@AriesLR_]

I had earbuds and an unusual at around the same age, these days I look back on getting scammed like that the same way that guy who bought a pizza with bitcoins probably feels

[@Unknown_Genius]

@@AriesLR_ tbf, the bitcoin example doesn't fit at all. He asked if he can pay with bitcoin, which at that point was not only non-accepted by anyone but also worth absolutely 0 - it's one of the things that kickstarted it to become an actual payment method to begin with and he was lucky to even get a pizza for it. He also most likely made a ton of money with it regardless, as he was one of the few farmers at that time and getting them was easy due to the extremely high rewards on very low tier systems.

[@poke548]

@@AriesLR_ If it helps, Buds crashed a few years back.

[@bronyforthewin]

"Give me your armor ill put an armor trim on it for you" 😂

[@SolusDarkcoat]

I remember back in the day when we had computer classes in school, they would hammer in the idea of source checking. Always question what you read online, because anyone could've wrote it. I don't think they hold computer classes anymore.

[@vgamesx1]

Lol we never had that back in the 2000s, we were just told not to trust Wikipedia, which looking back now was absolutely terrible advice because at least wikipedia actively fact checks and moderates changes, going anywhere else on the internet, especially these days such as Facebook or X is the worst way to get information.

[@sinbotosimmons7624]

So the company I work for does a boot camp kinda thing over the summer for video game development/design/online protocol. I'm usually not part of it, unless they are down a guy, but this is specifically something they have to teach. To me, this is super weird it isn't taught in school, because growing up we literally had weekly classes about it. Wouldn't it be way more important now than before? Just weird...

[@asheronwindspear552]

I agree to a degree. Kids today are unaware of the consequences of their decisions, but it doesn't come from _not_ being scammed in video games. It's because the scams are so normalised now that they don't see them as dangers. How often have they been force-fed advertising from dubious sources to get extra moves in a game? How often have they forked out real-world currency to purchase some "surprise mechanics" BS for the hero they want?

[@GaussianEntity]

It's almost as if that's the intended result.

[@dengar96]

I would argue their parents need to get scammed in video games more, even by companies. Kids don't have money, parents do and parents let their kids be reckless with that money. Let your kid earn some money and connect a card tied to their account to their games, when they burn up 2 weeks pay on fortnite skins, they will learn very quickly what that money is worth.

[@davidlam9952]

I loved RuneScape rock, paper, scissors. Follow someone out into the wilderness who is wearing armor but then they switch to archer gear to beat your wizard gear. So, you yourself switch to armor because you're actually pure STR

[@Ghx1337]

I once fell for the wilderness scam, but once we were going deeper and deeper, i realized what was happening and made a run for it, and managed to teleport back to safety with the runes i always carried. I was lucky my "guide" did not have teleport block. One other time, i pretended to fall for it so a couple of friends and i could PK these clowns back. Scamming the scammer is always a good feeling.

[@davidlam9952]

@Ghx1337 always feels great to flip the script!

[@Bendilin]

It comes from the mentality that the internet must be like cable television, and cable television is so heavily regulated...

[@VestinVestin]

It probably goes deeper than that. There are immense benefits to living in a high-trust society, where you don't have to look behind your back at every turn. Therefore, like Hobbes said, we make a trade and give a central authority monopoly on violence, just to get away from the state of nature. You know what you get when that trust is broken? Look up "Xiao Wei Counterstrike".

[@savagesarethebest7251]

I never got scammed, I guess I just applies what my teacher told me "If it is too good to be true, then it probably is".

[@DK_Programming]

Just received a gifted membership, thank you my anonymous friend

[@elidames6889]

Same here! Thanks!

[@ImAlsoMerobiba]

Scam alert !

[@elidames6889]

@ImAlsoMerobiba nah. I'm 100% human, and got a gifted. Surprised me so I went to see what was in the members section. Saw there was only one comment.

[@KingsBard]

I feel like I'm right in the middle, like I've never been scammed but I've grew up in the "don't believe sh*t you read on the internet" culture.

[@Unknown_Genius]

I kinda miss the "Not everything that's written on the Internet is true. - Julius Caesar" shirts they used to sell in a nearby store when I read that, lol

[@LargeSpinningBlades]

I was never scammed on RS but the way Jagex handled teaching players to be careful was really cool and made me a lot more aware of a) the value of video game assets and b)that you shouldn't trust a stranger online with your valuables

[@willaverynerdyclarinetist6131]

Give me your haunter and I'll give it back as a Gengar! -she who shall not be named, Sinnoh region, Snowpoint city.

[@Karmasu_L]

For me it was: Hey, drop this item on the floor. I only want to make a screenshot of it for a project I'm doing. Proceeds to teleport to the item, take it and disappear. I asked in public chat for people to whisper to him to give my item back. I believe it took about 15 minutes until I had it back. That was in Guild Wars 1.

[@ZdrytchX]

This is actually a huge issue when it comes to misinformation. My highschool taught to be doubtful and look up your sources and detect level of bias, but turns out it really was only my highschool, and while I sucked and kinda hated english for most of my school years, this is one of the most valuable lessons I took from that subject

[@MichaelRainey]

I had an SAT prep class in middle school that also covered things like media bias and even subliminal messages in advertising. That and typing were the only useful classes from school.

[@acorr14]

This is something I do for my students. Provide them with sources that look legit, but are full of nonsense. Causes them to need to search for their own sources while giving them a healthy distrust of blindly taking info from an authority figure.

[@GeronimoPlaz]

Let me guess: you all think legacy media like NYT and WAPO are trustworthy 😅

[@jazzyjswift]

Nah, I had it too at mine. But I graduated in 2007. So it could literally just be that they did away with it.

[@LaynaStambaugh]

Nope. That's most schools- you're just the one that listened. Gj o7

[@buRRRn1]

The absolute perfect references... Trimming armour and gold double 😅

[@kattimpala]

i feel like many games are just hyper focused on conditioning kids for gambling ecosystems *cough* roblox *cough* vs implementing open market trading systems where this kind of stuff happened

[@ENDERSTIXgaming]

Lying?! ON THE INTERNET?! impossible!

[@bjmm6142]

"The more ill double it" is the funniest thing i've heard in a while 😂

[@laserwizard2004]

He said “armor trimmed” and I cried out in rage

[@BingleBonko]

I was legitimately thinking the exact same thing the other day. RuneScape and all

[@boomkruncher325zzshred5]

Dungeons & Dragons Online. I forget the name of the raid quest, but everybody did it once you got to the high tiers of play. It was a crazy convoluted multi-part thing. At one point, we were faced with a portal. One guy had to click into the EXACT center of the portal to get an extra chest for everyone at the quest completion… and everybody would die if they misclicked. SPOILERS: The extra chest was a FRIGGIN LIE. That entire line was just to lure newbies to take their armor off (because you jumped higher when you didn’t have heavy armor) and then make the noobs feel bad for “killing everyone”. IT WAS A SCRIPTED EVENT, EVERYONE WAS SUPPOSED TO DIE WHEN ONE PERSON CLICKED THE PORTAL. Old Harry, 😂 What a raid!

[@fahqkiddz2052]

RuneScape scams were honestly top tier some of my friends and I still laugh about the dumb scams we fell for on there as kids 😂

[@JolanXBL]

In Windows XP days, I posted on a forum to run a bat file with Start: start goto start One person replied 'I didn't think that was very funny'

[@ShiraxHorizon]

EVE Online has taught me a very important lesson, multiple times. 1. when I undocked my first bantam, going mining, dropping it in a can, guy comes up, steals from the container and baits me into firing. -> bantam didnt even live an hour 2. I sold my Tengu via private trade, a 2 billion ship with fittings, the guy cancelled it 3 times, 3 times there was 2 billion in it, the fourth time, it was 200 million and I didnt see. 3. undocked in an unfitted hauler with 1 billion of cargo guess who was looking at a wreck in front of Jita seconds after clicking warp? (had no insta warp back then) and soooooo many more. Never trust anyone.

[@belinus7180]

The thing is, getting scammed in video games has minor consequences in the vast majority of cases. It's like touching a hot burner on the stove for a fraction of a second and getting a burn. These people Thor's talking about will fall for harder stuff like romance scams which have consequences akin to sticking your whole hand on the hot burner and holding it there for 30 seconds.

[@SIrL0bster]

Yes, it's better to get a small burn and learn that the stove is hot that way.

[@Kley_Dreemurr]

I played Lies of P and wanted to make sure I got the good ending. I did what the guide told me to and I got the bad ending... I did my own thing for the whole game and slowly became a human in game. At the end, I decided to be a puppet IRL and became a puppet in game.

[@654321yhtaeD]

As soon as Thor the goblin lord said scam kids in games I thought of RuneScape armour trimming 😂

[@TylerBeanHead]

All you've gotta do is spend 5 minutes on twitter to reinforce this take, people literally believe EVERYTHING they read, sarcasm and irony completely out the window too 🤣

[@LaynaStambaugh]

In other words: All you have to do is look at the DUMBEST corner of the internet and your confirmation bias will take care of the rest for you. Like, seriously, pipe down

[@Genny207]

Okay, I get the point, but companies and p2w servers make this hard now-a-days: Scam the kids of their work, not of their parents money.

[@Litepaw]

They do get scammed somewhere else tho. I think the "free armor trimming" of the newer generation was getting scammed by free fortnite skins or free robux scams. But that doesn't have any immediate feedback like gettibg scammed in a video game would have

[@gaihoth275]

“I promise”😔 too convincing.

[@cadmean-reader]

Ah, the good ol' armor trimming in Runescape, what a throwback

[@AlaskanHuzky]

I never been scammed, one of the perks of having a high IQ.

[@triggerhappy52786]

The first time someone invests in a meme coin 😂

[@Razsac]

Press D to dance and F to fly in League absolutely got me when i was young