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

[@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?

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@pauld3346]

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

[@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

[@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!!!!

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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. ;)

[@KingoftheJiangl]

The advice at the end... The fact that it's not a sponsored product ad is amazing. Great work and I really enjoyed this video.

[@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!

[@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....

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@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!!!!

[@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

[@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!

[@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.

[@MatthewEast-dv8wo]

Yall played together for 2 years?

[@kylebelcina]

Oh boy this gave me flashbacks when internet cafes started popping

[@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

[@blizztendo6467]

Awesome video Cooley, I’d like to add one more. A friend of mine (and I dabbled a bit too) used to ask for torch trades when you still had to drop trade, always asking for runes or some form of currency. He would stack his inventory with R/W charms and get into position before they see how fast he was, then pop burst of speed. Both players drop items, he waits till other person is half way around the wall, pick his up then run around and snag theirs before they can. Only worked 40% of the time probably: I’m sure others were doing this though.

[@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.

[@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)

[@JobyD2]

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

[@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.

[@_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.

[@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... 💀

[@Cornholers]

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

[@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.

[@Riotlight]

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

[@danf8986]

What an amazing video. That account recovery scam is just…left me speechless.

[@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

[@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.

[@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!

[@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.

[@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

[@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:

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@GiovannieMedina]

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

[@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.

[@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 -_-

[@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

[@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

[@MatiKosa]

I truly admire you deep, years long knowledge of the Diablo 2 scene!

[@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

[@worpend]

Oh man, the memories. I remember when I was playing very regularly over a decade ago I would do my own sort of scam by hopping into "Park" or "Mule Park" kinda games filled with all the level 1 characters idling to make it through the "character expires in 10 days" tag that new characters had if they weren't played enough. I'd bring a level 1 character myself to pose as one of these idle players knowing that transferring items from one character to another was only possible via other players or dropping your items on the ground in a game and rejoining that game with the character they wanted the items transferred to. I would keep tabs on the high level or mule characters that presumably had GG gear that they were about to transfer and take note on the direction they went after joining the game so I could get a general idea on where they might be dropping their items to transfer. Once they left, I would B-line in the same direction they initially went to see if I could nab the items on the ground before the player returns with his other character to get them back. I stole a LOT of stuff that way including (but not limited to) an ENTIRE hammerdin build, high runes, charms, and runewords. Man was I little shit back then, lol

[@Coooley]

Secretly: I did the same thing. Still have my thief char! Haha

[@naksonesdk8943]

We all did it . Man those were the days

[@cwjalexx]

This doesn’t seem AS bad as directly targeting someone to deceive…it’s still bad, but they at least knowingly were engaging in risky behavior.

[@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

[@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

[@Mordra]

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

[@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...

[@DHAPvP]

We all got scammed at least once.

[@Sowells]

The only time I fell for one of these was when I was trading for a Buriza crossbow and got traded a Hellcast instead haha. I really wish the exceptional and elite unique items had a different graphic for each tier or at least maybe a shimmer of some sort but I know this was 20 years ago and back in the early days there were way more graphical limitations than now. I loved the video, by the way :)

[@selynar4889]

Or people upgraded lower bows, unid, so the name was right, but its still a lower uniqur

[@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.

[@tomasperez922]

amazing video like always!!! love your channel!

[@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

[@ElkGiu]

I know some big scams happened few times 15 years ago about rushing and levelling services: after the service was done, the rusher remained in the selection character screen until the owner of the account completely equipped the new character. The rusher waited for the owner to log out and he could select the character and use it even if the account password has been changed!

[@cpilfold420]

That’s a good one lol

[@noklar8760]

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

[@hansorsic7387]

Same

[@tgmetal99]

I still remember getting scammed for my Shako. "hurry i gotta go click trade"....as item pops in and out of trade.

[@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

[@RpTheHotrod]

I remember the scam in the act 2 town where someone would try to do some sort of "trust" buildup. They'd have you stand in a very specific location, then they'd stand nearby but "out of range" of you. They say something like, "Here, I'll drop something big to prove you can trust me." and would drop something. Then it would be "your" turn to prove your trust. You'd be asked to drop a big item, too. However, due to where you were standing, the item would actually drop far AWAY from you on the wrong side of a wall...right at the feet of the scammer.

[@hypewilkens]

I remember this

[@gretasstolendreams2154]

I definitely did this at least once. Sorry if that was you bro.

[@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

[@SDRC09]

Dude I lived through the era of scams, passing every experience of these down to my homie, nostalgia ftw, I miss these days

[@edinpandzic5838]

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

[@professortrvp6597]

Played this game for my whole childhood till I was about 13.. I love this game more than I love some people... I never fell for anything stupid and didn't trust anyone.. I remember getting corpse popped and losing everything on my Barb and not understanding what happened... and to top it all off you just answered the biggest mystery in my life... how did my account, especially the day after I finally got enigma, get hacked.... I remember playing till 5am and absolutely freaking out finally making it.. feeling accomplished I went to sleep and slept amazing.. woke up the next day with my password not working and the account recovery email never came... you just renewed my 12 year burning hatred to whoever that bastard was... I did receive some closure though now understanding how it happened, I was born in 1997 so I only started playing this game a couple years after it came out and obviously someone was able to make a fake account and my foolish kid self made a very basic name... Thank you Cooley and RIP to my Pedro111.. can't wait to resurrect you when Ressurected come out 🙏

[@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.

[@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.

[@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💯💯💯

[@oletramekaf5603]

Omg, I knew about the basic scams, but I had no idea there were so many different scams, and also complex ones. I would most definitely fall for a couple of these if someone tried them on me back in the days.

[@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).

[@v0n_]

Bro your channel and vids are awesome! great content dude

[@phillystevesteak6982]

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

[@konspiracy0]

Geeat video! Well done. Most of them I knew, but the 'force trade' hack was new to me.

[@LARPingFetus]

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

[@Adamn19]

Very accurate, drop hack and corpse popping happened to me back in .09. Also love that you said pk and not pvp, what is was called back then.

[@ryangrant493]

Alt+f4 clone items baby!

[@ihadlunch8575]

I remember getting scammed by the trade swap one. I was devastated for like a good hour. Learned an important lesson that day.

[@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

[@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...

[@ImVeryBrad]

Ahhh the memories 😭

[@slimelux7872]

I remember the drop hack being a bit different than someone having to download an executable. Instead the player would join a lobby, where the scammer would go onto this website and it would drop some gold that was bugged in the lobby - or something along those lines, I can't remember clearly as it's been a while - and the victim when they tried to pick it up would get their game bugged, which would make their player start dropping all their items (including equipped and chest). They couldn't do anything to stop it, not move or control the character in anyway, even if they force closed it they would continue dropping items in game. No download was necessary for the victim to lose his items.

[@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 🤣

[@pauliusgecas472]

awesome video, very compelling stuff i never had this type of deep knowledge of when i was playing. interesting how the hacking/scamming scene will turn out in d2r.

[@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

[@matguimond92]

"yo I can trim your armour" "oh wait, wrong game." *logs*

[@drewm2763]

HAHAHA. Corpse popping was hilarious.

[@The_Florida_Man]

There was another type of scam not mentioned often. It's a more passive, opportunistic type that exploits a players assumption that you are afk. The "fake mule perm" where you pretend like you are a mule who is afk to perm a character, in the hopes that someone will join to xfer items in your game, thinking you are afk. Then when they leave you rely on simple luck and check the common xfer spots like the corners of town, act 2 tavern, areas near waypoints, etc. Sure, they may join only a minute or two later, but sometimes that's all it took. Good times!

[@Snickerguy19]

Thanks for the video I still remember getting dropped hacked and losing my stone and Jordan‘s like it was yesterday.

[@Visceral]

I freaking love that your first scam subject was literally the one and ONLY trick that was ever pulled on me. Somebody gave me a small, simple looking dagger that gave 100% to magic find and my eyes lit up. He quickly then said "brb" and quickly came back to the trade and after I gave him my Mahim-Oak Curio ring, well... you can pretty much figure out the rest. I was never scammed again in D2.

[@kellenanthoney4588]

I used to do the teleport wand/ammy/spell scam in act 1. Keep making games until you find one with the right camp setup (entrance far enough away from the southern wall) Name it something about trading for something you want, as long as you have a really great item to tempt the other player. You stand outside of town, they stand inside. You both drop the items to trade and the other player starts walking away to grab your stuff on the outside of the wall. When the other guy is far enough away, or off screen from you, you grab your own stuff off the ground, use teleport to get over to his stuff and grab it before he realizes what you're doing. The other guy has to be in town, where spells are disabled, but you can teleport over the wall, into town.

[@kellenanthoney4588]

I never hacked tho

[@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.