ever been scammed in acnl?

[Silas James Reel]

Ahh, your post reminded me: I forgot about Island trolls (not referring to you, lol). I've been there with people who literally trap you on the island by starting a tour and then not sitting down. It's really annoying. There's error-inducing ones, too, who wait until you've caught some things out on the beach or bought something inside the shop and then error you out. These aren't scams, but it's still really irritating bad behavior.

I used to be an island troll myself (not anymore, don't worry - I realized how stupid I was). I let them catch all their bugs and stuff, and then started talking to Lelani and never picked a response, and went AFK. This trapped them on the island. Bye bugs and fish!

- - - Post Merge - - -

club tour timer

Took me a while to figure out what you meant.

 

[lazuli]

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this was painful to read because of the spelling mistakes and run-on sentences

I used to be an island troll myself (not anymore, don't worry - I realized how stupid I was). I let them catch all their bugs and stuff, and then started talking to Lelani and never picked a response, and went AFK. This trapped them on the island. Bye bugs and fish!

you horrible, horrible person. fy upon you, fy.

ive never played/traded online much so i never had to deal with scammers of any kind. not that i would have anything worth taking lmao

 

[Silas James Reel]

Once when I had hats on premium, I had let in two people to come sell their crowns. Some random girl I probably forgot to add came into my town, took all my fruit, stole all the gems on the floor I had and rand off with tips that the other people left me for letting them into town. Obviously I couldn't flip wifi switch because of the other people there, but meh, I was more annoyed than anything since I would've just given them the stuff had they asked.

Shoulda flipped! The others would understand.

 

[Classygirl]

I remember when this thread started, or one similar, most of the experiences were prior to finding TBT. I am a little worried now as the issue is coming back up, if this is becoming more common here. As I have always found this site to be friendly, trustworthy, and everyone knows the basics rules of etiquette unless told to do something different, or they did. I really hope this is not becoming a place where this is going to start happening here, that would be sad.

As to cutie, I did understand the gist of what you were saying, don't worry about the spelling, I don't know your situation so it's not my place. You did write a bit so I want to respond, I had a similar experience where someone paid for a villager for me in exchange for one of mine who was way higher up, so I know how that loss feels. I also had the auction thing happen, drops and restarts a long while back and the winner did resell, I was so frustrated and tired from all day auctions I practically have him, yes Marshall, as a dream, he was resold. He was also an accidental out which hurt worse. But I have had hardly any issues here since I was brand new, it is a very good site, I would recommend...no offense in trades and dealings to work with long time members with a lot of good feedback first, no offense to newer people at all because you have to start somewhere but following basic do as told and set clear rules should be a motto.

 

[Soggyhands]

Thankfully I haven't, so far the AC:NL community is pretty nice when in comparison to other games.

 

[lars708]

well.. (please note this was years ago before i even found tbt.. i am now a changed person!) i used to be a scammer myself many many years ago... i enjoyed ripping people of it has fun.. it WAS very funny...
i always enjoyed this.. and when my sister started playing OH MAN! her face when i sole her fruit and hybrids! ha! but after years of doing this it got boring.. so i stopped... so a warning to all the scammers out there! I USED TO BE ONE OF YOU! I KNOW HOW YOU THINK! IF YOU TRY TO RIP ME OF YOU WILL BE IN OR A SHOCK!



have YOU ever been scammed? if so, share your stories done below! hopefully this will help others avoid being scammed!

Well i had that one friend that when you say that you need to go to the toilet that, that friend is going to chop down all your trees. Do you know what i mean? XD I luckily managed to error in time, i deleted him and never seen him again lol

 

[Hirosuka]

A few times 0u0 Like..somebody from the forums was visiting my town to look around for inspiration. I had to do something (which took like five minutes) and I actually trusted this person to not wreck my town, so I went to do whatever I had to do while this stranger was at my town. By the time I got back, all my perfect peaches were gone, my black and gold roses were missing and I have this area in my town where I keep bells lying around in case I'm too lazy to go to the post office to get bells. Yeah those bells were taken as well (a total of about 300,000 bells were lying around, and all of them were gone). Ugh..and turns out the person shook off the last perfect peaches my trees could grow. I waited for more to grow but turns out that was the last round. I managed to get at least one perfect peach to replace everything though :/ That was a long time ago though, I was actually stupid enough to let a stranger run around in my town without being monitored by me.

Then there's this recent time..it's not as bad compared to what happened the first time. I was doing a trade with a person, which is a crown (worth at least 1,000,000 bells) for a couple of loose items from a polka dot set. I dropped the crown for the person to take and I waited for her to drop the polka dot items..well turns out she just took the crown and left the station -_- I didn't know how to end the session or disconnect the internet connection at the time so I didn't have any choice but to just let her go.

 

[Spooky.]

I've been shorted some bells on trades, but because I'm bad at math and tend to over overwhelmed if I have to do things too quickly I tend to just let it go. I would have given them a break on prices if asked but like...why hide bags of like...3k in with bags of 99k? If you don't have enough or something I'd be fine, but don't short me on purpose.

 

[matcha]

I've been shorted some bells on trades, but because I'm bad at math and tend to over overwhelmed if I have to do things too quickly I tend to just let it go. I would have given them a break on prices if asked but like...why hide bags of like...3k in with bags of 99k? If you don't have enough or something I'd be fine, but don't short me on purpose.

i don't think they do that on purpose? when i take out a full inventory of bells there's at least a 16k bell bag in the mix when i drop them all because the inventory is maxed out. it's still around 1.6 mill though.

idt i've ever been scammed before, but someone did ask me for a lot of things just for one lucky clover. i mean, bells don't matter much to me but they wanted like 5 extra items along with the bells??

 

[Wishy_The_Star]

somebody tried to scam me when i was on a previous forum.

i quickly put an end to it.

 

[lithiumlatte]

I've been shorted some bells on trades, but because I'm bad at math and tend to over overwhelmed if I have to do things too quickly I tend to just let it go. I would have given them a break on prices if asked but like...why hide bags of like...3k in with bags of 99k? If you don't have enough or something I'd be fine, but don't short me on purpose.

Are you absolutely sure this wasn't intentional? for example, if someone takes out 300k, that comes to 3 bags of 99k + a bag of 3k. ^.^

 

[spacedog]

i thankfully havent been scammed, but ppl have def stolen from my town before which sucked major donkey balls

 

[mynooka]

All. The. Freaking. Time. I've even had people trade with me on this forum before and not bring everything they said they would. After they traded I was like "Where's the rest you promised?" They say, "oh that's all I have."

I didn't report them or anything but it was super annoying and I hate when people have no respect for others.

In my opinion if you find someone who won't steal in this game, you best friend that person and stick to them like glue lol. I was so glad when I got my gold host badge because now I don't have to worry about inviting people over anymore.

 

[lars708]

i thankfully havent been scammed, but ppl have def stolen from my town before which sucked major donkey balls

Yup i had that problem too with some people, i lost a lot of hybrids, turnips, furniture, clothing and trees because of it. But the worst was when i dropped my whole inventory with my golden tools because i needed inventory space but someone took it and left my town not too long after i dropped the stuff. Some kind person helped me getting the tools back the way i had them! (Silver ones were given back silver and not gold because i want to achieve everything like it is meant)

 

[ALananhR]

I've never been scammed before, but I have had some weird experiences on the island that involved people trying to buy clothes from me for up to a million bells or other people just trying to chase off the fish/bugs I was trying to catch or even hitting me with a net or ax.

 

[lars708]

I've never been scammed before, but I have had some weird experiences on the island that involved people trying to buy clothes from me for up to a million bells or other people just trying to chase off the fish/bugs I was trying to catch or even hitting me with a net or ax.

Lol a lot of people do that, i do that sometimes too to be honest xD

 

[LeAckerman]

No. *Knock on wood* Sometimes I would play around with scammers. For example, there was this time some girl on ct wanted to "try on" my crown. So I let her just for the fun of it. She tried to leave, but I ended up getting flipping the switch. ^_^

I guess I've never been scammed fully is because of all the warnings on every website.

 

[TheGreatBrain]

No. *Knock on wood* Sometimes I would play around with scammers. For example, there was this time some girl on ct wanted to "try on" my crown. So I let her just for the fun of it. She tried to leave, but I ended up getting flipping the switch. ^_^

I guess I've never been scammed fully is because of all the warnings on every website.

It's kind of fun to mess with the scammers. One time I went to ct wearing the red horned hat. I let people catalog it. A couple of them tried to leave with it. One even called me a " sucker".I flipped the wifi on the ones that tried to steal it. If they had been nice, they could have ordered it for cheap when they returned home.lol.

 

[Mayor-Hazel]

lol Katie i still remember back in the day when you used to try and scam me and failed mine you, you always gave back what you took as it was mostly just as a joke or to catalog stuff ^.^ ahh the good old days

anyway i don't think i have ever been scammed (apart from you little "pranks") but anyway i am super careful but trusting... too trusting...

 

[lithiumlatte]

No. *Knock on wood* Sometimes I would play around with scammers. For example, there was this time some girl on ct wanted to "try on" my crown. So I let her just for the fun of it. She tried to leave, but I ended up getting flipping the switch. ^_^

I guess I've never been scammed fully is because of all the warnings on every website.

Oh god, I've had that, there was this one person the other day who wanted to 'try on' my dress and kept asking other people there to try on their stuff