ever been scammed in acnl?
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Not yet. I didn't even rly think abt it until I was in the middle of a trade and this person that I was DISCUSSING a trade with just came on over. I hadn't told them to come yet and was actually going to tell them I couldn't do it anymore. I was so confused and when I told them I couldn't do it, they were like "aw well can I see your town?" as they're running off. I just kinda stood there, not believing this person was so rude. Thankfully I had nothing worth taking in my town at the time.
I always am worried when someone from a trade just randomly runs straight into your town, does not respond to your messages and comes back a minute later saying that they were selling some things at Re-Tail, i just error everytime someone does that. I just can not trust those people in any possible way! They even look suspicious...
Anyone got the same or similar experience? I just can not stand those players!
Anyone got the same or similar experience? I just can not stand those players!
RosieThePeppyCat
:D ♡
Exactly!! I feel the same way ^_^
That's why whenever someone comes to my town, I watch them like a hawk unless they are really close friends.
But the people on here are nice, so I usually don't worry too much ^_^
I actually was kinda scammed a few days ago.
On Instagram there's an account called acnlpolice, and whenever someone scams them they send a message to acnlpolice, and then they post it on their page to warn people not to trade with them.
There was this one user called Simon.crossing. He had asked to play ACNL with me, so I said sure and we exchanged friend codes.
acnlpolice then posted a new picture saying that simon.crossing had scammed someone and stole all of their hybrids.
I took a picture of his 3DS profile, and sent it to ACNL police, just in case.
I then was cycling and had my gates open, because someone was coming to pick up Patty. First the person picking up Patty came, and then Simon.crossing just came in, and ran off. I was acting kinda crazy, so I flipped the switch. I apologized to the person picking up Patty, and then opened my gates again. I put out some bait hybrids to see if he really stole. The person picking up Patty came in, and then shortly after Simon.crossing came in. I saw him dash to the train station and I noticed my hybrids were gone. THEY WERE JUST BEING USED AS BAIT SO I DIDNT CARE IF HE TOOK THEM. I managed to take a picture of him in my town, and a picture of his TPC. I sent the information to acnlpolice, so that no one can get their stuff stolen from him.
I've never been scammed in ACNL as far as I can remember. That's probably because I never let people wander through my town. I only open my gate for trades, and even then, I ask people not to leave the station.
However, ACWW is a different story.. it didn't happen to me, but a friend of mine invited this guy into her town, and he put down a museum right in front of her station so she couldn't leave her town or allow people to enter. This guy was like a "hacker," he must have used an action replay. Well anyway, I remember you could drop museums/gracie's car/etc. and they would be permanent, so yeah that's what he did to her town.
However, ACWW is a different story.. it didn't happen to me, but a friend of mine invited this guy into her town, and he put down a museum right in front of her station so she couldn't leave her town or allow people to enter. This guy was like a "hacker," he must have used an action replay. Well anyway, I remember you could drop museums/gracie's car/etc. and they would be permanent, so yeah that's what he did to her town.
CozyKitsune
Sailor guardian
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Lol i do not think that he can come to my town and get away too easy, i notice it fairly early when a flower is missing. And i always error when someone leaves without saying good bye or something... And omg they should make a acnl police thread here too with usernames of people you absolutely can not trust or should pay attention to.
BluebellLight
bob is love bob is life
I used to wifi a bunch with a group of people and there was this 8 yr old girl that was a friend of a friend and she came to my town uninvited when I was with my friends and shook my perfect cherry trees when I told her not to but that was it
- - - Post Merge - - -
Except we all saw her do it even though she denied it. We were polite with her (since she's only 8) and told her not to do it again and she didn't
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Except we all saw her do it even though she denied it. We were polite with her (since she's only 8) and told her not to do it again and she didn't
kyrynbunni
Senior Member
I've had people try before but they haven't been successful. I had someone come over so they could grab a villager and they tried to take some of my rarer flowers with them. 
Needless to say, I caught them and flipped the switch. Also gave the villager to someone else because they sure didn't deserve the villager. I don't 'babysit' people but stealing my flowers is about the stupidest thing someone can do. When literally every open square of my town has either a path or flower in it, it's fairly obvious you've taken my flowers if there's empty spots suddenly.
I've had people on the island try to 'trap' me on the island and demand bells. Too bad for them, I'm not there to collect bells and just looking for items. So I have no problem flipping the switch on them since there's not really much for me to lose doing it.
Needless to say, I caught them and flipped the switch. Also gave the villager to someone else because they sure didn't deserve the villager. I don't 'babysit' people but stealing my flowers is about the stupidest thing someone can do. When literally every open square of my town has either a path or flower in it, it's fairly obvious you've taken my flowers if there's empty spots suddenly.I've had people on the island try to 'trap' me on the island and demand bells. Too bad for them, I'm not there to collect bells and just looking for items. So I have no problem flipping the switch on them since there's not really much for me to lose doing it.
I've had people try before but they haven't been successful. I had someone come over so they could grab a villager and they tried to take some of my rarer flowers with them.
I've had people on the island try to 'trap' me on the island and demand bells. Too bad for them, I'm not there to collect bells and just looking for items. So I have no problem flipping the switch on them since there's not really much for me to lose doing it.
same, i don't collect bugs on the island with other players, if i need bells i do it on my own island. So if people trap me and demand bells or they will make me loss my stuff i would be like "Go ahead, i dear you!" I only look for rare items and like you do or sometimes i would give the person like 99k then flip the switch just to mess with them
We don't have a thread but we do have the wifi ratings, which tell you if someone has had a bad experience with that user in the past or not.
Astro Cake
Senior Member
No. The closest thing was someone running off in my town and taking fruit without asking. A little annoying, but they could've done a lot worse.
oooh ive heard bad things about him 0.o
abelsister
cute but psycho
Maybe a week or so ago, I payed 15 million bells for Merengue and then after waiting for DAYS, she never came. Not sure if I was scammed, but I never received a letter from her or anything..
When I first started out, I used to let randoms from a Facebook group into my town and someone stole my only blue flower. I immediately noticed it was missing and me and another person shamed the guy who took it until he put it down lol
I like helping people who've been scammed/gotten a corrupt save file. If anyone ever needs help replacing something that was stolen they can PM me.
I like helping people who've been scammed/gotten a corrupt save file. If anyone ever needs help replacing something that was stolen they can PM me.
agscribble
Has no chill
I had Marshal for a very little while. He was cute, but not really important to me. I tried selling him off for a berliner since people liked him. I didn't want him to go to waste and I wanted the item, but I was scammed.
The person said their friend wanted Marshal and she would give the berliner. So, I let the "friend" take Marshal in good faith. The person immediately made an excuse as to why she couldn't connect with me. She wouldn't contact me for months. I had to keep sending asks every week to find out when she was available. Every time she told me when she could play, "something" would come up. She dodge out five times. Finally, I cut my losses and stopped giving the benefit of the doubt.
To keep myself from getting mad about it I sum up the failure with a quote from The Room to make myself laugh about it instead. "They betrayed me, they didn't keep their promise, they tricked me, and I don't care anymore." At least, I learned how to not to trade villagers!
The person said their friend wanted Marshal and she would give the berliner. So, I let the "friend" take Marshal in good faith. The person immediately made an excuse as to why she couldn't connect with me. She wouldn't contact me for months. I had to keep sending asks every week to find out when she was available. Every time she told me when she could play, "something" would come up. She dodge out five times. Finally, I cut my losses and stopped giving the benefit of the doubt.
To keep myself from getting mad about it I sum up the failure with a quote from The Room to make myself laugh about it instead. "They betrayed me, they didn't keep their promise, they tricked me, and I don't care anymore." At least, I learned how to not to trade villagers!
timecapsule
Senior Member
OK, this isn't really scamming, but I'll tell it anyways..
So I went into Leonardo's house one day. He was suddenly in boxes! I never heard that he was moving, so I was pretty surprised..
I went onto acnladopt, submitted Leonardo's post, and a few hours later, I get two asks for Leonardo. I accepted one, ( I regret it because maybe the other asker would've been NICE.. ) added her, opened my gates, and she followed me to Leonardo's home. I went inside first, ( NEVER go inside first.. I learned that! ) waited for her to come, and she didn't come in. So, I went back outside Leonardo's house, and she wasn't there. I wandered up a little bit, freaked out, and flicked the switch. I freaked out SO bad, I deleted my tumblr.. Yeah, I'm like that. I deleted it because I was afraid she would say I flicked the switch when she was trying to adopt him, so I really freaked out.. That was my FIRST EVER experience online. That was this month.. I'm still nervous about visitors, but I still wanna play with someone LOL :/
So I went into Leonardo's house one day. He was suddenly in boxes! I never heard that he was moving, so I was pretty surprised..
I went onto acnladopt, submitted Leonardo's post, and a few hours later, I get two asks for Leonardo. I accepted one, ( I regret it because maybe the other asker would've been NICE.. ) added her, opened my gates, and she followed me to Leonardo's home. I went inside first, ( NEVER go inside first.. I learned that! ) waited for her to come, and she didn't come in. So, I went back outside Leonardo's house, and she wasn't there. I wandered up a little bit, freaked out, and flicked the switch. I freaked out SO bad, I deleted my tumblr.. Yeah, I'm like that. I deleted it because I was afraid she would say I flicked the switch when she was trying to adopt him, so I really freaked out.. That was my FIRST EVER experience online. That was this month.. I'm still nervous about visitors, but I still wanna play with someone LOL :/
Ah! That must've been a horrible feeling. Wondering what that person was doing. I think I would've done the exact same thing lol. But don't let that discourage you from allowing other visitors especially here on tbt because there are a lot of nice people here c:
timecapsule
Senior Member
Yeah! the people here are really nice and sweet, like when I opened my art shop, even though I'm really not that good, they were still so nice <3
