ever been scammed in acnl?

[littleporkchop]

Someone tried to scam bells from me on the island, but I'm not that naive!

People have tried to steal some of my stuff but I always tell them "You think you can still from me? Guess again " *Flips switch*

I have always known that I could flip the wireless switch to stop the game from saving, it's kind of obvious... but hey, I'm not judging!

- - - Post Merge - - -

Wow, reading these stories.. I feel sorry for anyone who got scammed Fortunately, I have not been scammed myself (yet! I only traded with people on TBT and all have been so honest and kind♥) but reading about other people's experiences definitely helps me. I consider myself warned off wifi-ing with tumblrs, those folks there seem very unpredictable. So thanks to those who share their story!

I've never really had trouble with people on tumblr, I've only met some kind people.

Actually because of ACNL and tumblr I made a really good friend.

 

[stitchmaker]

It was high price for turnips in my new harvest town. Someone was shaking my trees while I was on the phone.
Ended the call and stopped the person after the 2nd visit to the train station.
She dropped all the perfect fruit and left. When I looked she cleared 2/3 of my newly planted perfect trees. Also didn't replace the dead ones. Removed her from my list.

Had a cataloging party and lost 4 piece of the campus series. Those can be reordered and it was written on the board.
My mistake for leaving the game unattended.

 

[Stitched]

No, luckily. I don't really trade on tumblr very often, and nearly everyone I've met here is nice and respectful.

 

[Zane]

I'm too savvy for that. and everyone I've traded with has been a doll (except maybe one or two rude apples but that's all huehue). But then again 99% of my wi-fi transactions have been on this forum with the helpful rating system - I've still traded several times with people who have no ratings but it just makes me feel better knowing I could leave them negative feedback if they're shady. lol

 

[tobi!]

No, luckily. I don't really trade on tumblr very often, and nearly everyone I've met here is nice and respectful.

I wouldn't trade on tumblr, tbh. A more AC centered forum is much better.

 

[TheGreatBrain]

I wasn't scammed but, I opened my gates for people to sell turnips.I didn'have any myself, and I was broke.So I politely told everyone that if you had a lot to sell then tips were required.Some didn't have much and would tip a basket of fruit, and some nothing at all.I was ok with that.But my last two visiters had a ton.I had been doing this for 9 hours and I was tired.One girl would drop a bag of 99k every time she went to her locker.I would thank her each time.Both girls were in my town selling for 45 minutes.When they were finished, the one girl dropped her last bag, and I thanked her.Then the other said " don't thank me yet ".Then she dropped a bag with 10k and left without so much as a thank you.This made me so angry.I'm not a greedy person, and have let people sell for free.But this seemed like a slap in the face.

 

[missy_g]

Not really scammed...

In CF, some person came to my town then asked if his buddy could. I said sure. Well they wanted to play hide and seek in the museum...me being naive said, OK. They cut down ALL my trees in my town. Honestly it wasn't a huge deal because I had just started the game and was going to cut them down anyway (they did me a favor!). When I tried to report them to the forum the admin told me that I was stupid for being so naive. THAT was the biggest slap in the face.

I accidentally trampled someone's gold rose once...LOL

 

[Classygirl]

The way she put it and seeing the generosity of the other girl, I would have said something back, not rude just subtle. Makes me angry for you. When people help expecting nothing back they deserve more than those that demand it I think. Just me though.

 

[Religious-Sonic]

Nope. My trades always go well. People on CT beg me for bells (maybe because of my badges??) and they sometimes "trap" me onto the island with them just for some virtual money. =.= Really pathetic...
I personally try to avoid trading on tumblr; I heard a lot of bad stories about trading on there. I feel more comfortable trading on a forum that dedicated to the game itself.

 

[CuteKatie]

XD over 80 comments! Keep the story's coming people

 

[mags]

These beggers on the Island do my head in, if they spent the time fishing/bug collecting that they spend hounding people they would have loads of bells. I have a billion bells but still catch fish/bugs.

 

[kasane]

I met this Japanese player on CT, and at first I thought he was quite nice because he dropped a few 1k Bells for me.
But after I left, I finished off a trade with one of the users in this forum and all of a sudden he showed up and ran straight out of my gates to my hybrids and started to pick up the black tulips.
To be honest, I didn't know about flipping the Wi-Fi switch off, so I just ended session.
Luckily it was only one black tulip gone though...

 

[regigiygas]

nope. thankfully. one person did try but they didn't follow through and later apologised to me for it.


I only let in people I'm doing business with (and I keep a close eye) or very close friends.
I schedule all of my visit and if anyone happens to visit unplanned I apologise and end the session.
might seem a bit rude but it's kept me safe yanno. it's mostly friends who've picked the wrong town to visit or didn't know I was busy.
not a big deal but I still like to schedule everything.

 

[Luna_Solara]

Nope, not yet in NL. I did get some stuff stolen from my CF town a little over year ago though.
I'm generally pretty cautious with people in my town. I have my train station bordered and if people visiting for trade exit the bordered section I end the session, unless they're going to the ABD or Re-Tail or something else and they've told me so.
I also don't allow unannounced visitors in for anything other than Katie drop-offs. But if people drop in for other reasons unannounced, I apologize and close gates.
I also stay on-screen with visitors and ask that visitors only walk in town.

 

[ellabella12345]

I met a guy who said he was British.
He was Swedish. :L

omg how dare he

 

[Meadows]

I have never been scammed before. ^^ I make sure to watch people, although people have tried to steal items that I had left on the ground and I told them to drop it and if they didn't I switched off WiFi.

 

[zujika]

Threads like this make me a little paranoid about letting people into my town.
Even if its just a little character sell in my cycling town, how can i trust people?

I have yet to be scammed, but when that day comes i will be one sad mayor.

 

[shadowgrg]

Never had it happen to me. But then I'm fairly new and my town is duller than used dishwater. Nothing to steal there. These stories make me sad for you guys though.

 

[CuteKatie]

Keep it up people!

Well I have been scammed once but other than that nope never... I reset my town a lot of there isn't much to steal..

 

[FriendlyVillager]

one time long ago, somebody owned me several million bells but never went online or checked PM. i have over 1 billion bells anyways so i ended not caring