ever been scammed in acnl?

I've never been scammed but I've had a scare before when I was really new to this site.
I was buying some item from someone (I forget what exactly,) and the person was coming to my town.
When they first got to my town they didn't even say hi, but they said "Make sure to leave a good wifi rating" before we had even done any sort of trading yet. That sketched me out a little. I agreed just because I wanted to get it done. They dropped the items and I dropped the bells. They then said "You look cute." I was just kinda like "Oh uh thanks" because I was about to end the session since I thought we were done. Then they said "Can I look around your town?" I was about to say no but they didn't really give me a chance to say that and took off. I followed them really closely, until they finally were like "Do you have a hairbow wig" and I said no. So they pretty much forced me into buying one from them and left.

Every other experience I've had everyone has been very nice and never tried anything though.
 
I had someone scam me in a villager trade. They came to get maple and then never opened their gate to give me punchy.
I had some hybrids disappear during a giveaway once that I was hosting. But I don't know if someone took them or accidentally ran on them. Some very generous visitors gave me a bunch of hybrids though afterwards.

I've really experienced more kind people than unkind ones. The acnl community is very sweet.
 
I've never been scammed before, but one time I nearly did. Someone offered to sell the gorgeous set to me, and that person also offered to sell a sweets set to another user on here. When I got to his town (he had the other user there who was getting the sweet set), he ended the session. I found out he scammed the other user out of almost 2 million bells. So technically I was almost scammed :/

Also, I feel like some hybrids in my town got stolen, particularly black lilies and purple tulips. I think that was just my sister moving them, though.
 
I've only been scammed one when insteam of 600k I got 580k. But it was still enough for a golden can so I said nothing. I don't take the game so serious to be sad or get angry.
 
Somebody I met on the island visited and kept asking questions when I tried to follow them around. While I was giving a reply they moved away. Spotted that they were picking up hybrids when I wasn't about so I flipped the wifi switch to throw them out.
 
Keep it coming people!


Omg over 145 comments?! Omg! This is the thread with the most posts on out of all the ones I have ever made! EVER! :D
 
Also one time a friend tried to steal perfect peaches as a joke. But when I found out they took those peaches they gave them back.
 
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I've never really been scammed, but I've often gotten less bells than agreed upon because people gave me 99k bags for every 100k. Honestly, I've never cared since the money I make on here is easy (I have a hybrid farm with every kind, and as soon as I get a silver axe I'll have a mushroom farm too) and it's just a few thousand bells. Really, it's probably just convenient for the buyer (take out agreed upon amount, drop the money bags in inventory)
 
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Shydragon said:
I've never really been scammed, but I've often gotten less bells than agreed upon because people gave me 99k bags for every 100k. Honestly, I've never cared since the money I make on here is easy (I have a hybrid farm with every kind, and as soon as I get a silver axe I'll have a mushroom farm too) and it's just a few thousand bells. Really, it's probably just convenient for the buyer (take out agreed upon amount, drop the money bags in inventory)
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yeah i started a hybrid farm a while back with blue roses... and other flowers... i did this on the beach to avoid villagers putting there house on top of them.. and friends that visited to not have the urge to steal them.. i had my friends bug me to tel them where it was and i kept my mouth shut... because in the past i told what i thought was a good friend.. and she stole 2 of each flower i had -.-' that stupid b.. i mean meanie! XD
 
I've never been scammed, and I've received a lot of my villagers from trades on tumblr. Reading this thread has made me feel pretty lucky!
Out of curiosity, is there a certain time you should flip off the wifi switch when you want to cancel the save to stop scammers? I know doing it at a certain time dupes items, so should you flip it off right away?
 
nope, too paranoid to let anyone stay in my town, and I end session right after a trade lol
I have seen people... taking advantage of newbies on this site though, esp for their TBT bells, and it's super gross and appalling. There's something wrong with you if you enjoy/condone scamming people imo, esp when it's just for fake currency :/
 
nammie said:
nope, too paranoid to let anyone stay in my town, and I end session right after a trade lol
I have seen people... taking advantage of newbies on this site though, esp for their TBT bells, and it's super gross and appalling. There's something wrong with you if you enjoy/condone scamming people imo, esp when it's just for fake currency :/
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Please note that was years ago.. I was 10.. So yeah :l
 
I made some friends on the island, some worked out and most did not. I became friend's with a girl that wanted me to go to her town but for some reason the internet wouldn't let me. So I let her in mine, we played hide and seek. By the third round, I knew something was funny but brushed it off. I didn't know about the flipping the switch and she left.
We were on BF and said I said to her, " Oh gave up, lol?"
She said, " Thanks for the perfect apples."
I was like what? And stepped out of my house (which was my hiding stop.) To see all my perfect apple trees gone, she cut all of them and saw that she took the few hybrids I did have.
I quickly messaged her, "You cut all my trees down, why?"
"I was bored." She replied.
I was getting really angry, " But you did you have to cut my trees down."
"I didn't like you and I wanted your stuff." she replied.
Then I lost it, I started, yelling at her and cussing at her.
I took me months to have someone over in my town again, But I did go to her dream town and destroy it. That made me feel better.
 
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Nope. Though I almost did or maybe I thought so that I decided to switch the wifi off to be on the safe side. Too paranoid to let anyone go past the train station.
 
People I'm not too friendly with often come over when I'm giving a close friend a tour, and go silent after a while. After we'd finished the tour, we went outside, and I noticed my gold roses were gone. I called his name, and I didn't get a response. I walked over to where my spare golden rose was at the time, and that was gone too. Suddenly, I saw the 'Someone wants to leave' message appear, and I reset my wi-fi. c:
 
Coach said:
People I'm not too friendly with often come over when I'm giving a close friend a tour, and go silent after a while. After we'd finished the tour, we went outside, and I noticed my gold roses were gone. I called his name, and I didn't get a response. I walked over to where my spare golden rose was at the time, and that was gone too. Suddenly, I saw the 'Someone wants to leave' message appear, and I reset my wi-fi. c:
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Lol
 
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