ever been scammed in acnl?

[fuzzybug]

I had this happen to me last year. This complete fool came to my town and stole my entire regal set. Someone else trampled my hybrids (what very little I had at the time since I was new) and I think someone might've even taken some.

I was dumb too, and didn't realize till they had left.

I hate it when people are just really odd- you open your gate for some nice visitors, and then you get the one person that you don't want. The quiet, "I-say-nothing-and-do-what-I-want type. One time, I had someone come over and then they just shook a fruit tree right in front of me without asking! And then they said, "What happened to the fruit." Cos the fruit tree was in some flowers.
You just never know what weirdo you're going to add and have visit your town.
Thank goodness for TBT and ratings *whew*

 

[Leela]

Once someone tried to scam me. They were running all over my flowers and chopping down trees. I decided to play along and pretend I was unaware, and then, just as they were about to enter the train station, I "accidentally" flipped the wifi switch. I quickly received an angry message, asking why I had ended without asking their permission. It was hilarious They clearly thought that because they were the guest, they could do whatever they wanted.

 

[fuzzybug]

Oh. MY. GOSH!! If that happened.... I would either cry, or go on an angry rage rampage. Probably both. How dare they! Is that their town? NO! Some people just ugh. No words right now.

 

[Leela]

This was all on ACC... I love how loads of people have bad stories about those forums haha. And it was fine at the end because I lost none of my stuff, but the scammer wasted their time.

 

[Rarr01]

Wow, a lot of bad stories from ACC and tumblr! I've never had a bad experience on tumblr, maybe because I only trade through villager trade and they're pretty well known? And they blacklist scammers too.
I do feel horribly for the people who've been scammed though. It's really silly for people to be SO hung up on getting virtual things that they steal it. Especially when half the people here would just give them the items if they asked! Everyone I've come across in the acnl community has been so sweet, people let me play on their island with them and explore their towns! I've gotten Julian and hybrids for free before, which is really sweet considering that those people couldve sold them for a LOT.
Looking back, I could've easily been scammed when I sold a villager and let the person just come, drop money, take the villager, save and come back to cut the wifi for me. But she was a super nice person picking up a villager for her little brother I think, and she did exactly what she said she was going to do.
Come to think of it, maybe everyone from this thread should get together and visit each other's towns, because we all know how cautious everyone is because of bad experience. So then people who are really afraid of scams would still be able to play with wifi friends

 

[kamiyama34]

I've never been scammed on New Leaf, but I'm super careful whenever anyone comes into my town. Most of the friends I've made are part of chat boards though, so if they ever got in trouble they would face being outed in front of their entire community (which I would do everything in my power to expose them if they tried to start trouble). It seems like this forum and most other places are pretty good at controlling/banning scammers, so that's good.

 

[Rarr01]

I've never been scammed on New Leaf, but I'm super careful whenever anyone comes into my town. Most of the friends I've made are part of chat boards though, so if they ever got in trouble they would face being outed in front of their entire community (which I would do everything in my power to expose them if they tried to start trouble). It seems like this forum and most other places are pretty good at controlling/banning scammers, so that's good.

I think once an influx of scammers appeared, they started to make sure less scams happened. A lot of lesser known places on tumblr are starting to make rules to deter scammers too, which I hope is helping to make the community an even better place. Although, that just means they will resort to other means, it's possible that making it too difficult will deter some.

 

[CuteKatie]

For the short amount of time I have been on here... No one I have traded with me has tried to scam me, or be rude... Everyone here seems really friendly!

 

[MayorAriella]

Yes I have! On tumblr this girl messaged me and asked me if she could come to my town because she had presents and of course I was going to be nice and let her come, I was a little skeptical about it at first so I decided to keep a close watch on her. When she ran over to the side of the train station I had a golden tool set laid out for my friend that was going to come later on to pick them up. When she saw them, she told me this story about her friend who stole her golden tools and she hasn't been able to get her hands on them ever since. I felt bad for her, so I agreed to sell them to her, and i was just going to dupe my personal set of tools again for my other friend. So she said she would be right back and she would get the bells for me. While she went I decided to go get myself a snack and I put my DS down. When I got back to my ds it was just finishing up the saving screen from her leaving, and my tools were gone and no bells anywhere :/ I figured she was pretty nice and honest since she generously had given me a few streetpass items and agreed to buy the tools from me, but apparently not! So now I'm pretty skeptical about anyone I let into my town.

 

[TheGreatBrain]

I had just gotten the red horned hat.I took 5 different trips to the island to let people catalog it.Three people were very nice and gave it back.One of them took off to leave, and another one said "thanks for the hat, sucker".Of course i flipped the wifi on the dishonest ones.Because of their greed they didn't get to order it from their catalog.lol.

 

[pwincess]

i have never been scammed but i don't care about wifi ratings at all like if i get one cool if i give one cool if i dont get one cool if i dont give one cool lololol

 

[ADanishMuffin]

Thankfully, no, but it must be terrible to be scammed here.

 

[CuteKatie]

wow.... Keep up the effort!

Edit: wow over 100 comments?! I am happy! :'D

Idk why but random bump ~

 

[Momo15]

Thankfully, I've never been scammed on ACNL, but my main town, for some reason, has been a target for ACNL bandits (thieves, town destroyers, I've unfriended them thankfully.)

 

[Tessie]

I never been scammed and I never have scammed and never will. scammers are immature people, typically children which the acnl community has a lot of. I remember being a young girl and scamming a lot on neopets lol.

also I never bought a villager or anything of that sort yet so I haven't really put myself in the position to possibly get scammed.

 

[CuteKatie]

:3

 

[Puffy]

Does this count at all?

So I put up a villager on a trading tumblr and asked for Marina.
The person brought me to their town, and oops Marina was outisde. They didn't know how to trade and thought I just had to talk to the villager.
But everyone makes mistakes ;w;

 

[oranje]

No, thankfully. Belltree my first and probably only place where I would conduct trades, since the rating system makes me feel safe. Everyone that has traded with me has been wonderful.

 

[CuteKatie]

Does this count at all?

So I put up a villager on a trading tumblr and asked for Marina.
The person brought me to their town, and oops Marina was outisde. They didn't know how to trade and thought I just had to talk to the villager.
But everyone makes mistakes ;w;

Well... It depends.. Did you pay a lot of bells for her first or anything?

 

[ethre]

I used to be able to say I've never been scammed on ACNL - up until today. I have no idea how it happened and I'm pretty sure the trader had no idea how it happened either - and I'm not blaming them. But I gave the person around a dozen of unorderable items, more than 70 orderable items, and we spent around two hours having to transfer the bells. In the end, I didn't get any.