ever been scammed in acnl?

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its animal crossing where you can wifi with others easily and tons of rares/expensive things are available. of course theres bound to be some scamming.[/QUOTE]

Ya that seems more likely. When I was a kid I had chances to do it but I never did, I'm not like that. If I came to do it I'd probably feel really bad haha.

 

[Silversea]

I haven't been scammed yet. But I don't indulge in many trades either.

 

[CuteKatie]

bump

 

[KaydeeKrunk]

People beg for bells all the time, but while I was going a giveaway (yeah thanks to me for being generous...) someone took a bunch of my hybrids, and it made me SO SAD! Especially since I just got my gardens all organized and just started getting them... it made me super mad, now I know better and I pull everything or babysit when I do sales or anything... >.<

 

[lunathenia]

I could never understand people who are not cautious enough when doing giveaways/trades/etc... If you're going to have more than 1 person over then hide your **** instead of crying after you get your stuff stolen. Also don't fully trust even the people you've had couple of successful trades with. Tail the visitor at all times and no it's not rude to do that and imply suspicion. Better to be safe than sorry.

Here's what I do when I visit other towns.
1) WAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT - don't move and wait until the host can see you
2) Greet the host before moving and ask where to go for trade
3) If it's blatantly obvious the trade will be done in the train station they I just drop w/e we agreed on to trade
4) Get your stuff and say bye and go straight to the train.
Here's what I do when others visit my town.
1) Tag them... as in follow them so they're within your view at all times.

I've had very few people come to my town and move randomly. DON'T do that. It looks suspicious as **** and I get ready to flick the wifi switch every time. Moving in a TINY repeated pattern is ok (like going in small circles or w.e).

Be wary of people who make big movements on their own when nothing about where in the town the trade/giveaway will be held.

 

[AppleBitterCrumble]

Ive had to pay 150TBT for a Gold tool Set and the person was offline ever since I sent the bells (this was like over the summer)

 

[Souji]

I think someone stole my Holly starts when they were collecting signatures ^^; I wasn't following them because I had stuff to do, which was stupid of me. I was going to give the bush starts to a friend who was bit upset about this. u-u

 

[Superrandomperson]

I actually was yesterday kinda, not scammed more like trolled, someone let me in their world to trade and once I got on the went AFK for two hours and then crashed the game, without saving so I lost some progress on my own world, and I haven't heard from them since, all I know is I'm not trading with them now :/

 

[CuteKatie]

bump

 

[ellienoise]

It's so curious but before coming here to the bell tree, I was active on 4chan's /acg/ and despite the site's anonymity and bad fame, I never got scammed. In fact, I don't remember people complaining about scammers and such! people just aked for signatures and stuff and everyone was helpful. selling villagers was frowned upon and it was an overall cool community, I guess it was bc it wasn't exactly available for kids and people were mature. People stopped posting, though, and I came looking for a more active community. So far I've had only good experiences!

 

[meenz]

I personally have never been scammed, but people who scam others are disappointing :/ These people have worked hard to get their town a certain way and now you're ruining it for them by stealing from them!

 

[momiji345]

I got items stolen 4 times mostly in summer time ( flowers ,sets ,street pass items ) ,Trash half my town 1 times and they left ,got scam on island 2 times ( they won't let me go home when i had a basket full i had to pay them .Its so hard to trust people so know i only do trades ,I do let them go shopping but i never let people stay for to long

 

[TheGreatBrain]

I got items stolen 4 times mostly in summer time ( flowers ,sets ,street pass items ) ,Trash half my town 1 times and they left ,got scam on island 2 times ( they won't let me go home when i had a basket full i had to pay them .Its so hard to trust people so know i only do trades ,I do let them go shopping but i never let people stay for to long

That's too bad. Sorry to hear you've been scammed so many times. I personally would rather lose a basket full of bugs then give those punks any bells.

 

[momiji345]

i was a noob then i wish i known better ,i Said i would never let people come by ,,Lol half year later i made a big Junk yard so people come by and take the items for free ,I said the beach are off limit ,some people have the nerves to steal ,I am putting time in my junk yard and you can't follow easy rules ,Very sad i had close it down am not a fool any more .I don;t let people stay for to long so they can't steal from me .Know on the island i just swish of wireless,

 

[Snazzapple]

I haven't been scammed; but, I have been stolen from. I let in a few people to get closer to 100 people for pwps. I had dropped some 7 11 items in front of an extra house as a store. After a few seconds the one person leaves and the 7 11 items were gone and I was heart broken. Now I'm cautious of people when I trade.

 

[inkling]

When I was a new member here a person said they had an amazing deal for me! They would sell me the FULL streetpass ice cream set for ONLY 200 TBT! I said yes as, at the time, I did not know how expensive that is (10 million bells!) They gave me the set and I said thanks, but when I checked it there were only seven ice-creams and not eight.....What a great deal!!

I'm so confused by this post. Are you being sarcastic? They might have just forgotten one lol. You could have mentioned it

edit: I know this is a pretty old post but Im sitting here reading this thread from the beginnig and that post seriously confused the heck out of me! Maybe I'll get some clarification if I keep going. And yes I'm a creeper lol

 

[CozyKitsune]

Bump I want to hear more stories! Me myself haven't been scammed yet and I hope I will never have to go through it.

 

[CuteKatie]

bump because i want to hear more stories

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When I was new I got into a shady deal where a backer paid for the villager I wanted in exchange for a higher up villager so I got my villager but lost a precious...Marshall was a mistake I wasn't sure what to high bid him so I auctioned another started my winner at said time of ending reneged the 19m I should have left it up or restarted second bidder down reneged got the other Marshall has since been seen selling him at least three times at my count. I asked for only non reseller and said was disillusioned a deal especially after twelve hrs of my time if you win should be a deal got a message after close will take him got dropped some bags maybe a third of what was worth as tip and now totally understand stricter rules on any auction but until cycle town someone got a cheap resell Marshall likely knowing I was too upset to stop collect rethink and redo.
In ACC on city folk, oh yes on Island before had a site they tried but I didn't have much then. Most recently am finding new very new member maybe just adding to adopt won't read rules, run away from me the one today I said where are you follow me he was like a flash said he went into wrong home had to be Muffy filbert or Francine unless he can map hop I couldn't see him said come to bridge please he said he was already in the house. I didn't have time to look around after and am scared I may have been dropped a voider which would mess up an almost done plan, don't know when voideds show so crossing fingers. I have learned if no wifi feedback, and very newly added I have right to say no without a reason given other than must be a member for such and such time, or have at least two positive feedbacks...Not sure what he did really it was just we went over the rules...Niether of my runners gave me a wifi receipt either. Did he drop me someone don't know yet....Never give neg feedback fear of the same for no reason and never sure when to flip switch I should go more by gut. It is not as bad here as other site I used to use though the few are the few. Also I got items stolen 4 times mostly in summer time ( flowers ,sets ,street pass items ) ,Trash half my town 1 times and they left ,got scam on island 2 times ( they won't let me go home when i had a basket full i had to pay them. Its so hard to trust people so know i only do trades ,I do let them go shopping but i never let people stay for too long because of this. Now i don't play acnl anymore because of how many times this has happen, i don't trust anyone anymore

 

[peachesandicecream]

Back on GameFAQs I was helping this guy with cataloging so I let him in and he said each item he got to catalog I would get 100k so I have around 40 items for him and he said that only 3 were new I looked back on the site and all 40 he didn't have and ripped me off but that's not even the worst part when I went back in for more items for him he shook all my money trees.. I was heartbroken because this was back when I was poor xD Funny thing is that he came back, I was selling a card set and he was going to buy it for 8mil I didn't realize that he was the same person. So he came to my town and dropped 8 crowns I told him that I wanted bells, he tried to tell me that I was missing 4 card items and that I was wrong I took a closer look at him and realized it was him and booted him out he sent me like 5 messages to let him back in and that I was wrong and threatened me to "hack" my game xD

 

[Dulcettie]

I've never been scammed before (at least I don't remember ever being scammed).