Have you ever been scammed? How did you deal with it?

[Nunbal]

I was doing a trade with macdewhacko from here. He was dropping bags of bells in my town and suddenly another person randomly came into my town and started taking the bags of bells. I was so shocked. I don't remember who she was. I just ended the session. It was so bizzarre lol

 

[ellsieotter]

wow reading this kind of scared me, but it was very helpful. I can't believe people go to those lengths to rip others off. I have never been scammed here thankfully. I always check wifi ratings before letting someone come over. if a trade is being placed in my town, I will end session the second the transaction is over. all of the people I have traded with on here are established members who were really kind so I never had to worry about anyone in particular. when I am trading in someone else's town, I try to use as much communication as possible so the other person feels at ease.

 

[waterfallcrossing]

I've been scammed once before, but not on here.

it was sort of my own trust mistake but this girl claimed she was duping my golden tools and ran off with them and when i tried to message her she called me a hacker and multiple rude words.

 

[LovelyLavender]

I have been scammed before, but it was on the GameFAQs forums. I was resetting my town, but I wanted a few of my things to transfer over (DLC items, fishing tourney prizes, some bundle of fruit, ext.) to the new town. I thought I could trust the person (he was real polite) to hold onto the items, while I did the reset. I told him he could keep all of my bells as payment. When I reset-ed my town, I messaged him, he wouldn't respond. I just sort of sighed and found this site instead. I'm glad I did find this site, because I would've been scammed multiple times then.

 

[stitchmaker]

One visitor shook my perfect fruit trees and tried to take them to their locker.
That visitor got remove my 3DS.

Another was a player taking too many free items. Left a lot of perfect fruit and free items at the train/event plaza for the online group.
One person took a lot.

 

[TheGreatBrain]

One time, I was having a catalog party. This person makes an account on Gamefaqs, just so she can come to my town and steal the Princess set. I caught her and told her to put them back. She ended up taking a princess chair. I knew she had it, but there was two other people catalogging things, so I didn't want to hit the wifi, and mess it up for them.

That's the only time, but one time I was doing a trade, and this uninvited person, comes over and just takes off running. I hit the wifi.

 

[LinkToTheWorld]

Never been scammed on this site, the wifi rating system is a big help there though. On another forum I was properly scammed out of some hybrids, they ended the session before I'd picked them up and I hadn't realised I could have just closed the DS down. Another time on a different site somebody tried to scam me out of my gold tools, again by ending the session, that time I was faster and just hit the power button. They came up with some excuse about how their sister wanted them off the DS...so rather than just closing it or turning off the power she decided to end the wifi session the lies some people come out with....I reported him to the mods on the site but they didn't do anything. They would tell people not to blacklist anybody but then wouldn't do anything to stop scammers.
Another time on the same site somebody bought a villager off me with igb. Being trusting I didn't bother to check the bells as they dropped them. I'm with the 99k bags there were some smaller ones - 5k etc. They never responded to my messages so I just left it. Have a lot of igb now but that's not the point. Doesn't feel nice being scammed

 

[PlasticPinkPiggy]

I've been scammed multiple times, but mostly on xat chats and gameFAQ's

My first experience getting scammed was back in ACWW, when someone deleted my entire town and I had no choice but to go out and buy another whole game. They were giving me bells but told me I was too needy so they deleted my town.

My second experience getting scammed was a weird one. I became friends with a girl who was very nice, she'd let me use her t&t emporium and shampoodle before I was able to obtain them and we often played on the island and traded/sold/bought items together. One time, I left my town open to best friends only (she was my only best friend at the time) as she was planning to pick up some pieces of a set. I came back to find all of my purple roses gone (mind you I only had 11 but I bred them myself). I messaged her and she kept saying it wasn't her. I eventually believed her, thinking I must have opened the wrong gate option. Two weeks later, I catch her on the chatroom we use (xat.com) selling exactly 11 purple roses. There was no way to report her or anything since it wasn't a forum so I just left the chatroom.

The last experience I had was when about 40 blue roses were stolen from my town.I remember hosting a giveaway and having a few people over to collect their prizes. 20 minutes later and the giveaway items gone, I stumble across my now non-existent blue rose breeding spot. Mind you, this happened on TBT. I finally believe to have caught the person who stole them, who was the only junior member who won the giveaway. Unfortunately, he never came back on the site, which was not to my surprise.

I've also had some run aways, people who've tried to pick trees/cut down trees and other small things like that but I've mostly flicked the switch on those people.

 

[Lightspring]

Nope, not yet, but I've met some shady people here and there...

 

[Capeet]

I've never been scammed here or been stolen from, or if I have, I didn't notice it. Someone did sell me things I later realized were hacked but I'm not sure if that counts. And yeah, there have been times when visitors have run around my town freely while there was a lot of stuff on the ground. Would've been a good chance to steal something. If someone did, I never noticed.

I guess there aren't many people here who scam but it's still good to be careful. Sometimes even those who seem nice and polite can be dishonest in reality.

 

[That Marshal Fangirl]

I haven't been scammed myself but my best friend on AC:NL found some friends on the island and they wanted to come over to her town so she said ok. One of the girls distracted her while the other one stole her flowers and cut down her trees. My friend didn't notice until after she ended session and was understandably upset. Me and some other friends who are close to her were pretty mad at the two girls and helped her get back her flowers and replant her trees. My friend has such a sweet and trusting nature, and it's just horrible that someone would take advantage of that to hurt her.

 

[thatawkwardkid]

Never been scammed (well, at least not that I can think of.) The worst thing that I can think of is winning a giveaway but I never received the prize. I guess the person running the giveaway just forgot. I wasn't really bothered by it so it wasn't a big deal to me.

 

[demondays]

I've never been scammed, but I have been stolen from, many times actually. I'm not very good with watching everyone.
It's one of the main reasons I don't wifi anymore.

so have I. :// I always delete friend codes after trading, but that doesn't stop my friends from stealing from me anyway