Scam Experience

*Most* people are trustworthy though, let's not think that the bad apples are the majority. People are no worse today than any other day/generation, every generation has the illusion that its youngest are worse than the older generation's youngest - it's a completely false bias that we're inclined to believe...trust me (it's not really worth writing a longwinded illustration I don't think so just believe me that 3,000 years ago they were saying the same thing.

I don't understand how anybody can enjoy and appreciate this game yet steal from people and/or not be friendly in general. This is the one game where kindness and generosity is celebrated and rewarded; people (myself included) like to give gifts when they visit a player's town just because the game is filled with altruistic gestures and encourages that sort of thing.

I suppose with some people it's probably just immaturity and something they'll grow out of, I'm thinking the ones who try to sneakily steal things rather than ask, but if you're a scam artist (artist sounds too respectable a term, doesn't it?) then the game is lost on you anyway - they've missed the entire point of the game!
 
Wing said:
When Katt sold me a painting for 300 bells and it was fake :p
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this.

& I've had a girl come to my town to pick up a villager and afterward she hung around WAY longer than I expected & kept asking me if she could take my stuff (flowers, furniture in my house, etc.) I was trying to be nice so I gave her some of the flowers but politely told her the things in my house weren't available. Then she said she was poor (IGB-wise) and started begging me for money. I didn't want to be too rude and abruptly kick her out of my town so I kinda just ignored it or changed the subject until she left. The whole thing was really awkward. I wouldn't call it a scam but it wasn't exactly a pleasant experience and I'm sure that if I didn't keep an eye on her she would've stolen quite a few of my hybrids.

Otherwise, no. every item, villager, and service I offer is free, so it's kinda hard for people to scam me unless they try to take more than what we agreed to. I've never had an issue with paying somebody for something and not getting that thing either, though I'm often paranoid it'll happen.
 
I've been very cautious. I always check Wi-Fi ratings for 100% positive feedback. The first time they're in my town, I might keep close to them. However, I prefer to visit them first and talk for a while. If they're polite and treat their own town well, I'll usually invite them over. What I mean by that is if I see them running in their own town, for example, I can expect them to run in mine. I don't allow that.

One of the first people I met on the forums seemed nice. She told me to add her to my bf list. I visited her town twice, I think, and then I invited her to mine. She took off running at full speed, so I flipped the switch. After that, I removed her friend code and put her on my ignore list here. I don't have time for people who think they're going to run out of my sight and trample my flowers.
 
D1tzy before had been scamming people before .. She always says they accidentally are in boxes and scam people. And restart when she feels something went wrong. Reply to sweetpea but it's her choice of what she does.
 
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When I was a noob before I came onto TBT i used to sometimes take 1 hybrid from a town I went to. I saw other people do it so I was like, WHATEVER

But then one girl caught me and told me that she would blackmail me forever if I didnt put the hybrid down xD

I dont do that anymore, because I feel that once you get over the noob stage, breeding hybrids and collecting rares is as easy as changing the clock. I do know quite a few people who have scammed me and all seem to have been newish acnl players, which doesnt mean all new players are scammers, but sometimes you need to be careful.
 
Heres another one i forgot about.

I used to do a lot of catalog parties. I would order a bunch of rare hats or rare furniture. People would come over and catalog for free. It wasn't a big deal if they stole anything because I could just order them again, but it ruins it for others when a bunch of the items are taken. The next people to come over to catalog wouldn't get some of the items they were wanting. Seems so odd to me that people will take items that they can easily order.

When the red horned hat was released, I went to CT. I would ask the people there if they wanted to catalog it. It's orderable, so it would not be a big deal if they kept it. However, when one boy said "Thanks for the hat, sucker " Then ran in the building to leave. I quickly flipped the wifi. His bad behavior kept him from getting to order it in his own town.lol. For real cheap too, I might add.
 
It was a facebook group. I got scammed 10 mil for Diana, he said that Diana was in boxes and was willing to sell to me for 10 mil. He wasn't in boxes and he said that he time traveled wrong, so I stupidly believed him and left. We said we would meet the next day and he never came on again...
 
I while I ago I sold one of my villagers for 500K bells. The guy came to my town like we'd arranged, but instead of dropping 5 bags of 100K bells each, he dropped 5 bags of 100 bells each and bolted for my villager's house. I flipped the Wi-Fi switch pretty quickly.
 
It sucks that people ruin things by scamming others :( just no need for it at all. I've read a few horrible stories about people having their towns ruined etc, so whenever I visit a town, I completely understand if the player is hovering near me as I pick up items as arranged, you just can't be too careful.
 
Chaobu said:
I while I ago I sold one of my villagers for 500K bells. The guy came to my town like we'd arranged, but instead of dropping 5 bags of 100K bells each, he dropped 5 bags of 100 bells each and bolted for my villager's house. I flipped the Wi-Fi switch pretty quickly.
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did he think that you wouldnt notice the difference between the coin and bag items he was dropping or what
 
I just always get really uncomfortable when people try to hang around for a while after they pick up their trade. I understand if they wanna chat or check out my town or whatever but it still makes me feel paranoid. To put it bluntly: GET YOUR S*** AND GET OUT!!

Lol just kidding, but it's still really awkward. I feel like if I take my eye off them for one second they'll make a run for it and start stealing stuff. I usually don't let people go past the train station unless they ask me specifically or if they're picking up a villager.
 
computertrash said:
did he think that you wouldnt notice the difference between the coin and bag items he was dropping or what
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Lol he might be a *noob* I guess lol

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Plasticlizards said:
I just always get really uncomfortable when people try to hang around for a while after they pick up their trade. I understand if they wanna chat or check out my town or whatever but it still makes me feel paranoid. To put it bluntly: GET YOUR S*** AND GET OUT!!

Lol just kidding, but it's still really awkward. I feel like if I take my eye off them for one second they'll make a run for it and start stealing stuff. I usually don't let people go past the train station unless they ask me specifically or if they're picking up a villager.
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Yup but sometimes when I'm in that situation of being watched I feel like they don't trust me lol even though how much time I had been in that site. Lol but yeah we can never be too careful.
 
I had an experience last may where some guy added me from miiverse (which should have been warning enough.) He said I could visit his town, but that never happened, I'd open my town for other people, then he'd come. I wouldn't care, until I noticed I never had a bell rock or fake rock most of the time (I'd let him come in, he wanted to get Celia into his town, so i'd let him talk to her for about 10 minutes daily.) I then noticed he'd take flowers, think I couldn't see. He'd also say he'll drop off 100k bells every time he visit. The first time, he dropped 1,000 so I aske dhim about it and he said 'oops' and said he had to go to his locker. He'd leave every time (at this point I couldn't care)So one day I told him Celia moved out with me knowing and he unbestfriened me :p
 
Someone stole 300+ hybrids I feel asleep with my gate open. I woke up and my trees were cut down my bushes dug up..I want to my bffs town (Vivian is her name) I was like all my hybrids were stolen last night. She was like o sorry. I walked around her town and say all of my hybrIDS I WAS IN DISBELIEF. I asked were did you get the flowers she said. A super secret guy. I was like did u steal them its OK if you did. She was like I would never steal from you. She said the guys name was tom..I still think to this day she took them..
 
Luckypinch said:
Someone stole 300+ hybrids I feel asleep with my gate open. I woke up and my trees were cut down my bushes dug up..I want to my bffs town (Vivian is her name) I was like all my hybrids were stolen last night. She was like o sorry. I walked around her town and say all of my hybrIDS I WAS IN DISBELIEF. I asked were did you get the flowers she said. A super secret guy. I was like did u steal them its OK if you did. She was like I would never steal from you. She said the guys name was tom..I still think to this day she took them..
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If she didn't have those hybrids before she probably stole them from you. That's really sad though </3
 
Luckypinch said:
Someone stole 300+ hybrids I feel asleep with my gate open. I woke up and my trees were cut down my bushes dug up..I want to my bffs town (Vivian is her name) I was like all my hybrids were stolen last night. She was like o sorry. I walked around her town and say all of my hybrIDS I WAS IN DISBELIEF. I asked were did you get the flowers she said. A super secret guy. I was like did u steal them its OK if you did. She was like I would never steal from you. She said the guys name was tom..I still think to this day she took them..
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Wow that's pathetic some people are really low.
 
Luckypinch said:
Someone stole 300+ hybrids I feel asleep with my gate open. I woke up and my trees were cut down my bushes dug up..I want to my bffs town (Vivian is her name) I was like all my hybrids were stolen last night. She was like o sorry. I walked around her town and say all of my hybrIDS I WAS IN DISBELIEF. I asked were did you get the flowers she said. A super secret guy. I was like did u steal them its OK if you did. She was like I would never steal from you. She said the guys name was tom..I still think to this day she took them..
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she stole them
i guarantee it

try to remember if you had a specific number of a certain hybrid and ask if you come to her town and count how many of that flower she has. do this for multiple hybrids tho to be sure.
 
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