Scam Experience

[HopeForHyrule]

Wow...these are some really horrible stories. I'm a fairly trusting person (no idea why...), so I guess I'm lucky my wifi seems to be incompatible with just about every other AC player. Keeps me from potential scammers.

 

[Mercedes]

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.

She restarted her town so all my hybrids..

 

[Plasticlizards]

Wow...these are some really horrible stories. I'm a fairly trusting person (no idea why...), so I guess I'm lucky my wifi seems to be incompatible with just about every other AC player. Keeps me from potential scammers.

Mine used to be incompatible with everyone from any country outside my own, it sucked because most people on here are from the UK so I couldn't trade with anyone :c

 

[JellofishXD]

Not exactly a "scam" but someone who hasn't paid back in aaaaaaaages
I gave a user marshal for art around augustish and still hasn't paid back

 

[Plasticlizards]

have you asked him/her about it?

 

[JellofishXD]

have you asked him/her about it?

Yes but I think she left TBT or is just really inactive :/

 

[stitchmaker]

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.

The same thing happened when I had a catalog party. Someone was kind enough to let me catalog a lot of items on the ACC board.
So I ordered all the items and put them out for my friends to take. While I was away 3 piece from the Campus Series went missing.

Another time I had free items out at the train station. Only had one visitor and they took all the baskets of perfect fruits. Yes the items were free but there were a lot of baskets. Rude to not leave any for visitors. Think that visitor was the person that took the Campus Items but not 100% sure.

Another time I opened my gates for high turnip prices. While on the phone a newbie hit me with the net. Than kept running into the train station. I looked at my perfect cherries trees in my new harvest town and the person cleared 20 plus trees of fruit.
Stopped her and told her I just started the town. She put them back and than left. I removed her from my FC list.

Those are the only problems I've had. I leave my guest town open all the time and go out shopping. Other than those problems I've had nothing taken. I've left a full set of the little animals from New Years to catalog. They were there for 2 months and no one took them. Always leave the guest perfect fruit to take home if I can. I have a lot to share.

 

[Buttercup]

i had merengue in boxes a long long time ago and i had some ppl over for a giveaway and i told them i was gonna afk for about 30 mins cause i had to wash dishes and one of them actually asked merengue to move to their town
its not really a scam but it suuuucked, i didnt even tell anyone merengue was in boxes ;-;

 

[Royce]

That's sad I would never ever invite anyone if a villager was in boxes unless they asked me

 

[FireNinja1]

I've had someone claim that I owed them 200k. Gave them the money since it wasn't that much but they were very persistent and inconsiderate about it. Further, it was from literally at least a while back. Trader didn't make any claims before that, which I found ridiculous.

 

[Royce]

 

[Plasticlizards]

there are still good people left in the world! no worries

 

[pocky]

Last Spring, I think? Nintendo was giving away Pokemon X/Y for free if you registered a 3DS and certain games on Club Nintendo. I had already registered my 3DS on Club Nintendo so I couldn't do it again. But since I really wanted Pokemon Y (I already had X) I decided to just buy a 3DS code. I put an ad up on Tumblr and someone offered to sell me their 3DS code for 150M. I spent like... 3 hours transferring all of the bells because I wasn't allowed to run in his town and his Re-Tail was REALLY far from the station.

After I finally finished giving him all of the bells he gave me the code for his '3DS' but when I went to register it was actually a code for a DSi! I told him that I couldn't get Pokemon Y with a DSi code and he stopped responding. Never gave me my money back. I didn't care too much though because I had a lot of bells at the time and was still left with about 700M.

AFTERWARDS THOUGH I DID MANAGE TO GET POKEMON Y. Got two copies of it, actually. One I got in exchange for Julian. The other I got for 150M + some forum bells (forget how much.) I gave one copy to a friend. And when I went to redeem the other for myself I had no space in my SD card... so I gave it to another friend LOL

 

[Royce]

Lol, that's a lot of bells and time .

 

[Ayaya]

Not really a scam experience but I went to the island wearing my crown wanting to see if someone would attempt to scam me. A few visits and I've only met respectful people until I was on an island with two other people. After we finished a few tours, the other one wanted to leave so there's only two of us, and the other guy started begging me for bells. I just spammed them with the troubled emoticon every time they begged but they wouldn't stop saying "plz" (I also really hate "plz") They told me I must be rich cause I have a crown, so I took it off and dropped it near them. After they picked it up, I flicked the Wi-Fi switch.

 

[Royce]

I wanna try that but I would acts as if I had no space and wanted to try a new hat I guess and then tell them not to touch it lol I wanna try that lol

 

[kasane]

I have a crown, so I took it off and dropped it near them. After they picked it up, I flicked the Wi-Fi switch.

lol get wreckt beggars rip m8 XDDDD
Your post made my night haha!

 

[cl0udys0ul]

I won katiegurl1223's prize pack one from her christmas contest after submitting 200tbt, and have messaged her repeatedly to no avail...not sure whats going on or if scam or not but yeah those were my last tbt xD

 

[P.K.]

I'm not exactly sure if this would count but...

I had my best friend come over to my town so she could adopt Beau and then we just chilled for a while and played around my town when it suddenly said that someone was coming over and we were both confused and surprised because no one else was supposed to come and I was super confused when that other player came over. I'm not sure if they mistook my town for another for a trade or something or it had another intent. I know it's another tbt user since this is where I only do trade. Luckily, I ended the session before any possible damage could happen.

 

[LeAckerman]

I usually have items on the ground and I get lazy trying to pick them up, so when I have friends over they decide it's ok to steal them from me, so in the end I just reset or if I can't get a hold of my items(because of saves) I delete them. :/