Whats the worst you've been scammed?

[PeachClaire]

Before coming to these lovely forums, I had a deal for someone to come adopt a villager of mine for 3 million bells on Reddit. I led them to the house, let them adopt her, and then proceeded to tell them they can leave the money at the train station. Looking back at the screen, they had left my view. No big deal. I wander around trying to find them and all of a sudden, they're leaving! Not knowing i could just turn my ds off, they left without payment, saving the game. I then walk around my town to see rare flowers had been stolen, as well as items. Broke my heart.

How have you been scammed?

 

[FireNinja1]

I was once scammed on TBT, in a giveaway. They were like, "Okay I can get you five items that you want, ANY item in AC:NL." I picked my items, and after like 30 minutes, she goes, "Oh okay everyone, I sent your gifts by mail." She never even came to my town, and the entire thing was a scam for attention. Really made me angry.

 

[Princess Weeb]

I was once scammed on TBT, in a giveaway. They were like, "Okay I can get you five items that you want, ANY item in AC:NL." I picked my items, and after like 30 minutes, she goes, "Oh okay everyone, I sent your gifts by mail." She never even came to my town, and the entire thing was a scam for attention. Really made me angry.

what even
why
wHY
Why do people bother doing that?
I've never really been scammed myself, but I saw some guy on Reddit promising everyone whichever Cat villager they wanted as long as they wrote him like an essay about why they liked the villager..etc
Of course, it was all a scam, for literally no reason.

 

[PeachClaire]

I was once scammed on TBT, in a giveaway. They were like, "Okay I can get you five items that you want, ANY item in AC:NL." I picked my items, and after like 30 minutes, she goes, "Oh okay everyone, I sent your gifts by mail." She never even came to my town, and the entire thing was a scam for attention. Really made me angry.

Wow ._. That's a little extreme for attention.

 

[VioletPrincess]

I don't know if you would class it as being scammed but I won a giveaway for the full alpine set and the person never brought it over or opened their gates for me. I think it was around the time that Pokemon came out so I think that they lost interest in ACNL. I would get limited responses when inquiring about the set. I am not horribly upset about it. I am always careful with trades.

 

[Stalfos]

Before coming to these lovely forums, I had a deal for someone to come adopt a villager of mine for 3 million bells on Reddit. I led them to the house, let them adopt her, and then proceeded to tell them they can leave the money at the train station. Looking back at the screen, they had left my view. No big deal. I wander around trying to find them and all of a sudden, they're leaving! Not knowing i could just turn my ds off, they left without payment, saving the game. I then walk around my town to see rare flowers had been stolen, as well as items. Broke my heart.

How have you been scammed?

This really guts me. How can people do this?

I havent experienced anything like this but one time a french guy nabbed my beard on the island. Yeah, i know, it sounds kinda weird.

 

[Saranghae]

Never have been. Play smart and know who to trust and you can't get scammed.

 

[MadisonCrossing]

I've never been scammed, but when people have come to previous towns of mine, I make sure that they're doing what they should be doing - either collecting their items or dropping them off, unless they're at my town for something else.
I didn't even have town rules...there's so many people that could've taken my hybrids. But now that I'm wise about who I play with, I'll probably be more careful in the future. c:

 

[Stitched]

I've never been scammed, but I know about the wifi switch. I've never traded villagers or entered any real giveaways, so that's probably why. I also usually give away villagers for free or really cheap (sold Chrissy for 1 mil). I don't monitor people that I trust.
I've got so many hybrids that it's eh if they take them. I'll flip the switch on them either way. But the stuff people do just for attention is really stupid.

 

[PeachClaire]

I've never been scammed, but when people have come to previous towns of mine, I make sure that they're doing what they should be doing - either collecting their items or dropping them off, unless they're at my town for something else.
I didn't even have town rules...there's so many people that could've taken my hybrids. But now that I'm wise about who I play with, I'll probably be more careful in the future. c:

I had never used a site to trade villagers or items before, so i definitely learned after the first time. I felt awful though, lol. I felt like i couldn't trust anyone.

 

[Angelwing]

I have not yet been scammed on NL, but I am very wary of who I play with. I used to WiFi with a lot of people back on City Folk, and I would always find a lot of my flowers missing. :/ It made me extremely cautious after that. I don't WiFi with people on NL anymore unless we have talked and gotten to know each other a bit better.

 

[a potato]

Marshal.

THis isn't really someone scamming, but someone ran all over my town, shook almost all of my trees, and trampled all hybrids.

 

[Swiftstream]

I got scammed the worst before I came to TBT!
I met a girl on club tortimer, who seemed so nice and gave me a few flowers I could plant in my town.
She added me and asked to visit. Being the gullible person I am I gladly said yes. 2 min after opening my gate she came and stole all of my fruit and flowers plus some Items I left on the ground. (Back then I didn't know how to turn off wifi big noob ik) and before I could stop her she ran into the train station and talked to porter.

Gah then I had to wait several days for all my fruit to grow back

 

[MadisonCrossing]

I don't monitor people that I trust.

Yeah, I'm a bit with you there. If there's someone I've traded with before, I don't watch them very closely, but if it's the first time someone comes to my town I check up on them every now and then. It's not like I'm right behind them; I'll just walk around town doing my thing for a bit, then make sure they haven't done anything to my town. And even then, if they did, I could just flip the switch.

 

[Piptocrossing]

u__u i had a catalog-sets-for-free giveaway for my town. I had three people in my town cataloging items and i just couldn't keep track on all three of them. Only after all of them left i noticed all my rare flowers and my only black roses were gone.

I blamed one user because i had wified in the past with the other two players, plus another player on BTF told me that she is her sibling IRL and knows that she took them. I believed her because those two WIFI very often, but it turns out that this user is a person from the island that was just playing with both of us >.<

 

[Chessa]

I'm happy I never got scammed. I don't monitor people who enter my town if their WIFI ratings are good, therefor I'm happy with the system on this forum!

 

[FancyThat]

I've never been scammed because I'm super cautious when playing, I only let people I really know and trust wonder on their own. Everyone else I keep in my sight, if they go out of it I flip the wi fi switch. I rarely allow more than one people at a time in my town anyway so it's easy to keep track. I've never had problems with people from here.

I think the main reason I'm so cautious is because when I first started playing I read a horrible story about someone being scammed out of an expensive set, and the scammer tried their luck twice more on the same site afterwards.

 

[VioletsTown]

The very first auction I had, someone was geting Punchy from me. He dropped bells in the plaza and left. I didnt bother to count as he was dropping because I was trusting. Well, not only did he not drop enough bags, he mixed 99,000 bags with smaller amount of bags, like 9,000 and 15,000 so at first glance, it looked all right. Yeah...

I wasnt too upset by it, after all, this is all imaginary money for imaginary villagers. But what bothered me was the intention and the bad faith. I mean, i understand you dont see my face and therefore, I may not seem like a real person, but I am. And to basically come into what amounts to be my virtual home with the intention of conning me, and not honoring an agreement... Well, thats low.

 

[Cascade]

I've never been scammed but there's a person in island who stole my 50k but it was looong time ago.

 

[J087]

Seriously, scams also happen here? That's just low...