There's a switch on the side of your 3DS that turns off the wifi. Just flip that and it'll reset the town to the point where it saved before the multiplayer session started.
Whats the worst you've been scammed?
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There's a switch on the side of your 3DS that turns off the wifi. Just flip that and it'll reset the town to the point where it saved before the multiplayer session started.
snapdragon
Senior Member
Thanks Lunatic and Kamirose! Hopefully, I'll never have to use it!!!! Sorry for everyone that's had someone ruin or steal...people can be so awful...Animal Crossing has always been a "safe haven" for me--a place I can go to relax and be happy. I don't have to worry about work or bills, I can decorate my house or eat a peach and swim in the ocean ^^ (I especially like this living in a landlocked state!). It makes me really sad that someone would purposefully try to destroy that ;_; so YAY for all the fun-loving and honest players 
My first time I got scammed was with a guy named DrewNL on ACC, and his friend code is 5171-9861-8654 - luckily I got his friend code so a warning to all of you~
This wasn't a scam for bells, or items though. It was a scam over landscaping/fixing up his town.
He promised whoever helped him 1-4m bells to organize his trees all over his town basically. And like a fool, I went for it and for myself for the experience hoping it would motivate me into decorating my own town. I was with someone else, and we were both fixing up his town. I spent an hour planting trees in a neat pattern, and I plant my perfect cherries and put 4 famous mushrooms in a pattern (I was gonna use this for my own town too, sigh.) He was happy, and he saved all throughout the session. (I wasn't suspicious about this yet.. so dumb of me)
Then he asked me and the other person to transfer the flowers on the beach to his town, and we did. By color AND species ( it was a pain, my god ;___; ) It took about half an hour, we had to use all the flowers too. At the end, he said he would send both of us a private thread about bells and he best friended us- then kicked us out WITHOUT paying anything. No messages, no best friend messages or anything. I was so disappointed, my time was wasted.
What made me even more mad, was that he posted ANOTHER thread asking someone to put all the flowers back onto the beach again. That person, he actually paid. ugh....
This wasn't a scam for bells, or items though. It was a scam over landscaping/fixing up his town.
He promised whoever helped him 1-4m bells to organize his trees all over his town basically. And like a fool, I went for it and for myself for the experience hoping it would motivate me into decorating my own town. I was with someone else, and we were both fixing up his town. I spent an hour planting trees in a neat pattern, and I plant my perfect cherries and put 4 famous mushrooms in a pattern (I was gonna use this for my own town too, sigh.) He was happy, and he saved all throughout the session. (I wasn't suspicious about this yet.. so dumb of me)
Then he asked me and the other person to transfer the flowers on the beach to his town, and we did. By color AND species ( it was a pain, my god ;___; ) It took about half an hour, we had to use all the flowers too. At the end, he said he would send both of us a private thread about bells and he best friended us- then kicked us out WITHOUT paying anything. No messages, no best friend messages or anything. I was so disappointed, my time was wasted.
What made me even more mad, was that he posted ANOTHER thread asking someone to put all the flowers back onto the beach again. That person, he actually paid. ugh....
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itzafennecfox
Senior Member
I've been scammed once. A girl came over from TBT to use my Katrina shop. She was very friendly and I, being too trusting, allowed her to roam my town. I tried to keep a close eye on my items, but I went into Re-Tail at one point to sell things... next thing I knew, she was leaving. I didn't notice for a minute that anything was off, but I checked my items and my golden tools were gone! My golden slingshot, ax, shovel, and watering can. All gone. I know better by now, but what a bummer it was! I tried contacting her, dumbly thinking she might have thought they were freebies and accidentally took them, but she stopped coming onto the site and left my friend's list. By now, I've gotten a golden watering can from buying it somewhere else, but none of the others. However, I don't really care any more. Once I come into more money I'll buy the rest. It just disappoints me that she could be so rude as to do that.
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I'm happy I've never been scammed before.
Closest was when I needed a few more visits in my town so I could get the silver host badge. One girl picked up one of my hybrids near the station, and I told her to put it back. Then after she did, she started moving further away from the train station and eventually ran towards Retail. I ended the session then and there. I should have flicked the wifi switch, but this girl was new to playing online so she didn't know the guidelines for playing online. I directed her to the guide, though I was still irritated about the whole thing.
One time, someone attempted to scam me. I was on CT trying to find a certain bug for a villager request, and this girl arrives and asks me for 1mil bells. Which is stupid since you can't even use bells on the island. She said she was only gonna borrow it. I said no and she got really mad and started calling me swear words and then eventually told me to gtfo and disconnected. I wish I did do something to troll her back though like give her something valuable and then open up a menu so she would have to disconnect regardless.
But there were a lot of scams happening when I was on gamefaqs. One particular user had multiple accounts and would scam people so he could get into their town and steal their hybrids. It was awful. Others got scammed out of villagers a lot. But one of the worst things was that there was this one user there who was letting people catalog a bunch of items for a ridiculous price. Probably like 1mil for 10 rare unorderables or something. But an argument broke out because there weren't the items this user was claiming and mixed in were common items. The user eventually disconnected when he claimed that another user stole an item by switching it out when I think that user accidentally put the item on when trying to drag the item to the ground in the inventory to drop it. The user accused was pissed because he didn't get to finish cataloging and the user holding the catalogs had all of his money dropped. Crazyness. It's definitely settled down over there I think.
But I'm really happy on TBT. There are wifi ratings and you can definitely tell which users are trustworthy based on reading what people say and which ones have done some bad stuff.
Closest was when I needed a few more visits in my town so I could get the silver host badge. One girl picked up one of my hybrids near the station, and I told her to put it back. Then after she did, she started moving further away from the train station and eventually ran towards Retail. I ended the session then and there. I should have flicked the wifi switch, but this girl was new to playing online so she didn't know the guidelines for playing online. I directed her to the guide, though I was still irritated about the whole thing.
One time, someone attempted to scam me. I was on CT trying to find a certain bug for a villager request, and this girl arrives and asks me for 1mil bells. Which is stupid since you can't even use bells on the island. She said she was only gonna borrow it. I said no and she got really mad and started calling me swear words and then eventually told me to gtfo and disconnected. I wish I did do something to troll her back though like give her something valuable and then open up a menu so she would have to disconnect regardless.
But there were a lot of scams happening when I was on gamefaqs. One particular user had multiple accounts and would scam people so he could get into their town and steal their hybrids. It was awful. Others got scammed out of villagers a lot. But one of the worst things was that there was this one user there who was letting people catalog a bunch of items for a ridiculous price. Probably like 1mil for 10 rare unorderables or something. But an argument broke out because there weren't the items this user was claiming and mixed in were common items. The user eventually disconnected when he claimed that another user stole an item by switching it out when I think that user accidentally put the item on when trying to drag the item to the ground in the inventory to drop it. The user accused was pissed because he didn't get to finish cataloging and the user holding the catalogs had all of his money dropped. Crazyness. It's definitely settled down over there I think.
But I'm really happy on TBT. There are wifi ratings and you can definitely tell which users are trustworthy based on reading what people say and which ones have done some bad stuff.
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?
who was it? i will hunt them down, make sure they can no longer breed.
Klauser_Bateson
Senior Member
Thankfully, I've never been scammed myself, but I know my friend almost lost the Golden furniture set while agreeing to help a user on GameFAQs dupe the set, the user ended up stealing the set and not replying to any of my friend's PMs. This particular user ended up getting exposed when he posted a topic trying to resell the set. He ended up giving the set back to my friend.
I've been scammed once. I had a very good turnip price, so I was letting people come into my town to sell them. These were all people from here with good ratings. Randomly, a person I didn't know came to my town. Their town was of a close friend, so I assumed it was a second account or a sibling. Trusting them because they were from the same town as my friend, I let them roam my town while I watched the people selling turnips. Many people were coming in and out, so it saved a ton. He left my town, although I didn't think much of it because I had so many others to attend to. It was later that I found how much he had stolen. I was furious, but one of the generous members on here let me have some of her hybrids to make up for what was lost (thank you SO much, Lea!!!).
He tried stealing again from me 2 weeks later. I was doing deals with people on here, when he came through the train station. The game lagged, so I never saw him come out. I took a few steps back, and saw that hybrids were already gone. I errored, feeling bad about the people I was trading to.
Currently, I have this guy as a best friend. He's pretending to have a twin sister that he shares his file with. His brother (my friend) told me that he was tricking me, although I already suspected in. I'm going along with his game. His "sister" is very fond of me, and I'll be sure to watch for his next attempt at stealing.
He tried stealing again from me 2 weeks later. I was doing deals with people on here, when he came through the train station. The game lagged, so I never saw him come out. I took a few steps back, and saw that hybrids were already gone. I errored, feeling bad about the people I was trading to.
Currently, I have this guy as a best friend. He's pretending to have a twin sister that he shares his file with. His brother (my friend) told me that he was tricking me, although I already suspected in. I'm going along with his game. His "sister" is very fond of me, and I'll be sure to watch for his next attempt at stealing.
PlasticPinkPiggy
Gala <3
I've been scammed a few times ~
I was once on ACC and this person wanted me to do some town clean-up thingy and he told me he'd pay me 5,000 xats *basically they are a currency on a chat room and worth about 5 million ac bells* I thought it was a scam but as soon as I got to his town I realised he wasn't kidding. There was stuff EVERYWHERE and in every place i stood i could see some item on the ground. Thankfully I got it done in less than an hour, and right before I was finished he saved telling me that he has numerous wifi issues. Then about 10 minutes later it had an error, so I just private threaded him and told him to re-open his gates.
And of course, no reply for many weeks. That was basically when I quit ACC
I was once on ACC and this person wanted me to do some town clean-up thingy and he told me he'd pay me 5,000 xats *basically they are a currency on a chat room and worth about 5 million ac bells* I thought it was a scam but as soon as I got to his town I realised he wasn't kidding. There was stuff EVERYWHERE and in every place i stood i could see some item on the ground. Thankfully I got it done in less than an hour, and right before I was finished he saved telling me that he has numerous wifi issues. Then about 10 minutes later it had an error, so I just private threaded him and told him to re-open his gates.
And of course, no reply for many weeks. That was basically when I quit ACC
Hmm I kind of want to start trading and stuff like that but reading this thread makes me think twice about it. I've never been scammed before and I really don't want it to happen to me one day if I actually start trading stuff with people.. I don't really feel comfortable letting people I don't know really well to my town.
Dembonez19
The Beaubysitter
I let someone adopt one of my original villagers in hopes of receiving a dreamie as promised. She had a perfect rating, so I figured it'd be okay. Nope. She deleted the thread, and I lost a villager that I really liked without receiving anything in return. I hope she's happy, but it sooo wasn't worth it for me. :|
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A Wi-Fi rating can be shown on the Re-Tail and Train Station board, and I think Villager Trading Plaza too. To send one, go to a user's profile and click on the right most tab that says "Wi-Fi Rating" The rest should be pretty explanatory.So sorry to read all these stories
Sorry if this sounds silly, I'm pretty new to the forum, but what is WiFi rating - how do you build up a good one?
Thanks
Lou x
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A Wi-Fi rating can be shown on the Re-Tail and Train Station board, and I think Villager Trading Plaza too. To send one, go to a user's profile and click on the right most tab that says "Wi-Fi Rating" The rest should be pretty explanatory.So sorry to read all these stories
Sorry if this sounds silly, I'm pretty new to the forum, but what is WiFi rating - how do you build up a good one?
Thanks
Lou x
same here. i only trade if i need stuff and even then it's just a quick visit. the people who post on the train station board just to have people come over and hang out are so ballsy
