conversation: User (arcus483): "Wasn't sure where to post this but I've been thinking about it a lot today. \n\nI'm a front end manager at walmart which involves being over moneygram and other money transfer services. We get a fair amount of attempted fraudsters calling or trying to pick money up. But yesterday we had this woman come in who was trying to send 2900$ to India. The desk associate asked a typical questions like 'do you know this person' and the woman broke down and started telling her about this man who was on the phone with her, telling her he was in her computer and was going to clean out her bank account if she didn't send him the 2900.\n\nApparently she had had some virus and for some reason went to an online geek squad site where this guy talked to her and 'refunded' her like 200$, but of course accidentally sent her way more than that and then demanded she send him the balance back or he was going to ruin her life and take all of her money, not just the amount he had given her. So she ended up sobbing at our counter afraid her life was about to be ruined. \n\nObviously we didn't send it, and I ended up telling her this story about when I was a teenager and was selling this guitar on Craigslist. A guy mistakenly sent me a check for like 3000 and wanted me to send him back the difference, minus a few hundred bucks for my troubles. She calmed down, I told the guy on the line to fuck off, and I think she ended up being alright. \n\nTl;dr/the point of the story: people always ask who is stupid enough to even fall for things like Nigerian prince scams or stuff like that, and it's really just sad older people who don't understand how technology works and they just get scared into making decisions they probably know they shouldn't. \n\nKind of bummed me out, sorry if this is the wrong sub."
  Self: "I got scammed while playing Diablo II back in the day.  Traded a Sigon's Shield for what was supposed to be a Tarnhelm... got a worthless skull cap of spikes instead.  I can finally look back on this and laugh."
  HiderDK (HiderDK): "Oh god, I remember being 12 years old and generally new to the internet. I didn't have a lot of gear, but just recently found Shaco's which I was very happy out. Finally I had 1 valuable/useful item, but obviously I was stilll jeaulous of many of the rich players.\n\nI wanted to be like them, and I saw my chance when some guy offered to teach me how to dupe. The guy told me I had to download this program and run it (yes sounds dumb but remember I was 12 and new to the internet). \n\nAfter I ran the program the guy started writing in the chat "this is not your fault, don't feed bad", and I was like "Wtf is he saying that?". Then suddenly all my items just dropped and I couldn't pick them up, but instead I saw how he slowly took all of my items away from me.\n\nI was obviously devastated afterwards and went into the living room and cried so much. \n\nEver since I wondered whether that scammer felt good after stealing useless items + Shaco from a 12-year old boy. "
  ebomber (ebomber): "I was one of those dbags. I was around 14 years old. I used to join dueling games on my sorc and wait for people to get killed then drop a ton of quilted armor and sashes on their corpse. I'd wait for them to come retrieve their body and hope they would misclick and pick up a quilted piece instead before picking up their corpse. After that, I would teleport in on my sorc and drop them with a frozen orb and watch all their items drop. I'd pick them all up and run away. Eventually blizzard patched this. I thought it was fun and exciting back then... now I realize what a dbag I was and wish I could write all those people an apology.\n\nYears later karma found me briefly. When Diablo 3 first came out, I had this guy on my friend list whom I would join games with every now and then. We played off and on over the course of several months. Eventually he asked me if he could equip my barbarian sword (was half of a 2 piece set and he had the other piece) to see what it would do to his stats. It was fairly valuable but I thought I could trust the guy since we had been playing together for quite some time. He took it and ran and I never heard from him again."
  HiderDK (HiderDK): "Well there is a difference between what you did and telling a 12-year old to download an external program so you can steal his items. "
  