Here is a fun convo, the guy sends me a screenshot of his EQ2 character but the screenshot has an official SOE tag in the bottom right corner, clearly not his character, so i made some searches on google and found the exact same screenshot on 6 different websites:
Zantoru: Hello?
mazethegnome: hi?
Zantoru: I saw your post on Markee Dragon -- you have the Shaman on Mannoroth, and you're possibly interested in an EQ2 account?
mazethegnome: yea
mazethegnome: i wanna try that game
Zantoru: Yeah, it's fun, I played the normal EQ for 4 years (nerd
) but I've been wanting to try WoW, especially with all the AQ stuff and I saw you were on Mannoroth, so that'd be nice.
Zantoru: But, yeah.
Zantoru: I've been playing EQ2 ever since March of last year.
Zantoru: I've got a max level Paladin and his Artisan (profession, tradeskills are pretty different and cooler than most game, imo) is level 45.
Zantoru: He's got awesome (and expensive, mind you ) gear -- all the Pristine Cobalt stuff, one of the best pristine weapons in the game and pristine jewelry.
Zantoru: He hits 4.5k health unbuffed and 2.6k mana.
Zantoru: And not sure if that means anything to you -- but if it doesn't, it's a LOT.
Zantoru: Mind telling me a bit more about your character?
mazethegnome: i got 4/8 earthfury, deep earth spaulders, best end-game blues, very good guild who raids a lot
mazethegnome: very good server
mazethegnome: EST
mazethegnome: do you know any places where i can download EQ2? i only got the trial -.-
Zantoru: Probably torrent sites.
Zantoru: I'm not sure if it'd work.
Zantoru: But if we trade, you might be able to login to my account & then it'd just act as if it were patching it since the game is already registered to the account.
Zantoru: You have to load SOE's station thing first, a lot like FFXI's POL if you've ever played that.
mazethegnome: ok
mazethegnome: id need a cdkey on install i think :x
Zantoru: Nope, you use the CD Key when you make your account.
mazethegnome: ok, so you can install without cdkey?
Zantoru: Yep.
Zantoru: Most MMOs are like that.
Zantoru: You enter the key in when you make the account.
Zantoru: Which is also why there are so many private servers
mazethegnome: bah yea, blizz asks for a key on install heh
mazethegnome: im downloading the digital version of the game from fileplanet
mazethegnome: 2 zips of 1.5 gb
Zantoru: Yeah, that probably would work.
Zantoru: They offer digital downloads of the game.
Zantoru: oh, yeah.
Zantoru: The account also has the adventure packs & expansion tied to it, too.
mazethegnome: ok
mazethegnome: could i see some screenshots of your character? see how it is in-game
mazethegnome: because i serously dont know anything about that game
Zantoru: Oh, Jesus. I only have one SS saved, and it was of me posing
Zantoru: Yeah, it's a really fun game, not to mention the story is AMAZINGLY good.
mazethegnome: send that screenshot for fun /u/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif
Zantoru wants to directly connect.
Zantoru is now directly connected.
Zantoru: But, yeah -- a good idea would be to do this:
Zantoru: check out the character, talk to people in my guild
Zantoru: And make a new character, play him to about 15.
Zantoru: You learn so much about the game by reading the tips and everything at that first stage.
Zantoru:
mazethegnome: ... sounds like an official screenshot to me :/
Zantoru: That's my character in Antonica.
mazethegnome: and the SOE icon in the bottom?
Zantoru: They always include that.
Zantoru: Doesn't WoW?
mazethegnome: ive seen other player screenshots and none of them does
mazethegnome: :/
Zantoru: I know FFXI does.
mazethegnome: is your account activated?
Zantoru: I've got some from when I played that two years ago, as well.
mazethegnome: you gotta activate the account and take some real time screenshots if you wanna trade because im not trading blindly, im experienced with trading :/
Zantoru: No, it ran out 20 days ago.
Zantoru: Gah, let me check if any of my guildmates are online and if they have SS of us.
Zantoru: I've got just enough money on my CC to reactivate.
Zantoru: But I wanted to save that for WoW.
mazethegnome: my account is paid until mid march
mazethegnome: so you can activate the EQ2 account and make it even /u/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif
mazethegnome: http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/setView/screens/gameID/2/setStart/1
Zantoru: Yeah, but from that standpoint, I still don't know if the trade will completely go through.
mazethegnome: theres plenty of screenshots there and none have the SOE icon in the corner
Zantoru: They removed the watermark.
Zantoru: OH.
Zantoru: I know why mine didn't.
Zantoru: Or did, rather -- there's a command to hide all of your HUD, UI & other windows.
Zantoru: (ALT + F1, if I remember correctly)
Zantoru: and that'll leave your SS coming out with nothing but that, but, then again, I'm going off memory.
mazethegnome: nah dude, dont make me waste my time, i will never trade an account to someone who cant show any other proofs than a screenshot that looks like an official one
Zantoru: I haven't had anything to SS in a while.
mazethegnome: you're hitting a brick wall
mazethegnome: :/
Zantoru: Give me a second and I'll hop on MSN.
Zantoru: Ok, I've got someone who's going to open up their directory and check.
mazethegnome: anyone who has the game installed can send a random screenshot and pretend its you
mazethegnome: whats ur name ?
mazethegnome: in-game
Zantoru: my character?
mazethegnome: yea, your character
Zantoru: Mobiggly, if you're asking -- yes, you are.
mazethegnome: if that name shows on your friend's screenshot
mazethegnome: then i might be interested
Zantoru: K, he's got hundreds, so he said he could be several minutes.
mazethegnome: np
mazethegnome: whats ur class/race again?
mazethegnome: a paladin?
Zantoru: Yes.
mazethegnome: whats that race, high-elf?
mazethegnome: i dunno anything about the game heh
Zantoru: That's a Half-Elf, they look almost similar.
Zantoru: There's about 6 different Elf races in the game
mazethegnome: hey look dude
mazethegnome: http://www.ausgamers.com/screenshots.php?view=/EverQuest%202/207high-elf-paladin-in-antonic.jpg
mazethegnome: ausgamers have your screenshot
mazethegnome: strange
mazethegnome: you can go offline now
mazethegnome: you're not facing a noob lol
mazethegnome: ill make sure that this convo will be posted in the scammers section of markee boards
mazethegnome: http://images.google.ca/images?hl=en&q=high%20elf%20paladin%20&sa=N&tab=wi
mazethegnome: actually, a LOT
mazethegnome: of websites have your ss
mazethegnome: man, ur almost good at scamming :/
mazethegnome: hey, where are you? im having fun
mazethegnome: the block button is in the bottom left corner of the window
Zantoru: Just recieved the SS, but, you obviously don't want it.
Zantoru: You do know that there are tiers of armor.
Zantoru: And that for about a 10 level range.
Zantoru: The armor for every single class is going to be the same?
Zantoru: If you ran around Qeynos, you would see every Mage class 10-20 wearing the same armor.
Zantoru: 20-30
Zantoru: same.
mazethegnome: dude, dont waste your time, i found the exact same screenshot that you sent me on 6 different websites, dont make me waste your time
Zantoru: etc.
mazethegnome: yea, you know about the game, grats
mazethegnome: now shoo
Zantoru: Yeah, I sent it because that's a promo for the DoF expansion.
Zantoru: And I literally have no SS.
Zantoru: But, I'm just going to sell it to IGE and buy an account.
Zantoru: Thanks, anyway.
mazethegnome: crymeariver
mazethegnome: now you can block
Zantoru direct connection is closed.
mazethegnome: "That's my character in Antonica."
mazethegnome: orly?
mazethegnome: hahahaha
Zantoru: orly??
Zantoru: Got stairs?
mazethegnome: got pwned?
mazethegnome: its fine l2p
I must give him some credit though... anyone who's not giving attention can be easily scammed, the game knows the game and has a good and mature "ponctuation" lawl.
Zantoru: Hello?
mazethegnome: hi?
Zantoru: I saw your post on Markee Dragon -- you have the Shaman on Mannoroth, and you're possibly interested in an EQ2 account?
mazethegnome: yea
mazethegnome: i wanna try that game
Zantoru: Yeah, it's fun, I played the normal EQ for 4 years (nerd
) but I've been wanting to try WoW, especially with all the AQ stuff and I saw you were on Mannoroth, so that'd be nice.Zantoru: But, yeah.
Zantoru: I've been playing EQ2 ever since March of last year.
Zantoru: I've got a max level Paladin and his Artisan (profession, tradeskills are pretty different and cooler than most game, imo) is level 45.
Zantoru: He's got awesome (and expensive, mind you ) gear -- all the Pristine Cobalt stuff, one of the best pristine weapons in the game and pristine jewelry.
Zantoru: He hits 4.5k health unbuffed and 2.6k mana.
Zantoru: And not sure if that means anything to you -- but if it doesn't, it's a LOT.
Zantoru: Mind telling me a bit more about your character?
mazethegnome: i got 4/8 earthfury, deep earth spaulders, best end-game blues, very good guild who raids a lot
mazethegnome: very good server
mazethegnome: EST
mazethegnome: do you know any places where i can download EQ2? i only got the trial -.-
Zantoru: Probably torrent sites.
Zantoru: I'm not sure if it'd work.
Zantoru: But if we trade, you might be able to login to my account & then it'd just act as if it were patching it since the game is already registered to the account.
Zantoru: You have to load SOE's station thing first, a lot like FFXI's POL if you've ever played that.
mazethegnome: ok
mazethegnome: id need a cdkey on install i think :x
Zantoru: Nope, you use the CD Key when you make your account.
mazethegnome: ok, so you can install without cdkey?
Zantoru: Yep.
Zantoru: Most MMOs are like that.
Zantoru: You enter the key in when you make the account.
Zantoru: Which is also why there are so many private servers
mazethegnome: bah yea, blizz asks for a key on install heh
mazethegnome: im downloading the digital version of the game from fileplanet
mazethegnome: 2 zips of 1.5 gb
Zantoru: Yeah, that probably would work.
Zantoru: They offer digital downloads of the game.
Zantoru: oh, yeah.
Zantoru: The account also has the adventure packs & expansion tied to it, too.
mazethegnome: ok
mazethegnome: could i see some screenshots of your character? see how it is in-game
mazethegnome: because i serously dont know anything about that game
Zantoru: Oh, Jesus. I only have one SS saved, and it was of me posing
Zantoru: Yeah, it's a really fun game, not to mention the story is AMAZINGLY good.
mazethegnome: send that screenshot for fun /u/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif
Zantoru wants to directly connect.
Zantoru is now directly connected.
Zantoru: But, yeah -- a good idea would be to do this:
Zantoru: check out the character, talk to people in my guild
Zantoru: And make a new character, play him to about 15.
Zantoru: You learn so much about the game by reading the tips and everything at that first stage.
Zantoru:
mazethegnome: ... sounds like an official screenshot to me :/
Zantoru: That's my character in Antonica.
mazethegnome: and the SOE icon in the bottom?
Zantoru: They always include that.
Zantoru: Doesn't WoW?
mazethegnome: ive seen other player screenshots and none of them does
mazethegnome: :/
Zantoru: I know FFXI does.
mazethegnome: is your account activated?
Zantoru: I've got some from when I played that two years ago, as well.
mazethegnome: you gotta activate the account and take some real time screenshots if you wanna trade because im not trading blindly, im experienced with trading :/
Zantoru: No, it ran out 20 days ago.
Zantoru: Gah, let me check if any of my guildmates are online and if they have SS of us.
Zantoru: I've got just enough money on my CC to reactivate.
Zantoru: But I wanted to save that for WoW.
mazethegnome: my account is paid until mid march
mazethegnome: so you can activate the EQ2 account and make it even /u/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif
mazethegnome: http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/setView/screens/gameID/2/setStart/1
Zantoru: Yeah, but from that standpoint, I still don't know if the trade will completely go through.
mazethegnome: theres plenty of screenshots there and none have the SOE icon in the corner
Zantoru: They removed the watermark.
Zantoru: OH.
Zantoru: I know why mine didn't.
Zantoru: Or did, rather -- there's a command to hide all of your HUD, UI & other windows.
Zantoru: (ALT + F1, if I remember correctly)
Zantoru: and that'll leave your SS coming out with nothing but that, but, then again, I'm going off memory.
mazethegnome: nah dude, dont make me waste my time, i will never trade an account to someone who cant show any other proofs than a screenshot that looks like an official one
Zantoru: I haven't had anything to SS in a while.
mazethegnome: you're hitting a brick wall
mazethegnome: :/
Zantoru: Give me a second and I'll hop on MSN.
Zantoru: Ok, I've got someone who's going to open up their directory and check.
mazethegnome: anyone who has the game installed can send a random screenshot and pretend its you
mazethegnome: whats ur name ?
mazethegnome: in-game
Zantoru: my character?
mazethegnome: yea, your character
Zantoru: Mobiggly, if you're asking -- yes, you are.
mazethegnome: if that name shows on your friend's screenshot
mazethegnome: then i might be interested
Zantoru: K, he's got hundreds, so he said he could be several minutes.
mazethegnome: np
mazethegnome: whats ur class/race again?
mazethegnome: a paladin?
Zantoru: Yes.
mazethegnome: whats that race, high-elf?
mazethegnome: i dunno anything about the game heh
Zantoru: That's a Half-Elf, they look almost similar.
Zantoru: There's about 6 different Elf races in the game
mazethegnome: hey look dude
mazethegnome: http://www.ausgamers.com/screenshots.php?view=/EverQuest%202/207high-elf-paladin-in-antonic.jpg
mazethegnome: ausgamers have your screenshot
mazethegnome: strange
mazethegnome: you can go offline now
mazethegnome: you're not facing a noob lol
mazethegnome: ill make sure that this convo will be posted in the scammers section of markee boards
mazethegnome: http://images.google.ca/images?hl=en&q=high%20elf%20paladin%20&sa=N&tab=wi
mazethegnome: actually, a LOT
mazethegnome: of websites have your ss
mazethegnome: man, ur almost good at scamming :/
mazethegnome: hey, where are you? im having fun
mazethegnome: the block button is in the bottom left corner of the window
Zantoru: Just recieved the SS, but, you obviously don't want it.
Zantoru: You do know that there are tiers of armor.
Zantoru: And that for about a 10 level range.
Zantoru: The armor for every single class is going to be the same?
Zantoru: If you ran around Qeynos, you would see every Mage class 10-20 wearing the same armor.
Zantoru: 20-30
Zantoru: same.
mazethegnome: dude, dont waste your time, i found the exact same screenshot that you sent me on 6 different websites, dont make me waste your time
Zantoru: etc.
mazethegnome: yea, you know about the game, grats
mazethegnome: now shoo
Zantoru: Yeah, I sent it because that's a promo for the DoF expansion.
Zantoru: And I literally have no SS.
Zantoru: But, I'm just going to sell it to IGE and buy an account.
Zantoru: Thanks, anyway.
mazethegnome: crymeariver
mazethegnome: now you can block
Zantoru direct connection is closed.
mazethegnome: "That's my character in Antonica."
mazethegnome: orly?
mazethegnome: hahahaha
Zantoru: orly??
Zantoru: Got stairs?
mazethegnome: got pwned?
mazethegnome: its fine l2p
I must give him some credit though... anyone who's not giving attention can be easily scammed, the game knows the game and has a good and mature "ponctuation" lawl.
