How to Weed Out Asian Scammers (Sellers Only)

[ratherplaywow]

What is an Asian scam? An Asian scam is when a person with bad English offers a substantial amount of money for your account, you get the money sucesfully and you think the trade has gone right but a couple days later they file a claim with PayPal saying it was an unauthorized money transfer and will eventually get the money back from you. (I'm not being racist as they are all Asian, I have IP traced.)

You mention that they file a claim through PayPal, what if they do it through another e-commerce business? They wont, usually you can spot them out when they ask if you are PayPal verified or if they ask to pay through PayPal, but we will discuss this further in the methods of detection section.

Ok so how do I stop these communists from stealing my account and money? Ok we'll start with some basic methods.

1. Keep the potential scammer talking, if you notice that they are slow or can't speak proper English then this is the first signs that they are a scammer. Also if they call you guy or sir I think you've found yourself a scammer.

2. If they ask you what account you are selling straight up off the bat then it's almost guaranteed that they are trying to scam you. Anyone actually interested in your account will say something along the lines of 'Hi, are you still selling that 70 Mage?' (Beware some Asian scammers won't ask what account you are selling so don't make your final decision from this.)

3. Are they asking you to rush into selling your account to them? Say you have an offer for $350 and you tell them that, they will probably bump it up to $400 and ask for a deal.

4. They usually ask if you are OO and have all the info on the account. Don't ask me why they do this because all they ask for is the Username/Password, an email change and the secret question answer.

5. Are they asking you if you are PayPal verified, are they telling you that they are PayPal verified? This can also be legit, however a scammer will always use PayPal for this reason. PayPal always side with buyers, literally always, it doesn't matter how much incriminating evidence you have against the buyer, they will always win. With other services I don't think there is any way the buyer can get their money back without sufficient evidence.

6. I find the make or break for these scammers is when you ask them to post on your thread. This will end up two ways, A) They will ask you to wait a minute. This means to wait like 5-6 mins and that they are going to ask their supervisor how to create an account or if he has any accounts. They will eventually post on your thread with an account with either 1 post or an account with 10 that has neutral rep.
B) They won't be capable of creating or finding an account on MD and will either not respond to your chat or request that you don't insist for them to post on your thread.

Ok so that's the basics and you can adapt this however you want. I find this to be the most common type of scammer, I get between 6-10 of these scammers daily enquiring about any of the accounts that I am selling. When you practice you can weed out these scammers fairly quickly. Beware though, there are smart scammers out there and they are rampant too.

Heres a chat log with one of the common ones I got this morning.


[email protected] says:
hi

[email protected] says:
guy

Luke says:
Hi.

[email protected] says:
wat acct u sellin guy?

[email protected] says:
guy?

Luke says:
http://www.markeedragon.com/u/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/1050474/an/0/page/2#1050474

******10 Minutes Later due to his slow Chinese net*******

[email protected] says:
hav u got all infos on it guy?

Luke says:
Yes I am OO.

Luke says:
brb

[email protected] says:
brb?

[email protected] says
guy?

[email protected] says
guy?

Luke says:
back.

Luke says:
I've already got an offer for $400

[email protected] says:
make $450 then deal?,im paypal verified can u use paypal plz

Luke says:
Can you please post on my thread?

[email protected] says:
thread?

Luke says:
http://www.markeedragon.com/u/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/1050474/an/0/page/2#1050474
post on it

[email protected] says:
sorry,no i,dont hav acct,im paypal verified tho

[email protected] says:
guy

[email protected] says:
guy

***Blocked***

 

[Leet Vendor]

Rofl nice haha. Thanks for taking the time to write this up /u/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[wowaddict702]

For the past 4 days I get 2 aims with diff names each time.But there both the same person.I know this cause I traced his ip and found out all his aim and markee names so every time he makes one I get an email of what it is.I dont think this 1 guy will ever give up on trying to get the acct back I sold to him then money got reversed so I recalled.

 

[Epicfaces]

As racist as it sounds, asians are the easiest to detect with things like this.

''Sir u have acc?'' (Probably most commonly used opener by an asian when contacting).

 

[Kamitsuna]

I said that about the sir thing in my thread and everyone jumped down my throat.

Lol im glad someone agrees.

 

[jadeangel2757]

here's another example. maybe now they kind of know how [censored] annoying their messages are.

woworderplayer: hi
JadeAngel2757: hi
woworderplayer: do u have a wow acc?
JadeAngel2757: do u have a wow acc?
woworderplayer: what do u mean?
JadeAngel2757: hi
JadeAngel2757: guy
woworderplayer: yes
woworderplayer: i am here
JadeAngel2757: u have acc for sell?
woworderplayer: i want to rent
woworderplayer: heeh
woworderplayer: hehe
JadeAngel2757: oh u have acc to rent?
JadeAngel2757: i pay 10$ a day
woworderplayer: i want to rent
woworderplayer: man
woworderplayer: no
woworderplayer: i want to borrow
woworderplayer: sorry
woworderplayer: so do u have an acc?we can pay u daily
woworderplayer: cash
woworderplayer: or free leveling
JadeAngel2757: no i pay u
JadeAngel2757: free lvl 60-70
JadeAngel2757: wow us/eu gold 2000g 40 $
woworderplayer: u want to buy acc isnt it?
JadeAngel2757: rent
woworderplayer: JadeAngel2757 (1:37:42): u have acc for sell?
JadeAngel2757: o yes guy also buy acct
woworderplayer: we want to rent
JadeAngel2757: i pay 10$ a day?
JadeAngel2757: u give me rent
woworderplayer: u want to buy right?
JadeAngel2757: want rent and buy
JadeAngel2757: also sell watch
woworderplayer: i see
woworderplayer: so can u rent your acc to our company ?we can pay u 10$/day
woworderplayer: hello?
JadeAngel2757: hello
JadeAngel2757: u have acc for sell/
woworderplayer: so how about it ?
woworderplayer: no i want to borrow acc
woworderplayer: borrow
woworderplayer: and if u want rent
JadeAngel2757: rent to our company 10$ a day
woworderplayer: we pay u 10$/day
JadeAngel2757: u have acc ?
woworderplayer: your site?
JadeAngel2757: i am paypal verified
JadeAngel2757: <font color="pink">(here i linked him to meat spln dot com)</font>
woworderplayer: [censored]
woworderplayer: [censored]
woworderplayer: FU
woworderplayer: [censored]
JadeAngel2757: hello
woworderplayer: [censored]
JadeAngel2757: u have acc for rent?
woworderplayer: [censored]
JadeAngel2757: 10$ a day
woworderplayer: ASSCHOEL
woworderplayer: [censored]
JadeAngel2757: i am paypal verified
woworderplayer: NUTS
woworderplayer: [censored]
JadeAngel2757: yes i have some
JadeAngel2757: for u 5$
woworderplayer signed off at 1:52:00 AM.
woworderplayer is offline and will receive your IMs when signing back in.

 

[btraill]

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1 if you notice that they are slow or can't speak proper English then this is the first signs that they are a scammer. Also if they call you guy or sir I think you've found yourself a scammer.

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You're kidding right? I also call 90% of the people I deal with "Sir".

Not everyone "who takes a while to type, and who can't type proper english" is a scammer. That was a broad sentence you just used, and generally, it isn't true.

 

[gman]

^^ Yeah, I agree with brtaill thats complete nonsense.

 

[Donklee]

rofl

[ QUOTE ]
guy?

[/ QUOTE ]


Halarious...