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I'm guessing this one's a scam? Anyone recieve a similar email?

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Hello, I am a represinitive from "CkGaming" We buy many FFXI,WoW accounts safe and reliable!!. We are very interested in you'r account and are willing to pay 850 for this account. Please not that we will need to login to the account and check it just company rules sorry. If you decide to do this we will listent to you fully all you do is press "9" and we logout immideitly. We are not here to scam and this account will not become a "RMT Account" so dont worry ^^. We are gonna use this account to give to a person hired with us to play. I have a good ebay fd back and trusted on everysite there is! If you have any questions please contact me at email plz... we are very interested this account and I also MM for trade thanks!

~CkGaming~

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My responce was:

I'd be happy to take $850 for the account, and as soon as it's deposited to my account I'd be happy to give full access to the account.

Aside from the horrible spelling errors, this has scam written all over it for a few reasons:

1. Your a representative of the company. Idk, maybe it's just me but I haven't seen companies actively seeking out accounts. There's no way to be sure you represent the company you speak of.

2. Your largely offering more than my asking price, that's a red flag.

3. Your spelling is terrible. Legit businesses display professionalism and cover the most basic and trivial aspect of communication, spelling.

4. You want to "check" the account before payment is made. That's never going to happen. Buying accounts is somewhat of a grey area, and the buyer assumes some limited risk. If you have concerns on not recieving an object, paypal will refund payment.

5. What is your ebay ID, rating, and how can you verify what you claim?

6. This one might be a long shot, but the " ^^ " characters don't look stretched, similar to those seen in chinese type. This suggests to me that you are not based in china. Therefore if you are not based in China, your spelling should be significantly better for whatever reason. Furthermore, since the spelling and grammer isn't great by any means, one might guess that you are potentially of a younger age group, perhaps in your teens.

If any of that above is true, that has scam written all over it to me. If I'm wrong, my apologies, but if you were legit there would be no reason not to make the purchase first (typical), and then recieve the product afterwards.


Does this smell like a scam to anyone else? Have you seen a similar email before? It threw up red flags at least for me.
 
Sorry it Threw UP anything on you /u/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

When I buy an account, I do log in first. But most the time everything is done over email, sometimes live support, but not very often.

I log in to verify some account information (I don't wish to share what info, for obvious reasons) matches the information I gather from the seller (again, own't list what info, for obvious reasons)

Then, 90% of the time I'll send funds first, if the account isn't transfered within 10-15 minutes, I automatically pull the funds.

Paypal unfortunately makes a nice profit off my account, and they are generally very happy to refund my money (Had an issue earlier, prepaid a leveler, he ditched the account, I fried his funds)

The buyer should absorb most the risk, because the buyer is protected in most cases (thats how I see it)

I've only had 1 guy try to recall an account on me, but I've had dozens try to sell stolen accounts, or accounts where certain info does not seem to match up.

Hope this helps!
 
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