The friendship scam.

[senity]

The friendship scam.

Been here a while and never really came up with anything, a tad bit hard with such an imaginative group of people like you lot coming up with everything from here to ruddy India.

This is never a 100% scam, and takes a lot of time in one way and not in another.

You need:
- A level 50-70.
- Charming personality and a good sense of humour.
- A subtle assertiveness.
- An ice-shard for a heart.

Finding your victim.

You should be looking around, either with a few group quests or a bunch of horde/alliance twats not letting you res, for a helpful and polite person. You can usually find these people (I find mine personally from a swift /who #area search) who are level 70 and lingering around lower level areas (WPL/EPL/STV are perfect, as there is generally no need for them to be there). You politely ask them for help, and compliment them on their gear, play style and general pro-happy feel that oozes off of them.

Conversation:

Me: Hello, please could you help me with some horde, they're really starting to piss me off <:'
Him: Sure, let me just finish up here (if he says no, obviously, move on.)

/group invite
/stab stab stab

Me: Wow thanks man, they just wouldn't let me leave!
Him: Yeah, some people must be bored out of they're skulls.
Me: (between 50-60) Is it ok if I add you to my friends? You seem like a good player and a nice spirited person.
Him: Yeah sure, thanks for the compliments.
Me: Thanks! See you around
Him: Bai!

The seed is planted.

The friendship.

You should be logging on and saying 'Hey mate' to your victim(s) and starting some petty banter. You should be asking if their alts need any help, or if he wants to do anything in general, you have to pretend that this person is a real friend, really sell it to him that you want to chat, and that you ARE a trust worthy and nice person.

The next stage in the friendship is lending him things. You should lend him money if he needs it, give him information if he needs it or advice on his RL things if he chooses to let you in. To ease him into this you should talk about a problem (real or made up) in your real life. Something like, 'Jesus christ, my mum/GF won't get off my ****ing back, how annoying are they?' this will give him a reason to speak to you about it.

You should carry this on for about 6-8 weeks. Annoying I know, but it takes little time and gives you something to do while levelling. You can also have 2-3 friendships running at one time.

The kill!

Wait untill you see him in IQD or AV and say: God, I hate doing dailies / grinding honor aswell, but maybe it's just playing a ##your class here##, i'm sure it'd be amazingly fun on a ##his class here## . They seem like they require speed and actual skill.

See if he says anything, this is the definative moment.

Him: Yeah they do, but i'm getting a bit bored atm. This is perfect.
Him: Hmm, it's not too bad, just gets a tad bland. This is doable.
Him: Naa, I love my class, i'm still having a ton of fun! You'll have to wait a tad longer!

You say something like this:

Me: Yeah I know how you feel, the games getting a tad boring aswell, I was thinking about re-rolling ##his class## and seeing how it turns out.

##Banter##

Me: Hmm, mind if I have a bash at your' ##his class## to see how they are? You could go on this and play around, do whatever you want.
Him: Hmm, i'm not sure.
Me: I'd do your dailies/grind honor for you, I just want to get a feel of the class at level 70.
Him: Hmm, go on then, I trust you enough :>

And there she blows.

Cleaning up.

Wait untill late night, this is easiest and stress-free time as there is no risk of getting fraped.

Sell everything, send it to a level 1 alt, send the money to your main, delete alt, change your pass, change his pass.

See what happens.


Current friendships:

70 BT warrior, 70 rogue, 70 TK mage, 70 S1-3 druid. Current value~~ 8000G.
70 Feral druid, very well geared. Current value~~ 11000G.

Done already:

Full S3 / BT-SW geared priest. Valued~~ £600 and 8000G.
70 Human rogue. Valued~~ 800G.

[Nymphetamine]

Takes lots of time and efford, though it could be very well combined with leveling and stuff...

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[nemo652]

I did this once, I transfered my char and renamed, then got my old acc banned and blamed him.

[senity]

Thanks for the comments.

Yeah, this is definately a scam that is combined with casual playing. Not really much effort, as you're making 'fake' friends.

[Crema]

damn u need to be ice cold to do this :O u bastard! lol

[exile24]

You sir.... are EVIL INCARNATE.

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[punk_25]

You are one evil son of a gun. But I've also done this before except I offered to grind mats for his spellfire set for only 100g then I cleaned him up and got 3.5k from his two 70s

[amakkara]

Well im using the same tactic all other things/games at internet.
Just im not waiting 6-8 weeks, 1-2 weeks is long enough for me

[chingoo1]

this is too RLish for me

but hey, i guess if you are really dedicated might as well

[surfsem]

This scam takes time but is VERY effective. I started doing this at lvl 52. I currently have 8 "friends (cough cough) ", one with full t5. I get runs through instances often and easily lvled to 70. I did the ol tcg scam and upgraded my gear ALOT, expensive chants stuff like that. I did what the guide said " Your class looks cool" blah blah he gave me his info then BAM i was ballin! I disenchanted all his gear, vendored crap, cancelled his auctions all that and sent it to my bank. Then i logged over on his bank and he was LOADED! So many mats for stuff its not even funny. I made a total of 8972g, 29s, and 4 copper just from that guy. Cant wait for the next victim muahahahahaa.


O, and sorry for the long post im just REALLY excited

[Crotalo]

you're a bastard XD I have remorses now I've done Riding Turtle Scam, lol.

+Rep x2 because I like it ^^

:wave::wave:

[adskiracerad]

okay thats interesting