The typo scam.

[Calfour]

This is the scam used by a person who is, arguably, one of the best and most dishonorable scammers in recent history. You know him, you hate him, honestgameSguy, or, gamernick. It's a simple scam, that preys on the noobs and fast typers. In condensed form, here it is:

1. Find a gold farming/powerlevelling site. In this example, we shall use wowpl(dot)com. It's a large site, alot of people know it
2. Next, go to their "Contact Us" page, and find an instant messaging adress, such as AIM or MSN. For this example, we shall use [email protected], wowpl(dot)com's main MSN messenger address.
3. Now, you make a new MSN name. [www(dot)hotmail(dot)com] Make it with a common, but still correct, typo. Here, you would make an address like gameservices@hotmail, or gamerservice@hotmail, things like that. Don't do typos like "gammerservices@hotmail," as an obvious typo doesn't promote trust.
4. Now, go to a popular account trading/renting board, like markeedragon. Post this in their gold seller review (or whatever) section, and give it a great review. Gamernick used his own fake experience, his cousins, and another person. All of them were fake, of course, but convincing. Make sure that you post YOUR fake messenger address, instead of theirs. If you wanna make it better looking, post a Kaizou'd screenshot of the website, with your MSN in there instead of the real one.
5. Wait for noobs to send you accounts!

All credit in this scam goes to anyone who's done it in the past. /dance.

[JuNNeZ]

Nice i will try and see if it works ^^

[stefonalfaro]

Seems like it will work.

[Aggrovate]

Pretty nice,

i was wondering how he did it.

+rep

[Calfour]

I'd like to add that, if you use this on fellow MMOwnders, be prepared to be ostracized from these boards.

[Mahado]

Nice, although pretty obvious scam. Ty for sharing. O.o