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This reminds me of an old scam on Runescape, which was to have two users, one purporting to buy an item for a very high price, and one purporting to sell an ite
by jackconsidine 6y ago
This reminds me of an old scam on Runescape, which was to have two users, one purporting to buy an item for a very high price, and one purporting to sell an item for a moderately high price.
Wannabe entrepreneurs would see an arbitrage opportunity and bite the moderately high price expecting a profit. After that transaction the supposed buyer would no longer be interested.
- 600frogs 6y agoI wonder what the Ethereum equivalent of trimming armour is...
- minitoar 6y agoFake NFT sales
- valiant55 6y agoSo regular NFT sales?
- imtringued 6y agohttps://www.bbc.com/news/amp/technology-56402378 https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/technology-56402378
- pochamago 6y agoConjobs are such a fun bit of artistry, it's a shame they cause so much harm. I appreciate that video games provide an arena that mostly reduces it.
- ethbr0 6y agoAs an EVE Online player for a while, absolutely agreed. But I'll admit there is a "fairness gauge" regarding feature support (relevant here as well). Code systems are non-comprehensive. They support only those functions / features they implement. Thereby opening the possibility of creating a system that makes confidence heists possible, but mitigations against them overly difficult / impossible.
- TigeriusKirk 6y agoThis was rampant in Eve Online back in the day. A regular industry. Might still be, but I suspect the people still playing now are a lot less naive out of necessity.
- dminor 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_confidence_tricks#Fiddle_game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_confidence_tricks#Fidd...
- twox2 6y agoThis con goes back thousands of years...