Talk:Common scams

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Accounts younger then 24 hours can not trade?
Sorry for the maybe confusing title, but i hope you got the idea, It seems a anon added this to the article "Also, any new Guild Wars account has to be active for a period of 24 hours before they can trade, pick up any dropped items." Now from what i can guess, this would be aimed at goldsellers or people like that, however i have never heard of this "rule" before,The one thin i do know that Anet has done against goldsellers is that trail accounts ( which i believe aren't even given out anymore) have restrictions on them,so they can not trade,They can still pick up items and the items will still be on that account if the person buys the game and chooses to "upgrade" that account, but i have never heard of a 24 hour limit thing.So is this true,or what?Maybe someone hat just bought GW can confirm? PS. It seems this page is pretty big, as its warning me about that, maybe we should archive some post here?Ones discussing no longer doable scams are good candidates ( like 10G instead of 10K) Durga Dido 20:24, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I did hear something about that (only hearsay), but without the not-being-able-to-pick-up-stuff part. I think it was on the "official" (/rofl) wiki... King Neoterikos 21:48, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
 * It is true, I have experienced this myself on a new account I made a month ago. The reason is that gold sellers can buy legitimate accounts online with fake credit cards, and the 24 hour wait makes sure that Anet can find and cancel these accounts before they can do damage. --◄mendel► 05:52, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Im hoping only the part about not being able to trade is true and not the part about not being able to pick up stuff, because that would be stupid -_-. Durga Dido 16:56, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
 * It prevents you from dropping items in explorable areas and picking up dropped items from other players. --JonTheMon 17:13, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Elaborating slightly on Jon's point, I believe you are unable to pick up unassigned drops - you can still pick up any loot that is assigned to you. &mdash;Dr Ishmael [[Image:Diablo_the_chicken.gif]] 17:33, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Does it seem like people are scamming less now?
It does to me. It seems like through most of the game's life, I saw people standing around in towns and running scams constantly. Often obvious ones like the Monastery Credit thing, and ones that don't don't fetch much gold at that, like selling parchment for 10g over what it costs to make with 5 wood and 20g. Is there a shortage of noobs at this late stage of the game's life to fall for these things? Or is it more likely that lame scammers are moving on to troll other virtual worlds? Or neither, I've just become blind to it?--Srinivassa 22:38, 7 January 2009 (UTC)