Tips on detect scammers and avoid scams in Maple Story

I had been playing Maple Story (MapleSEA Edition) when I am way back in Secondary Five when the Nexxon just introduced MapleSEA and oh well, it was damn addicting. But as any other MMORPG, it got its share of cheaters and scammers as well. I also got scammed quite few times when I was a noobies. I just share it out with you of the cheater inside the Maple Story. Now, Mr.ZeusWithHammer will let you guide through the prevention of scams in Maple Story

(Oh Yeah. . . , Let's get the party started!)

P.S: If there are scammers in real life, please expect that there are scammers too in virtual life

(1) Requesting for your user account and password

This is the basic of all scams, all self claimed GM just said mumbo jumbo technical stuffs claiming your account is suspicious activities and bla bla . . . 

How to avoid this scams ?

If he is GM, he just sort of report this matter to the Maple Story maintenance team and they will sort it out for you and do all the dirty work for you without you knowing it. 

For you, just ignore the fellow or be sarcastic, give him username and password with "vulgar" languages . :P

Anyway, in short, do not ever gives out your username, password and PIN number. You wouldn't give out your ATM PIN number right ?

(2) Item duplication "glitch"

A random dude appear out of wild and claims that he had found the item duplication glitch in Maple Story (Special thanks to Pokemon for letting me to believe there are item duplication glitch in every single games)

and ask you to open up your trade box with him and tried it out.

How to avoid this scam?

If he found it why he would want to share this "god-like secret" with you especially you are just a stranger.

And anyone found items with duplication glitch will probably suspended of the accounts for temporary. So as tempting as it might be to duplicate the allmighty Zeus Hammer, you might be safe with your items and also the possibilities of account being banned of not trying this out (It is possibly an elaborate scams). 

(3) Guild Entrance "Loyalty Test"

There are many guilds in Maple Story requires different entry requirements such as deposit thousands/millions of mesos into Guild Treasury, do the hard tasks such as killing high level mobs with no armour and such but there is one particular "scams" you should be aware of. There are guilds who personally want your items to be deposited into the Guild Treasury.

How to avoid this scam?

Just like job seeking, you research all the necessary infos regarding to your company right before you apply into the company, right? It is same as the guild, especially if the guild requires you to "deposit" your items. Google their guild name ("Guild name+Maple Story") to see if it is an established guild. And if some people complains and says badly about the guild you are going to join, just beware. Ok ?

(4) "Account Got Hacked" Scams

Some random dude /"scammers" begs you or anyone else to part with your mesos and some of your precious items cause his account got hacked. 

How to avoid this scam?

Simple, you tell him to PM the GM, if you know him. No matter what you do, don't give him any of your mesos and stuffs. A real GM will be able to restore his account before got hacked. 

(5) Loot Drop Games

A random guy want to play a drop loot games with you. Or sometimes, he may call you to press Alt-F4 to make the games more easy to play through.Or sometimes, the player may ask you to drop equip able armour and weapons items and suddenly someone else came from behind and steal all of your stuffs

How to avoid this scam?

Bummer . . . avoid this game at all cost.
Why ? If he wanna trade, open a trade windows but just be aware of it also.  Or if you really wanted to play, drop some nice shit loot is more than enough for these scammers/cheaters

(6) Various Trading Scams

Here it is, a guy asks you for trade but he said he is in hurry. He says he wanted to trade something for 5,555,555 mesos for your items and says he wanted it to do real quick. But, you wondered why he canceled 5 times in a row and said his PC is lagging. Finally, the trade gets thru for 8th times and you see WTF ! He only gives you 555,555 mesos. (Note the differences in the number of digits of mesos!) 

How to avoid this scam?

As in real life trading, there is contracts be bonded between buyer and seller. So take your time slowly but not so slow to see carefully the items/mesos that the other party had requested for trades. If you smell anything fishy, cancel the trade and don't chat with them.



So in my short blog post in educating you about scammers, hope you guys are wiser a bit now and go go happy mapling folks !!!