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My humble tip for filtering out 25-50% of the contract scammers...

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Gianath Gallente Gallentian Legitimate Businessmen	Posted - 2010.11.08 18:13:00 - [1] This is probably common knowledge, but I wanted to pass it along in case it helps anybody else. Do a contract search for all systems, set the minimum price to 1isk (to filter out the WTB spam), and set the description to "issue". This will filter the list to show everybody selling mostly faction ships. Do a quick scan of the list and note every scammer who says an item is a navy issue product, but it is actually a common item like a dominix, raven, etc. Right click on that person and ignore all contracts from that scammer. You may need to add other common descriptions such as navy and filter those out as well. This method helps clear my own contracts list of around 1/4 to 1/2 of the scammers in my region trying to sell common items as faction gear.
Surfin's PlunderBunny Minmatar Sebiestor Tribe	Posted - 2010.11.08 19:38:00 - [2] Considering scammers like to recycle scam alts I don't see how this is more effective than looking before hitting accept
seany1212 The Scowling Men	Posted - 2010.11.08 20:15:00 - [3] pr0tip: LEARN TO READ THE CONTRACTS PROPERLY also, caps makes me cool
De'Veldrin Minmatar Norse'Storm Battle Group Intrepid Crossing	Posted - 2010.11.08 21:13:00 - [4] Originally by: Surfin's PlunderBunny Considering scammers like to recycle scam alts I don't see how this is more effective than looking before hitting accept Pretty much this TBH. Read the contract, consider what you read. Reread it. Make sure it makes sense. Check the color of the ISK value. If you're expecting to receive money, it had better be GREEN Do a show info on the item (assuming there aren't 95000 of them) and make sure it is what you think it is. If you're buying a ship and fittings make sure there's actually a ship somewhere in the list. Make sure it's the ship you thought it was. Check the ISK value again.
Kushan Taggart Transdimensional Virtue of Selfishness	Posted - 2010.11.08 22:08:00 - [5] Protip to filter out 100% of contract scams: don't be dumb.
Nadarius Chrome Celestial Horizon Corp.	Posted - 2010.11.08 23:37:00 - [6] I don't filter people from my contracts list anymore. The reason for that is scammers may get gear cheaply via scamming and hence could very well sell at the best price on contracts. I do block them in local though. No point reading the same crap over and over.
Ran Khanon Amarr Swords Horses and Heavy Metal	Posted - 2010.11.09 00:01:00 - [7] Originally by: De'Veldrin Check the color of the ISK value. If you're expecting to receive money, it had better be GREEN There must be a thread somewhere with someone complaining about CCP stimulating the ruthless exploiting of colourblind people.
De'Veldrin Minmatar Norse'Storm Battle Group Intrepid Crossing	Posted - 2010.11.09 00:30:00 - [8] Originally by: Ran Khanon Originally by: De'Veldrin Check the color of the ISK value. If you're expecting to receive money, it had better be GREEN There must be a thread somewhere with someone complaining about CCP stimulating the ruthless exploiting of colourblind people. Just makes em easier to scam, right?
admiral fovios Minmatar Pator Tech School	Posted - 2010.11.09 03:48:00 - [9] The OP didn't promise a method of removing all scammers from contracts. Rather, she suggests a method to remove 1/4 to 1/2 of scam contracts. This effect is not a reduction in the likelihood of being scammed, it's a reduction in the number of fake contracts to be flipped through to buy an item. For those pretending she did (De'Veldrin, Kushan and seany1212), for shame. You've dumped all over the OP for the wrong thing. -10 CP points. The correct answer was "You're talking about a method of improving market managability. This belongs in MD. Reported carebear loser-face."
Chainsaw Plankton IDLE GUNS IDLE EMPIRE	Posted - 2010.11.09 05:39:00 - [10] Originally by: Ran Khanon Originally by: De'Veldrin Check the color of the ISK value. If you're expecting to receive money, it had better be GREEN There must be a thread somewhere with someone complaining about CCP stimulating the ruthless exploiting of colourblind people. because the words "money offered" and "Cost" are hard to distinguish too!
Leslie e'Evob Paramilitary Skanks	Posted - 2010.11.09 06:44:00 - [11] http://omgrawr.net/quote/11734 You can apply that checklist to other items, too.
Vincent Blueyes	Posted - 2010.11.09 06:45:00 - [12] I occasionally run my "scammer check" with just simple settings and sort by price. Then just ignore anything with "thousands" on it =) Also clearing jita local spam. Just check the contract spammed in local and ignore scams (There might actually be 1-2 "real" sellers).... and all the sudden the "hectic" and "intense" jita atmosphere is about the same as some random system with 10-15 people in it.
Vanity Blue	Posted - 2010.11.09 18:30:00 - [13] Just set minimum price to 1 million isk, and maximum price to 800m.... Problem solved. Was that so hard?
Cyrus Doul E0 Corp	Posted - 2010.11.09 18:39:00 - [14] In the next patch you are supposed to be able to sell faction anything on the market.... good bye contract scammers when you can just get the item off market.
omgfreemoniez	Posted - 2010.11.09 23:36:00 - [15] Originally by: De'Veldrin Originally by: Surfin's PlunderBunny Considering scammers like to recycle scam alts I don't see how this is more effective than looking before hitting accept Pretty much this TBH. Read the contract, consider what you read. Reread it. Make sure it makes sense. Check the color of the ISK value. If you're expecting to receive money, it had better be GREEN Do a show info on the item (assuming there aren't 95000 of them) and make sure it is what you think it is. If you're buying a ship and fittings make sure there's actually a ship somewhere in the list. Make sure it's the ship you thought it was. Check the ISK value again. You told the beginning of the story, I will add the end. Everything is fine and correct. You click accept. THE CONTRACT COULD NOT BE FOUND. EITHER IT HAS BEEN DELETED OR IS NOT AVAILABLE TO YOU. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu some non-paranoid person got this bargain!
Dian'h Might Minmatar Cash and Cargo Liberators Incorporated	Posted - 2010.11.10 00:34:00 - [16] Originally by: Cyrus Doul In the next patch you are supposed to be able to sell faction anything on the market.... good bye contract scammers when you can just get the item off market. Less contract scams, but you'll definitely still see them. You'll also see a ton of other kinds of scams come and take the place of the contract scams.
Pankas Carter Amarr Chaos Theory Alliance	Posted - 2010.11.10 02:11:00 - [17] Originally by: omgfreemoniez Originally by: De'Veldrin Originally by: Surfin's PlunderBunny Considering scammers like to recycle scam alts I don't see how this is more effective than looking before hitting accept Pretty much this TBH. Read the contract, consider what you read. Reread it. Make sure it makes sense. Check the color of the ISK value. If you're expecting to receive money, it had better be GREEN Do a show info on the item (assuming there aren't 95000 of them) and make sure it is what you think it is. If you're buying a ship and fittings make sure there's actually a ship somewhere in the list. Make sure it's the ship you thought it was. Check the ISK value again. You told the beginning of the story, I will add the end. Everything is fine and correct. You click accept. THE CONTRACT COULD NOT BE FOUND. EITHER IT HAS BEEN DELETED OR IS NOT AVAILABLE TO YOU. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu some non-paranoid person got this bargain! Don't worry, when all is said and done the non-paranoid person has payed far more than you...
Andrea Griffin	Posted - 2010.11.10 21:55:00 - [18] Originally by: Ran Khanon Originally by: De'Veldrin There must be a thread somewhere with someone complaining about CCP stimulating the ruthless exploiting of colourblind people. Sigh.
Maneck StreetPreacher Gallente haudquaquam munificus	Posted - 2010.11.11 00:56:00 - [19] Originally by: Andrea Griffin Originally by: Ran Khanon Originally by: De'Veldrin There must be a thread somewhere with someone complaining about CCP stimulating the ruthless exploiting of colourblind people. Sigh. Well how about that. The guy made a very good point, that being that EVE's UI has a fundamental design oversight. It relies on red/green differentiation, which is impossible for 8% of the male population (and therefore 7.9% of players). People universally agreed that this was a major oversight and supported what should have been a relatively minor coding change. Two years ago. And nothing has been done. But hey, soon we'll get to walk around in station!!!!!
Lana Torrin Brutor Tribe	Posted - 2010.11.11 04:40:00 - [20] Now offering a scam prevention product. For the low low price of 100M isk, you tell me what you want and I will send you back a filtered list of only verified non-scam contracts. This works for courier contracts as well, just tell me the start and end points you want and I'll find you a verified non-scam matching contract. Deposit isk to Lana Torrin with the subject "Dont be scammin me"
Lord Zekk Caldari Independent Navy Reserve The Fourth District	Posted - 2010.11.11 12:04:00 - [21] Originally by: Kushan Protip to filter out 100% of contract scams: don't be dumb. Now you're just asking for the impossible.

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