I have been reading that there are a lot of scams going on Facebook MapleSEA groups. Here are some of my tips to prevent getting scammed!
1. Get a TRUSTED middleman with VERY STRONG VOUCH LIST!!!
With a trusted middleman, you do not need to risk your money or your item at all. Both of the buyer and seller pass their respective money and item to the middleman and once the middleman receive from both of you. Then, the deal proceeds... and middleman may get 10% commission in return on service.There are sellers or buyers nowadays who are using vouch list of another player to vouch themselves. Beware of this, they may get other people vouch list to vouch themselves.
2. Check the Facebook profile of the buyer or seller!!!
If the profile is newly created, don't deal at all!!! Most of the scammers get new accounts just to scam!!! They create new profile and join the Facebook group and get other people vouch list, and ask for item first. And afterwards, they just offline like that and delete away that Facebook account.
3. Vouch is no longer useful...
This is what I found out, even maplers with STRONG vouches can scam your items. So, if you are dealing item above 500 SGD, you should consider to meet up to deal...
4. Providing Leveling service
Recently someone got scammed on 3.5b to help 'MapleTan' to level his character from lvl 194 to 200. All of his equips are thrown out as a result of scamming. This deal is too good to be true...so beware of such scam. DON'T level for anyone, unless that guy got a strong vouch list.
In this case, that 'MapleTan' DON'T even has a vouch list at all, and someone with a strong vouch list helped him to level.
5. Cubing service
Don't ever buy this service, as someone encountered bad experience on it in MapleSEA FB group, someone bought a cubing svc to get his weapon (already legendary) to 2 lines of PDR and 1 line of attack %, but the service is not delivered promptly. The service is said to be delivered in 2 days, but it took 2 weeks to no avail.
Cubing is always not guaranteed, there is no way someone can offer 100% svc to hit any potential or tier up... that guy who offered cubing svc (get $$$ from new customers to compensate his losses). And just keep doing this. You do not know one day he might be run away with your item and closen his cubing svc... beware!
That's all, have fun playing MapleSEA, but as our current economy is getting to worse, there are more and more scammers.. be wary and stay alert...happy new year!!!
