Pro tip when u r getting scammed: When the green bar comes up saying someone is leaving, close ur game and it reverses what happened when they were on ur island :)
@jane the pain lmao same to me but I was giving them the roses- I had a bunch of black roses to give up and I felt so bad for the person I ended up giving them the gold tools I had in my inventory :,)
I had an encounter with the “I’ll be right back” scammer, and the worst part is that it was for a villager IN BOXES. At the time, I was new to Nookazon and I didn’t know that people should drop the money first, so that was a learning experience. Also, not only did they NOT give me the agreed upon 60 NMT, but they also said “f*** you
I accidentally "scammed" somebody on Nookazon a few weeks ago. I didn't realize it until we traded, then the connection was interrupted when I was at the airport (due to them shutting off the game). I was plopped onto my island with all of the items I'd traded in my inventory. The person I traded with messaged me "Nice try" and I was so confused. Evidently, I'd left the bells and a gift, but not the NMT. I tried to explain, but they blocked me. Of course, the gift was a peach surprise box. For those of you who don't know, when you interact with a peach surprise box, it opens to reveal a diaper clad baby on a spring. Not only did I accidentally scam somebody, but I left a "Haha, got you!" gift. I felt like an ass. 😓
For people still into the stalk market, beware the turnip scammers that charge an outrageous fee just to get onto the island and then once you check the prices it’s actually lower than they advertised.
One time I set a rule for my yard sale , that you could only take one stack of materials, I was busy with the sale, and someone took all the materials without me realizing.
I have one final suggestion. I once had a trader over on my island, they seemed alright at first and completed by the deal fairly quickly . They went too leave before turning around and asking for 2 million bells or they'd spam me with negative reviews on their ALTs. In the end I refused too pay and just deleted the account (I only had like 4 reviews beforehand) . My advice, take a LOT of screenshots. I also had one person try and ring me on discord before deciding that after only half an hour they'd Report me to the mods for being "unprofessional" because I was at work and couldn't pick up.
Once I felt like a redd art scammer haha I was willing to sell my "genuine" scenic painting to someone on discord and they offered 5 million bells for it, so they would make two trips to drop them all Then during the break between the first and the second trip, I decided to place the painting on the floor just to make sure it was genuine. It was not LOL I began panicking and closed the gate of my island with the excuse that I lost connection 😂 fortunately, they waited patiently and I managed to buy a "genuine genuine" scenic painting to give them 😅 so they came back and we finished our businesses 😆
i once did a trade where i was selling a villager for around 50k bells and when i was doing the trade the guy said it wasn't working and that he couldn't get the villager to move to his island. He said he felt bad for wasting my time and gave me 25k bells. I felt bad and didn't think until recently that they might have scammed me, but still no clue if it actually didn't work.
you can talk to the villager after they leave and they should say something along the lines of "i changed my mind! im moving to (insert island name here)" if they dont say that then it didnt actually work..
Once I had a yard sale that was free of course but it had some tips. I was moderating everything and I saw that there was a player stealing all the tips. It was so annoying. I confronted them and the others in the yard sale were starting to get worried. They dropped the tips and they broke free of the fence with an area I did cover in well and started picking my flowers and picking up diys and furniture I was going to use for a future project. I closed the island and I started to invite everyone but her back. Know it took me forever to collect more bookshelf’s. If I had an opportunity to delete her saved data I would.
the “friendly scammer” so there was this girl who one day randomly gave me 30 free nmts. that was cool, i made friends with her. suddenly she dms me saying “be careful with x nookazon user they scammed me, i wish i could take my 800 nmts back” last week i went villager hunting and it turned out too well, that i had like 500 nmts left i was probably never using and planning to sell back, i tried to be nice and gave her 200 of them. she didn’t even say thank you. one good day, i read the review she left on the scammer page. turned out she activated plane mode and got the nmts back, when she told me she had LOST THEM. WTF GURLLL
@@RedK5 If you activate plane mode it disconnects you from the internet, so what happened here was she disconnected her internet so it wouldn't save and she would get her nmts back.
Sounds more like a bad friend than a friendly scammer, since she didn't scam you but instead lied to you that she lost 800 NMT and didn't say thank you for the 200 NMT she received from you :/ I'm glad I didn't encounter someone like that
I feel like the skit for the "This is Free" Scammer can go both ways. The seller could raise the price even if the price is free and the buyer could say it's free when it's not. Actually, I'm sure that's another type of scammer, the "Raise Price at last minute" Scammer.
funny story i like to call the "reverse scam". once i had a few trades at once and it kinda stressed me out. anyways the person i was gonna trade with was gonna give me 1mil bells for 70 nmt (person a). and i had another trade after that for like 15k bells for 10 fish bait (person b). anyways, i went to person a's island thinking that i was giving them the fish bait. so i dropped the fish bait and i got soo confused when they started dropping a WHOLE LOT more than 15k bells. as i said, i was confused but i dropped 10 nmt along with the fish bait bc i wanted to leave a tip. i went back to nookazon to complete the trade and realized i had scammed them on ACCIDENT. how does that even happen???? anyways i started typing as fast as possible and kept apologizing. i went back to their island and gave them all 30 nmt and let them keep the bait bc i felt bad lol. the trade with person b went just fine but i had to apologize to them as well for making them wait. i seriously was so scared i was gonna get reported :') also i can relate with the "ill be right back" scammer. i was doing a trade for 1 item worth a ton of bells and i severely underestimated how much inv space it would take up so we had to do 2 trips and i was so embarassed haha
Oof one time I accidentally forgot to pay for mystery bags. I was paying 120,000 bells (a bit much but it was an auction) and I just took the bags and left. Then I realised I was and idoit and went back to drop the bells. It was all fine, this was like a month ago
I hardly have used nookazon yet, and am planning to try to use it a bit more soon, but I wouldn't doubt that "wetsuit scammers" exist. Once I saw someone's nookazon bio say "please don't bring a wetsuit". I wondered why, and did a bit of testing on my own island. Turns out you can jump over the ropes at the airport while wearing a wetsuit. It would as simple as immediately jumping into the water since people usually wait inside some little trading area inside their island, don't say anything and immediately just snatch a few things, then leave quietly using the minus menu and hope the other person doesn't cut the communication. Honestly it is more of a thief than a scammer, but pretending that you are about to do a transaction with someone is a pretty good way to join a random person's island so you can attempt to steal stuff. I felt dirty just writing all of that.
Story time: I was selling Fang today, I got an offer for 500k bells , so I accepted the offer. They appeared to be really nice at the beginning, but then they 'adopted him' and left. Luckily I closed the game down and left them a warning as well as a 1 star review
I love hosting yard sales. I work to make sure everyone has a lot of good items to choose from. My last yard sale the buyer invited her friend, they each paid half (5 fish bait) and agreed to each only take 5 items. They stole all my items. I had 2 other traders on my island who got nothing. I felt so bad.
Yea same. Once on turnip exchange i hosted my island, then one person came, payed the fee and went to sell their turnips. Then the next person comes and they bring a friend not in the queue and I’m lik “ok if u pay the fee” well, then they come. *WITH WETSUITS* like wth the top line in the rules says *NO WETSUITS* then i activate airplane mode and then the gurl that was there, WHO KNOWS 2 SCAMMERS CAME, leave a horrible review. Girl that left the review, if ur reading this, i hope you have a bad day too like how you made me have after someone *ELSE* caused it
I just finished the base game Catalog last night, with every item in every color. So I'll mention my encounters (continuation from Part 2). #1 (Battery Rushing) Let them die, if you're being rushed, you aren't getting a fair deal as a potential buyer/seller. This is true in real life as well! #2 (Ransom) This never happened to me, and is a very situational thing at best. If this happens to you, just leave. No item is worth being told you have to do something outside your agreement. #3 (Free) Haven't seen this one either. If this happens to you, button and bail the moment they mention it being free at all. #4 (Yard Sale) This happens occasionally. If this happens and someone is picking up everything, button and bail. It doesn't matter if others are on your island or not, you are being attacked. Apologize to the others and offer for them to come back alongside an explanation. Also keep the amount of visitors limited to an amount you can reasonably watch. #5 (BRB) Do not let anyone pick up anything of yours without seeing your part of the trade on the ground! #6 (Taxing) Do not drop your items if the trade agreement changes along the course of the trade! Also taxing in AC is laughable, entry fees should be limited to Turnips and Stars. #7 (Principles) As a warning, you can only carry 4 Million Bells or so on your person at a time. If you are making a trade worth more than this, you're setting yourself up for theft immediately! Do NOT let someone have your item/villager unless you have or can easily reach your ENTIRE end of the deal! #8 (99K) This can be avoided by shadowing the buyer and making sure they are dropping legit bags. If you don't want to be rude, explain what you're going to do before they even come over. If they hesitate or refuse, that's their problem, protect your items! #9 (1 NMT) See part 8 above.
What’s nice about needing internet is that when u dont wanna do a trade just say “my wifi aint working” and cancel before they say “then how are u on google”
This is so far the only "scam" I've dealt with is one time I was doing a trade and someone ran past me and started picking up freebies *without my permission.* I wouldn't mind if someone asked and picked up 1 freebie but the fact that they just went past me and started picking up and learning however many DIYs they wanted instead of being considered of myself or the other traders.
I’ve encountered a scammer I call the “want to see my island?” Scammer. We proceeded to do the trade (that meaning me giving them the item) and they asked if I wanted to see their island and I said sure. They showed me like a corner of their island and ended the session with my item and no payment .-.
A story. When I touch trade I usually exchange four to five items in exchange for just one. So I decided to touch trade four things in exchange for a black grand piano. The piano was the right color, but the guy I traded with didn’t give me my items back I dropped until I refused to leave. He dropped three things instead of four. I told him I was missing something, that being a black loft bed. After a solid minute of no response, he gives it back. I check my inventory to see if I have everything but i turns out he gave me the wrong item. By that point this guy was really testing my patience so I told him once again to give me my stuff back. He drops the loft bed finally, and I leave. I’m back at my island and I put the loft bed back where I had initially left it. The loft bed is white. I…don’t even know what to call this. I honestly have no idea why or how this happened, since this guy had over 500 reviews and all of them were 5*, but that was the first time I had ever given someone lower than five stars. I was pissed lol
I’ve had pretty good experience with Nookazon, but I can also profile. I think knowing what to avoid when you see it goes a long way. That being said, I’ve noticed less offerings so I think interest in the game is probably down. I still love it.
@@sadcrab9125 I look for things that indicate authenticity. For example, a person can only trade so many times in one day. If I see dozens of trades in a single day it makes me wonder. Also, if someone has more than a couple hundred reviews but their wishlist doesn’t seem like it should fit with the things they would want at that point in their gameplay, then it’s suspect. Additionally, if people bid those wishlist items and they don’t take the deal it’s suspect. I will risk small items with new users, but I like to see between 50 to 250 trades with 5 star reviews. Below that people can get careless and above that they can get too picky. And yes, there are rare exceptions, but a good profile stands out as such and one not so good makes your gut turn a little.
I actually forget my end of the trade sometimes because I do free trades so much, but I always leave the item I want there because I dont want to come across as a scammer
My entrance was blocked off as I had a lot of items all over my island. I already knew this trader wasn't the best as they didn't pay the full amount but they also jumped into my ocean to swim around my fences to the beach to get to all my dropped items. I quickly kicked them off my island before they got away with anything. They had the nerve to say I scammed them as if they didn't just try to steal from me
This time i was decorating my island and I TT so i hired someone to de-weed my island. So she came over and I was doing my thing, she was doing hers, a while after she tells me "I'm done" so I drop the payment on the floor about 50k, not too much (since it was only some weeds) she grabbed it and I ended the session. I get out of the airport. weeds. go to nooks, weeds. There were stil a ton of weeds left. I left her a 2 star review but then she also left me a 2 star review. (Of course i changed my review from 2 to 1) It was an interesting experience
Not necessarily a scammer, but a rude person none the less. I was trading the spooky fence for 5 NMTs and they came over to my island we did the trade and it was great. And at the time I had tons of stuff on my island because my brother was restarting and didn’t want to lose his items. So when I do the trade this person asks if “I have any mushrooms?” (I did but they were for my brother) I didn’t want to give away my brother’s stuff without asking, ESPECIALLY when the person didn’t ask before hand, so I told them no. I guess they really needed the mushrooms because they walked over to where I was storing his items and said, “yes you do. “Let me have them.” Again I told them no because they weren’t technically my mushrooms. After they left my island they left a three star review and called me rude. Smh 😒
There’s a scammer I call the staller this scammer stalls until You get inpatient and you give them the item for free There’s this one time when I gave Someone Beau And they said the forgot the NMT So I waited and waited I said to them You can have Beau for free I hated this guy and gave him a 1 star review
When I was first starting a few months ago, I was trading one of those rocket lamps and had 'placed' the item on the ground just before the customer came to trade me. After she arrived, I was SO confused as to why the stupid thing couldn't be picked up when it had easily been done before. After giving her back the item I wanted and making her leave and come back, I finally figured out I needed to 'drop' it in order for it to be picked up. I apologized for stressing her out lmao
when i first started using nookazon i had a listing to make a crescent moon chair when they were at peak popularity and someone came over and gave me the items to make it and then just said “oh sorry i forgot the nook miles tickets can i just give you bells?” and i probably wouldn’t have gotten anything if i said no..
i also had one person who didn’t really scam me but accepted the trade, i was waiting for them on my island and they had messaged me saying they would be a few minutes and then they cancelled it after i had waited like 10 minutes for them to come, just completely wasting my time
( apologies for the long comment if it's read thank u ) I've never experienced this myself but Im assuming this could a type of scammer I don't trust these sellers ( unless u Included this 1 before ) its the " mystery bag scammer " mystery bag scammers are folks that wrap random items in wrapping paper from nooks cranny and sell them for nook tickets or bells buyers don't know what's inside until after they made the purchase so is there a small chance they have purchased garbage / but one scammer I have had experience with is the " fake newbie " fake newbies will say there new and want 2 visit islands for inspiration and ask if certain shops are aviable so u invite them over and they respond they forgot 2 bring there own bells over so being kind u donate bells 2 them so they can make there purchase and then they leave with your bells
Once I had a person selling oarfish for 14.000 bells (i only needed 1 more oarfish for a commission). Then I went to their island, but when I arrived she closed her island with fences and said that she can't open those fences. I was being really stupid at that time and dropped my 14.000 bells. Then the green bar showed up saying that someone is coming to the island. After everything is loaded the person that came took my 14.000 bells and the host kicked me out.
This scam never actually happened; I don't know if anyone does it, but my sister came up with a scam idea. "I'll list a villager as ungifted, so more people will be interested. When they come to pick up the villager, its all in boxes. When they bring the villager home, they find out that they're actually gifted and that there's 12 furniture items in their home that weren't orignally there." - My sister, who has never scammed anyone in her life I would never do this, but I thought it was really funny
i have a nookazon scammer that i just made up right now even though i am not sure if this has happened to anyone before. they are called the inviter scammer and they give your dodo code to all of their friends to join your island. they do this because they know that you need to do trades quickly because you have a lot of them to do. this is suppose to frustrate you a lot and they all come in so quickly that you don’t have enough time to end the session.
I once met the ‘can i look around?’ Scammer. So I once listed a free Island tour to give people Some inspiration and this dude acted really nice and talked to me for a bit and they found out that i had a villager moving out who they liked (Ruby). So while they we’re ‘exploring’ my island alone they invited that villager into their island. Its not really that big of a deal but it still annoyed me. They mainly do this when they see or know that you have stuff they can quickly grab
every time I watch this videos my mind splits in two: one side is for raging over all this scam methods and the other side is fangirling over all the perfectly placed flowers
I actually was a genuine “I’ll be right back person” and I felt so bad, but I did in fact come back and gave what I owed. It was originally a free listing so it wasn’t the worst situation, I just had offered some NMT even though it was free.
THE PROMISING SCAMMER I've came across a scammer in mystery bags. The listing was for more than 40 mystery bags,I paid a lot of bells and threw in a couple of nmt as tip,and she only came with 20 bags,up to this day,I am still upset
the “in boxes” scammer. the villager was in boxes, for sure it was. the thing is they just moved in to the island, so they have the boxes they bring with them and the trade didn’t work
I have another version of the yard sale scammer. So I had told the person where to go and I had some kinda rare things lying out in front (bc I needed room in my inv) and instead of following my directions they took some star fragments and nook miles but they weren’t picking from the yard sale no they were picking from my stuff I hadn’t set out so yeah
The "speed" scammer. They wait for you to drop the item, then sprint over and steal the item and leave. In more detail, they drop the bells, then take the bells back and the item and leave the island in speeds that would make a speedrunner proud.
i once did a trade for 1 million bells but i forgot the stack of 10,000. i was panicking that they’d think i was a scammer so i told the other person i’d added up wrong and i’d give them something else. they said it was fine but i had a stack of nmt on me so i dropped them instead. the other person kept saying it was fine tried to pay me for them. but i told them to please accept them. 😂 we had a good laugh gave each other 5 star reviews and it was the funniest nookazon trade i’ve ever had.
I had a "anti scammer" basically they made me look like a scammer. I set up a trade for 10 grab bags and everything seemed to be going well, I came over to her island and other people were taking some other bags, I gave her the money, took 10 bags and everything seemed fine, but after the trade he left a one star review, saying that I took 10 items when she was trying to trade one
I am so lucky that I haven’t found any scammer, that’s probably because not many people play anymore. But still it’s so cool that I’ve only found nice people
I was witness to a yard sale scammer, this yard sale host only had a small entry fee to take whatever you want of any amount and they had a pipe to go to the area and they didn't set the boundaries right so the scammer was able to get through and steal some grab bags the host had off the side. The thing was was that I had the same scammer at my yard sale about an hour ago and luckily I had a great boundary so the scammer just took a bunch of random stuff to look like they were there for a yard sale and definitely not there to steal the grab bags I had nearby which they couldn't get
the "move out scammer" i was ressetting my island and i put all my stuff on a guys island came the next day only to find out he deleted his account and kept all my bells nook miles tickets and items
Helpful tips/rules to prevent foul behavior. I. Make a rule board they have to read before proceeding. This makes it clear what your rules are and you can have your rule board listed in your listing as well. Best rule to list at 1 is, “if you try to take ANYTHING without permission, I WILL crash the game for everyone here, and you will not be welcome back” 2. If you were here and there was a crash, it means someone tried to scam/steal and you will be invited back shorty. 3. Payment upfront for yard sale. 4. Half payment upfront for item sell, other half after item delivered/received, villager traded. 5. Display item before trading. Wrong item received will result in immediate crash. 6. Don’t trample my flowers. 7. I screen record all my trades/sells, have fun getting banned if you try to grift. (You can screen record on switch)
The one i encounter is the "karen buyers". ive had some really entitled people on nookazon. I do free mystery bags for people and i told someone that i was doing another trade and would send my code as soon as i was done. Then then spammed me with "hurry up. Are you sending the code or not? This is slow service! Hurry." And once they were finally on my island they started to complain and demanded to know why i was only doing 5 bags per person , accused me of not trusting them because i blocked off the rest of my island and then they opened their bags on my island and demanded i give them new bags because they werent happy with what they got. (Bear in mind this was A FREE GIVEAWAY.) And to top it off, another person arrived for their bag and the karen complained because "i thought this was a private meeting..."
i was playing and i was looking to buy raymond for my island. i offered 6 million bells. i dropped 4 mil because that’s the max you can carry. i was going to get the other 2, then they blocked me and they stole my 4 mil. btw, if someone takes your stuff and without paying, or steals bells. press the power button on your switch. it will not save, so you will have your stuff back
Theres this “your a scammer! Scammer” You give them the bells and say “No! You’re _______ bells short! Your a scammer!” And then they kick you, not letting you get your bells back. And btw…you DO give them the right amount…they just kick you before you can prove it! You don’t even get the item! This happened to me once. I was gonna buy a tricycle for my kidcore island, along with an elephant slide. I brought the 650,000 bells and nmt, saying I owed them 1,000,000 bells and 5 nmt. They kicked me and it was a great loss of money, not to mention, they guilt tripped me into putting down 765,000 bells, saying they need it for their island, I didn’t think much of it at the time, but I was furious when they said, “You’re trying to scam me! To think I was gonna give the golden crown!” They made up an item, to make me feel like a scammer. Be careful. These people do anything for free bells and stuff.
I was having a yard sale and I was selling 30 gold nuggets in a few nook miles tickets this person took literally everything I had to offer so then I said are you going to pay and the person says they're going to use my ABD but guess what they quietly left
Never encountered this scammer, but I was this one once: “The reverse scammer” Puts down the payment and then leaves without what they payed for. By the way, this didn’t happen to me in animal crossing. This happened to me irl. Luckily, the seller did tell me lol
You forgot the BAIT Scamer. I got baited into buying a sakura flower wand, and when I checked the person's profile it was all 5 star reviews. Then when I was going to buy the sakura flower wand they scammed me into giving them the bells and kicked me off their island. Then I went to leave a bad review and turns out they deleted their account and probably made an alternate account to scam more people.
I've seen the "My Map" scammer: 1: You spend hours and hours talking about making the map, sometimes this scammer even makes the map super hard to make. 2: You make a dodo code, then you send the map over. 3: The user completes/cancels the trade. They leave bad review too.
One time i was trayding white some one and i had frogaten the itam at my island and i flyid back to my island and asked if they were gonna send me the dodo code again but they didn't respond to :/ i didn't have the intention to not give them thear itam but it just made me sad that i cudent give them thear itam
I don't think I've ever been scammed, however there was one time when someone came over to bring an item I'd bought, they picked up the bells and then said "Where's the NMT?" I checked the listing to see if I'd accidentally offered some and I hadn't but I dropped a stack of 10
There's a scammer that I like to call the after when they came to my island I dropped the items they wanted and they stood there then they said that they were driving I was confused then they said that they had to leave because they had to do something but they didn't say what and then they said they were in traffic I was super confused the took the item and left but I crafted another one:/
The only scam i encountetred was for a stack of Cherry Blossom petals and the person had to pay 10,000 bells and 5 nmt. They gave me 20k bells and no nmt's. I left them my first 3* review out of my kindness. 💀
The last one reminded me of this one time I was selling zodiac figurines, at the time I was only selling until the horse one, so 4 years worth of time travel there. Their average price is really high on nookazon, but I was ok with selling them for around 99k. This girl offers 50k, and before I could decline the offer for being too low, she asks to dm me, I accept. Turns out she wanted 2 figurines and offered to pay 99k for each without me mentioning anything, I thought it was pretty reasonable, so I accepted. Arriving on my island, she gives me the bells, I give her the items, I think she's about to leave, but she tells me to check nookazon. "Hey, do you have the other figurines? I'm trying to complete my collection" I politely decline, they're quite tedious to get and the whole collection is about 10 years worth of time traveling. She tries pushing it one more time, saying she could offer me 50k more if I could get her the entire collection. 50K MORE. FOR THE ENTIRE COLLECTION. Not for each, for the entire collection. And I guess to try and convince me she threw in 10 star fragments. I just told her how to get them and said goodbye. Why are people like this?
I have another one that is slightly more annoying because it almost gave me a heart attack. I'm fairly new to the game, I got it on the 8th of this month, but I'm pretty active on nookazon, and a problem I had when starting was inventory. My items were usually lying on a corner in my island (pretty far from the entrance) until quite recently when I was able to finish paying off my debt. This one time one of my villagers was crafting a decayed tree, I had no idea how much it cost, but I offered it on nookazon anyway. Imagine my surprise when I get an offer worth 1mi bells. I was so excited I messaged the buyer telling him I had an ABD on my island if he needed one. Only problem was he didn't speak English that well and had no idea what and ABD was, he kept telling me he only needed the recipe, even said it in Spanish. My Spanish is kind of rusty, but I can understand it well, since I'm brazilian, just not speak that well. I told him to forget it, I had the recipe he needed and he just had to come over. Everything went smoothly, he got the recipe, gave me the bells and I even got him a gyroid as a thank you gift for his generosity. I was leading him back to the airport when he ran away from me towards the beach, right where I threw down some items in a hurry to fit the 1mi bells in my pockets. I started to panic, he just stopped and started grabbing some of my expensive items, trying to give him a hint as to not do that I told him I would lead him to the airport. And there it was "no hablo ingles" and ran off to the place he saw from the airplane that I stored my items I was too scared to kick him out because I didnt know if he had anything of mine on him. My luck was that he was only cataloging the items, but it was one of the scariest experiences I've ever had on nookazon and I regret giving him 4 stars instead of one.
Had one person come over to my island for a strawberry boba. They only offered 1 nmt but I figured I wouldn’t bug them about it, since I needed more reviews at the time. They come to my island and then while on my island, log onto another switch and visit on that one too, saying that the other switch was their sister. They then tried to get free Sanrio items from me and when I said I’d take 8 nmt for a pompompurin TV, they tried to haggle it down to 2 nmt. I said no and so they kept sending sad faces and asking if I was sure and saying I was being kind of rude for not giving them the item. They tried to guilt trip me by sending stuff like “:( okayyy well i guess I’ll be leaving now... sucks too because I really wanted that item.. it would totally make my day...” and stuff like that. Over all a horrible experience and I had to leave my first bad review because of it. I had to kick them off too because they were holding back another trade and just sitting in my airport.
There was once this one scammer I encountered, I gave 800k bells for the tiny crown like thing. The trade went smoothly and I was happy thinking I got a bargain, though I should have checked the name of it. Turns out they gave me the Princess Peach crown instead and I couldn’t review them because they re-opened the listing and this was before the whole canceled trade thing you can do now. I call it the “Wrong Leaf” y’know cuz the item looks like a leaf hehehe
i would always kind of put my in boxes villagers for free on nookazon, people are always so nice and still pay me or give me a presente, but got be careful!!
Bro one time someone came to my island to buy a villager and i let them take the villager and gave em a lil tour of my island. They left without paying and I was like woah there buddy you forgot the moneyz. Luckily they were a chill noob and came back to pay because they just forgot. It was pretty funny overall.
I encountered a scammer once during the early days of Animal Crossing New Horizons. I was at an event dealing with mystery bags. Someone was dropping un-wrapped items on the ground, and I remember that the scammer was wearing a dog-nose accessory at the time, and according to the host, the scammer was planning to say that he did not get the times he wanted so that he could gain sympathy from the owner and get replacement bags depending on the amount he got. Luckily the culprit was thwarted when the owner purposely cut the connection. That'll teach the scammer not to steal from anybody. >:)
this is kind of the opposite of a scam, but one of my friends wanted to get rid of some of their excess items so I offered to trade for some of them. we completed the trade but right as I hit "end session" they said in game that they had one more gift. Turns out they also wanted to give me some of their excess bells as well...whoops.
On the bright side at least they aren't scamming real money and in the game you can earn bells back quick by selling things to Timmy and Tommy and other villagers that are on your island.
My first encounter on nookazon I got scammed out of a red pagoda :/ I'm still very new but that first trade I did makes me seethe. I'm planning to get another red pagoda eventually when I can, and set it down in my island with a sign to show a big "fuck you" to the guy who scammed it from me. You know, because I hold long grudges. I didn't even want the pagoda in the first place, but, well, now I do.
Dont know if these are considered scammers, and they are most likely kids not knowing better. But I had 2 instances where I traded with someone. Everything was going smoothly and then they proceed to whip out their ladder. (My entrance used to have a few cliffs that were accessible using a ladder.) and try to explore my island entrance. I mean there’s just flowers and items that you can’t pick up you can’t really do much. One of them was role playing so I’m just assuming that the 2 players were just kids that liked my island. But I did kick them off my island. I still got my items and they got theirs but I left them around a 4-3 star review for trying to look around my island without my permission. Weirdly enough they never left a review themselves.
The excuse scammer: I put up an offer for an item and it was accepted, I went to their island to pick it up and I dropped my Bells but they said that they “misread” my offer and said they wouldn’t do the trade even though they said my price was fine when I contacted them in the DM, and I was kicked of the island and I gave them a bad review
I like to call this the “bffs?” Scammer. It’s when a person asks to become friends after a trade and then upgrades to best friends then takes your money trees and as many flowers as they can grab then say bye and have the audacity to say have a good day 🥲🥲(this happened to me a few weeks ago and I’m bitter bc I have a free flower space on my island with valuable flowers in it and they still took ones that I had decorating that were exactly the same)
I had an encounter with the "it's the wrong colour" scammer. So basically he/she said yes its a white tankless toilet. He/she was really nice and was really generous. He/she also had 3 "5" star reviews and I thought that would be ok. We had a nice chat but I thought when I said; I'll just get the money and ill be on my way, then he/she said; Ok 😀. It was a bit fishy. I still thought it would be ok so I went on with the trade. Cautiously, I picked up the item and dropped the bells. He/she said thank you and I left. I went home so happy that I FINALLY had a toilet... When I realised the colour was Ivory. Now he/she wants to talk. But hey! I got a refund! Love your videos!
I feel like if i ever trade with someone, iamm just give them half of the money, asked for the item, check to see if it's the right color in front of them and then give them the rest of the money
maybe not a scam, but it was pretty weird: this was on turnip exchange. other than the host, there was me and one other person. they started freaking out saying the host was a scammer. they claimed the nook boys were buying turnips for ~70 instead of ~300. i checked, and no, they were in fact buying for ~300. but they stuck to their claim and had a huge tantrum over it and harassed the host. I could see this being a way to scam hosts into giving back entrance fees after selling the turnips, but the thing is, the host didn’t charge any entrance fee at all, so there was nothing to be gained from this tantrum. the crazy guy refused to leave and was being incredibly rude so the host had to shut down their island but told me they would open the island with a different code so i could finish selling. i already had, but i came back anyway and gave them some bells for their trouble
The Karen Scammer: This scammer I once made a deal with, was so annoying. I was selling something on Nookazon, and it was a color of a blue chair. So the Karen scammer made a deal with me. As it turns out, she was looking for a different color of the chair once she came to my island. Because of this, she complained on how I wasted her time when it’s her own fault for not paying attention to the deal. Then, she started to ruin some of my blue flowers and forced me to pay her more money. I instead just left the game out of stress, and canceled the order. This was just so stressful. Moral of the story, don’t be a Karen or ruin any strangers flowers after just an honest mistake. 🤦🏻♀️
One time someone scammed me from Raymond. They told that they would give me nmts and Tangy ( my old dream villager ). First they took the nmts and then they kicked someone so quickly ( they did not and it was impossible to kick two villagers at the same time ) then they came to my island and took Raymond then they said that they would send a code but they did not… After this probably like 3-4 months later they wanted to say sorry and give Raymond back but because of that person I bought Raymond with real money. They gave me some stuff. I was super sad when I get scammed. Now Raymond is my favorite villager and I won’t give him for anything.
The “oh i didnt know the price” scammer (Story) So i was gonna do some mystery grab bag things in nookazon and someone offered 100,000 for 14 grab bags which i was like”wow thats alot!”i accepted it and went to theyre island.They had this “Open” sign,and a counter with a flower pot on it.They said “hi” and so did I.Guess what. They dropped 100 bells only😀..so i asked if they meant 100k or if it was a typo,they went”oh right-“and they told me to drop a grab bag before they gave it to me .-. And so i did and they gave me the 99k bells and told me like this”bye.”
Expecting someone to pay you 10 million bells for a villager who cost you nothing and is leaving your island regardless is a scam in and of itself 🙄 I don't care if the person offered, people who charge people for their second hand villagers really need to have a word with themselves. I'd never entertain them, no matter how much I wanted the villager I'd never, ever go get them off someone like that.
One time I went to an island to bring an item but the island looked empty and just like if it was new there was nothing but once I open the map I saw that they put all of their villagers home and his own house in a place of the map that you can't see and they were like can you give me D.I.Y Do you have a stair or pole and then I asked her do you have a stair and she said no but she had a STAIR in her hands so yeah I decided to call these scammers the "I'm new" scammer
Oh boy. Idk if this is a classic scammer or what?! But one time I made and and offer for 100 nmt, I payed 400,000 when they came to my island but they just stole all my stuff on my beach and all my stuff laying on the ground, But before the trade I read her reviews and... yeah kinda expected it... But after the trade when I said end session, she was cursing at me in her nookazon chat, but the thing is she also had a lot of good reviews??? What???
One time there was a guy who was gonna make me a gold tool for 100,000 bells. I put a fence around my entrance with a crafting table in it. I put all my money in the bank and withdrew EXACTLY 100,000 bells. I took all the bells out of my pocket so they were all in my inventory. I drop the money, he crafts the item. "You're 10,000 bells short" he says. "No I'm not. I counted exactly 100,000 bells when I took it out of my bank." I said. He then demanded I go to my bank and withdraw the rest of the money. I ended session and told him I was going to report him and he said "Oops! My bad! Counted wrong ^^" Another time I was doing a touch trade. I can't remember what the item was so we're just gonna use boxes or something. So guy wants to touch trade my peach box. Okay no problem, I love helping people out. I went over and he picked up my item. Then he said "Oh no. My box inventory is FULL of boxes! I don't know which box was yours!". Directly after that his friend tried flying over and the game crashed. Convenient timing cause I didn't get my item back. I was like "Man lemme fly back over and get my item" and he's like "Oh I lost it. Sorry." I said I was gonna report him and he started yelling at me telling me I was overreacting and to get over it cause it was a free trade and the item wasn't that valuable anyway. So much for trying to help someone out.
Pro tip when u r getting scammed:
When the green bar comes up saying someone is leaving, close ur game and it reverses what happened when they were on ur island :)
that is....genius ^^
@jane the pain lmao same to me but I was giving them the roses- I had a bunch of black roses to give up and I felt so bad for the person I ended up giving them the gold tools I had in my inventory :,)
Thank you, kokichi.
is this a joke or no
@@sweettreet6283 nope
It works
The "is this free?" Scammer should be called Karen the Scammer.
Karen the Scammer 😂
@@Akemipri yeeees because that's what Karens do 😭
@@Aria-y7x yessss 😂
I had an encounter with the “I’ll be right back” scammer, and the worst part is that it was for a villager IN BOXES. At the time, I was new to Nookazon and I didn’t know that people should drop the money first, so that was a learning experience. Also, not only did they NOT give me the agreed upon 60 NMT, but they also said “f*** you
oh my god that's horrible! they even had the nerve to say that after? im glad the account doesn't exist anymore tho :>
Omg you poor thing!! If you want i can give you that 60 nmt just for handling this😭
@@eelpsi4277 It’s okay, you don’t have to! Thanks for the offer though, I really appreciate it :)
@@gisele5708 there's no god and no plural scammer, dolt.
@@alysdexia ok lol
I accidentally "scammed" somebody on Nookazon a few weeks ago. I didn't realize it until we traded, then the connection was interrupted when I was at the airport (due to them shutting off the game). I was plopped onto my island with all of the items I'd traded in my inventory. The person I traded with messaged me "Nice try" and I was so confused. Evidently, I'd left the bells and a gift, but not the NMT. I tried to explain, but they blocked me. Of course, the gift was a peach surprise box. For those of you who don't know, when you interact with a peach surprise box, it opens to reveal a diaper clad baby on a spring. Not only did I accidentally scam somebody, but I left a "Haha, got you!" gift. I felt like an ass. 😓
They deserve it bcc they mean
They should have listened to you trying to explain, they just sound rude to not listen
Who was this? Low key could talk to them
For people still into the stalk market, beware the turnip scammers that charge an outrageous fee just to get onto the island and then once you check the prices it’s actually lower than they advertised.
One time I set a rule for my yard sale , that you could only take one stack of materials, I was busy with the sale, and someone took all the materials without me realizing.
Nookazon people unlike all of us who think scammers are just….. something
I have one final suggestion. I once had a trader over on my island, they seemed alright at first and completed by the deal fairly quickly . They went too leave before turning around and asking for 2 million bells or they'd spam me with negative reviews on their ALTs. In the end I refused too pay and just deleted the account (I only had like 4 reviews beforehand) . My advice, take a LOT of screenshots. I also had one person try and ring me on discord before deciding that after only half an hour they'd Report me to the mods for being "unprofessional" because I was at work and couldn't pick up.
I just don't get. Why r folks robbing ppl in the most wholesome game out there? 😭
6:11 He's asking for money that you can't give since there's no room to place any item.
And they cant take down the gate cause you cant remove furniture while people are over
Once I felt like a redd art scammer haha
I was willing to sell my "genuine" scenic painting to someone on discord and they offered 5 million bells for it, so they would make two trips to drop them all
Then during the break between the first and the second trip, I decided to place the painting on the floor just to make sure it was genuine. It was not LOL
I began panicking and closed the gate of my island with the excuse that I lost connection 😂 fortunately, they waited patiently and I managed to buy a "genuine genuine" scenic painting to give them 😅 so they came back and we finished our businesses 😆
That sounds extremely stressful lmao
i once did a trade where i was selling a villager for around 50k bells and when i was doing the trade the guy said it wasn't working and that he couldn't get the villager to move to his island. He said he felt bad for wasting my time and gave me 25k bells. I felt bad and didn't think until recently that they might have scammed me, but still no clue if it actually didn't work.
you can talk to the villager after they leave and they should say something along the lines of "i changed my mind! im moving to (insert island name here)" if they dont say that then it didnt actually work..
Once I had a yard sale that was free of course but it had some tips. I was moderating everything and I saw that there was a player stealing all the tips. It was so annoying. I confronted them and the others in the yard sale were starting to get worried. They dropped the tips and they broke free of the fence with an area I did cover in well and started picking my flowers and picking up diys and furniture I was going to use for a future project. I closed the island and I started to invite everyone but her back. Know it took me forever to collect more bookshelf’s. If I had an opportunity to delete her saved data I would.
the “friendly scammer”
so there was this girl who one day randomly gave me 30 free nmts. that was cool, i made friends with her.
suddenly she dms me saying “be careful with x nookazon user they scammed me, i wish i could take my 800 nmts back”
last week i went villager hunting and it turned out too well, that i had like 500 nmts left i was probably never using and planning to sell back, i tried to be nice and gave her 200 of them. she didn’t even say thank you.
one good day, i read the review she left on the scammer page. turned out she activated plane mode and got the nmts back, when she told me she had LOST THEM. WTF GURLLL
What’s plane mode
@@RedK5 If you activate plane mode it disconnects you from the internet, so what happened here was she disconnected her internet so it wouldn't save and she would get her nmts back.
Sounds more like a bad friend than a friendly scammer, since she didn't scam you but instead lied to you that she lost 800 NMT and didn't say thank you for the 200 NMT she received from you :/ I'm glad I didn't encounter someone like that
I feel like the skit for the "This is Free" Scammer can go both ways. The seller could raise the price even if the price is free and the buyer could say it's free when it's not.
Actually, I'm sure that's another type of scammer, the "Raise Price at last minute" Scammer.
funny story i like to call the "reverse scam". once i had a few trades at once and it kinda stressed me out. anyways the person i was gonna trade with was gonna give me 1mil bells for 70 nmt (person a). and i had another trade after that for like 15k bells for 10 fish bait (person b). anyways, i went to person a's island thinking that i was giving them the fish bait. so i dropped the fish bait and i got soo confused when they started dropping a WHOLE LOT more than 15k bells. as i said, i was confused but i dropped 10 nmt along with the fish bait bc i wanted to leave a tip. i went back to nookazon to complete the trade and realized i had scammed them on ACCIDENT. how does that even happen???? anyways i started typing as fast as possible and kept apologizing. i went back to their island and gave them all 30 nmt and let them keep the bait bc i felt bad lol. the trade with person b went just fine but i had to apologize to them as well for making them wait. i seriously was so scared i was gonna get reported :')
also i can relate with the "ill be right back" scammer. i was doing a trade for 1 item worth a ton of bells and i severely underestimated how much inv space it would take up so we had to do 2 trips and i was so embarassed haha
Lol hope it’s all ok now
@@arandomsnowgirl haha yeah this was almost a week ago :')
@@niki4578 hehe have a great day!
Oof one time I accidentally forgot to pay for mystery bags. I was paying 120,000 bells (a bit much but it was an auction) and I just took the bags and left. Then I realised I was and idoit and went back to drop the bells. It was all fine, this was like a month ago
sounds a lot like a story I heard from a youtuber
I hardly have used nookazon yet, and am planning to try to use it a bit more soon, but I wouldn't doubt that "wetsuit scammers" exist.
Once I saw someone's nookazon bio say "please don't bring a wetsuit". I wondered why, and did a bit of testing on my own island. Turns out you can jump over the ropes at the airport while wearing a wetsuit.
It would as simple as immediately jumping into the water since people usually wait inside some little trading area inside their island, don't say anything and immediately just snatch a few things, then leave quietly using the minus menu and hope the other person doesn't cut the communication.
Honestly it is more of a thief than a scammer, but pretending that you are about to do a transaction with someone is a pretty good way to join a random person's island so you can attempt to steal stuff.
I felt dirty just writing all of that.
Story time: I was selling Fang today, I got an offer for 500k bells , so I accepted the offer. They appeared to be really nice at the beginning, but then they 'adopted him' and left. Luckily I closed the game down and left them a warning as well as a 1 star review
I love hosting yard sales. I work to make sure everyone has a lot of good items to choose from. My last yard sale the buyer invited her friend, they each paid half (5 fish bait) and agreed to each only take 5 items. They stole all my items. I had 2 other traders on my island who got nothing. I felt so bad.
Yea same. Once on turnip exchange i hosted my island, then one person came, payed the fee and went to sell their turnips. Then the next person comes and they bring a friend not in the queue and I’m lik “ok if u pay the fee” well, then they come. *WITH WETSUITS* like wth the top line in the rules says *NO WETSUITS* then i activate airplane mode and then the gurl that was there, WHO KNOWS 2 SCAMMERS CAME, leave a horrible review. Girl that left the review, if ur reading this, i hope you have a bad day too like how you made me have after someone *ELSE* caused it
I just finished the base game Catalog last night, with every item in every color. So I'll mention my encounters (continuation from Part 2).
#1 (Battery Rushing) Let them die, if you're being rushed, you aren't getting a fair deal as a potential buyer/seller. This is true in real life as well!
#2 (Ransom) This never happened to me, and is a very situational thing at best. If this happens to you, just leave. No item is worth being told you have to do something outside your agreement.
#3 (Free) Haven't seen this one either. If this happens to you, button and bail the moment they mention it being free at all.
#4 (Yard Sale) This happens occasionally. If this happens and someone is picking up everything, button and bail. It doesn't matter if others are on your island or not, you are being attacked. Apologize to the others and offer for them to come back alongside an explanation. Also keep the amount of visitors limited to an amount you can reasonably watch.
#5 (BRB) Do not let anyone pick up anything of yours without seeing your part of the trade on the ground!
#6 (Taxing) Do not drop your items if the trade agreement changes along the course of the trade! Also taxing in AC is laughable, entry fees should be limited to Turnips and Stars.
#7 (Principles) As a warning, you can only carry 4 Million Bells or so on your person at a time. If you are making a trade worth more than this, you're setting yourself up for theft immediately! Do NOT let someone have your item/villager unless you have or can easily reach your ENTIRE end of the deal!
#8 (99K) This can be avoided by shadowing the buyer and making sure they are dropping legit bags. If you don't want to be rude, explain what you're going to do before they even come over. If they hesitate or refuse, that's their problem, protect your items!
#9 (1 NMT) See part 8 above.
What’s nice about needing internet is that when u dont wanna do a trade just say “my wifi aint working” and cancel before they say “then how are u on google”
This is so far the only "scam" I've dealt with is one time I was doing a trade and someone ran past me and started picking up freebies *without my permission.* I wouldn't mind if someone asked and picked up 1 freebie but the fact that they just went past me and started picking up and learning however many DIYs they wanted instead of being considered of myself or the other traders.
I’ve encountered a scammer I call the “want to see my island?” Scammer. We proceeded to do the trade (that meaning me giving them the item) and they asked if I wanted to see their island and I said sure. They showed me like a corner of their island and ended the session with my item and no payment .-.
I would be so anxious if someone asks to see my island, because I don't want to be rude but I'm scared they might steal from me at the same time :(
I really enjoy this series! Thanks for doing a part 3!
A story.
When I touch trade I usually exchange four to five items in exchange for just one. So I decided to touch trade four things in exchange for a black grand piano. The piano was the right color, but the guy I traded with didn’t give me my items back I dropped until I refused to leave. He dropped three things instead of four. I told him I was missing something, that being a black loft bed. After a solid minute of no response, he gives it back. I check my inventory to see if I have everything but i turns out he gave me the wrong item. By that point this guy was really testing my patience so I told him once again to give me my stuff back. He drops the loft bed finally, and I leave. I’m back at my island and I put the loft bed back where I had initially left it. The loft bed is white.
I…don’t even know what to call this. I honestly have no idea why or how this happened, since this guy had over 500 reviews and all of them were 5*, but that was the first time I had ever given someone lower than five stars. I was pissed lol
maybe the person accidently took the white one? because u can see which color it is in the slot so he maybe thought it was the black one
can’t*
I’ve had pretty good experience with Nookazon, but I can also profile. I think knowing what to avoid when you see it goes a long way. That being said, I’ve noticed less offerings so I think interest in the game is probably down. I still love it.
What do you look for?
@@sadcrab9125 I look for things that indicate authenticity. For example, a person can only trade so many times in one day. If I see dozens of trades in a single day it makes me wonder. Also, if someone has more than a couple hundred reviews but their wishlist doesn’t seem like it should fit with the things they would want at that point in their gameplay, then it’s suspect. Additionally, if people bid those wishlist items and they don’t take the deal it’s suspect. I will risk small items with new users, but I like to see between 50 to 250 trades with 5 star reviews. Below that people can get careless and above that they can get too picky. And yes, there are rare exceptions, but a good profile stands out as such and one not so good makes your gut turn a little.
I got bamboozled with the yard sale scammer they not only took everything that I had for sale, but they also stole some of my crops
I actually forget my end of the trade sometimes because I do free trades so much, but I always leave the item I want there because I dont want to come across as a scammer
My entrance was blocked off as I had a lot of items all over my island. I already knew this trader wasn't the best as they didn't pay the full amount but they also jumped into my ocean to swim around my fences to the beach to get to all my dropped items. I quickly kicked them off my island before they got away with anything. They had the nerve to say I scammed them as if they didn't just try to steal from me
This time i was decorating my island and I TT so i hired someone to de-weed my island. So she came over and I was doing my thing, she was doing hers, a while after she tells me "I'm done" so I drop the payment on the floor about 50k, not too much (since it was only some weeds) she grabbed it and I ended the session.
I get out of the airport. weeds. go to nooks, weeds.
There were stil a ton of weeds left.
I left her a 2 star review but then she also left me a 2 star review.
(Of course i changed my review from 2 to 1)
It was an interesting experience
You TT?
@@analiahedley6487 timetravelled
Not necessarily a scammer, but a rude person none the less. I was trading the spooky fence for 5 NMTs and they came over to my island we did the trade and it was great. And at the time I had tons of stuff on my island because my brother was restarting and didn’t want to lose his items. So when I do the trade this person asks if “I have any mushrooms?” (I did but they were for my brother) I didn’t want to give away my brother’s stuff without asking, ESPECIALLY when the person didn’t ask before hand, so I told them no. I guess they really needed the mushrooms because they walked over to where I was storing his items and said, “yes you do. “Let me have them.” Again I told them no because they weren’t technically my mushrooms. After they left my island they left a three star review and called me rude. Smh 😒
There’s a scammer I call the staller this scammer stalls until You get inpatient and you give them the item for free There’s this one time when I gave Someone Beau And they said the forgot the NMT So I waited and waited I said to them You can have Beau for free I hated this guy and gave him a 1 star review
When I was first starting a few months ago, I was trading one of those rocket lamps and had 'placed' the item on the ground just before the customer came to trade me. After she arrived, I was SO confused as to why the stupid thing couldn't be picked up when it had easily been done before. After giving her back the item I wanted and making her leave and come back, I finally figured out I needed to 'drop' it in order for it to be picked up. I apologized for stressing her out lmao
A similar thing happened with trading roses but luckily we learned how to do it together!
when i first started using nookazon i had a listing to make a crescent moon chair when they were at peak popularity and someone came over and gave me the items to make it and then just said “oh sorry i forgot the nook miles tickets can i just give you bells?” and i probably wouldn’t have gotten anything if i said no..
i also had one person who didn’t really scam me but accepted the trade, i was waiting for them on my island and they had messaged me saying they would be a few minutes and then they cancelled it after i had waited like 10 minutes for them to come, just completely wasting my time
( apologies for the long comment if it's read thank u ) I've never experienced this myself but Im assuming this could a type of scammer I don't trust these sellers ( unless u Included this 1 before ) its the " mystery bag scammer " mystery bag scammers are folks that wrap random items in wrapping paper from nooks cranny and sell them for nook tickets or bells buyers don't know what's inside until after they made the purchase so is there a small chance they have purchased garbage / but one scammer I have had experience with is the " fake newbie " fake newbies will say there new and want 2 visit islands for inspiration and ask if certain shops are aviable so u invite them over and they respond they forgot 2 bring there own bells over so being kind u donate bells 2 them so they can make there purchase and then they leave with your bells
Once I had a person selling oarfish for 14.000 bells (i only needed 1 more oarfish for a commission). Then I went to their island, but when I arrived she closed her island with fences and said that she can't open those fences. I was being really stupid at that time and dropped my 14.000 bells. Then the green bar showed up saying that someone is coming to the island. After everything is loaded the person that came took my 14.000 bells and the host kicked me out.
This scam never actually happened; I don't know if anyone does it, but my sister came up with a scam idea.
"I'll list a villager as ungifted, so more people will be interested. When they come to pick up the villager, its all in boxes. When they bring the villager home, they find out that they're actually gifted and that there's 12 furniture items in their home that weren't orignally there."
- My sister, who has never scammed anyone in her life
I would never do this, but I thought it was really funny
i find it funny that there scammers in animal crossing. you know, the cute Nintendo town building game
i have a nookazon scammer that i just made up right now even though i am not sure if this has happened to anyone before.
they are called the inviter scammer and they give your dodo code to all of their friends to join your island. they do this because they know that you need to do trades quickly because you have a lot of them to do. this is suppose to frustrate you a lot and they all come in so quickly that you don’t have enough time to end the session.
I once met the ‘can i look around?’ Scammer.
So I once listed a free Island tour to give people Some inspiration and this dude acted really nice and talked to me for a bit and they found out that i had a villager moving out who they liked (Ruby).
So while they we’re ‘exploring’ my island alone they invited that villager into their island.
Its not really that big of a deal but it still annoyed me.
They mainly do this when they see or know that you have stuff they can quickly grab
Really loving these scammer videos!
every time I watch this videos my mind splits in two: one side is for raging over all this scam methods and the other side is fangirling over all the perfectly placed flowers
I actually was a genuine “I’ll be right back person” and I felt so bad, but I did in fact come back and gave what I owed. It was originally a free listing so it wasn’t the worst situation, I just had offered some NMT even though it was free.
NOW THIS IS A GRUG MOMENT
G R U G
OMG GRUG HOW IS TOMMOROW?
THE PROMISING SCAMMER
I've came across a scammer in mystery bags. The listing was for more than 40 mystery bags,I paid a lot of bells and threw in a couple of nmt as tip,and she only came with 20 bags,up to this day,I am still upset
the “in boxes” scammer.
the villager was in boxes, for sure it was. the thing is they just moved in to the island, so they have the boxes they bring with them and the trade didn’t work
I have another version of the yard sale scammer. So I had told the person where to go and I had some kinda rare things lying out in front (bc I needed room in my inv) and instead of following my directions they took some star fragments and nook miles but they weren’t picking from the yard sale no they were picking from my stuff I hadn’t set out so yeah
The "speed" scammer.
They wait for you to drop the item, then sprint over and steal the item and leave. In more detail, they drop the bells, then take the bells back and the item and leave the island in speeds that would make a speedrunner proud.
Hey you did “The fee” I recommended in the last one of these thanks
i once did a trade for 1 million bells but i forgot the stack of 10,000. i was panicking that they’d think i was a scammer so i told the other person i’d added up wrong and i’d give them something else. they said it was fine but i had a stack of nmt on me so i dropped them instead. the other person kept saying it was fine tried to pay me for them. but i told them to please accept them. 😂 we had a good laugh gave each other 5 star reviews and it was the funniest nookazon trade i’ve ever had.
I had a "anti scammer" basically they made me look like a scammer. I set up a trade for 10 grab bags and everything seemed to be going well, I came over to her island and other people were taking some other bags, I gave her the money, took 10 bags and everything seemed fine, but after the trade he left a one star review, saying that I took 10 items when she was trying to trade one
I swear that if another person tries to scam me over Judy, I'm gonna lose my fUCKING MIND
I am so lucky that I haven’t found any scammer, that’s probably because not many people play anymore. But still it’s so cool that I’ve only found nice people
I was witness to a yard sale scammer, this yard sale host only had a small entry fee to take whatever you want of any amount and they had a pipe to go to the area and they didn't set the boundaries right so the scammer was able to get through and steal some grab bags the host had off the side.
The thing was was that I had the same scammer at my yard sale about an hour ago and luckily I had a great boundary so the scammer just took a bunch of random stuff to look like they were there for a yard sale and definitely not there to steal the grab bags I had nearby which they couldn't get
the "move out scammer"
i was ressetting my island and i put all my stuff on a guys island came the next day only to find out he deleted his account and kept all my bells nook miles tickets and items
Helpful tips/rules to prevent foul behavior.
I. Make a rule board they have to read before proceeding. This makes it clear what your rules are and you can have your rule board listed in your listing as well.
Best rule to list at 1 is, “if you try to take ANYTHING without permission, I WILL crash the game for everyone here, and you will not be welcome back”
2. If you were here and there was a crash, it means someone tried to scam/steal and you will be invited back shorty.
3. Payment upfront for yard sale.
4. Half payment upfront for item sell, other half after item delivered/received, villager traded.
5. Display item before trading. Wrong item received will result in immediate crash.
6. Don’t trample my flowers.
7. I screen record all my trades/sells, have fun getting banned if you try to grift. (You can screen record on switch)
The one i encounter is the "karen buyers". ive had some really entitled people on nookazon. I do free mystery bags for people and i told someone that i was doing another trade and would send my code as soon as i was done. Then then spammed me with "hurry up. Are you sending the code or not? This is slow service! Hurry." And once they were finally on my island they started to complain and demanded to know why i was only doing 5 bags per person , accused me of not trusting them because i blocked off the rest of my island and then they opened their bags on my island and demanded i give them new bags because they werent happy with what they got. (Bear in mind this was A FREE GIVEAWAY.)
And to top it off, another person arrived for their bag and the karen complained because "i thought this was a private meeting..."
i was playing and i was looking to buy raymond for my island. i offered 6 million bells. i dropped 4 mil because that’s the max you can carry. i was going to get the other 2, then they blocked me and they stole my 4 mil.
btw, if someone takes your stuff and without paying, or steals bells. press the power button on your switch. it will not save, so you will have your stuff back
Theres this “your a scammer! Scammer”
You give them the bells and say “No! You’re _______ bells short! Your a scammer!” And then they kick you, not letting you get your bells back. And btw…you DO give them the right amount…they just kick you before you can prove it! You don’t even get the item!
This happened to me once. I was gonna buy a tricycle for my kidcore island, along with an elephant slide. I brought the 650,000 bells and nmt, saying I owed them 1,000,000 bells and 5 nmt. They kicked me and it was a great loss of money, not to mention, they guilt tripped me into putting down 765,000 bells, saying they need it for their island, I didn’t think much of it at the time, but I was furious when they said, “You’re trying to scam me! To think I was gonna give the golden crown!” They made up an item, to make me feel like a scammer. Be careful. These people do anything for free bells and stuff.
I was having a yard sale and I was selling 30 gold nuggets in a few nook miles tickets this person took literally everything I had to offer so then I said are you going to pay and the person says they're going to use my ABD but guess what they quietly left
Never encountered this scammer, but I was this one once: “The reverse scammer” Puts down the payment and then leaves without what they payed for.
By the way, this didn’t happen to me in animal crossing. This happened to me irl. Luckily, the seller did tell me lol
For the last one, I would have canceled the trade and make them reoffer with the nmts.
You forgot the BAIT Scamer. I got baited into buying a sakura flower wand, and when I checked the person's profile it was all 5 star reviews. Then when I was going to buy the sakura flower wand they scammed me into giving them the bells and kicked me off their island. Then I went to leave a bad review and turns out they deleted their account and probably made an alternate account to scam more people.
How do you have a yard sale on Nookazon
I've seen the "My Map" scammer:
1: You spend hours and hours talking about making the map, sometimes this scammer even makes the map super hard to make.
2: You make a dodo code, then you send the map over.
3: The user completes/cancels the trade. They leave bad review too.
One time i was trayding white some one and i had frogaten the itam at my island and i flyid back to my island and asked if they were gonna send me the dodo code again but they didn't respond to :/ i didn't have the intention to not give them thear itam but it just made me sad that i cudent give them thear itam
Surprisingly I haven't had a single scamer I've done 80+ trades
I don't think I've ever been scammed, however there was one time when someone came over to bring an item I'd bought, they picked up the bells and then said "Where's the NMT?" I checked the listing to see if I'd accidentally offered some and I hadn't but I dropped a stack of 10
There's a scammer that I like to call the after when they came to my island I dropped the items they wanted and they stood there then they said that they were driving I was confused then they said that they had to leave because they had to do something but they didn't say what and then they said they were in traffic I was super confused the took the item and left but I crafted another one:/
The only scam i encountetred was for a stack of Cherry Blossom petals and the person had to pay 10,000 bells and 5 nmt.
They gave me 20k bells and no nmt's.
I left them my first 3* review out of my kindness. 💀
The last one reminded me of this one time I was selling zodiac figurines, at the time I was only selling until the horse one, so 4 years worth of time travel there. Their average price is really high on nookazon, but I was ok with selling them for around 99k. This girl offers 50k, and before I could decline the offer for being too low, she asks to dm me, I accept.
Turns out she wanted 2 figurines and offered to pay 99k for each without me mentioning anything, I thought it was pretty reasonable, so I accepted. Arriving on my island, she gives me the bells, I give her the items, I think she's about to leave, but she tells me to check nookazon.
"Hey, do you have the other figurines? I'm trying to complete my collection" I politely decline, they're quite tedious to get and the whole collection is about 10 years worth of time traveling. She tries pushing it one more time, saying she could offer me 50k more if I could get her the entire collection.
50K MORE. FOR THE ENTIRE COLLECTION.
Not for each, for the entire collection. And I guess to try and convince me she threw in 10 star fragments. I just told her how to get them and said goodbye.
Why are people like this?
I have another one that is slightly more annoying because it almost gave me a heart attack.
I'm fairly new to the game, I got it on the 8th of this month, but I'm pretty active on nookazon, and a problem I had when starting was inventory. My items were usually lying on a corner in my island (pretty far from the entrance) until quite recently when I was able to finish paying off my debt.
This one time one of my villagers was crafting a decayed tree, I had no idea how much it cost, but I offered it on nookazon anyway. Imagine my surprise when I get an offer worth 1mi bells.
I was so excited I messaged the buyer telling him I had an ABD on my island if he needed one. Only problem was he didn't speak English that well and had no idea what and ABD was, he kept telling me he only needed the recipe, even said it in Spanish.
My Spanish is kind of rusty, but I can understand it well, since I'm brazilian, just not speak that well. I told him to forget it, I had the recipe he needed and he just had to come over. Everything went smoothly, he got the recipe, gave me the bells and I even got him a gyroid as a thank you gift for his generosity.
I was leading him back to the airport when he ran away from me towards the beach, right where I threw down some items in a hurry to fit the 1mi bells in my pockets. I started to panic, he just stopped and started grabbing some of my expensive items, trying to give him a hint as to not do that I told him I would lead him to the airport.
And there it was "no hablo ingles" and ran off to the place he saw from the airplane that I stored my items
I was too scared to kick him out because I didnt know if he had anything of mine on him. My luck was that he was only cataloging the items, but it was one of the scariest experiences I've ever had on nookazon and I regret giving him 4 stars instead of one.
Had one person come over to my island for a strawberry boba. They only offered 1 nmt but I figured I wouldn’t bug them about it, since I needed more reviews at the time. They come to my island and then while on my island, log onto another switch and visit on that one too, saying that the other switch was their sister. They then tried to get free Sanrio items from me and when I said I’d take 8 nmt for a pompompurin TV, they tried to haggle it down to 2 nmt. I said no and so they kept sending sad faces and asking if I was sure and saying I was being kind of rude for not giving them the item. They tried to guilt trip me by sending stuff like “:( okayyy well i guess I’ll be leaving now... sucks too because I really wanted that item.. it would totally make my day...” and stuff like that. Over all a horrible experience and I had to leave my first bad review because of it. I had to kick them off too because they were holding back another trade and just sitting in my airport.
There was once this one scammer I encountered, I gave 800k bells for the tiny crown like thing. The trade went smoothly and I was happy thinking I got a bargain, though I should have checked the name of it. Turns out they gave me the Princess Peach crown instead and I couldn’t review them because they re-opened the listing and this was before the whole canceled trade thing you can do now.
I call it the “Wrong Leaf” y’know cuz the item looks like a leaf hehehe
i would always kind of put my in boxes villagers for free on nookazon, people are always so nice and still pay me or give me a presente, but got be careful!!
Bro one time someone came to my island to buy a villager and i let them take the villager and gave em a lil tour of my island. They left without paying and I was like woah there buddy you forgot the moneyz. Luckily they were a chill noob and came back to pay because they just forgot. It was pretty funny overall.
I encountered a scammer once during the early days of Animal Crossing New Horizons. I was at an event dealing with mystery bags. Someone was dropping un-wrapped items on the ground, and I remember that the scammer was wearing a dog-nose accessory at the time, and according to the host, the scammer was planning to say that he did not get the times he wanted so that he could gain sympathy from the owner and get replacement bags depending on the amount he got. Luckily the culprit was thwarted when the owner purposely cut the connection. That'll teach the scammer not to steal from anybody. >:)
this is kind of the opposite of a scam, but one of my friends wanted to get rid of some of their excess items so I offered to trade for some of them. we completed the trade but right as I hit "end session" they said in game that they had one more gift. Turns out they also wanted to give me some of their excess bells as well...whoops.
On the bright side at least they aren't scamming real money and in the game you can earn bells back quick by selling things to Timmy and Tommy and other villagers that are on your island.
My first encounter on nookazon I got scammed out of a red pagoda :/ I'm still very new but that first trade I did makes me seethe. I'm planning to get another red pagoda eventually when I can, and set it down in my island with a sign to show a big "fuck you" to the guy who scammed it from me. You know, because I hold long grudges. I didn't even want the pagoda in the first place, but, well, now I do.
Dont know if these are considered scammers, and they are most likely kids not knowing better. But I had 2 instances where I traded with someone. Everything was going smoothly and then they proceed to whip out their ladder. (My entrance used to have a few cliffs that were accessible using a ladder.) and try to explore my island entrance. I mean there’s just flowers and items that you can’t pick up you can’t really do much. One of them was role playing so I’m just assuming that the 2 players were just kids that liked my island. But I did kick them off my island. I still got my items and they got theirs but I left them around a 4-3 star review for trying to look around my island without my permission. Weirdly enough they never left a review themselves.
The excuse scammer: I put up an offer for an item and it was accepted, I went to their island to pick it up and I dropped my Bells but they said that they “misread” my offer and said they wouldn’t do the trade even though they said my price was fine when I contacted them in the DM, and I was kicked of the island and I gave them a bad review
I like to call this the “bffs?” Scammer. It’s when a person asks to become friends after a trade and then upgrades to best friends then takes your money trees and as many flowers as they can grab then say bye and have the audacity to say have a good day 🥲🥲(this happened to me a few weeks ago and I’m bitter bc I have a free flower space on my island with valuable flowers in it and they still took ones that I had decorating that were exactly the same)
There also a scammer that just puts free stuff on their nookazon and their bio says WANT FREE STUFF? JOIN OUR DISCORD
I had an encounter with the "it's the wrong colour" scammer. So basically he/she said yes its a white tankless toilet. He/she was really nice and was really generous. He/she also had 3 "5" star reviews and I thought that would be ok. We had a nice chat but I thought when I said; I'll just get the money and ill be on my way, then he/she said; Ok 😀. It was a bit fishy. I still thought it would be ok so I went on with the trade. Cautiously, I picked up the item and dropped the bells. He/she said thank you and I left. I went home so happy that I FINALLY had a toilet... When I realised the colour was Ivory. Now he/she wants to talk. But hey! I got a refund!
Love your videos!
it's shorter and easier to just use "they" instead of "he/she"
I feel like if i ever trade with someone, iamm just give them half of the money, asked for the item, check to see if it's the right color in front of them and then give them the rest of the money
Also legit i can never trade because i don't have good enough wifi to go to peoples islands. Its weird i know. Idk why
I did the brb thing bc I forgot the payment and they didn’t have a abd but I did come back
Ugh nookazon should have more security
maybe not a scam, but it was pretty weird:
this was on turnip exchange. other than the host, there was me and one other person. they started freaking out saying the host was a scammer. they claimed the nook boys were buying turnips for ~70 instead of ~300. i checked, and no, they were in fact buying for ~300. but they stuck to their claim and had a huge tantrum over it and harassed the host.
I could see this being a way to scam hosts into giving back entrance fees after selling the turnips, but the thing is, the host didn’t charge any entrance fee at all, so there was nothing to be gained from this tantrum.
the crazy guy refused to leave and was being incredibly rude so the host had to shut down their island but told me they would open the island with a different code so i could finish selling. i already had, but i came back anyway and gave them some bells for their trouble
i had the yard sale scammer and she took all of my stuff there
The Karen Scammer:
This scammer I once made a deal with, was so annoying. I was selling something on Nookazon, and it was a color of a blue chair. So the Karen scammer made a deal with me. As it turns out, she was looking for a different color of the chair once she came to my island. Because of this, she complained on how I wasted her time when it’s her own fault for not paying attention to the deal. Then, she started to ruin some of my blue flowers and forced me to pay her more money. I instead just left the game out of stress, and canceled the order. This was just so stressful.
Moral of the story, don’t be a Karen or ruin any strangers flowers after just an honest mistake. 🤦🏻♀️
3:49 that twist!
One time someone scammed me from Raymond. They told that they would give me nmts and Tangy ( my old dream villager ). First they took the nmts and then they kicked someone so quickly ( they did not and it was impossible to kick two villagers at the same time ) then they came to my island and took Raymond then they said that they would send a code but they did not… After this probably like 3-4 months later they wanted to say sorry and give Raymond back but because of that person I bought Raymond with real money. They gave me some stuff. I was super sad when I get scammed. Now Raymond is my favorite villager and I won’t give him for anything.
The “oh i didnt know the price” scammer
(Story)
So i was gonna do some mystery grab bag things in nookazon and someone offered 100,000 for 14 grab bags which i was like”wow thats alot!”i accepted it and went to theyre island.They had this “Open” sign,and a counter with a flower pot on it.They said “hi” and so did I.Guess what.
They dropped 100 bells only😀..so i asked if they meant 100k or if it was a typo,they went”oh right-“and they told me to drop a grab bag before they gave it to me .-. And so i did and they gave me the 99k bells and told me like this”bye.”
Expecting someone to pay you 10 million bells for a villager who cost you nothing and is leaving your island regardless is a scam in and of itself 🙄 I don't care if the person offered, people who charge people for their second hand villagers really need to have a word with themselves. I'd never entertain them, no matter how much I wanted the villager I'd never, ever go get them off someone like that.
For the be right back person I have been that person but i never pick up the item because it seems sketchy.
I scams like this. I do treasure islands so I will just give things away for free or gift people their entire wish lists.
One time I went to an island to bring an item but the island looked empty and just like if it was new there was nothing but once I open the map I saw that they put all of their villagers home and his own house in a place of the map that you can't see and they were like can you give me D.I.Y Do you have a stair or pole
and then I asked her do you have a stair and she said no but she had a STAIR in her hands so yeah I decided to call these scammers the "I'm new" scammer
Oh boy. Idk if this is a classic scammer or what?! But one time I made and and offer for 100 nmt, I payed 400,000 when they came to my island but they just stole all my stuff on my beach and all my stuff laying on the ground, But before the trade I read her reviews and... yeah kinda expected it... But after the trade when I said end session, she was cursing at me in her nookazon chat, but the thing is she also had a lot of good reviews??? What???
Someone gave me a free Molly earlier today. I offered 50 nmt but they said nah just take her like dude thanks 😂
oh yeah i mentioned some thing like this scammer on one of these videos but a little bit diferently
Haha I love your videos. Made my day.
One time there was a guy who was gonna make me a gold tool for 100,000 bells. I put a fence around my entrance with a crafting table in it. I put all my money in the bank and withdrew EXACTLY 100,000 bells. I took all the bells out of my pocket so they were all in my inventory. I drop the money, he crafts the item. "You're 10,000 bells short" he says. "No I'm not. I counted exactly 100,000 bells when I took it out of my bank." I said. He then demanded I go to my bank and withdraw the rest of the money. I ended session and told him I was going to report him and he said "Oops! My bad! Counted wrong ^^"
Another time I was doing a touch trade. I can't remember what the item was so we're just gonna use boxes or something. So guy wants to touch trade my peach box. Okay no problem, I love helping people out. I went over and he picked up my item. Then he said "Oh no. My box inventory is FULL of boxes! I don't know which box was yours!". Directly after that his friend tried flying over and the game crashed. Convenient timing cause I didn't get my item back. I was like "Man lemme fly back over and get my item" and he's like "Oh I lost it. Sorry." I said I was gonna report him and he started yelling at me telling me I was overreacting and to get over it cause it was a free trade and the item wasn't that valuable anyway. So much for trying to help someone out.
Oh no! That is terrible