I lost my x2 kinemals awl as a kid in a duel when you could allow loot corpse in softcore(yes, that long ago) I cried my eyes out. My parents thought i got injured. Lmao. That shit changes u. Ive experienced all of these scams, and repeated them. Its like a rite of passage back in the d2 days.
I remember trading a shaftstop for like 3 SOJS. The guy said he had 1 SOJ on this char and the other 2 on another char. So i traded the shaftstop for the 1 SOJ, and then i waited for him to rejoin with the other char. Well im still waiting....
when i was a dumb child. met a guy with the same real world name as my friend in real life (as his character name). i was shocked and ask "will? (dont remember name now) is that you?" "yea" "this is (my name)." "oh hey!" and we talked for a bit. couldnt believe he played d2, and what not. after 20-30 minutes we are showing each other our gear. and the scammer asked about my soj. (before runes were a thing). he wanted to see how it was on his character. 'knowing' this person in real life, i agreed. dropped. and we continued talking for a good 10 minutes. until he left. man... i went to school the next day, and confronted my friend. he had no idea what i was talking about. instantly knew, what had happened. and thats the day the internet taught me a valuable lesson.
BRO I had something VERY similar happen to me except it was through d2jsp forums. Some guy was pretending to be another guy and scammed me of a 20 to life 5 all res small charm. Some guy named JQker#21596 damn bro it was shit lol
I remember playing with a guy for like 4 hours when I was like 11 and befriending him and when I thought I could trust him he struck. He said “cool armor, can I see what it looks like on me ?” You can guess the rest. Rip tal Rasha set.
@@MrJustinTorrance Yep. I've played Project D2 and PoD, and know about the upcoming official Remaster. To busy leveling my alts in Classic atm to pick it back up right now, but I'm definitely going to play the first ladder season of the Remaster.
@@MeesterGgaming Multiplayer characters expire if they are inactive for too long, but Single Player characters do not expire. Newly created characters will expire after 10 days of inactivity. Characters played for at least two hours will expire after 90 days of inactivity. To reset the inactivity timer on a character, log in to an active game with that character and buy or sell an item, or kill a monster. Diablo 2 accounts are also deleted after 90 days of inactivity.
I remember I was on my brother's Barb and this guy in game asked if I wanted to play a game where we drop and item and see who can pick it up faster. I was a stupid child and said "Yeah, sure." So I drop his nice Arreat's and pick it up before the guy. He says "Again," and now that I was a little cocky I was like "Yeah for sure." On the third go he gets it, and I'm like "Okay now you drop it." He leaves the game. I start crying cause I just lost my brother's Arreat's. Roll credits.
Imagine placing 40 SOJS 1 by 1 in the trade box. Now imagine doing that 3 times because the person you're trying to trade with is having "issues" accepting. Now imagine placing that last SOJ for the 4th attempt for the trade to finally go through, just to realize you lost 40 sojs to a fake windforce. 1.09 days, sad times.
Okay, I experienced a variation on the "drop-for-drop" scam, but with a crafty twist. So a guy claimed to have Enigma. He said we could trade, but each time we tried to he claimed the trade option in his window "glitched out." He suggested we stand on either side of the wall around the Act 1 outpost. He instructed me drop my item (a rare rune) on my side, and he would drop his item (Enigma) on his side, and we would run around the wall to get each other's items. You can probably guess what happened next. As soon as I started running he picked up his Enigma, used its +1 to teleport to go through the wall, and pick up my rune. I was shocked and pissed. But it was an important life lesson.
I was on outside of the wall in act one, the guy was in town, I dropped all of my gear for an anni, he hostiled me, his merc was on the other side of the wall with me, killed me in one hit. He scooped my up my gear and left.
Here's one: A5 anni/torch for item. There's a little nook below Malah to the left of the stairs. One person drops their item in that little nook, and the other player drops their item on the other side of the cliff (both players can see the other players items). The players inch closer, until they're at around the half way point at which they both go for the other player's item. But the player from the other side of the cliff turns back for his item at the last second, right after he ques his buddy to join the game and snatch the other guy's item. This one was pretty unique because the player felt totally safe, only they never accounted for someone else joining the game at the last second. And it required teamwork!
@@jpeg2732 ah yea, and doubly scary when they're an assassin and they use that speed boost. Also there's a bow runeword that gives vigor which they'd swap to last second.
I remember back in the early days, I got scammed by some dude teleporting inside the town and picking up my gear that we were supposed to swap by dropping
Couple more from back in the day. 1. Anni for gold, perfect gheeds for gold, later torch for gold. Pick up the gold with telekinesis once it's dropped. Somewhat harmless because the gold isn't very valuable. 2. Act 2 palace trade. It sounds silly, but damn was it effective. You stand outside the palace, the victim stands inside. Both drop the items, you wish to trade. Once the "go" command is given, delay a little. The person inside the palace has to go off screen for a coupe seconds, which is when you pick your item back up (without them realizing) and start running for theirs. 3. Little difficult to execute and required a character built around it. Build a barb with full "Increased speed", equip a bunch of +all skills/+barb passive skills. Agree on a place with reasonably long distance between the drops. Once the traded items are dropped and the "go" command is given, start moving slowly. When the victim is the same distance from your item as you are, turn back and run at max speed to pick your item back up before they can get to it. Then zoom to get their item too before they can get back to it as well. I've seen it done with barbs, but I'd imagine vigor paladin might work the same
Damn this reminds me of when I got scammed and my dad broke my copy of Diablo because I called the scammer an “asshole” and my brother saw it and told on me 😂
Lol my dad got pissed for my brother and I always leaving the D2 disc in the tray and not taking it out when we were done. So he snapped it in two. Mom made him buy another one lol.
''Drop your gear inside of town in the corner next to charsi'' ''this one?'' ''Yeah; ill stand outside'' : Amazon uses charge item tele/gets in steal the most valuable shit. I was young and dumb lmao
Happened to me! Barb told me he'd give me a SoJ for helping him trade btwn his chars. I'd drop my gear in town as insurance, while he'd drop his stuff for his other char out in the field somewhere. I dropped my gear, he teleported in and stole my stuff
My bro scammed me by transferring all my gear to his character when I left a game open to answer the phone. When I got back he just told me "someone scammed you". Never suspected it was him until I saw he had a rare dual leech ring that was exactly the same as my old one
There are many variations for scamming using Telekinesis when offering up your Torch or Anni for some other item. You just run halfway, then yoink both items off the ground with Telekinesis. Wands with charges of Telekinesis can let this happen very sneaky-like with a Necro.
Just an example in the opposite (in order to keep smiling after such pain) : i join a multi trade party named "O hide N find", so, for beginners: In my game I offer hide, I need find... What a mystery..! I enter the game and when we are 8 players, the main guy said: "ok, i'll hide myself somewhere in the 5 acts, the first who find me get an Ist rune"... Hahaha it was amazing. My necro (without enigma) loose but a sorc win and get the ist rune. All other get a Pul rune or something as a second reward. Very nice guy and great idea, so fun !! Thx to him.
Damn, played D2 when it came out late 1999 up to 2001 What memories.... I was playing about 12-14 hours a day for almost 2 years non stop, honestly don't think i'll ever do anything with so much commitment! LOL
the worst of all the scams i encountered back in the days (and they did the bar trick on me and so on) was this: i played with a dude for like 2 hours straight. good talk, pulled him a bit, we had nice chats, good diablo, baal and other farm runs - we even shared some of the dropped loot from farming. it was the day i finally got my tal's armor and i was super hyped, helped other players and just enjoyed my laquered plate and the boost it gave me. after a decent amount of time we played together (surely 3-4 hours) we talked about gear, builds and stuff. i told him how to's on the bliz sorc when he asked, if he might check the dmg boost when wearing my tal's to see, if the item and the bonus it gives would be good for his build. stupid me gave him the armor and while waiting for him to write sth like: 'dayum, thats super nice' i suddenly read: (...) left our world. Diablo's minions weaken. i can still feel the panic rush and even today, 15? years later, i'd bitchslap the shit out of his face if i'd see him again! it took a shitload of time to farm one back. since then i'm kind of paranoid when it comes to friends in game :D
A "friend" I'd been playing with for months wanted to borrow my new Breath of the dying to see what his dps would be, as he was considering making one. Took it, unfriended me and logged off. That one hurt.
Weird to say, but it's good old memories even tho I got scammed myself quite a few times as a kid haha.. I remember trying to join this clan. They said i need to check my leaderboard ranking first. I asked them how, and they said i need to type in /dnd accountname passwordofmyaccount Once that was done they just whispered me and it returned them a message with my account name and password saying im on the Do Not Disturb mode . lmao They emptied my account real quick :-)
Shamefully I used to do this to people a lot. I'd change their password and check their accounts for white items. If they used the hacked items I'd steal their legit items and throw their hacked items to the ground and leave the game.
i got scammed a few times with the trade item swap thing, lost my wizspike ring to a normal shitty bow instead of a .08 bugged windforce, in patch 1.09. never got any of the crazier scams though then my buddy started doing the /dnd acc/pass thing and got about 4-5 people with it.
I remember expansion came out and shael runes leaked into classic. Traded an absurd amount to get this magical rune that added ias to my bow. Then found out it's common af.
One guy scammed me when I tried to make my first grief. I spent so long to get that Lo and Mal rune and he bait and switched a 5 os PB for a 5 os crystal sword. I put grief in a crystal sword and didn't even notice. Started using it and I quickly saw my sword start to break, and that's when I knew.
I remember trying to Tfer in games and this one time I rejoined with my mule and a low lvl necro was there and had picked everything up... he told me I need to pick a better spot because right outside act 1 was too easy to find. Then he dropped all the stuff he had stolen and told me to "get better gear" and left lol..
I would join "act 1 only" servers (so basically any server with level 5-8 players only and self-mule in act 2 town or even better act 3 town. Act 3 town was so big, if you were fast enough and Bnet didn't temp ban you for re-logging in to quickly it would work out great.
I never told anyone this, but I got scammed at that first location too. But the trick was when you dropped your item it actually went through the wall onto the other side, meaning you now had to run all the way back to pick it up, where as the other person doesn't have to move at all. Just click and goodbye, your item was gone I also remember someone trying something similar in act 4, the fireplace near Tyrael. Not as good as the act 2 Atmas one but. Also, there was once this thing people used to do which is dump a load of shitty items out the front of act 1 and try PK you. Then when you went to go grab your body you might accidently pick one of these shitty items up and when you finally collect your real body, they kill you and all your items would drop on the floor. That's how the multiple bodies patch happened
The greatest scam of all was people convincing each other to download the "free bot" that actually just opens the game and drops all of your items the second you run it.
I remember doing and falling for these scams as a kid. One that seemed to work wonders was similar to the tal rasha/rattlecage strat but you used an mephisto’s soulstone instead of an anni lol
The torch torch for torch explination was so bad I cant even. I guess after all these years I can share some secrets. Get some unsuspecting scrub to agree to a trade, the one part you got right is you cant trade in window. Side note, I would often get both people's anni and torch by telling them " I dont need a 20/20 torch, I need a better anni, I'll give perf torch + crap anni for an average of each. (While not having a horrid anni myself maybe a 12/19/x anni, often after your 20 stat/whatever res torches and 15+/15+ anni's, because "I needed just a few more stats and i was good on resistances") Fist step is to delay long enough to perm game incase the guy who decided to give you free stuff rage quits. Then say "my friends know my common game/passwords, (if they are less dense than a rock they will ask for a ng, tell them to make and find a new target, aka leave them waiting unless they rejoin your game, call that one off.) lets go act 4 incase someone joins, since its a long run from any log in point, lets trade by jamella, away from wp. (Easily 3/4 of the time people trust you more from this because it makes sense.) You goto act 4, I make a very quick pitstop at a pre selected uncommon wp to have (since most people get rushed, uncommon wps were easy, so I drop my stuff and quickly goto act 3 town, maybe a long loading screen? I was usually still faster than most, my dad was an engineer and just finished school for computer drafting, AKA I played on a badass computer back in the day, also internet was a priority) with an oddly high success rate I run up and say you first, to see some goodies drop. Grab and quickly change characters. This is where you (the person giving stuff away) had 2 choices, run to wp and play the lotto and start spamming wps (maybe 3 attempts before I get back) or leave and hope the game poofs, hence the delay to perm game eariler (same as afking in a solo game to self xfer). I log on new character that has said uncommon wp and grab my originals. I laugh at your attempt to make a video about a subject you know nothing about, other than probably giving me your items on more than one occasion, you know so little its embarassing. "I like how he disconnects, it makes it seem so legit" more or less what you said...ctrl clicking cube in a shop = exiting the game with literally no message AKA buying you more time and leaving them confused (reason for trading next to jamella) Btw I was also 12, some just bloom sooner than others I suppose. While someone attempted this one on me and I cant claim it as an original, I feel I improved, maybe perfected it. if I wasnt baaling, i was pking, if I wasnt pking I was scamming (only in game, jsp was always clean), but Ive watched all these videos reguarding old scams, its a damn shame none of my originals made it in here, because they made rich in game XD God I miss the simple times.
The last one happened to me trying to get jalal's. Instead of going to the chest. They closed out the trade window several times showing the jalals, then after the 3-4 time they threw up a diff item and traded. When you think you are getting a good deal, you get a little impatient and just want it to go through.
There used to also be a trade hack, where you literally SAW enigma or something, no red mark or anything, no switching, but when trade was done you received garbage instead
I played with a guy once, had some kind of good item and he agreed to socket it for me in act 5, I was young and trustful, and funny enough he also said "lag" and then left... :( I can still remember this betrayal despite the fact that it happened ages ago...
i used to be an asshole and scam people with the do not disturb feature. i would pretend to have a clan that required a high "diablo network of dueling" (dnd) rating. id tell them to get their rating they needed to type /dnd (account name) (password) and someone from blizzard would whisper them the rating. i would then use /whois (playername) to see their DND message. once i got it i would log into their account. grab their highest toons and clear them of gear. i still feel bad to this day 16 yrs later.
I got into a full game of traders/hustlers, and there was this guy who said he could dupe certain items.. people started giving him low budget stuff so he could prove it. Then he actually dropped two of the same items back on the ground, making 12 year old me believe he was actually duping stuff and giving them away to be nice. (we had to show what we had and he would go "ah yes that works") Gave him my raven frost ring (which at the time was my best item) and then he proceeded looting from everyone else in the game before he left and everyone started panicking like headless chickens. I won't forget it.
I dunno if this one was common, but I got scammed by a "join our guild," scam, a trap assassin sets a bunch of traps outside town and asks you to drop all your gear for the clan tryout, and then hostiles and kills you. Another one was getting someone to click a link to "join a trade forum," but instead it's a bot that opens d2 and drops all your gear on the ground. It's kinda funny that someone took the time to program that
I remember this one: teleport dupe scam. Scammer convinced you he can dupe (in my case he was showing me loads of 100 poison sc, like 20 or 30 of them). In act 1 camp is a good spot to do this. The scammer is outside the camp, the other is inside. Scammer convinces the person inside to drop the Item that he wants duped. Now the scammer simpy teleports in the camp (yes this was possible) and picks it up quickly. The scammer usually did not use soso as it would be too obvious. They had like a pala with enigma to telport... or low lvl chars with Naj's staff. I was so confused that i could not react quickly enough. Good old D2 times.
Doesn’t beat the time I played with a person for like 2 years and we had trust we helped mule High runes and rare stuff all the time! One day i started a fresh account because i finally had the wealth to build my first uber paladin. I created an account and joined game just for him to tell me sorry and that was the last i seen. He and his friend wiped me out completely. Cried for weeks and never went back to D2 😂😭. That was like 6 years of loot.
There was a website that people would ask you to go to outside of the game window and when you opened it while the game was still running , it reopened your game ,dropped all you gear and made the character leave the game.
Was it the program that you would lose control of your mouse and it would auto-click and drop all your gear and the only way to stop it was alt+ctrl+F4? That got me lucky the server was still up when I logged back in...I am just glad I got all this scam sh-t out of my system when I was really new to the game...by the time I had high gear I was over it.
I remember I got scammed once and my character popped and dropped all their gear and the person who scammed me made fun of me for how bad my stuff was.
I used to scam in middle school. One was to trade for an anni or torch. I'd create a game and look for an Act 1 map that had a gate. I would put my A2 Merc on the outside, geared out with might aura (sometimes would use a pally to give fanta as well) at this point people knew all the scams and grabbing gear through walls etc. They would be super hesitant, especially if they thought I wanted to be on the outside, because I could just teleport into town. But they were more willing to attempt to scam me when I told them I want them outside. I'd get them to drop their item/or torch/anni and then all ask them a question. And as they typing I'll hostile when Merc was near them. The Merc kills them and I run out and grab the gear and leave. Another thing I'd do to scam whole accounts was to tell the global chat that I was quitting the game and offer my free account. When someone replied, I'd ask what they wanted me to change the password to so they can have it. And there were times that the password they told me to change it to was their actual password. I'd drop all their gear in a friends game. And that was that.
@@timgriffith9333 Diablo 2 was the best game because of hardcore, chance to find gear being so low (I've played for 20 years and have still never found a grandfather/windforce/jah rune,) and the scamming, and PK. It was real life. No sugar coating
Not really a scam but I used to drop trade my Anni for an armor or weapon that’s metal. I would wear the metalgrid amulet so they won’t suspect the iron golem summon then I would turn their runewords to iron golem
So in duel games, sometimes a really lame guy was camping the entrance to blood moor, went afk after doing all sorts of BM stuff. I'd grab a smiter and check if that person was close enough to the edge to attack him without being able to hurt him. The durability of his gear would drop quite fast and you could see the gear 'disappear' as it became broken. It would require tons of gold to repair all that top tier stuff
actually theres a scammer in non ladder who gives meph stone instead of 17 20 anni, usually named ProudHero, if u can persecute him, he will probably then create the game "drop hr please", go inside again and persecute maybe with other people who comes in, with no mercy, people will probably give hr to u too
I lived in a household with a paranoid parent so we didn't have internet. I only played on single player, no battlenet. So I would say I was fortunate I didn't ever deal with this but then again... no battlenet and never playing with a living soul ever. Also, no internet meant nothing to assist me to learn how to properly spec, what runewords even were (I just put them in colored gear for the base stats), what uniques were in the game, etc. I haven't played since then. D2R is going to be nostalgic but also like a new game to me.
Got a whisper one night in a private game from a random name: "Guess who?" I had been playing mostly solo, and had kinda convinced one friend of mine to play again, so my only guess was him. I go, "Chuck?". And he goes "haha, what's up man?" and we chat a little, and he asks for PW to my game. Once he joins, he asks if I've found anything cool, and I had just found Treks, and he asked to see them. Thinking it was my buddy, I dropped them on the ground, and he picked them up and left the game. Needless to say, was not Chuck. I felt so dumb.
What about the file that "when downloaded helps you dupe" but actually makes you start dropping all of your equipped gear? I got hit by that one around 2006
Ouu I remember that one. It was a script that basically dropped all your gear and locked your keyboard keys. Only way to save yourself was to hit the power switch and hope that the damage wasn't too bad.
In addition to the "nk17" scam there was actually a much easier way to "corpse pop" someone, which is basically what you're doing in a roundabout way. The way I saw corpse pops happen most often is someone would kill you in a duel, then while you were running back to your corpse they throw a bunch of random items on your body. When you went to click on your body you would equip any item you clicked on and then you would click your corpse. If you picked up say a gray short sword all your gear except your weapon would be equipped. Then you just kill the poor SOB and all equipped items would drop, which was most of their gear.
I betrayed a 'friend' when muling items for them. Close to a year later a friend who I had played with for over 6 months did the same to me. It was the same guy, He had made a new account and played the long game on me to get revenge. He got some of his items back but also much more. I gave him the GG and WP.
Simpliest scam : open trade window, count to 1, close it. Usually this is around the time frame when the person drags the item to the window, and since you close it - they drop it on the floor, for u to have a chance and pick it up
You missin soooo many types of scams. There were almost unlimited types of scams in D2 back in the day. The A1 trust wall, the friending someone to get the game names they join to watch for mule games. The "helping someone mule" then having one of your friends come in and grab everything and claim you don't know the scammer etc. It was a wild west.
Yeah I was going to comment saying hit me up if you wanted to know more old school scam tecks lol. The act 5 wall was bugged. Only the person on one specific side of the wall could collect item through the wall without going around. Lol so many old scams
Oh man you forgot the best one. Convince someone that you're giving up diablo for awhile and you need someone to hold onto your gear because you won't have time to keep logging in to keep your account active. Tell them that you don't have any other friends and that they can hold onto your gear for you but only if they earn your trust first. Go outside of town and position yourself far down the wall. Have the other person in town on the other side of the wall and then drop most of your gear on the ground showing them that you "trust" them (knowing your gear is perfectly safe because you can't teleport over that wall from inside town). After a few seconds, pick your gear back up and switch sides with the person so that now you are in town and the wall is separating you again. Tell them to drop some of their gear and after their turn they will have earned your trust and they can pick it back up. After they remove their gear hostile them and watch your carefully positioned mercenary one-shot them while you are in town and your merc is out there with them (you dropping your gear first was just a distraction to get your merc outside). Now that they are dead, you will easily be able to outrun them to their gear outside of town and pick it up for yourself.
My bro got scammed so bad he quit the game. essentially you create a game saying, "I'm quitting, giving away gear" people flock to your game. you open up the trade window and say, "Hey, I'm giving this account away, what do you want me to change the password to?" This is where my brother screws up, he gives the guy HIS PASSWORD to his current account, i guess it would be convenient right? the guy logs out, and into my brothers account, and my brother is logged out, trying to log into the new account he is going to receive He pretty much got emptied out, and it wasn't even
There was a better variant of the pvp corpse popping scam that was more reliable. The idea was to drop a bunch of trash items on top of a hostile player's corpse after killing them. In order to get their body back, they'd have to pick up the items first. But if their inventory became too full to pick up all their gear, they'd only be able to equip some of the items from their corpse and the body would remain on the ground. At that point you'd kill them again, and whatever items were equipped at the time would drop to the ground. So if you wanted their weapon, you'd drop a bunch of armor on their body. If you wanted their armor, you'd drop a bunch of weapons on the ground. If the victim wasn't holding alt to check for items on top of their body as they ran back to grab their corpse, there was a good chance you'd be able to pop them.
i remember a scam where you had to have completly full inventory or somthing, then dying or picking up your corpse or somthing and that made you drop all your items.
yeah you had to die, grab some crap items from the vendor to fill all you slots then fill you inventory with potions, i never tried to do this to someone, but someone tried to do it to me and i just wasted his time, like man its not working whats going on
If I remember correctly, 1.10 was in 2003 (synergies and the big runewords like Enigma) and torches came much later in 2005. Forgive the messy commentary, It was a single take with no script; went completely off memory when it came to these scams. 😅
2:35 That is a legitimate place to drop trade but you are suppose to drop items in the back of the bar or in the kitchen not in the front. Thank for the video about the "good old days" of D2, I actually experienced all of these. I started playing the game during the 1.09 patch days. When I was really new I got tricked into the corpse drop but I didn't have anything they wanted so they just laughed at my gear and left. I use to always "mule" my gear in the bar too, I was a kid and only had one computer so I would join a server with "act 1 only" players and mule my gear in act 2 or act 3 then leave the game.
i remember i used to troll scammers by wasting their time pretending im stupid with full inventory and stuff :D one guys was at it trying to make duping work on my op sorc for over an hour and it was actually me who got bored and called him out :D
I remember getting scammed for a legit 40/15 jewel i found for what i thought was maybe a Tyrael's Might. It was a Corpsemourne, yeah i was a total noob and didn't realise the value of such a jewel, and also that 95% of unid sacred armours are Templar's Might, and didn't check to see that he switched it to an ornate plate, it still hurts coz i have never even owned another 40/15.
people can say what they want but i either get annis or torches by one of two ways: build a smiter and run Ubers or pull out my wallet....the scams just got me to that point in D2...sorry not sorry about buying certain items
the only one i fell for...it's what prompted me to say "i'm buying my torches and annis and i don't care what anyone says."...no regrets and no scams after that...someone wants to trade torch or anni i say not a chance to this day..if we can't trade screen it find someone else to trade with
me too man, me too. :( it sucked. This was 1.09 and we used sojs as currency. I lost 3 of em or so on a tal rasha armor scam. It didn't piss me off too bad, as far as losing my items because i had hundreds of SOJS, but it pissed me off that now i didn't trust anyone and I treated everyone i traded with like a potential scammer from that point on, which sucked, cuz up until that point I had positive experiences trading.
That's why the messaging system was invented in D2. You could check their account name (not character name) on the console screen when they leave the server, add it to your friends list [/f list] and it would tell you what character they were using and the server name (if they were in a game)....so you could stalk them forever. [Ignore] command only lasted until you logged out of Bnet but once they logged back you could whisper them as long as you didn't get muted for spamming. [yeah, I was a D2 victim as well...]
In battle net, I pretended to start a community event where you can gather diamonds and receive prizes. the event was called "diablo needs diamonds" or short "dnd". To register for the event you had to type /dnd followed by your log in information. Some people did not know that this was the "do not disturb" comment and the message was shown to anybody who whispered them. Got some poor fellas accounts through this method. FeelsBadMan
Two scams I fell victim to. One has been mentioned a couple times below, which was there was a drop hack program that I was tricked into running which resized my game window, opened my inventory, dead reckoning dragged all of my worn items out of my inventory, dropped them on the ground, and exited the game. I do not even know why someone bothered to scam me with this as my gear was pretty much complete trash. Easy lesson learned. The other scam used to be in Act 2. You would drop an item and someone else would drop an item near the edge of town, but then they would teleport into town right on top of you and steal your item. I can't remember losing anything significant as I never had anything significant to lose. All my godly items I had were handed to me by hackers or people who bought their gear.
I remember I used to play on Asia realm and I asked a Korean if I could try out his grief to test the damage and dropped my oath on the ground to win trust, and then he dropped grief and I didn't give it back and suddenly every Korean on the server was following me into every public game I joined to host me (was on hardcore mode) in the end I tried to fight a wind druid with my ww barbarian and he killed me along with the grief lmao rip
Back then you couldn’t put your torches in trade. So you had to trust people had the torch they said they had. Everyone wanted sorc or paladin torches so we would drop trade at the small wall near Akara. Everyone would scam each other.
My brother used to run a scam in D2 back in the day. He would fully hi-jack peoples accounts. He must have been 10 years old. He would join a server and ask people what there dungeon rank was. Most people did not know what this was so he would advise them if you log into the DnD system it would tell you your dungeon rank. "just type /DnD username password" while he continued the conversation to try and help them trouble shoot why they weren't logging in the DND(do not disturb) notification would tell him there message which was there username and password. Then he would logout, login as them which would disconnect them and change there password.
Regarding wanting to move items between characters. Back in the day, if you didn’t have friends online, you’d have to drop your items in a opened game. Of course you wouldn’t want everybody to leave the game, thus closing the game and you would lose everything. Therefore, ppl would join popular, easily identifiable games like “drop and leave.” Sometimes people would gear up the assassin with all speed increasing items. They would max out the skill that increases the speed (forget name). You would join and go to an act town that you could hide items in. Usually act 2, on an outer dock. You would leave and come back with the other character. The assassin would see what act you go to by hovering the way point. Then they would catch up to you, out speed you, and get to your gear. Happened once. Around 2002. Lost a 250 psn small charm. Will never forget. Character’s name was Of mice and men.
dont recall what it was but you get the guy to put the item in the trade window to get them to think you could duplicate it, and you had them type in 3 long lines of code after you type it - basically, once they did the last one it made the game hit the check mark to trade, so you could accept it. then they timed out, so once they timed out, your buddy joins the game, you give them the item and then you never have to return to that account again. fun times back then
Someone got me with the good ole "hit shift + F4" saying it would dupe the items I drop on the ground. Someone also definitely got me with the quick item swap.
Got scammed only one time. So I needed a low torch. Since you couldn't trade it through the trade window we agreed to use this going-around-some-random-wall method. It was a crappy necro torch or something with a very low value and this guy said he will trade it for like 5-800k gold. It was pretty obvious like... who the hell would trade a torch for gold? But it was a cheap torch and I was like well, I'm almost sure I will get scammed, but I don't know how and it's just some gold, so I dropped it on the floor. What I did not know is you can simply pick up gold with telekinesis even in town. He even used a barb or something and used some item with telekinesis charges. I wasn't even mad.
Used to spend most of my time in Act 1 PvP games. My favorite thing to do to unsuspecting players was to fight them and kill them, then throw a ton of random items on the ground around their corpse. When they would come back to their corpse they would accidentally panic click and pick up a couple of the items and then finally click their corpse. But since the items would go on their player when they picked up their corpse their gear would go into their inventory and fill it up, thus leaving their old corpse on the ground. Once they did that if you killed them again, everything they were carrying would drop on the ground because you were not allowed to have two corpses with loot on them. Got lots and lots of high end loot over the years with that method.
I remember at one point early on when you died in pvp people would throw down trash items around your corpse so you would accidentally pick one up and auto equip it, this would keep one item on your original corpse and if they killed you before you fixed it and got all your gear back, your entire set of gear popped onto the ground. I also remember an infamous bug where people could simply open a town portal and throw an oil potion through it and it would crash either your game or the server.. I think it had to happen on your screen to get you, at least at one point. I vividly remember naked barbarians in particular just camping the town entrance with a town portal and an oil potion in their hand, just waiting for someone to come close enough.. rarely they would get killed before they succeeded and then a battle of camping the town entrance would begin again in a different way.. if the naked barb could get out there to throw a potion again or not.. I remember one time the barb trying to crash the server got camped at the entrance by a frozen orb sorceress so the barb took the wp to the cold plains and tried to long distance crash them from behind. It was a hellish game in the early days.
There's a scam where (if I was the scammer) i'd partyup to allow seeing where i was in the map, go far far away, then: 1. Drop the item you want to dupe 2. hit Alt+F1, then F2 and so on till F10. Alt F4 would close the program and it would let you go grab the item.
I recall being told that I could dupe items if I visted a website. Instructed to put all my items on my character, go to the website. Click on the website link with Diablo 2 open. It would run a script I guess which threw all my items on the floor, exited the game and back to desktop. Glad it was with Assassin build rather than my bank account, much wiser these days. Thanks Diablo 2 for prepping me for life *thumbs up*
Lost my lv 94 pally to a scam. This was in HC in a trade game. Player traded me near exit of town in act 1. While in the trade window another player joined, hostiled, and killed me before I even knew what happened.
The best scam was the dnd rank scam. /dnd put up an away message when people whispered you. So you'd tell the victim to type /dnd then their account name and password to get their "did not die" ranking, whisper them to get their account name and password, then log into their account and take every item they had. Nothing like phishing people as an 11 year old in 2003.
I got scammed once for a Buriza. It was a stupid scam, and I'm not sure how I fell for it. It was basically multiple players (friends of scammer) confirming that the scammer could dupe items. It was like 17-18 years ago so I can't remember the specifics but somehow they showed 2 of the exact same items with the same stats to me and at least 2 people showed me that which made me believe that the scammer could actually dupe the item lol.
I got scammed by the rattle cage swap. I also got scammed by an amazon that had an amulet with teleport charges before I knew that was a thing. The only person I ever scammed was someone who I knew was a scammer, not that it makes it right, but that was my rationale.
Your first scam, you just had people fill their inventory with potions, then say if you die in pvp and disconnect and reconnect really fast, it would cause lag with the server, and wouldn't save your character, so it should dupe. This was in the era where everyone was duping SOJs. Pick up their items and leave before they reconnect. This is how I got scammed, but I was also 10 years old and all they got off me were shitty yellows. But I learned fast that nobody tells you the truth online. :P
There was a scam to join guilds where you go to a certain page and click the link and it causes you to drop all your gear and disconnect you while your in a game. I was so wealthy from this scam.
After you've got scammed in d2, you're prepared for life.
i swear i got real skills from this game
Facts
I lost my x2 kinemals awl as a kid in a duel when you could allow loot corpse in softcore(yes, that long ago) I cried my eyes out. My parents thought i got injured. Lmao. That shit changes u. Ive experienced all of these scams, and repeated them. Its like a rite of passage back in the d2 days.
Pathetic
you cant be scammed if you're the one who's scamming people. *evillaugh
I got scammed gambling with gheed.
something else we've all done before lol
I remember trading a shaftstop for like 3 SOJS. The guy said he had 1 SOJ on this char and the other 2 on another char.
So i traded the shaftstop for the 1 SOJ, and then i waited for him to rejoin with the other char.
Well im still waiting....
Has he come back yet?
Still waiting xD 20 years somthing later
@@eagdhj don't worry. He will come. Trust me. 😅
"Well im still waiting"....made my day man haha xD. sorry that this happened to you though ^^
when i was a dumb child. met a guy with the same real world name as my friend in real life (as his character name). i was shocked and ask "will? (dont remember name now) is that you?" "yea" "this is (my name)." "oh hey!" and we talked for a bit. couldnt believe he played d2, and what not. after 20-30 minutes we are showing each other our gear. and the scammer asked about my soj. (before runes were a thing). he wanted to see how it was on his character. 'knowing' this person in real life, i agreed. dropped. and we continued talking for a good 10 minutes. until he left. man... i went to school the next day, and confronted my friend. he had no idea what i was talking about. instantly knew, what had happened. and thats the day the internet taught me a valuable lesson.
i miss the days of sojs as currency. dude i had like 14 mules full of those lol
@@johnnyblack3676 sojs are actually worth more now than back then.
hahaha
Plot twist: It actually was your friend. He just played innocent.
BRO I had something VERY similar happen to me except it was through d2jsp forums. Some guy was pretending to be another guy and scammed me of a 20 to life 5 all res small charm. Some guy named JQker#21596 damn bro it was shit lol
I remember playing with a guy for like 4 hours when I was like 11 and befriending him and when I thought I could trust him he struck. He said “cool armor, can I see what it looks like on me ?” You can guess the rest. Rip tal Rasha set.
Hahahhahaha that comment killed me 😂
oh man the worst part is he was probably joking but then when you started giving it to him he was like "is this dude SERIOUS"
@@samusaran13372 true. i encountered the same situation. still feel stupid for doing :D
I just realized diablo 2 is why I don't trust people. It gave me a prison mentality 😂
Scammer: Just drop your stuff somewhere. You can come back with another character to collect it.
Me at age 10: Okay, I trust you.
Everybody got scammed at least once in diablo 2... Best game ever, I wish I could go back in time. I really, really enjoyed this game.
I learned valuable life lessons by getting scammed in D2 as a kid. I learned to spot BS from a mile away.
D2 resurrected should be here this year
@@Preacher_. yea you know they remade the game right?
You can always play on a mod. Path of diablo or project diablo 2
@@MrJustinTorrance Yep. I've played Project D2 and PoD, and know about the upcoming official Remaster.
To busy leveling my alts in Classic atm to pick it back up right now, but I'm definitely going to play the first ladder season of the Remaster.
I think the only scam I had happen was all of my characters being deleted because I couldn’t remember to log in to keep them active.
Literally 🤣
This so much
when do they get deleted, after how much time lol
@@MeesterGgaming Multiplayer characters expire if they are inactive for too long, but Single Player characters do not expire.
Newly created characters will expire after 10 days of inactivity. Characters played for at least two hours will expire after 90 days of inactivity. To reset the inactivity timer on a character, log in to an active game with that character and buy or sell an item, or kill a monster.
Diablo 2 accounts are also deleted after 90 days of inactivity.
ooof. same.
I remember I was on my brother's Barb and this guy in game asked if I wanted to play a game where we drop and item and see who can pick it up faster. I was a stupid child and said "Yeah, sure." So I drop his nice Arreat's and pick it up before the guy. He says "Again," and now that I was a little cocky I was like "Yeah for sure." On the third go he gets it, and I'm like "Okay now you drop it." He leaves the game. I start crying cause I just lost my brother's Arreat's. Roll credits.
Imagine placing 40 SOJS 1 by 1 in the trade box. Now imagine doing that 3 times because the person you're trying to trade with is having "issues" accepting. Now imagine placing that last SOJ for the 4th attempt for the trade to finally go through, just to realize you lost 40 sojs to a fake windforce. 1.09 days, sad times.
Ouch.
"What's your position in the Do Not Die rank?"
"How do I check it?"
"Type '/dnd your-password' and Blizzard will say it"
*how i became rich*
Haha, I remember that...wow.
This one got me as a kid.
@@devourerofstars sorry not sorry
Okay, I experienced a variation on the "drop-for-drop" scam, but with a crafty twist. So a guy claimed to have Enigma. He said we could trade, but each time we tried to he claimed the trade option in his window "glitched out." He suggested we stand on either side of the wall around the Act 1 outpost. He instructed me drop my item (a rare rune) on my side, and he would drop his item (Enigma) on his side, and we would run around the wall to get each other's items. You can probably guess what happened next. As soon as I started running he picked up his Enigma, used its +1 to teleport to go through the wall, and pick up my rune. I was shocked and pissed. But it was an important life lesson.
I was on outside of the wall in act one, the guy was in town, I dropped all of my gear for an anni, he hostiled me, his merc was on the other side of the wall with me, killed me in one hit. He scooped my up my gear and left.
Ohhh you share my trauma man.. i criedd when it happened. The trust guild scam they used to call it. His fucking merc one shotted me and was like wtf
So many mule accounts from this
Worked with summon Druid bear too
I was the person who would do this scam. I’m sorry
this is the one i got hit by lol
Warning: do not personalize items with a full inventory. It'll fall to the ground. My older brother lost an enigma that way
yeah same with socketing at Larzuck =(
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Great job and effort on reenacting the scenarios. Can't wait to get nostalgically scammed again in Resurrected.
Here's one: A5 anni/torch for item. There's a little nook below Malah to the left of the stairs. One person drops their item in that little nook, and the other player drops their item on the other side of the cliff (both players can see the other players items). The players inch closer, until they're at around the half way point at which they both go for the other player's item. But the player from the other side of the cliff turns back for his item at the last second, right after he ques his buddy to join the game and snatch the other guy's item. This one was pretty unique because the player felt totally safe, only they never accounted for someone else joining the game at the last second. And it required teamwork!
That is really clever lol. That distance is pretty long too so you would have enough time
Was just thinking of this. Haha this got me back in the day!
I also got tricked but with a single paladin using max frw and vigor lol
@@jpeg2732 LOL yep!
@@jpeg2732 ah yea, and doubly scary when they're an assassin and they use that speed boost. Also there's a bow runeword that gives vigor which they'd swap to last second.
So much pain in one single video.
I remember back in the early days, I got scammed by some dude teleporting inside the town and picking up my gear that we were supposed to swap by dropping
Came to this video to feel the pain of this one again, was weirdly sad it didn't make the video
Couple more from back in the day.
1. Anni for gold, perfect gheeds for gold, later torch for gold. Pick up the gold with telekinesis once it's dropped. Somewhat harmless because the gold isn't very valuable.
2. Act 2 palace trade. It sounds silly, but damn was it effective. You stand outside the palace, the victim stands inside. Both drop the items, you wish to trade. Once the "go" command is given, delay a little. The person inside the palace has to go off screen for a coupe seconds, which is when you pick your item back up (without them realizing) and start running for theirs.
3. Little difficult to execute and required a character built around it. Build a barb with full "Increased speed", equip a bunch of +all skills/+barb passive skills. Agree on a place with reasonably long distance between the drops. Once the traded items are dropped and the "go" command is given, start moving slowly. When the victim is the same distance from your item as you are, turn back and run at max speed to pick your item back up before they can get to it. Then zoom to get their item too before they can get back to it as well. I've seen it done with barbs, but I'd imagine vigor paladin might work the same
Number 3 happened to me but with an Assassin. RIP to my Anni
Damn this reminds me of when I got scammed and my dad broke my copy of Diablo because I called the scammer an “asshole” and my brother saw it and told on me 😂
Lol my dad got pissed for my brother and I always leaving the D2 disc in the tray and not taking it out when we were done. So he snapped it in two. Mom made him buy another one lol.
Damn yalls parents are crazy lol
Your dad was hardcore. Those games were expensive as he-- back then (never went under $40) and he broke it....damn.
Gave a *friend* my password to try my character out. He changed pw I did not have email recovery...learned a lesson at 11 years old. Cried a lot lol.
Same, My friend stole My buriza, i went at him same night, ended up fighting
@@mattmikkel385hope you gave him hell !
Tyraels Might and Milabrega armor scam was a thing back then
''Drop your gear inside of town in the corner next to charsi'' ''this one?'' ''Yeah; ill stand outside'' : Amazon uses charge item tele/gets in steal the most valuable shit. I was young and dumb lmao
Same happened to me. I tried to join a clan and the guy said let's have a trust test. Well it worked I don't trust anyone now!
Happened to me! Barb told me he'd give me a SoJ for helping him trade btwn his chars. I'd drop my gear in town as insurance, while he'd drop his stuff for his other char out in the field somewhere. I dropped my gear, he teleported in and stole my stuff
I lost a hoto, shako, 2x sojs, fists, arachs, 2x mon spirit , cta, nigma, maras and pwalks to first scam.
Ah painful fookin memories.
The fact that you remember every item you lost lol I’m sorry for your pain
I fell for the last one three times as a kid. It's so satisfyingly awkward when you catch them tho lmao
My bro scammed me by transferring all my gear to his character when I left a game open to answer the phone. When I got back he just told me "someone scammed you". Never suspected it was him until I saw he had a rare dual leech ring that was exactly the same as my old one
that's dirty
Imagine scamming someone who's literally next to you. Lol
There are many variations for scamming using Telekinesis when offering up your Torch or Anni for some other item. You just run halfway, then yoink both items off the ground with Telekinesis. Wands with charges of Telekinesis can let this happen very sneaky-like with a Necro.
Just an example in the opposite (in order to keep smiling after such pain) : i join a multi trade party named "O hide N find", so, for beginners: In my game I offer hide, I need find... What a mystery..! I enter the game and when we are 8 players, the main guy said: "ok, i'll hide myself somewhere in the 5 acts, the first who find me get an Ist rune"... Hahaha it was amazing. My necro (without enigma) loose but a sorc win and get the ist rune. All other get a Pul rune or something as a second reward. Very nice guy and great idea, so fun !! Thx to him.
Damn, played D2 when it came out late 1999 up to 2001
What memories....
I was playing about 12-14 hours a day for almost 2 years non stop, honestly don't think i'll ever do anything with so much commitment! LOL
The chat is spot on 😅
I remember getting scammed by /dnd (enter account name and password) .
Scammer told me I could check my pvp stats by doing so.
Yes exactly. I was looking for this. It's a typical thing to steal a password.
@@golternator333 Yep...I had to learn the hard way lol.
the worst of all the scams i encountered back in the days (and they did the bar trick on me and so on) was this:
i played with a dude for like 2 hours straight. good talk, pulled him a bit, we had nice chats, good diablo, baal and other farm runs - we even shared some of the dropped loot from farming. it was the day i finally got my tal's armor and i was super hyped, helped other players and just enjoyed my laquered plate and the boost it gave me.
after a decent amount of time we played together (surely 3-4 hours) we talked about gear, builds and stuff. i told him how to's on the bliz sorc when he asked, if he might check the dmg boost when wearing my tal's to see, if the item and the bonus it gives would be good for his build.
stupid me gave him the armor and while waiting for him to write sth like: 'dayum, thats super nice' i suddenly read: (...) left our world. Diablo's minions weaken.
i can still feel the panic rush and even today, 15? years later, i'd bitchslap the shit out of his face if i'd see him again!
it took a shitload of time to farm one back. since then i'm kind of paranoid when it comes to friends in game :D
A "friend" I'd been playing with for months wanted to borrow my new Breath of the dying to see what his dps would be, as he was considering making one.
Took it, unfriended me and logged off. That one hurt.
Was this recent or back in the day?
@@BrianCheng24 back in the day, 16 years ago
I would never give anyone I couldn't physically talk offline any of my gear.
Weird to say, but it's good old memories even tho I got scammed myself quite a few times as a kid haha..
I remember trying to join this clan. They said i need to check my leaderboard ranking first. I asked them how, and they said i need to type in /dnd accountname passwordofmyaccount
Once that was done they just whispered me and it returned them a message with my account name and password saying im on the Do Not Disturb mode . lmao
They emptied my account real quick :-)
Shamefully I used to do this to people a lot. I'd change their password and check their accounts for white items. If they used the hacked items I'd steal their legit items and throw their hacked items to the ground and leave the game.
i got scammed a few times with the trade item swap thing, lost my wizspike ring to a normal shitty bow instead of a .08 bugged windforce, in patch 1.09. never got any of the crazier scams though
then my buddy started doing the /dnd acc/pass thing and got about 4-5 people with it.
I remember expansion came out and shael runes leaked into classic. Traded an absurd amount to get this magical rune that added ias to my bow. Then found out it's common af.
One guy scammed me when I tried to make my first grief. I spent so long to get that Lo and Mal rune and he bait and switched a 5 os PB for a 5 os crystal sword. I put grief in a crystal sword and didn't even notice. Started using it and I quickly saw my sword start to break, and that's when I knew.
Thats fucked up lol Who even scams their pb with a fucking crystal sword anyway
I remember trying to Tfer in games and this one time I rejoined with my mule and a low lvl necro was there and had picked everything up... he told me I need to pick a better spot because right outside act 1 was too easy to find. Then he dropped all the stuff he had stolen and told me to "get better gear" and left lol..
I would join "act 1 only" servers (so basically any server with level 5-8 players only and self-mule in act 2 town or even better act 3 town. Act 3 town was so big, if you were fast enough and Bnet didn't temp ban you for re-logging in to quickly it would work out great.
Owned
I never told anyone this, but I got scammed at that first location too. But the trick was when you dropped your item it actually went through the wall onto the other side, meaning you now had to run all the way back to pick it up, where as the other person doesn't have to move at all. Just click and goodbye, your item was gone
I also remember someone trying something similar in act 4, the fireplace near Tyrael. Not as good as the act 2 Atmas one but. Also, there was once this thing people used to do which is dump a load of shitty items out the front of act 1 and try PK you. Then when you went to go grab your body you might accidently pick one of these shitty items up and when you finally collect your real body, they kill you and all your items would drop on the floor. That's how the multiple bodies patch happened
The greatest scam of all was people convincing each other to download the "free bot" that actually just opens the game and drops all of your items the second you run it.
I remember doing and falling for these scams as a kid. One that seemed to work wonders was similar to the tal rasha/rattlecage strat but you used an mephisto’s soulstone instead of an anni lol
The torch torch for torch explination was so bad I cant even. I guess after all these years I can share some secrets.
Get some unsuspecting scrub to agree to a trade, the one part you got right is you cant trade in window. Side note, I would often get both people's anni and torch by telling them " I dont need a 20/20 torch, I need a better anni, I'll give perf torch + crap anni for an average of each. (While not having a horrid anni myself maybe a 12/19/x anni, often after your 20 stat/whatever res torches and 15+/15+ anni's, because "I needed just a few more stats and i was good on resistances")
Fist step is to delay long enough to perm game incase the guy who decided to give you free stuff rage quits.
Then say "my friends know my common game/passwords, (if they are less dense than a rock they will ask for a ng, tell them to make and find a new target, aka leave them waiting unless they rejoin your game, call that one off.) lets go act 4 incase someone joins, since its a long run from any log in point, lets trade by jamella, away from wp. (Easily 3/4 of the time people trust you more from this because it makes sense.)
You goto act 4, I make a very quick pitstop at a pre selected uncommon wp to have (since most people get rushed, uncommon wps were easy, so I drop my stuff and quickly goto act 3 town, maybe a long loading screen? I was usually still faster than most, my dad was an engineer and just finished school for computer drafting, AKA I played on a badass computer back in the day, also internet was a priority) with an oddly high success rate I run up and say you first, to see some goodies drop. Grab and quickly change characters. This is where you (the person giving stuff away) had 2 choices, run to wp and play the lotto and start spamming wps (maybe 3 attempts before I get back) or leave and hope the game poofs, hence the delay to perm game eariler (same as afking in a solo game to self xfer).
I log on new character that has said uncommon wp and grab my originals.
I laugh at your attempt to make a video about a subject you know nothing about, other than probably giving me your items on more than one occasion, you know so little its embarassing.
"I like how he disconnects, it makes it seem so legit" more or less what you said...ctrl clicking cube in a shop = exiting the game with literally no message AKA buying you more time and leaving them confused (reason for trading next to jamella)
Btw I was also 12, some just bloom sooner than others I suppose.
While someone attempted this one on me and I cant claim it as an original, I feel I improved, maybe perfected it. if I wasnt baaling, i was pking, if I wasnt pking I was scamming (only in game, jsp was always clean), but Ive watched all these videos reguarding old scams, its a damn shame none of my originals made it in here, because they made rich in game XD
God I miss the simple times.
The last one happened to me trying to get jalal's. Instead of going to the chest. They closed out the trade window several times showing the jalals, then after the 3-4 time they threw up a diff item and traded. When you think you are getting a good deal, you get a little impatient and just want it to go through.
There used to also be a trade hack, where you literally SAW enigma or something, no red mark or anything, no switching, but when trade was done you received garbage instead
Being a scammer in Diablo 2 back in 2000 prepared me for recognizing scammers in real life when I was an adult.
I played with a guy once, had some kind of good item and he agreed to socket it for me in act 5, I was young and trustful, and funny enough he also said "lag" and then left... :( I can still remember this betrayal despite the fact that it happened ages ago...
The shako one got me. Lost my gull dagger. 😢
lol gull for shako is too good to be true anyways, shako worth more
@@imlost19 naw
@@philipbeasley3652 Lol yes, Shaco is worth way more than Gull dagger
@@Cowboy12346 nah.
The 100% Magic find is just the icing on top, sadly the weapon deals like a toothpick
i used to be an asshole and scam people with the do not disturb feature. i would pretend to have a clan that required a high "diablo network of dueling" (dnd) rating. id tell them to get their rating they needed to type /dnd (account name) (password) and someone from blizzard would whisper them the rating. i would then use /whois (playername) to see their DND message. once i got it i would log into their account. grab their highest toons and clear them of gear. i still feel bad to this day 16 yrs later.
Cutthroat. Think I mightve fallen for this years ago
@@elliottscott8112 RIP dude. Sorry if it was me.
Yeaaaa, i lost my first enigma to that.. like 2 weeks after i'd made it myself.
I stopped and didn't play d2 for months...
@@Chrille168 weird I got so many nigmas using that 🤣 sorry bud.
Wow thats genius. Never saw that one before
I got into a full game of traders/hustlers, and there was this guy who said he could dupe certain items.. people started giving him low budget stuff so he could prove it. Then he actually dropped two of the same items back on the ground, making 12 year old me believe he was actually duping stuff and giving them away to be nice. (we had to show what we had and he would go "ah yes that works") Gave him my raven frost ring (which at the time was my best item) and then he proceeded looting from everyone else in the game before he left and everyone started panicking like headless chickens. I won't forget it.
I dunno if this one was common, but I got scammed by a "join our guild," scam, a trap assassin sets a bunch of traps outside town and asks you to drop all your gear for the clan tryout, and then hostiles and kills you. Another one was getting someone to click a link to "join a trade forum," but instead it's a bot that opens d2 and drops all your gear on the ground. It's kinda funny that someone took the time to program that
I remember this one: teleport dupe scam. Scammer convinced you he can dupe (in my case he was showing me loads of 100 poison sc, like 20 or 30 of them). In act 1 camp is a good spot to do this. The scammer is outside the camp, the other is inside. Scammer convinces the person inside to drop the Item that he wants duped. Now the scammer simpy teleports in the camp (yes this was possible) and picks it up quickly. The scammer usually did not use soso as it would be too obvious. They had like a pala with enigma to telport... or low lvl chars with Naj's staff. I was so confused that i could not react quickly enough. Good old D2 times.
Doesn’t beat the time I played with a person for like 2 years and we had trust we helped mule High runes and rare stuff all the time! One day i started a fresh account because i finally had the wealth to build my first uber paladin. I created an account and joined game just for him to tell me sorry and that was the last i seen. He and his friend wiped me out completely. Cried for weeks and never went back to D2 😂😭. That was like 6 years of loot.
There was a website that people would ask you to go to outside of the game window and when you opened it while the game was still running , it reopened your game ,dropped all you gear and made the character leave the game.
Yep I saw this one. They said it was a “list of items” you had to open to say which free item you wanted
My first hard lesson learned was downloading a "Dupe program" Lost all my gear and was a lesson learned lol.
Was it the program that you would lose control of your mouse and it would auto-click and drop all your gear and the only way to stop it was alt+ctrl+F4? That got me lucky the server was still up when I logged back in...I am just glad I got all this scam sh-t out of my system when I was really new to the game...by the time I had high gear I was over it.
@@purplecurious9568 yes
I remember I got scammed once and my character popped and dropped all their gear and the person who scammed me made fun of me for how bad my stuff was.
I used to scam in middle school.
One was to trade for an anni or torch. I'd create a game and look for an Act 1 map that had a gate. I would put my A2 Merc on the outside, geared out with might aura (sometimes would use a pally to give fanta as well) at this point people knew all the scams and grabbing gear through walls etc. They would be super hesitant, especially if they thought I wanted to be on the outside, because I could just teleport into town. But they were more willing to attempt to scam me when I told them I want them outside. I'd get them to drop their item/or torch/anni and then all ask them a question. And as they typing I'll hostile when Merc was near them. The Merc kills them and I run out and grab the gear and leave.
Another thing I'd do to scam whole accounts was to tell the global chat that I was quitting the game and offer my free account. When someone replied, I'd ask what they wanted me to change the password to so they can have it. And there were times that the password they told me to change it to was their actual password. I'd drop all their gear in a friends game. And that was that.
@@timgriffith9333 I was a legit HC PK as well. It's what made the game fun.
@@timgriffith9333 Diablo 2 was the best game because of hardcore, chance to find gear being so low (I've played for 20 years and have still never found a grandfather/windforce/jah rune,) and the scamming, and PK. It was real life. No sugar coating
Not really a scam but I used to drop trade my Anni for an armor or weapon that’s metal. I would wear the metalgrid amulet so they won’t suspect the iron golem summon then I would turn their runewords to iron golem
That's so dirty
@@Chonus good ole days
So in duel games, sometimes a really lame guy was camping the entrance to blood moor, went afk after doing all sorts of BM stuff. I'd grab a smiter and check if that person was close enough to the edge to attack him without being able to hurt him. The durability of his gear would drop quite fast and you could see the gear 'disappear' as it became broken. It would require tons of gold to repair all that top tier stuff
or when people wanted to sell a torch for gold, but as soon as you dropped your gold they'd just use telekinesis to grab the money lel
actually theres a scammer in non ladder who gives meph stone instead of 17 20 anni, usually named ProudHero, if u can persecute him, he will probably then create the game "drop hr please", go inside again and persecute maybe with other people who comes in, with no mercy, people will probably give hr to u too
I lived in a household with a paranoid parent so we didn't have internet. I only played on single player, no battlenet. So I would say I was fortunate I didn't ever deal with this but then again... no battlenet and never playing with a living soul ever. Also, no internet meant nothing to assist me to learn how to properly spec, what runewords even were (I just put them in colored gear for the base stats), what uniques were in the game, etc. I haven't played since then. D2R is going to be nostalgic but also like a new game to me.
Got a whisper one night in a private game from a random name: "Guess who?" I had been playing mostly solo, and had kinda convinced one friend of mine to play again, so my only guess was him. I go, "Chuck?". And he goes "haha, what's up man?" and we chat a little, and he asks for PW to my game. Once he joins, he asks if I've found anything cool, and I had just found Treks, and he asked to see them. Thinking it was my buddy, I dropped them on the ground, and he picked them up and left the game. Needless to say, was not Chuck. I felt so dumb.
What about the file that "when downloaded helps you dupe" but actually makes you start dropping all of your equipped gear? I got hit by that one around 2006
Ouu I remember that one. It was a script that basically dropped all your gear and locked your keyboard keys. Only way to save yourself was to hit the power switch and hope that the damage wasn't too bad.
Damn I forgot about this
Oh yeah, that Software hit me hart xD
In addition to the "nk17" scam there was actually a much easier way to "corpse pop" someone, which is basically what you're doing in a roundabout way. The way I saw corpse pops happen most often is someone would kill you in a duel, then while you were running back to your corpse they throw a bunch of random items on your body. When you went to click on your body you would equip any item you clicked on and then you would click your corpse. If you picked up say a gray short sword all your gear except your weapon would be equipped. Then you just kill the poor SOB and all equipped items would drop, which was most of their gear.
I betrayed a 'friend' when muling items for them. Close to a year later a friend who I had played with for over 6 months did the same to me. It was the same guy, He had made a new account and played the long game on me to get revenge. He got some of his items back but also much more. I gave him the GG and WP.
Simpliest scam : open trade window, count to 1, close it. Usually this is around the time frame when the person drags the item to the window, and since you close it - they drop it on the floor, for u to have a chance and pick it up
You missin soooo many types of scams. There were almost unlimited types of scams in D2 back in the day. The A1 trust wall, the friending someone to get the game names they join to watch for mule games. The "helping someone mule" then having one of your friends come in and grab everything and claim you don't know the scammer etc. It was a wild west.
Yeah I was going to comment saying hit me up if you wanted to know more old school scam tecks lol. The act 5 wall was bugged. Only the person on one specific side of the wall could collect item through the wall without going around. Lol so many old scams
Oh man you forgot the best one.
Convince someone that you're giving up diablo for awhile and you need someone to hold onto your gear because you won't have time to keep logging in to keep your account active. Tell them that you don't have any other friends and that they can hold onto your gear for you but only if they earn your trust first. Go outside of town and position yourself far down the wall. Have the other person in town on the other side of the wall and then drop most of your gear on the ground showing them that you "trust" them (knowing your gear is perfectly safe because you can't teleport over that wall from inside town).
After a few seconds, pick your gear back up and switch sides with the person so that now you are in town and the wall is separating you again. Tell them to drop some of their gear and after their turn they will have earned your trust and they can pick it back up. After they remove their gear hostile them and watch your carefully positioned mercenary one-shot them while you are in town and your merc is out there with them (you dropping your gear first was just a distraction to get your merc outside).
Now that they are dead, you will easily be able to outrun them to their gear outside of town and pick it up for yourself.
My bro got scammed so bad he quit the game.
essentially you create a game saying, "I'm quitting, giving away gear" people flock to your game.
you open up the trade window and say, "Hey, I'm giving this account away, what do you want me to change the password to?"
This is where my brother screws up, he gives the guy HIS PASSWORD to his current account, i guess it would be convenient right?
the guy logs out, and into my brothers account, and my brother is logged out, trying to log into the new account he is going to receive
He pretty much got emptied out, and it wasn't even
There was a better variant of the pvp corpse popping scam that was more reliable. The idea was to drop a bunch of trash items on top of a hostile player's corpse after killing them. In order to get their body back, they'd have to pick up the items first. But if their inventory became too full to pick up all their gear, they'd only be able to equip some of the items from their corpse and the body would remain on the ground.
At that point you'd kill them again, and whatever items were equipped at the time would drop to the ground. So if you wanted their weapon, you'd drop a bunch of armor on their body. If you wanted their armor, you'd drop a bunch of weapons on the ground. If the victim wasn't holding alt to check for items on top of their body as they ran back to grab their corpse, there was a good chance you'd be able to pop them.
i remember a scam where you had to have completly full inventory or somthing, then dying or picking up your corpse or somthing and that made you drop all your items.
yeah you had to die, grab some crap items from the vendor to fill all you slots then fill you inventory with potions, i never tried to do this to someone, but someone tried to do it to me and i just wasted his time, like man its not working whats going on
If I remember correctly, 1.10 was in 2003 (synergies and the big runewords like Enigma) and torches came much later in 2005.
Forgive the messy commentary, It was a single take with no script; went completely off memory when it came to these scams. 😅
yea the torch one was stupid af
2:35 That is a legitimate place to drop trade but you are suppose to drop items in the back of the bar or in the kitchen not in the front. Thank for the video about the "good old days" of D2, I actually experienced all of these. I started playing the game during the 1.09 patch days. When I was really new I got tricked into the corpse drop but I didn't have anything they wanted so they just laughed at my gear and left. I use to always "mule" my gear in the bar too, I was a kid and only had one computer so I would join a server with "act 1 only" players and mule my gear in act 2 or act 3 then leave the game.
i remember i used to troll scammers by wasting their time pretending im stupid with full inventory and stuff :D one guys was at it trying to make duping work on my op sorc for over an hour and it was actually me who got bored and called him out :D
😂😂😂
I remember getting scammed for a legit 40/15 jewel i found for what i thought was maybe a Tyrael's Might. It was a Corpsemourne, yeah i was a total noob and didn't realise the value of such a jewel, and also that 95% of unid sacred armours are Templar's Might, and didn't check to see that he switched it to an ornate plate, it still hurts coz i have never even owned another 40/15.
I felt that
I hope D2R makes torches/charms tradeable items so we can trade them like normal items instead of the drop on the ground stuff.
people can say what they want but i either get annis or torches by one of two ways: build a smiter and run Ubers or pull out my wallet....the scams just got me to that point in D2...sorry not sorry about buying certain items
@@r6-AgentScorpionParkerKRider23 bet you're the first to complain when a game is pay2win though 😂
@@andrespaz989 I just bought a stash(88 slots) of HRs on D2 and I'm gonna sell them to Charsi....loser lmfao maybe Gheed too
1.11b already fixed the trade window problem for Torches and Annis. 1.11b was released in 2005, come back and play bro you see what you been missing.
@@purplecurious9568 what u mean by fixed the problem? U definitely can’t trade torch for torch I just tried a couple days ago with my brother
I was a victim of the old tals - rattlecage switcheroo back in the day. It was devastating lol
the only one i fell for...it's what prompted me to say "i'm buying my torches and annis and i don't care what anyone says."...no regrets and no scams after that...someone wants to trade torch or anni i say not a chance to this day..if we can't trade screen it find someone else to trade with
me too man, me too. :( it sucked. This was 1.09 and we used sojs as currency. I lost 3 of em or so on a tal rasha armor scam. It didn't piss me off too bad, as far as losing my items because i had hundreds of SOJS, but it pissed me off that now i didn't trust anyone and I treated everyone i traded with like a potential scammer from that point on, which sucked, cuz up until that point I had positive experiences trading.
That's why the messaging system was invented in D2. You could check their account name (not character name) on the console screen when they leave the server, add it to your friends list [/f list] and it would tell you what character they were using and the server name (if they were in a game)....so you could stalk them forever. [Ignore] command only lasted until you logged out of Bnet but once they logged back you could whisper them as long as you didn't get muted for spamming. [yeah, I was a D2 victim as well...]
@@johnnyblack3676 Yeah, once you start trading high level gear you couldn't trust anyone...it was tough back then.
In battle net, I pretended to start a community event where you can gather diamonds and receive prizes. the event was called "diablo needs diamonds" or short "dnd". To register for the event you had to type /dnd followed by your log in information. Some people did not know that this was the "do not disturb" comment and the message was shown to anybody who whispered them. Got some poor fellas accounts through this method. FeelsBadMan
The "Unid SoJ" was my favourite.
Two scams I fell victim to. One has been mentioned a couple times below, which was there was a drop hack program that I was tricked into running which resized my game window, opened my inventory, dead reckoning dragged all of my worn items out of my inventory, dropped them on the ground, and exited the game. I do not even know why someone bothered to scam me with this as my gear was pretty much complete trash. Easy lesson learned. The other scam used to be in Act 2. You would drop an item and someone else would drop an item near the edge of town, but then they would teleport into town right on top of you and steal your item. I can't remember losing anything significant as I never had anything significant to lose. All my godly items I had were handed to me by hackers or people who bought their gear.
Back when I was a kid, I didn't know about "spoofing." I got scammed out of some runes somehow - they disappeared after I logged out.
I remember I used to play on Asia realm and I asked a Korean if I could try out his grief to test the damage and dropped my oath on the ground to win trust, and then he dropped grief and I didn't give it back and suddenly every Korean on the server was following me into every public game I joined to host me (was on hardcore mode) in the end I tried to fight a wind druid with my ww barbarian and he killed me along with the grief lmao rip
Back then you couldn’t put your torches in trade. So you had to trust people had the torch they said they had. Everyone wanted sorc or paladin torches so we would drop trade at the small wall near Akara. Everyone would scam each other.
My brother used to run a scam in D2 back in the day. He would fully hi-jack peoples accounts. He must have been 10 years old. He would join a server and ask people what there dungeon rank was. Most people did not know what this was so he would advise them if you log into the DnD system it would tell you your dungeon rank. "just type /DnD username password" while he continued the conversation to try and help them trouble shoot why they weren't logging in the DND(do not disturb) notification would tell him there message which was there username and password. Then he would logout, login as them which would disconnect them and change there password.
As of today there is somebody offering an anni charm for 15 ears, I'm sure you can guess what he's doing lol.
Shiet no idea :D pkz explain
Regarding wanting to move items between characters. Back in the day, if you didn’t have friends online, you’d have to drop your items in a opened game. Of course you wouldn’t want everybody to leave the game, thus closing the game and you would lose everything. Therefore, ppl would join popular, easily identifiable games like “drop and leave.” Sometimes people would gear up the assassin with all speed increasing items. They would max out the skill that increases the speed (forget name). You would join and go to an act town that you could hide items in. Usually act 2, on an outer dock. You would leave and come back with the other character. The assassin would see what act you go to by hovering the way point. Then they would catch up to you, out speed you, and get to your gear. Happened once. Around 2002. Lost a 250 psn small charm. Will never forget. Character’s name was Of mice and men.
dont recall what it was but you get the guy to put the item in the trade window to get them to think you could duplicate it, and you had them type in 3 long lines of code after you type it - basically, once they did the last one it made the game hit the check mark to trade, so you could accept it. then they timed out, so once they timed out, your buddy joins the game, you give them the item and then you never have to return to that account again. fun times back then
Someone got me with the good ole "hit shift + F4" saying it would dupe the items I drop on the ground. Someone also definitely got me with the quick item swap.
It's Alt+F4, not Shift
Got scammed only one time. So I needed a low torch. Since you couldn't trade it through the trade window we agreed to use this going-around-some-random-wall method. It was a crappy necro torch or something with a very low value and this guy said he will trade it for like 5-800k gold. It was pretty obvious like... who the hell would trade a torch for gold? But it was a cheap torch and I was like well, I'm almost sure I will get scammed, but I don't know how and it's just some gold, so I dropped it on the floor. What I did not know is you can simply pick up gold with telekinesis even in town. He even used a barb or something and used some item with telekinesis charges. I wasn't even mad.
I got scammed with the torch way back. But I was able to find his hidden torch after he was rejoining and I took his torch lol
Used to spend most of my time in Act 1 PvP games. My favorite thing to do to unsuspecting players was to fight them and kill them, then throw a ton of random items on the ground around their corpse. When they would come back to their corpse they would accidentally panic click and pick up a couple of the items and then finally click their corpse. But since the items would go on their player when they picked up their corpse their gear would go into their inventory and fill it up, thus leaving their old corpse on the ground.
Once they did that if you killed them again, everything they were carrying would drop on the ground because you were not allowed to have two corpses with loot on them. Got lots and lots of high end loot over the years with that method.
I remember at one point early on when you died in pvp people would throw down trash items around your corpse so you would accidentally pick one up and auto equip it, this would keep one item on your original corpse and if they killed you before you fixed it and got all your gear back, your entire set of gear popped onto the ground. I also remember an infamous bug where people could simply open a town portal and throw an oil potion through it and it would crash either your game or the server.. I think it had to happen on your screen to get you, at least at one point. I vividly remember naked barbarians in particular just camping the town entrance with a town portal and an oil potion in their hand, just waiting for someone to come close enough.. rarely they would get killed before they succeeded and then a battle of camping the town entrance would begin again in a different way.. if the naked barb could get out there to throw a potion again or not.. I remember one time the barb trying to crash the server got camped at the entrance by a frozen orb sorceress so the barb took the wp to the cold plains and tried to long distance crash them from behind. It was a hellish game in the early days.
There's a scam where (if I was the scammer) i'd partyup to allow seeing where i was in the map, go far far away, then: 1. Drop the item you want to dupe 2. hit Alt+F1, then F2 and so on till F10. Alt F4 would close the program and it would let you go grab the item.
I recall being told that I could dupe items if I visted a website. Instructed to put all my items on my character, go to the website. Click on the website link with Diablo 2 open. It would run a script I guess which threw all my items on the floor, exited the game and back to desktop.
Glad it was with Assassin build rather than my bank account, much wiser these days.
Thanks Diablo 2 for prepping me for life *thumbs up*
Lost my lv 94 pally to a scam. This was in HC in a trade game. Player traded me near exit of town in act 1. While in the trade window another player joined, hostiled, and killed me before I even knew what happened.
The best scam was the dnd rank scam. /dnd put up an away message when people whispered you. So you'd tell the victim to type /dnd then their account name and password to get their "did not die" ranking, whisper them to get their account name and password, then log into their account and take every item they had. Nothing like phishing people as an 11 year old in 2003.
I got scammed once for a Buriza. It was a stupid scam, and I'm not sure how I fell for it. It was basically multiple players (friends of scammer) confirming that the scammer could dupe items. It was like 17-18 years ago so I can't remember the specifics but somehow they showed 2 of the exact same items with the same stats to me and at least 2 people showed me that which made me believe that the scammer could actually dupe the item lol.
I got scammed by the rattle cage swap. I also got scammed by an amazon that had an amulet with teleport charges before I knew that was a thing. The only person I ever scammed was someone who I knew was a scammer, not that it makes it right, but that was my rationale.
I got scammed back in the day with rings. Exit trade screen and show a ring that looks the same but is different
take this down ffs, you are alerting the cattle
Your first scam, you just had people fill their inventory with potions, then say if you die in pvp and disconnect and reconnect really fast, it would cause lag with the server, and wouldn't save your character, so it should dupe. This was in the era where everyone was duping SOJs. Pick up their items and leave before they reconnect. This is how I got scammed, but I was also 10 years old and all they got off me were shitty yellows. But I learned fast that nobody tells you the truth online. :P
There was a scam to join guilds where you go to a certain page and click the link and it causes you to drop all your gear and disconnect you while your in a game. I was so wealthy from this scam.