Scam Warning

**Karant** · 05-25-2004, 04:45 AM

I have been recently playing on Open Battle.net and I found out that there was a group of characters with random names going around saying they are Beta Testing for a new hacking program called "Star Hack". They say that Star Hack is the best tool ever, what they do is they bring you into a private game which they tell you about in random channels. In the game they will demand for you to drop your best item, though they will tell you that they are strictly ordered from star hack not to pick up the item. They say that once you have dropped the item they will trigger the hacking process which will morph your item into one of the best. Though what they do, is they take your items. Be aware of these scammers.

**etanol** · 05-25-2004, 04:59 AM

I wonder why they are stealing items in open.

Anyway, that's not as bad as those bomb charms.

**Karant** · 05-25-2004, 05:03 AM

My bud has also seen them in Closed to, USEAST

**Xerk** · 05-25-2004, 06:00 AM

On open? You can just create a lvl 99 character with the best items ever with an editor...

**Karant** · 05-25-2004, 06:04 AM

not if your legit

**Kablooie** · 05-25-2004, 06:21 AM

Why do you play open BNet legit? I don't see the advantage over realm play.

**Karant** · 05-25-2004, 11:09 AM

dont ask me, im just a dumb victim

**Keato** · 05-25-2004, 11:12 AM

Lol, I guess so..

**Zyclo** · 05-26-2004, 09:38 AM

ok...... why would u actully drop ur item?

sum peps are dumbass's

**Kablooie** · 05-26-2004, 09:40 AM

Yeah...sometimes I think if you get scammed by some of these tricks, you deserve to have your items taken from you.

**SecondClassCit** · 05-26-2004, 01:53 PM

Scams can be nasty... but you fell for one of the less thoughtful ones.. The worse scam i've ever had was that I was tradeing my anni and me and this guy went to a secure area... then when he dropped his items and I dropped my anni.. D2 froze up and closed.. he made it away with my anni.. stupid hackers.. lol.... Atleast you cant pop anymore.. so many newbs use to fall for that stuff LOL

**Manasonic** · 05-26-2004, 03:39 PM

The bit about "you can't pop anymore".....yes you can, just not using the pvp out-of-town methods. "Popping" items takes place once in a while. A good thing is that I don't "pop" people, and I do know how to do it, but I won't tell :P

**~~\/iNcEnT~~** · 05-26-2004, 03:40 PM

that scam is stupid...

**Xerk** · 05-28-2004, 12:43 AM

Playing open legit is like asking to go to prison. Its dumb. If you're going to play legit go play closed ladder, much better. Buuuuuuut, if you want, thre is a utility out there where if you're the game creator on open, it will delete all hacked items off other players ^ ^.

**._| 3 Vv |3** · 05-28-2004, 02:32 AM

lol i'm suprised the legit players haven't taken over open w/that lmao sounds fun :) like bone necro pvp'ers in hc lol :) and i have to agree, if you take sum1's word for it, drop your best item, and expect sum1 standing there not to do anything, you deserve to lose your items

**Poopsicles** · 05-28-2004, 12:07 PM

:) i love dropping Enigmas on open bnet. ppl go wow thx. LOL. hmm, i got scammed once with the atma's hut scam lol, back in nub days. Atleast it was a crappy lvl 13 bow lol instead of an enigma or sumthing like that..

**Dr.PepperRules** · 05-30-2004, 05:13 PM

Originally Posted by etanol

I wonder why they are stealing items in open.

Anyway, that's not as bad as those bomb charms.

Wat exactly is this bomb charm??? lol sounds funny

**etanol** · 05-30-2004, 05:39 PM

Originally Posted by Dr.PepperRules

Wat exactly is this bomb charm??? lol sounds funny

They are hex edited and contain illegal characters (for example ASCII), so once you pick one up, you can't use your character anymore.

And you can't remove them with character editors, you need to use hex editor.

**etanol** · 05-30-2004, 10:42 PM

Popping people is funny.

**Juke** · 05-31-2004, 07:13 PM

How TO pop in 110:
Takes 2 PPL
Full Inv up, Go out side of town, another pseron drops a iteam on ground, player with full inv Hits "I" to oipen inv pics up iteam so it is floating, other player kills him. Then
He kills him 15 times again, Then the player with full inv pics up His mane Body with 15 bodys on grond and he gets killed again, OOPS he poped. This is caused buy to many bodys with Full inv player Cna't pic up the rest of his body
he dropes all the iteams he could pic up,