Hi all, I was scammed yesterday and inexperienced me fell for it… The situation: I wanted to buy PLEX and got an offer from a aliance mate. The contract was done via an alt and it was PLEX in a can (this is where alarms should have gone of but i did not recognize it). Payed the contract but no PLE…

Is anything targeting CCP an expoliod and something between players always fair play?

See https://support.eveonline.com/hc/en-us/articles/204873262-Known-Declared-Exploits

Ingame scams are allowed. Interesting scam, using a can in an abandoned citadel. I wonder if they did get the loot or whether it was blown up. Anyway, next time someone tries to trade you plex in a shady place like a can in an unknown structure - don’t take it.

[image] Gerard_Amatin: Anyway, next time someone tries to trade you plex in a shady place like a can in an unknown structure - don’t take it. So, use cans at a known structures like Jita Trade Hub?

[image] Zer0_C00l_Supreem: Because the lagg time is not mentioned anywhere to my recolection It is mentioned right there in the personal assets screen: [delayed]

No idea if you can verify the contents of a can in a contract, but at least you know Jita 4-4 won’t blow up and get looted any time soon.

You can force it to update by changing session, such as undock and redock or jump system.

Sure. Doesn’t change the fact that an upper bound is explicitly mentioned in-game, contrary to OP’s recollection.

As Gerard said, in game scams are allowed, with a few exceptions. For example, you can’t scam newbros in rookie systems, can conduct any scams around Plex for good, can’t ask players to buy plex with cash as part of the scam (but can scam them for plex that they had already bought), and can’t scam …

What is considered an exploid?

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