New Scam? Maybe not.. Almost fell for it

Ok I have a GB and I needed change for it but i don't want to get the 49c change, i want the full 50c. and I know you can't find many people who would do that, they want to save their 1c. Well I went in to this room where a guy said he was giving change for a GB. So I started the trade and put in my GB and he put in 2 sacks and then 10 bronze. I clicked accept because he wouldn't click it first and then right before he clicked accept he took out a sack really fast and clicked accept. I counted over the money again like I always do to make sure I'm getting the right change and noticed the little 2 beside the sack was gone. So I canceled trade and the guy asked me why? I told him because he took away sack. He said no he didn't and traded me again doing the same thing. I canceled and told him no I wasn't stupid and he should put the sack back in. He immediately banned me.

I don't know if this is new or not, but the first time he did it I nearly fell for it. And he got mad at me for not being dumb enough to fall for it. Just thought I would warn you guys in case you didn't know, because I didn't, but I do now.

That's not new and I experience that like daily lol.
Nice that you didnt fall for it.

Quite an old scam, existed ever since habbo changed the rules of the trading box. Very annoying, people try to do it to me very regularly. Fell for it once when i was tired at night, lost 50c but at least i learned my lesson from it.

Glad to see you didn't fall for it though :)

Yeah its an old one, done with furni and coins alike.

Its taken over from the quick trade/swap item scam of the old once click 6 box for trading.

Well spotted! People do need to take more care when trading when they are checking over items etc. I am glad to see that you didn't fall for this! Thanks for making others aware :)

It's an old one yeah, quite smart tbh tho ^_^

Habbo should have something set up so if you're trading coins, it warns you if you're trading less coins than you're getting.

Quite old, happend to me! But I found out.

Is quite an old scam, though some noobs try doing a throne with a red pod? lmao.

This is quite a common scam now, I personally noticed an increase in these since the merge. Anyway, at least you noticed in time and in future, always double check the trade before you confirm. That's why they introduced the need to confirm a trade :D.

I have never had many coins before I actually had a job, because now I can buy my own, so I have never really gotten change before. I think that's why I never noticed it. So I know if I've been playing for this long and haven't noticed it maybe somebody else hasn't either.

I am so glad I didn't fall for it though, because I only buy coins about once a month, that would have been a lot taken out.

Yeah it's better that you learnt from it by spotting it,
unfortunately I learnt this by losing out on 20c ):
I was just wondering if anyone knows if it's reportable?

Yeah it's quite an old trick and is extremely annoying if your the person which has been scammed. This also happened to me once late at night when I wasn't concentrating and I lost 50 credits because of it. I certainly learnt my lesson from it though. A few other people I know have fallen for this trick before aswell, very sneaky!

Ever since we merged I can't seem the sell and a single item without this happening.

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Yeah it's better that you learnt from it by spotting it,
unfortunately I learnt this by losing out on 20c ):
I was just wondering if anyone knows if it's reportable?

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Nah, unfortunately it's not reportable, i've tried. It should be though, wouldn't take much effort on a mods part to check back a few secs in logs and see a scam occured. Again we return to the problem of lazy mods.