Scamming

> "**Attempts at defrauding another player by gaining their trust-also called "scamming"-is absolutely not tolerated. This includes unfair trades, swapping account information, or any other tricks to fool another player in to giving up their items in exchange for nothing."- AJHQ'S Animal Jam rules.**
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Scamming is strictly prohibited in Animal Jam and it can lead to a suspension for three days or more if caught by another user or AJHQ in these matters. Scamming means to steal items from other players, and it can happen in many ways.

## Types of scams

### Membership Scam

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This is when you trade for membership with your items. This involves having to give your password, and sometimes you will not get the membership at all. Often jammers will wander throughout lands with a rare item, such as a black long spiked collar and will be asking for a membership code, and then will claiming they will gift the item in return. If any accounts are caught exchanging membership for in-game items or are in kahoots with this, the account will be terminated.

### Gifting Scam

This is when a jammer promises to gift an item to you if you gift them an item. This can happen at gifting parties. Another varient of this scam includes a jammer asking another jammer to trade them a really good item, for their bad item, often a necklace or a store-bought item and they will gift them a really rare item in return. This is almost always a scam. If you find a jammer doing this, block them and leave.

### Buddy Scam

Two buddies are in the same area. One has a list filled with many rare items, and wants it for an uncommon non-rare item. The other buddy has the wanted item, and jammers trade the other buddy for the item to get the first jammer's list. This act may be done with a main account and a spare account. The other jammers will be tricked into thinking that the items is very rare and worth what that said item is.

### Troll Trade

You will give someone an over trade and decline if they accept. This is not necessarily a scam in this context, but it may become very irritating most jammers. This occurs when another jammer trades, often very good items for a decent item. Such as a spiked collar or a diamond shop pet. The person accepts and then declines. This type of trade is often repeated multiple times until the person gets annoyed and leaves.

### Trust Trading

A jammer will have a bad item on trade and ask the other player to trade them their good items in return. The player will proceed to trade their good items for their bad item, such as a store-bought item. After the scammer accepts the trade they will lock the den. Normally, the account will have Jam-a-grams, buddy requests and their Jammer Wall turned off.

### Necklace To Spike

You will trade a necklace to a spike and you need to scam tons of users to get a spike. Don't recommend if you want to get scammed.

### Selling Item Scam

You sell items on Ebay, Trade Me eg. and someone pays you real life money for it and you don't give them the items. On occasion, a good, rare item would be listed for a very cheap price, the other person will purchase the item and not receive anything in return. This is also against the Animal Jam Rules and will result in a termination of the account.

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