User blog:Secretninjagirl1/Tips for when you go to trust giveaways

Hey guys! I wanted to talk to you guys about trust trade at giveaways. Now I know what you're thinking: ''Oh ho. Here we go again. Another person telling us how to NOT get scammed. I already know.'' But clearly, trust trade is still something that is working on people. So I thought that I should share some tips on what you SHOULD and SHOULD NOT do while you're at trust giveaways.

What you SHOULD NOT DO:

1. Just because somebody got their items back after they traded them DOES NOT mean that it is not a scam. The person hosting the giveaway is only trying to gain their trust/is waiting to get better items. DO NOT trust the person with your items just because someone traded the scammer and got their stuff back.

2. DO NOT trust them with your items PERIOD. I don't care if you're DESPERATE for the item that they are suppsedly giving away. It's not worth the risk of getting scammed.

3. If it is something where you are suppose to gift a certain amount of items to win, DON'T DO IT!!! It's not exactly trust trade, but it's still risky and unsafe!

4. I made this mistake many times. But if you know it's a scam, DO NOT yell at the scammer snd everyone around you that it is a scam. As this won't help anything, and the scammer may cause problems for you. Once I told everyone that a giveaway was a scam, and the scammer got mad at me and told everyone that I scammed her black long.

What you SHOULD do:

1. Block and report them. I undertsand that it doesn't ban them, but it takes away their privillages to trade. And I know that it's their not their main account getting their trade suspended, but AJHQ may be able to tell whose backup account it is.

2. You should encourage people not to do it. Just don't yell at everyone or the scammer because of what I said in rule #4 on the things to NOT do. And it may be better to encourage people not to do it by sending them a jamagram or sending a message at their wall. But if their message wall and jamagrams are blocked and they decide to do it, that's their fault if they got scammed.

Thanks for reading my blog! I hope it helped. :) Remember not to do trust and stay safe!

Jam on! :)