Scam

In ROBLOX, a scam typically refers to an operation in which one or more ROBLOX players maliciously attempt to defraud others out of their virtual currency, items, or even accounts by promising things such as other items, free Builder's Club, or other various benefits, possibly in an attempt to gather information to use against the player.

Chainmail
This type of scam is a simple, harmless type of scam in which a player starts a chain of messages, with a message containing the promise of some sort of benefit, in exchange for copying and pasting the message on a certain number of other pages. Variations may apply, including the types of pages which can be posted on, and the amount of pages to be posted on. An example would be: I found a way to get 500 ROBUX! Simply copy this message and paste it on 10 hats, then press f5!

Password Scams
This type of scam is a derivative of the "chainmail" scam in which a player will ask another player for their username and password in exchange for the promise of various benefits, usually resulting in having the scammer take control of the other player's account and steal their tickets, robux, gear, hats, and places. An example message would look like so: builderman left a bug while testing the ROBLOX Currency system! You see,    the ROBLOX moderators had a special email that they would send their username and password to, so that they could get free money! So if you want to get  free money, send your username and password to freerobux@yahoo.com!

Trade Scams (LMaD)
Trade scams are increasingly popular acts in which one user will promise to trade an item to another user. Trading is a relatively dangerous affair, as not only does one run the risk of very easily losing their item to a user with malicious intent, they also have a chance of losing the item completely if the item is sniped; or bought up by a user constantly refreshing an item's page to find the best deals, and often traders trading items. Because of this, trading items is a rule-breaking offense. This is basically when both the victim and the scammer appear to want to trade items at the same time for a low price - as such, the victim may give whatever he owes to the scammer, however the scammer will not offer whatever he was originally offering back. This is much of a problem though anymore, as the Trade System or "TS" has been published for safely trading limited hats, gear, and faces.

Self Portrait Scams
Self portrait scamming is yet another relatively common scam in which one user, generally advertising their services, promises to draw another user for a fixed fee of either ROBUX or Tickets. Often, these users will simply find high quality artwork or artwork of other ROBLOX users and claim it as their own, especially if they can find a ROBLOX user whose character's appearance is similar to it. After being paid the specified amount of ROBUX or Tickets, they will refuse to draw the victim's character, thus resulting in the loss of ROBUX or Tickets.

Administrative/'VIP' Shirt Scams
Administrative shirt scams are arguably a practice that has been ongoing since items have first been sold. Administrative scams tend to be disguised as 'official shirts' stating that 'The owner of [ game ] allowed me to do this. This shirt gives you balefire, invincibility, and more!' to lure a user into buying them. Before you buy an admin/VIP shirt, you should check with the owner of the cited game so as to not accidentally by a "fake" shirt which has no effect in the actual game.



Survey Scams
Quite a few users throughout ROBLOX's history have created fake "surveys" in which they will slowly but surely scam a player out of their account information, for example through offering a survey on the forum which is promised to give the victim 10 ROBUX at the end, and perhaps, through the survey, harvesting information from the user such as the user's username and password. Many scams of this type involve survey sites which send the survey information back to the scammer's email, possibly leading to the loss of the account by the victim.



Lower-Trade Scams
In this kind of scam, a user offers an amount of money for a certain item worth more than the amount of money given. Please note, however, that this type of scam is uncommon, and if used, almost never works. It is generally impossible to even put a Limited Item up on sale for something lower than the Average Price.

Example: I will trade you 500 ROBUX in exchange for your Sparkle Time Fedora.

Application Scams
A somewhat uncommon form of scam due to the effort required and sometimes small payout, these scams tend to promise to be 'hack programs', and initially ask for your username or password in startup. In reality, these use a particularily popular piece of code which send your information to an e-mail address of choice, where your account will be in the hands of a scammer.

Ditching
An uncommon scam due to the need of a special or rare item, these scams start out as a t-shirt - scammers post a link to the t-shirt everywhere along with a message telling the victim that the scammer will give a special item to them if they buy the t-shirt. These t-shirts usually sell for 100-10,000 TIX. After the PMing the scammer won't post a reply, and of course, will not give the victim the item

Porn Scams
A rare type of scamming, in which the user would put in a link that looks like a ROBLOX link, but instead of going to the desired destination, leads the user to a porn site, often filled to the brim with viruses or other malicious content. This type of scam is extremely popular on the "Let's Make A Deal" forums, and is usually performed by alternate accounts. Abusing this scam may cause termination of the scammer's accont.

'.RS' Scam
A very rare, yet very successful 'scam' is the .RS Scam (.ROBLOSECURITY Scam)

In this scam you would convince the victim user to download google chrome and install a cookie-viewing extension, lead them to copy their '.ROBLOSECURITY' cookie and give it to you.

Which you would replace with yours, then you could access the victims account without any problems, and even change their password and steal their Limited items/Robux/Tickets.

This was mostly done by LMaDers (Let's Make a Deal forumers) to common 'newbs' with good limiteds.

When this was barely known in LMaD, It had been used on many LMaDers and over 300k worth of Robux was stolen.

This can also be seen as a 'hack' as you do enter the victims account and have access to his personal messages, friend requests and group administrations (If victim is owner of group or admin)

Avoiding Scams

 * When buying shirts, make sure that the shirt that you are purchasing isn't deleted. If it is, it has generally been deleted due to its purpose and intent being of a malicious nature.
 * If nobody has purchased such a shirt, and you believe that this shirt may be real, wait until a few users purchase it, and give it some time to see if they have reported it or not.
 * While buying a VIP shirt, check to see if the creator of the place has actually condoned the selling of this shirt.
 * If the place comments are not disabled, such usually being a sign of a scam, read them to see if any other users say the place not legitimate. Note, though, that the scammer may have made alternative accounts to promote said scam, so check for accounts that do not seem new. This goes the same for shirts.
 * If the user is scamming others out of self-drawn pictures, you can check their decals to see if they have any stolen work uploaded to help promote said scam. These comments are usually not disabled.Scammer_warning.png
 * Some scammers have their names listed on alternative accounts' descriptions stating they are scammers. While this is not always the case, if there are a large amount of these accounts, this is something to be wary of.
 * Avoid shortened URLs (TinyURL; bit.ly; etc) if you notice that they send you to a copy of ROBLOX; especially a log-in page. If it does, check the URL at the top to see if it is ROBLOX or not.
 * Avoid obscure programs on YouTube that require your username and password. Their demonstrations are almost always fake.
 * Avoid external links (links leading to sites out of ROBLOX) unless they are from someone that you trust and know in real life.
 * If a Shirt,Place or anything else has comments disabled,its probally a scam so the scammer can prevent the victim from knowing its a scam.