it was gold. when you buy gold you ping it to check if the stuff is real. and you do it with your own tool, not the one they hand you.

Ryuko

I agree most scammers are dumb and play with specific situations and scripts to succeed. Anything outside the script is a failure, and they proceed to the next one.

friend got burned once on an irl p2p. thing looked real, was fake

Can you provide more details without personal info? For example, what was the tool used? In which way did it look real/fake?

XMRAgora

Have you ever been scammed in a P2P trade?

artemis

I agree most scammers are dumb and play with specific situations and scripts to succeed. Anything outside the script is a failure, and they proceed to the next one.

> friend got burned once on an irl p2p. thing looked real, was fake

Can you provide more details without personal info? For example, what was the tool used? In which way did it look real/fake?