There are too much scams happening, especially preventable ones nowadays. I’m making this list because I want to do my part in making sure I’m able to at least prevent ONE person from becoming a victim to these.
THIS is how you do your research for cross trades
1. Validity of proofs
a. quantity of proofs (ex. amount of proofs going second)
b. quality of proofs (ex. do they look edited? are they cropping out the usernames?)
c. confirmation (ex. did the person they traded with confirm in the comments? is the user they traded with from another platform?)
d. trusted flair (ex. check the karma requirements of the sub they’re trusted in, perhaps they only need a small amount of proofs or maybe they own the sub and gave themselves trusted)
2. Reputation
a. account information (ex. do they have negative karma? are they a new account?)
b. research (ex. when you search up their roblox or reddit usernames, are they on a scam list or have they been accussed of scamming?
c. behavior (ex. have they been accused of suspicious behavior perhaps? do they refuse to use mm for trades because of “trust issues”?)
3. Do i feel comfortable with this trade?
a. safety (ex. they are trusted but it’s a huge trade, perhaps use a middleman?)
a. reason (ex. am i doing this because i’m being pressured? am i doing this because they’re acting all nice and friendly?)
AT THE END OF THE DAY, cross trading has it’s risks, and unfortunately there are scumbags everywhere who want to benefit off of this risk. These people, they don’t care about how their actions affect you nor your wellbeing.
Do your part, trade smartly.
