Scammed for 100 Divines in trade. Anything I can do?

I was just scammed for 100 Divine orbs for an unidentified Astramentis, I thought it was a great deal because it was unidentified and was posted within the last 10 mins so I jumped on it, having just came up on 65 divine from selling my most expensive item. I've never had 100 divines even in POE 1.

We do the trade and the astramentis is there, and then while I was dropping my divine orbs in the window he must have swapped insanely fast with an unidentified strugglescream amulet - when unidentified it just says "Stellar Amulet" and shows that its unique when you hover over it, I didn't triple check the artwork for the amulet before I hit the final accept button (i've never owned either amulet). I will definitely not make this mistake again in the future. Feel free to roast me in the comments but I assure you I'm feeling it enough already.

I went on the official trade site and initiated what I thought was a legit trade, and it's cost me 100 divine orbs, hundreds of hours of playing and farming.

I certainly know part of it falls on me, but with proof, reporting etc. is there any chance I could get my Divines back? Has GGG helped anyone with this before?

It's so demotivating to continue playing after this.

I've reported the user and sent all proof to GGG support. Hoping for a reply.

well its a learning lesson, expensive one but its the best take you can do at this point...

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Sadly there is nothing to be done.

It's not the type of scam that GGG acts on, because it is the job of the players to double-check their own trades.

My advice to anyone trading at a value above 5 div is double-check, triple-check, quadruple-check, and vocalise the checks aloud to yourself.

Try not to be too hard on yourself. At the very least, you'll never make the same mistake again.

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WaywornExile#0835 wrote:

My advice to anyone trading at a value above 5 div is double-check, triple-check, quadruple-check, and vocalise the checks aloud to yourself.

This is good advice. On top of this:
- I have a screenshot of the item I am supposed to get on the second screen. And I will go over every single line before accepting
- If its a big cost thing and I feel anxious -> I stream for someone on disc to double confirm with me that all is correct

If the seller stresses u -> do not trade with them.

I usually place the currency into the window right away, so they see I am srs about the trade and then I take all the time I need to check.
On the other hand, if someone buys something for me and they placed the currency in, I will wait however long they need to check and confirm.

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Naka13#4737 wrote:

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WaywornExile#0835 wrote:

My advice to anyone trading at a value above 5 div is double-check, triple-check, quadruple-check, and vocalise the checks aloud to yourself.

This is good advice. On top of this:
- I have a screenshot of the item I am supposed to get on the second screen. And I will go over every single line before accepting
- If its a big cost thing and I feel anxious -> I stream for someone on disc to double confirm with me that all is correct

If the seller stresses u -> do not trade with them.

I usually place the currency into the window right away, so they see I am srs about the trade and then I take all the time I need to check.
On the other hand, if someone buys something for me and they placed the currency in, I will wait however long they need to check and confirm.

In hindsight all of this is certainly great rules to keep for yourself.

This guy was pretty calculated, the Astramentis was unidentified with +5 to all attributes as the implicit, he went through the trouble of buying unidentified strugglescream amulets with the same +5 attribute implicit - when you hover over them the only thing that differentiates them is the artwork, which is honestly even similar if you haven't spent a ton of time looking at both items.

It sucks there isn't some sort of built in check that says you're good to go and this is the item you've inquired about, (for trades initiated from the trade site) - it gives the seller a purple ring around the item in the trade tab, but lets them grab and place in whatever item they want with no internal check. Mostly innocent, unsuspecting gamers can lose their entire in game worth (like me) to some slight user error magnified by another players coldly-calculated scam and abuse of the trade system as it is.

Usually unidentified items are more expensive, not cheaper then the same item with lowest rolls.

It's best to avoid unidentified items for expensive uniques, because will take you 1 divine to reset it's rolls anyway.

Support can't help, they never refunded items as far as I know, not even for hacked accounts.

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_warborn#6427 wrote:

I thought it was a great deal

There you are. Lesson learned.

No...GGG does nothing to scammers...I learnt it the hard way. You are not careful or buy shady services, it's your fault

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WaywornExile#0835 wrote:

Sadly there is nothing to be done.

My advice to anyone trading at a value above 5 div is double-check, triple-check, quadruple-check, and vocalise the checks aloud to yourself.
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Hell, I do this for single digit exalted trades. Mostly to enforce the habit, but also because I know people can be jerks.

Similar thing happened to me yesterday. After hours of grinding I could finally afford Morior with + attributes and resistances. I didn't pay attention and ended up losing 16 div. Not nearly as much as you but I still lost all motivation to play after that.