Scam Awareness

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Cubic Castles is a fun popular game, but we do witness some scams.
Our Game Staff is helping us as much as they can, but they can't fix EVERY problem we have. Sometimes there are scammers Moderators aren't informed about until it's too late, this is why it is important to know how to avoid these scams and the proper way to report them.

How to report scams

If you want to report someone, use the report button on the menu and give a lot of details, or private message one of our Game Staff, they WILL TRY THEIR HARDEST TO HELP and may not be able to fix every problem. If you are private messaging a Moderator, try to get screenshots of the scam with /time and /owner so the Moderator can confirm they are real, and handle the report faster. Moderators usually don't have to go onto your account to handle a report, but they might handle the report in a way you agree with, but you still need to respect their decision on how they handle the situation.

Contacting Moderators

If you want to report something with a screenshot or video evidence, privately message a Moderator on Forums, or report them on the Community Discord.

If you have an issue that the Moderators tell you they are unable to handle, contact support and they can handle it.

Make sure you are contacting a Moderator by checking this page.

Trading Safely

The in-game trading system is probably the safest it can be, but we still get lots of people trading with pets levels 0 - 49 or a large amount of Cubits Cubit.png If you are trading a level 49 or level 0 pet, make sure it isn't switched out for a different level pet. If you are trading a large amount of CubitsCubit.png, make sure to always check the trader didn't remove any 0's when you weren't paying attention, paying attention can be the difference between selling a rare for 50,000Cubit.png, and 5,000Cubit.png. Please be careful, and always watch the 3 dots at the bottom of the trade to see if the trader is swapping the item or amount of cubits. As you probably know Cash Registers have not been in the game the whole time, but Tip Piggies have been around for a while, some scammers will try to sell an item to you in a tip piggy, and try to scam your cubits, how you may ask? Here is an example:


You: Hey can I buy this Slyme Costume?
Scammer: Sure, just put 50k in the tip piggy!
You: Ok, puts cubits in piggy
Scammer: mines piggy and leaves realm

You have to be careful, as these kinds of trades are against the game guidelines.

Permissions

This is quite a common scam. In case you didn't know, the scammer usually says:
Scammer: Who needs help with their realm?
Then you would agree to the help, and add him/her. You would go to your realm, and then the scammer would teleport, and ask for permission to build. You would then give him/her perm, and the scammer will proceed to steal your stuff and anything else he can find! It could be your pet! It could be your vends, you never know! You should never trust anyone you don't know really well with build permissions, as you can never know if they are scammers or not!

If you are bored in-game you might tend to travel to Hollawarps and some Hollawarps say "hey payaway 100c ONLY OMG RARES HERE" or "pick da block 10c COME QUICK JUST:" Paid games of luck are against the game guidelines. If you see anyone doing paid games of luck activity, please report the situation, the Moderators aren't always able to catch these games, which is why we should report them so Moderators can handle them.

Vend Scams

Vend scams are very common to see in the Chat#Hollas. You usually see a Holla saying:
Scammer: HOLY COW!!! A DORK MOBILE FOR ONLY 500c!
The scammer would then wait until a lot of people gather around the vend, and remove the scaffolding, so everybody rushes at the vend at once and tries to buy it without reading the true price (5,000Cubit.png for a Dorkmobile!) To avoid this scam, make sure to always read the price before you buy from a vend, and remember, if something is too good to be true, it most probably is.

Rental Scams

Rental scams come in a variety of forms. The basic gist of it is that a rental has a rare item worth 10,000Cubit.png, and only costs 5,000Cubit.png, there is a variety of ways a scammer can use this rental to scam you:

  • The scammer could place a red block underneath the rental block and trick you to think you are renting the actual plot by surrounding it with real foundation blocks.
  • The scammer could have a friend underneath the rental, and mine the whole rental as soon as you purchase it.
  • The scammer could place the rental block above the actual plot, so when you rent it, you aren't able to mine the layer underneath the rental (usually containing rares.)

These are just some examples of how rentals can be used as scams, don't rent a rental unless you are absolutely certain the owner of the rental is trustable, and NEVER buy items by renting a rental!

Drop Games

This is a common scam when it is called a "game". The scammer's task is to ask players if they want to play games or not. These are some examples of what scammers say:
Scammer: Who wants to play a game? WITH PRIZES?!
Scammer: Who wants 10K?
However, the first quote doesn't always mean drop games. They sometimes mean other games like bottomless games, etc. Drop games are scams where you drop your items with another person and whoever drops the rarest item "wins." What actually ends up happening is that they take your items and ban you. NEVER drop your items in a stranger's realm, as they can easily pick it up, and not give it back.

In-game Warnings

Some silly people might say warnings are useless, well do you want to be scammed? Warnings exist for a reason! Moderators will do not give warnings for fun, they will only give warnings if they need to. Please, if you get a warning and you feel as if you have done nothing wrong, don't let everyone know because they can't remove the warning. If you want a warning removed, just private message a Moderator and they could take your warning away if they see it was unfair. You must tell them the whole truth, don't just make up a load of rubbish to avoid warning because that will get you in more trouble and we don't want that do we now?

Stay Safe