Avoid MapleStory Scams

Sure, you’re grinding without rest, piling up the mesos. But if you get scammed (and get scammed big), all your hard work maybe for naught. The desire for mesos unfortunately incites some gamers to trick other players; as an honest Mapler, you should do everything to avoid these scammers.
It’s imperative to know what these scams are, and how they’re pulled off. Thus, we direct you to a really helpful and informative article on Wikipedia.
According to the article, “the most usual scamming type is tricking new players into selling items for several times less than their actual value, buying items for several times what they are actually maplestory mesos worth, or by stealing their items”. It also lists other scams, some of which are:

[taking] advantage of the victim’s lack of game knowledge or user interface
telling the victim that a glitch or problem would occur if one does a certain action, and the curious victim would perform the action
[scamming] about faming (the act of increasing one’s fame) since players cannot trade fame in a secure trading window
[scamming through] guilds. A guild master with powers to invite/kick someone from a guild will allow someone into a guild for a fee (usually between 50,000 to 100,000 Mesos). The person being scammed will pay, and then the guild master who invited the member will expel the person from the guild
Avoid scams. Protect your mesos. Read the complete Wiki article here.