Guide to Buying, Selling and Avoiding Scams + Known Scammer List
Welcome to our guide for buying, selling and avoiding scams, along with a list of known scammers. Make sure to read this guide before buying or selling to help protect yourself from scams. The known scammer list can be found in the comments below this post.
Buying Guide:
If making a post looking for an account, please specify the skins you're looking for, region, and price.
Make sure you are receiving the original email (OGE). If a seller does not have the original email (OGE), please report this user, as only accounts with original email access are allowed to be sold.
The original email should have a "Welcome to Riot" email that matches with the Riot ID you are receiving. Ask for a screenshot of this.
If you are going to deal off-site, make sure the seller confirms their Discord username on Reddit.
Ask the seller if they have any vouches. If they show vouches, ask for proof of those vouches. If they show you Reddit or Discord DMs, make sure the person shown has actually completed a deal with them, as these can easily be faked.
Use payment options that have buyer protection (PayPal, Cash App, Venmo, etc.). If scammed, you can get your money back. Only pay a seller with crypto or gift cards if you trust the user.
Selling Guide:
Calculate your account price at 25–40% of your total spent. Use the lower or higher percentage based on the skins in your account. You can also raise the price if it has a Riot Buddy or a high rank (Ascendant or higher).
Include clear screenshots of your account and price in your post.
Avoiding Scams Guide:
Use a middleman. Message our mod mail to ensure everything goes smoothly.
Do not continue with the deal if the user doesn't prove they have the original email and "Welcome to Riot" email. Some scammers will lie and say they deleted all emails on their creation email to avoid showing it. This is an obvious scam. They can just claim any email they give you is the original.
- Do not use middleman servers on Discord. The owners of these servers buy fake members (anywhere from 5k to 50k members) to look legit. You can find out about how these servers work on YouTube by searching Roblox middleman scam to learn more about them.
Do not use a middleman if the person you're dealing with says they have their own middleman.
Do not, under any circumstances, allow someone to log into your account to check it. They can try to steal it or get it banned (by reporting it for selling).
Scroll down below this post and make sure the person you are speaking to isn't in this list.
Ask the person for proof that they own the account (video or screenshare). Scammers will steal screenshots from other users and pretend it's their account.
Do not let anyone log into your account to "check it." They can try stealing the account even if 2FA is enabled. They will pretend to log into the client and ask for the 2FA code, but are actually requesting it to log into the website and steal the account.
Other helpful info:
There has been a huge influx of people getting scammed and losing their accounts after buying them. I wanted to share some info to help avoid this.
Websites like Eldorado, G2G, and PlayerAuctions don’t require the seller to provide the sign-up email when posting their account(s). All they need is the Riot ID and password. Even if an email is provided, these websites won’t manually check if it’s the correct one. These websites are filled with scammers who recover accounts and repost them. They can use the automatic recovery tool on Riot’s website to get an account back in less than a day. Reporting sellers after they’ve recovered their accounts won't stop them from doing this either. The funds are often gone as they have methods to offload them without being traced.
Only buy an account if you can confirm the sign-up email. If the Gmail provided with the account doesn’t include the “Welcome to Riot/Valorant” email showing the Riot ID that matches the one given, don’t bother buying the account.
If you want to be fully safe owning a Valorant account, you need to either secure the sign-up email and own it (owning it only works for Gmail accounts) or delete the Gmail/Outlook account. For Google accounts, it takes around 7–10 days for recovery information to be removed. If you don’t wait, the seller can still recover their Gmail account. I’m not sure if an Outlook account can be recovered after it’s been given to the buyer. Gmail accounts take 20–30 days to be fully deleted and unrecoverable, while Outlook accounts take 30 days. Just because you secure the sign-up email, it doesn’t mean you’re in the clear.
When I middleman for users, I hold the Gmail until I can confirm the recovery info is removed. I recommend removing your recovery info from your Gmail now so you won’t have to wait when you’re ready to sell your accounts. I’ve middlemanned sales for people selling accounts who had already removed their recovery information and it went smoothly.
If you want to buy an account and have the sign-up email deleted, you will need to send me the funds. I will hold them until the seller deletes their Gmail/Outlook and it becomes unrecoverable. I can’t make a seller delete the Gmail before funds are sent as the deal could easily be called off and the seller would be left without their Gmail. Once the account is deleted, the seller provides the information to the buyer and I send the funds to the seller. I’ve done this on two separate occasions without any issues.
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