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  • flare [2195157] Officer · 3 likes ·
    That happens youll get a few responses at first, but then itll taper off simply because you dont have enough emails. Think about it this way if you had 10 people and tried to scam them it may work on …
Levarith [2692663] · #1

Before I create a bug report I wanted to ask if anyone else is experiencing an issue with scamming.
I'm doing both job scam and advance-fee scam and have kept them consistently running for 5 days and have not had a single scam target pop-up. I have 82000 emails and have been burning my nerve sending out wave after wave of scam emails hoping to get something. I noticed that me losing access to scam targets happens to coincide with server instability during the halloweek event. I realize those things may not be related. So I wanted to ask if others are experiencing this and if yes, is this intended functionality to drag out the 1-100 skill grind? Or is this a bug that needs reporting?

flare [2195157] Officer Officer · #2

Its not a bug, you just dont have enough emails.

 

When you launch a Spam Wave and dont see this text pop up:

 

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That means you've either sent too many waves or simply dont have enough emails to be attempting that scam type. Spend a few nerve bars farming emails and youll start to get more responses. I remember back when I hit 60 cs I needed to be around 160-200k emails before I consistently got job and advance fee scams.

Levarith [2692663] · #3 · edited

I was getting responses, then all the sudden it just stopped. it's not like i've never gotten one. Sorry for being unclear about that in my original post.

Ohadik [424017] Wiki Contributor · #4

I have over 220,000 emails and last night I did a scam on each of the two. I got like 4 of them, combined. 

 

Your problem is like what flare said above. Not enough emails collected. 

TraderJim [2786172] · #5

According to Emforus guide it seems E-Mails secretly expire as well. So you have to keep adding to the pool no matter what. Make sure to have all the EDU done so you can have the scraper and phisher help to passively farm. 

flare [2195157] Officer Officer · #6

That happens youll get a few responses at first, but then itll taper off simply because you dont have enough emails.

 

Think about it this way if you had 10 people and tried to scam them it may work on one. However if you went back to those exact same people it wouldn't work because they've seen it already. With a bigger list you have more victims to choose from and higher chance they may have ignored the emai/not seen it in the first batch and see it the second time.