Possible Phishing Scheme Using In-game Chat

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Originally Posted by Kirika-

Use the Report RMT function, as even though you received the message from the last person that received the message and fell for it, it is still the work of RMT scammers/hackers.
The investigation team will be able to figure out it was a victim's account being compromised, but that will also be part of the account owners account recover process.

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That makes sense, will do from now on. Thanks!

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Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth

Its impossible to prevent. They can't take action against the site creators, they can't force people to not follow the links. All they can do is help people recover their accounts after.


Also, xiv makes nothing off of twitch, so that's really a pointless gesture.

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i dont care if it make anything of twitch, just don't want to deal with all kind of fake live stream on that channel

Yeah, these are getting more and more frequent. I'm getting at least one a day now, so people are definitely falling for it. Might be time for SE to put up a warning in the login message for a while, I think?

edit: I went to the link the first time I got one of these, and it really does look like a legit login screen... if I'd been paying any less attention, I might've fallen for it myself. Instead, I just entered the username Really? and the password nicetrydips**t, and then went and changed my actual password just in case anyway.

Hopefully reporting the domain to Google Safe Searching enough will eventually get them to flag it and any similarly named off-shoots as malicious.

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Originally Posted by ShariusTC

i dont care if it make anything of twitch, just don't want to deal with all kind of fake live stream on that channel

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...fake live stream?

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Originally Posted by KageTokage

Hopefully reporting the domain to Google Safe Searching enough will eventually get them to flag it and any similarly named off-shoots as malicious.

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I think that .xyz domain is just a web hosting service. They'd end up flagging thousands of legitimate sites if they did that.


Also I wouldn't namedrop the people you send you tells, and blur their names in screenshots. They're not scammers, they're victims who have had their accounts compromised.