Please Beware of Phishing Attempts

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Originally Posted by Renalt

If I even knew how to report a thread for posting malicious links...warning or no...I would. Just delete this before someone who does know actually does it.

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Actually it's impossible to delete a thread here if i am correct so the OP can't don anything about it stop being menacing

The people on the forums (mostly veteran players) aren't the ones falling for the links because they know all about them. They get new or returning players who haven't read the forums before but are curious to try.

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Originally Posted by Avatre

Which is why you REMOVE THE URL COMPLETELY

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Okay sure, the whole point was to just make people more aware of what attacks look like with an example URL, so they can actually catch that it's a phishing attempt if they ever see one. I only went through the cybersecurity training through my jobs, so I figured it'd be useful information to a good majority of others that have never learned this type of info, but I can remove the post I guess. Just saying "there's phishers" should already be obvious anyway.

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Originally Posted by Avatre

Makes me wonder how many of them are PSA, and how many are badly "hidden" phishing attempts themselves.

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I think most are trying to be PSAs but due to their lack of knowledge of cybersecurity, they post the link rather foolishly.

wtf I don't see a delete option lol. Now my post is just a simple, yo there's phishers out there btw.

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Originally Posted by Leticro

wtf I don't see a delete option lol. Now my post is just a simple, yo there's phishers out there btw.

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I think it's to avoid having smart guys creating insulting topics or sharing forbidden content and then deleting them to avoid any repercusion

Basically only a moderator can delete your topic and at the same time punish you, I hope you will have nothing because it's really not bad intentioned even if I know that GMs and moderators are merciless

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Originally Posted by Renalt

If I even knew how to report a thread for posting malicious links...warning or no...I would. Just delete this before someone who does know actually does it.

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There's a a yellow triangle exclamation button on the bottom left that appears to be a report post button. Feel free to report.

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Originally Posted by HanWenqing

What's wrong about that ? it's just Natural selection :)

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Because then when I'm at my house crafting, I get constantly interrupted by tells from people who have fallen for the scam and I have to stop so I can open a ticket to report the compromised account being used for a scam.

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Originally Posted by Jojoya

Because then when I'm at my house crafting, I get constantly interrupted by tells from people who have fallen for the scam and I have to stop so I can open a ticket to report the compromised account being used for a scam.

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Click name > Report
Report for RMT Activity

Until SE gives us more granular reporting options in the context menu, I'm not going out of my way to explain to SE things they already know, such as it being a compromised account and the owners probably looking for it back, etc.