Player tried to scam me with false link.

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Originally Posted by Canadane

Keep in mind that they use hijacked accounts to spread the spam. This is probably because it looks realer than a level 1 new adventurer spamming tells.
Meaning the person you're putting on blast is likely an innocent (yet foolish) player who fell for the link, got their account stolen, gil taken, and used as a spambot until they could recover the account.
They are likely still playing the game and having their name up like this makes them look bad.

SE doesn't like this and has been known to get people in trouble for posting names of players in this way. Even garbage name farm bots clipping through walls are protected as "innocent until proven guilty".
So while it's good you're spreading the word of the phishing scam, you should consider censoring the players name.

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Thanks for letting me know, this makes a lot of sense, I've edited it out now :)

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Originally Posted by VelKallor

I have never heard of a single player having an acct taken over with an active OTP. Have you?

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I know this is old news but i just got one of those tells..... and i google searched cause curious (no i didn't fall for this b.s.).... didn't take long to find people WITH 2 factor that got "hacked". The other poster's right the 1 time code lasts long enough to be used multiple times, especially if they have it set up to put it in the SECOND u log on on their fake site.

There is a literal topic on login page to the left or on lodestone that clearly warns you of this.

I know it shouldn't have to be said, no matter what the game you are on don't follow external links provided to other users, this goes for a lot of websites too. This isn't even a FF only thing, if something seems too good to be true then it usually is. The people that send these messages are usually ones that have already fallen for it and no doubt if someone does then their account will also be used for the same thing.

If you are ever in doubt and want to change passwords do it by manually going to their offical websites to change them, never follow links to change passwords as a lot of people will simualte the real site via links.

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Originally Posted by CornishDinosaur

In retrospect I feel very silly! I'm just glad I realised in time to change my password, and I wanted to let others who might fall for it know.

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Don't let anyone shame you and don't feel bad. My husband and I have been playing this game since 1.x beta. He never comes to the forums and I seldom come here too much anymore. We had no idea about this scam and it did hit my husband a couple years ago. He felt absolutely horrible, especially considering he has a house. Thankfully, he was able to find a way to lock them out of his account and get it rolled back. It did take a couple weeks. It's good to remind others of this, because hindsight or not, it's an easy premise to believe. There are plenty of people that quit and goodness knows how many threads seeking to change aspects of the game there are.

I'm glad your account is ok, and thanks for the heads up.