THANK YOU ALL for these threads being around
i was a fool and fell for this scam earlier today (despite being an mmo veteran whose seen thousands of these link scams before in other games)- the tell came from a hacked account so i hadnt realized it couldve been scam until it was too late
after a few minutes of snooping around the fake link I finally realized it was a scam and rushed to the REAL forum to search for help- changed my password right in time (':