HELP! I GOT HACKED! GAMEMASTER HELP?

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Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth

People were still falling for the twitch scams even after they added notifications to the launcher. Nothing SE does will keep people from falling for it.

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There will always be some people who are dumb enough to fall for scams regardless of how much warning they get, but something would still be better then nothing as they've yet to mention anything about the in-game phishing attempts.

Other MMOs leave warnings on their loading screens or in the chat window upon first logging in, and XIV already does the latter for other important information such as maintenance notices and currently active events. I think even just that could mitigate the amount of people falling victim to this significantly.

I remember getting a whisper to a link about "SE doing an update that shouldn't happen" a few days back. I was surprised and recalled coming onto the site about SE delaying the maintenance and I was like "What?" was there something else I missed. I did copy the link and go there and it brought up a login screen which confused me, because whenever I come into the SE Forums I'm already in and if I'm logout it tells me. It was for a brief second, but my Anti-Virus Protection program (Webroot) kicked in and told me this was a dangerous site.

I immediately closed the tab and looked at the link closely. Everything looked normal until I spotted it... that -ndy tag at the end of .com or something like that. I realized it was a fake link while in-game even when the player name looked normal and not the RMT names with "jahadsasjkdf" for example. I told my FC about it and they mentioned it was a Phishing scam.

Despite not logging in I decided to change my password since then. So far my account is fine and nothing is wrong so far. So, just logging in screws you over. I am glad my Virus Protection kicked it, but I wouldn't have logged in regardless as I would've opened up another tab for the official Forum to check it out and then backed out.

It was a close call.

EDIT: Ugh... the grammar and mistakes. Ugh, sorry about that.
Sorry to hear it happen to you TC. Be wary from random links from now on and I'm going to double-check each link I get to be sure.

I got that message too on Spriggan.
At first, reported as rmt. Received same message from that same character minutes later, and blacklisted. I just hope SE deals with those scammers properly, because them not only were trying to scam people, but also used the coronavirus emergency for the scope. Jackals.

As a rule, never click on links sent to you by strangers. Even links sent by friends and family should be scrutinised to ensure that they're legitimate.

I'd suggest that everybody invests in an authenticator as an additional layer of protection. They're pretty useful.

Just got the tell now. Told them to go fuck themselves

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Originally Posted by Nitroillyrion

Just got the tell now. Told them to go fuck themselves

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There’s nobody there reading your response, I hope you know this.

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Originally Posted by Canadane

There’s nobody there reading your response, I hope you know this.

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It helps the conscience

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Originally Posted by VirusChris

I do copy the link and go and it brought up a login screen which confused me, because whenever I come into the SE Forums I'm already in and if I'm logout it tells.

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This is what came up as a red flag for me. I went to the link and found it strange it was asking me to log back into the forums when I never logged out. I also had the forums site already up in another tab so it didn't make sense as to why it was asking me to log in again when I clearly was already in it.

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Originally Posted by Canadane

There’s nobody there reading your response, I hope you know this.

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shame

at least spam/scam calls on the phone you can at least mess with the caller

The phishing campaign has been reported to the domain registrar, webserver host, TLS certificate authority, and Google Safe Browsing.