New Scam

Not sure where to post this but several reports of tells from a user suggesting you go to a forum post to check out a topic and it sends you to a bogus log in site.
Be careful to follow any links!

https://imgur.com/n8DDhIv

The PM scammers have been around for a couple months now, though they changed their tactic from trying to bait people with promises of free gil to trying to generate curiosity with a bogus petition.

It seems like they just player search then go down the list because I only ever get PMs from them while I'm in ARR zones.

oh. i thought you were gonna say "The cash shop".

Did internet education stop at some point? "Don't open suspicious links" is something everyone has surely heard.

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Originally Posted by Reinha

Did internet education stop at some point? "Don't open suspicious links" is something everyone has surely heard.

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I swear these people never learn, you can read all about it here

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Originally Posted by Reinha

Did internet education stop at some point? "Don't open suspicious links" is something everyone has surely heard.

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The problem is that at a glance, the link does not look suspicious as they're now using what's basically identical to an actual forum link save for a dash and a few extra letters after the ".com" portion.

If you have a half-way decent internet security program it won't even let you go to the website, but it seems that is lamentably not the case for a lot of people.

Oh look, the post adamantly naming and shaming the victim-account-turned-scam-distributor has been deleted. What a surprise.

Pity it took half the discussion with it.

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Originally Posted by Iscah

Oh look, the post adamantly naming and shaming the victim-account-turned-scam-distributor has been deleted. What a surprise.

Pity it took half the discussion with it.

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Yeah...they have a tendency to purge literally every post made by a particular person in a topic, including posts from others that were quoting them.

Seems a bit excessive when they could've just removed the player's name and the link to the scam website instead.

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Originally Posted by Iscah

Oh look, the post adamantly naming and shaming the victim-account-turned-scam-distributor has been deleted. What a surprise.

Pity it took half the discussion with it.

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1) Naming yes. Shaming, not so much.
2) Victim, maybe yes, maybe no. We have no way of knowing.

Cheers,
D.

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Originally Posted by dlgc

1) Naming yes. Shaming, not so much.
2) Victim, maybe yes, maybe no. We have no way of knowing.

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Shaming, yes. You were insistent that you should include their name because they were doing the wrong thing and deserved it.

And as you say, "no way of knowing" that for sure. Innocent until proven guilty - and as I said, almost certainly a stolen (and hopefully reclaimed) account for a scam that has a new name attached to it every time it appears.