Dodgy Tell

So my friend got a random as hell tell today from someone wanting them to sign a petition to delay patch 5.3 because this is a "sensitive time" (obviously meaning covid-19)

Tried to check it and the link didn't seem to do anything, so it's probably something pretty dodgy, posting this thread to warn others if they get the tell to not click the link

Even if the petition is legit why would anyone want to delay he patch when the devs have been working so hard on it?! It would be a crying shame to have their combined efforts just go to waste cause somone didn't understand that they already found a way to continue despite the limitations

The devs have already confirmed they are delaying the patch anyway. So, yeah, definitely a phishing attempt right there.

Thanks for alerting everyone to this. I haven't seen it yet myself but it's good to know it's happening.

{Have a safe journey.}

Why does YouTube demonatize videos for saying corona virus, I've heard alot of content creators skirt around calling these covid 19 times everything they can to not get demonatized, I understand the content creators doing that cause YouTube is how some of em make their living but YouTube punishing people cause someone flat out said the words corona virus is just stupid, makes no sense.

Plus I hope this isn't some new trend were u can't call it like it is cause I don't see how that works in a fight against something if you can't even call it by it's name.

That's my rant lol, the whole "sensitive time" part of your post made me think about this and as far as your friend goes their probably getting trolled would be my guess for the nature of that tell, or someone is horrible at advertising.

I've had this sent to me by tell twice now too, I think they're using hacked accounts since they have pretty regular character names. The link is definitely a phishing attempt, though at quick glance it would look just like a link to the forums here.

I received one today and just reported it. May the GMs lay their accounts peacefully at rest.

Link is mass sent out, people unfortunately get caught in the scam, new accounts puppeted to repeat.

This scam has been going on for the past few months, though they've been refining it as time has gone on.

It started as them using the all too typical "Go here for free gil" bait coupled with a totally irrelevant link that was mostly copied from a page on the official Lodestone website, but now they're pretending to link to a controversial forum post and the actual address is only a few letters/symbols off from a legit forum link.

Never trust strange links from random people in the game.

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Originally Posted by IMPish95

So my friend got a random as hell tell today from someone wanting them to sign a petition to delay patch 5.3 because this is a "sensitive time" (obviously meaning covid-19)

Tried to check it and the link didn't seem to do anything, so it's probably something pretty dodgy, posting this thread to warn others if they get the tell to not click the link

Even if the petition is legit why would anyone want to delay he patch when the devs have been working so hard on it?! It would be a crying shame to have their combined efforts just go to waste cause somone didn't understand that they already found a way to continue despite the limitations

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Hopefully your friend did not login in that fake lodestone webpage otherwise he needs to change his password asap o.o

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Originally Posted by KageTokage

This scam has been going on for the past few months, though they've been refining it as time has gone on.

It started as them using the all too typical "Go here for free gil" bait coupled with a totally irrelevant link that was mostly copied from a page on the official Lodestone website, but now they're pretending to link to a controversial forum post and the actual address is only a few letters/symbols off from a legit forum link.

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What Gives It The Away Is That They Are Talking Like This! Like A Bot Can The Not Do English From Their Native Languages??

Honestly, if people fall for that, since the address that it is linking to is supposedly the forums(at least the one tell my friend showed me was), then I really don;t know what to say. It's obvious that it's fake since it has forum.square-enix.com-XX.xxx(replace the x with random letters). People do need to pay more attention, and realize that not everything goes perfectly as planned. Pretty sure nobody decided to have a pandemic right now(at least I would hope they didn't....) and life happens, and mother nature tends to throw a tantrum about how she is being treated every now and then.

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Honestly, if people fall for that, since the address that it is linking to is supposedly the forums(at least the one tell my friend showed me was), then I really don;t know what to say. It's obvious that it's fake since it has forum.square-enix.com-XX.xxx(replace the x with random letters). People do need to pay more attention, and realize that not everything goes perfectly as planned. Pretty sure nobody decided to have a pandemic right now(at least I would hope they didn't....) and life happens, and mother nature tends to throw a tantrum about how she is being treated every now and then.

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No, it's not obvious its fake to more people than you would think. It's not that they're stupid or dense, just very uninformed and have likely never been hit with something like that. Nor do they even use the forums.

I've mentioned kitboga to people on many occasions but consider checking out his youtube channel and scam bait videos. Then think about how many tens of thousands of older people who fall for those scams.

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Originally Posted by VictorTheed

Why does YouTube demonatize videos for saying corona virus, I've heard alot of content creators skirt around calling these covid 19 times everything they can to not get demonatized, I understand the content creators doing that cause YouTube is how some of em make their living but YouTube punishing people cause someone flat out said the words corona virus is just stupid, makes no sense.

Plus I hope this isn't some new trend were u can't call it like it is cause I don't see how that works in a fight against something if you can't even call it by it's name.

That's my rant lol, the whole "sensitive time" part of your post made me think about this and as far as your friend goes their probably getting trolled would be my guess for the nature of that tell, or someone is horrible at advertising.

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Because it's to prevent mis-information. Youtubers are not a great source of information. Something as simple as dumb joke becomes fact spread across social media within minutes. Best to just prevent that from happening in the first place.

We already see an insane amount of information, and people reacting to this in the most outrageous ways (Racism towards Asians, drinking bleach, etc). Last thing we need is people taking the words of Pewdeepie as fact.

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Originally Posted by Gula

No, it's not obvious its fake to more people than you would think. It's not that they're stupid or dense, just very uninformed and have likely never been hit with something like that. Nor do they even use the forums.

I've mentioned kitboga to people on many occasions but consider checking out his youtube channel and scam bait videos. Then think about how many tens of thousands of older people who fall for those scams.

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Very much this. Just because we use the forums and, presumably, keep up to date on FF14 news (and maybe other gaming news as well) doesn't mean that everyone does. There are a ton of players that just log into the game, do their thing, log out and not think about the game until they log in again. They might be uninformed but it's pretty harsh to say more than that. Heck, even if they follow the game religiously it doesn't mean they're tech savvy enough even to just be careful of blind links and that sort of thing.

If some people do not check where they type their game account info, imagine how unsafe their credit card or online bank details are. This scam is a wake up call.

Either use the launcher to access official sites or bookmark this forum and never follow any links to get here.

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Originally Posted by Gula

What Gives It The Away Is That They Are Talking Like This! Like A Bot Can The Not Do English From Their Native Languages??

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No joke, I worked with a guy that did that in every email he wrote "Because It Makes It Look Professional."

Got a similar tell a few weeks ago, but with the opposite intent, asking me to sign a petition demanding the patch be released on schedule.

Obviously a scam.