They've been taking to impersonating both popular Twitch streamers and Youtubers as of late, so I can sort of understand why some people fall for it.
The problem is that regardless of how they're trying to scam people, they'll require you to input your log-in info at some point, which is entirely unneeded for whatever it is they're asking of you (Generally referring you to what's supposedly a post on the official forums, which CAN be viewed without being logged in).
Sadly people can be gullible, sometimes it's kids too who can be more easily fooled...i was tricked in Runescape when I was 13 lol not to give up my account details but to lend valuable loot...I felt like such a dumbass. But I guess less critical thinking at that age and if it sounds legit, then is probably legit in your mind.
And heck if anything I find people rarely question things. Particularly if the case is convincing. Sadly not everybody so savvy on the approaches scammers make.
But with the drunk scenario, that's unfortunate lol. When I'm drunk, I get my cohealer drunk and we unleash ourself into raids. Once carried a World of Darkness alliance when the other party's healers were dying, despite being off out faces.
But I don't even have even THAT excuse for my FC screw up, I was clearing out old inactive players once and ended up in autopilot mode and accidentally made one of them the FC leader. Luckily the patch that followed added the feature to take FC leader from an inactive player after a certain number of days to the oldest active one and that's how I got my leadership back.
Ever since I've left it to my officers to do, if they screw up, it's less of a problem lol and it's apparent that I cannot be trusted and am not a responsible adult.
If people didn’t fall for them they wouldn’t keep doing them. That’s the thing with all those cliche scams that you think no one would ever fall for, they work. They may not work on everyone, they don’t Have to work on everyone, they only really have to work on a few, and they do.
It's even worse than usual lately, it seems. I've gotten quite a few tells from random accounts sending me the fake addresses, like at my own cottage and whatnot. I just blacklist and report them though, but that's just me.
But dude! There are hot Russian girls in my area that want to meet me and they need my credit card details!
In all seriousness, as many have said, you'd be surprised by what people fall for. I had a friends family member who bricked thier computer by following an email link telling them they had won an Iphone.
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