xyz domains registered with Namesilo continuously phishing users

[Awha]

Might just be a dick, but if people fall for that stuff . . . well sorry but how can one be expected to help someone who falls for stuff like that?

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Might just be a dick, but if people fall for that stuff . . . well sorry but how can one be expected to help someone who falls for stuff like that?

I fell for a scam in my first mmo a long time ago (like, 15 years lol) . Learned my lesson then.

[Awha]

I fell for a scam in my first mmo a long time ago (like, 15 years lol) . Learned my lesson then.

At least you learned from, truth be told I nearly fell for one but was a kid and was too scared to go through my dads wallet.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

At least you learned from, truth be told I nearly fell for one but was a kid and was too scared to go through my dads wallet.

Oh mine wasn't monetary. lost a item in the game from it. Still tho, you tend to learn those the hard way.

[MelodyCrystel]

Might just be a dick, but if people fall for that stuff . . . well sorry but how can one be expected to help someone who falls for stuff like that?

So in other words, we all should pat the scammers on the shoulder for tricking naive people, or what? O.o
->A crime stays a crime no matter if it happened in your neighbourhood, another country or the internet. -.- To indirectly tell victims "Sorry, you're too stupid, so nobody should try to solve the problem." is the first step to gaining a "Let criminality rule as long as I'm not affected."-philosophy.

I for one can't take Paypal-mails seriously anymore thanks to these annoying scammers sending fakes every 3 or 4 months--- having such a business going on in FFXIV puts my frustration-level unnecessarily high.
->Though I had only once a tell with such fake-link (EU-server less appealing to scammers, I believe) I see way too many RMT-shouts including commercials for a Mogstation-giftcode-site were several dollars can be saved even on new items--- definitely not a welfare-project, if you ask me.

[MariaArvana]

Might just be a dick, but if people fall for that stuff . . . well sorry but how can one be expected to help someone who falls for stuff like that?

Because honestly, people by and large don't practice proper internet security like they should be. The page the scammers use looks pretty legit to anyone who's not extremely familiar with the forums or the login-screens for the lodestone and for many people who are just going through the motions or wanting to see what this 'update' is about, they may not take the time to actually dissect the page they're sent to.

Let me tell ya a fun statistic from my workplace last year. IT wanted to run a test to see how many employees would willingly give up their password to an email account that was almost identical to the admin's, except with a few letters/numbers changed in the name. 36% of people in the workplace fell for the IT test's trap. 36%.

And that's with the company doing routine password security meetings/notifications/etc.

There'll always be people falling for these things due to the nature of people, but it takes Square very little effort to stay on top of the latest scams and give big warnings in the launcher about them to potentially inform someone who may have fallen for this scam otherwise. The only way to help these people is through preventative measures and hope they work.

[Avatre]

Let me tell ya a fun statistic from my workplace last year. IT wanted to run a test to see how many employees would willingly give up their password to an email account that was almost identical to the admin's, except with a few letters/numbers changed in the name. 36% of people in the workplace fell for the IT test's trap. 36%.

Reminds me of the one time I got an email, from our "CEO", wanting me to transfer money to our clients in Hong Kong. Now, the thing about the company, they were a North American oilfield trucking company. We had no clients anywhere except in a few locations in the US(Texas, Oklahoma, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and briefly in Wyoming and Florida), and a little bit in Canada. Definitely nothing outside of US And Canada, not even where payments were sent to.