Quote Originally Posted by LianaThorne View Post
Yeah, the gil scam has you log into a copy of the forum. It's embedded with a keylogger that copies your information and the hackers access your account from there. He didn't log into the forums, he saw a link for free gil leading to the fake forum website and went from there. There's no other way to get access to that fake forum site aside from going to a link sent to you in tells.

And yes, it will take time for them to do anything. All you can do is wait and rebuild from here.
it's not always free gil, sometimes it's a fake forum link with "THIS MUST BE STOPPED FOR THE GOOD OF FFXIV" or something along those lines.