I got hacked for the first time in Final Fantasy XIV

[Jeeqbit]

This happens all of the time. The phishing attempts with that message have been going on for a few years now. The people who message you are victims themselves and they may have used your account to trick others. They usually get their accounts back as far as I know, because SE just bans the account until it's recovered.

[Espon]

As the title shows, I was recently hacked. I was foolish enough to copy and paste a link that was sent to me via "Tell". The tell stated something along the line of the player quitting the game soon and will be doing a 300M Gil giveaway. Me thinking that the link sent to me was the official Final Fantasy Forum turned out to be a fake. I entered in my account log in, and I found it odd that it wasn't logging me into the forum no matter how many times I entered in my login correctly. I noticed that I was disconnected from the game moments later, and so I tried to log back in. Oddly enough, it kept saying my password was incorrect. Turns out I received an email saying that a security token was just registered to my account. I never registered any security token. I realize I was just hacked. IMMEDIATELY I got in contact with Square Enix and they were able to remove the security token from my account, and I was able to log in with all my gear and gil still intact. I have now put a security token on my account so that this never happens again.

Has anyone or know of anyone that experienced this?

I don't know anyone personally that this has happened to, but those accounts that are used to send those scam tells used to belong to people that fell for the same scam.

You got lucky, though. Take it as a lesson to never visit any links sent to you. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

[Rayne6665]

What kind of stupid ass person behind this would do this to other people’s poor account hacking them and taking all their hard working gils? Is it that hard to make and earn gils? No. I don’t really understand these low life piece of shits. Sorry for the language but whoever is behind all these scamming shit, hope they choke and die i could care less what happens to whoever do shit like this.

The scam link is always a fake.
Example: “.com-xyz” or some shit like that

[Arazehl]

You might not have gotten robbed due to the fact you're a bit newish and didn't have the amount of gil they were looking for. They are looking for many millions of gil and not a million or two. Maybe you didn't have much gil on your retainers either, to make it worth their while and they just left you alone. Being poor might have been your luck. They never touch player's gear rich or poor. They don't want to be bothered by selling off gear. It's too time consuming.

This is a RMT racket and one of the ways they supply their gil to sale to other players. When other players buy gil from them with real time dollars, those players are supporting their little phishing racket they have going on in game. I hope I never learn of anyone coming by their gil in game through RMT. I'll be the first to report that's for sure.

[Absurdity]

What kind of stupid ass person behind this would do this to other people’s poor account hacking them and taking all their hard working gils? Is it that hard to make and earn gils? No. I don’t really understand these low life piece of shits.

Gil seller websites most likely.

[Ronduwil]

As the title shows, I was recently hacked. I was foolish enough to copy and paste a link that was sent to me via "Tell". The tell stated something along the line of the player quitting the game soon and will be doing a 300M Gil giveaway.

I got that message, too, but instead of copying the link, I reported the player. Never trust a third party to do an in-game giveaway. On the off chance that it's legit, it will be conducted entirely within the game, not on a third party web site, and certainly not with your actual account login. Sorry you had to learn this the hard way.

[Krokov]

Luckily you still had everything, good to hear.

[JuneStarwind]

I got my account back after being hacked. Square Enix proceeds to suspend my account as I prove to them my identity that I am who I am. I made this thread in hopes someone sees this and learns from my mistake. Thank you Square Enix team for working with me and being patient with me.

[NekoMataMata]

Phishing links have been used since before I was even born. I don't know how people can still be falling for them at this point.

I got a tell in-game(that I reported later) for a phishing link that directed me to a fake forum post for the same gil giveaway OP mentioned. And immediately something just felt off. The link had this weird suffix after "forum.square-enix". After clicking around on the page a bit, I realized that a lot of the redirections that you'd normally find on the real forums weren't there, such as how I couldn't get back to the main forum boards from the top link or get to the lodestone pages from there.

[Rolder50]

Just to be pedantic, that's phishing, not hacking.