Beware of "Quitting FFXIV Giveaway" messages

[LianaThorne]

If a friend messaged me to say they were quitting FFXIV and I could go to the forums-idi.ot/FFXIV/threads/44222 to win 300M I'd be replying

OMG
Why are you leaving
hello?
John?
Why are you leaving?
Speak to me dude.

Notwithstanding how obvious the link is (that -idi.ot/ stuff sticks out like dogs testicles) if it still didn't twig that they never answered then I'd be worried about myself.

That's not the only link that's out there though. For that one specifically, yes. I will give you that. But you also can have people in your friends list that you aren't close friends with (taking me specifically I have clients for photography on my friends list for easy access to contacting them for bookings. I don't talk to any of them regularly but have them there anyway). If I wasn't aware to the extent that I am and got sent a link from one of them, I wouldn't bother asking why (because I have no relationship with them) and check it out under the assumption that they just sent it out to everyone on their friends list & wanted their stuff to be of use to someone rather than collect dust on a dead/deleted account.

There's another scam that tells you to look at the forum to vote on or discuss something relevant to the game. It doesn't involve gil whatsoever (I forget the exact phrasing but can probably find a thread related to it on here somewhere) and that one is going to be harder for people to distinguish. Anyone who's curious about what the big story is will probably click to read it.