Beware scam tells are back

[AllenThyl]

I still don't entirely understand how people fall for this stuff. You'd think MMO players of all people would be wise enough to at least look at random links before pasting them into their browser?

I have some very bad news about the state of humanity for you ...

[ArchlordPie]

I miss the days where "everyone is lying to you until proven otherwise" was understood about the internet, even if it was expressed with things like "the women are men, the men are children, the children are cops."

Somehow in the span of the roughly 20 years I've actively used the internet, we've gone from "don't trust everything you see on the internet" and "the men are men, the women are men, and the 14-year-old girls are FBI agents" to "the government needs to control what people put on the internet because too many people are lying on it" and... well, I'd probably get banned for that other joke.

Point is, IDK why people are still so focused on being a progressive society, when it's pretty clear to me that we've been progressing in the wrong direction for quite some time.

[tempRawr]

Whenever I get one of those, I just throw on a VPN, open the link in incognito, and drop the entire Shrek script into the fake password field. For reasons beyond my understanding, it seems to bring down the front end of the phishing site shortly afterwards.

EDIT: You can also report them to Cloudflare if the site is using it for DDoS protection. They can't take it down, but they'll put up a phishing site warning for people who try and follow the link.

[Lomdi]

One of my friends clicked on the link, saw the post, and then tried to login but it kept failing. They changed their password immediately after. Is that enough to protect them? They are freaking out right now. I blame them staying up all night.

[Jeeqbit]

One of my friends clicked on the link, saw the post, and then tried to login but it kept failing. They changed their password immediately after. Is that enough to protect them? They are freaking out right now. I blame them staying up all night.

If they logged in via that link, then yes they will have got the password. It's good that they changed the password; however, it's possible they got in and took gil already (they should check this). It would also help for them to enable two-factor authentication (where you have to input a code via phone app on login, I recommend Google Authenticator).

Everyone in the game just now was saying they were getting these tells so they're sending them at the moment.