Dodgy Tell

[ChaoticCrimson]

Never trust strange links from random people in the game.

[RareItems]

So my friend got a random as hell tell today from someone wanting them to sign a petition to delay patch 5.3 because this is a "sensitive time" (obviously meaning covid-19)

Tried to check it and the link didn't seem to do anything, so it's probably something pretty dodgy, posting this thread to warn others if they get the tell to not click the link

Even if the petition is legit why would anyone want to delay he patch when the devs have been working so hard on it?! It would be a crying shame to have their combined efforts just go to waste cause somone didn't understand that they already found a way to continue despite the limitations

Hopefully your friend did not login in that fake lodestone webpage otherwise he needs to change his password asap o.o

[Avatre]

Honestly, if people fall for that, since the address that it is linking to is supposedly the forums(at least the one tell my friend showed me was), then I really don;t know what to say. It's obvious that it's fake since it has forum.square-enix.com-XX.xxx(replace the x with random letters). People do need to pay more attention, and realize that not everything goes perfectly as planned. Pretty sure nobody decided to have a pandemic right now(at least I would hope they didn't....) and life happens, and mother nature tends to throw a tantrum about how she is being treated every now and then.

[Gula]

Honestly, if people fall for that, since the address that it is linking to is supposedly the forums(at least the one tell my friend showed me was), then I really don;t know what to say. It's obvious that it's fake since it has forum.square-enix.com-XX.xxx(replace the x with random letters). People do need to pay more attention, and realize that not everything goes perfectly as planned. Pretty sure nobody decided to have a pandemic right now(at least I would hope they didn't....) and life happens, and mother nature tends to throw a tantrum about how she is being treated every now and then.

No, it's not obvious its fake to more people than you would think. It's not that they're stupid or dense, just very uninformed and have likely never been hit with something like that. Nor do they even use the forums.

I've mentioned kitboga to people on many occasions but consider checking out his youtube channel and scam bait videos. Then think about how many tens of thousands of older people who fall for those scams.

[StriderShinryu]

No, it's not obvious its fake to more people than you would think. It's not that they're stupid or dense, just very uninformed and have likely never been hit with something like that. Nor do they even use the forums.

I've mentioned kitboga to people on many occasions but consider checking out his youtube channel and scam bait videos. Then think about how many tens of thousands of older people who fall for those scams.

Very much this. Just because we use the forums and, presumably, keep up to date on FF14 news (and maybe other gaming news as well) doesn't mean that everyone does. There are a ton of players that just log into the game, do their thing, log out and not think about the game until they log in again. They might be uninformed but it's pretty harsh to say more than that. Heck, even if they follow the game religiously it doesn't mean they're tech savvy enough even to just be careful of blind links and that sort of thing.

[Reinha]

If some people do not check where they type their game account info, imagine how unsafe their credit card or online bank details are. This scam is a wake up call.

Either use the launcher to access official sites or bookmark this forum and never follow any links to get here.

[wereotter]

Got a similar tell a few weeks ago, but with the opposite intent, asking me to sign a petition demanding the patch be released on schedule.

Obviously a scam.