HELP! I GOT HACKED! GAMEMASTER HELP?

[KageTokage]

It seems like some people are getting their accounts back after they were compromised, though I still feel like they should be doing something to raise awareness of the scam.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

It seems like some people are getting their accounts back after they were compromised, though I still feel like they should be doing something to raise awareness of the scam.

People were still falling for the twitch scams even after they added notifications to the launcher. Nothing SE does will keep people from falling for it.

[Canadane]

Where i work, we have regular announcements warning customers about fake tax calls wanting to be paid via itunes and other gift cards.

We even have signs around the place warning people about it. It baffles me how people can fall for it so hard that we actually need to do public announcements and ram the warnings down their throats.

Ah yes I think we talked about this the other day ingame. At least I think that was you!

The fact that they personally contacted the owner of a stolen account to taunt/antagonize them is particularly unusual.

Yeah that's the first time I've heard of this happening. Usually they have absolutely no interest in such things they just move on to the next account that falls for it.

People were still falling for the twitch scams even after they added notifications to the launcher. Nothing SE does will keep people from falling for it.

Yeah that's the thing, they throw out bait to as many people as they can. They only need a few bites. It's like how scams for real money in the real world work. Of course you know you're not the next of kin to the Nigerian prince, but someone somewhere might think they are.

[KageTokage]

People were still falling for the twitch scams even after they added notifications to the launcher. Nothing SE does will keep people from falling for it.

There will always be some people who are dumb enough to fall for scams regardless of how much warning they get, but something would still be better then nothing as they've yet to mention anything about the in-game phishing attempts.

Other MMOs leave warnings on their loading screens or in the chat window upon first logging in, and XIV already does the latter for other important information such as maintenance notices and currently active events. I think even just that could mitigate the amount of people falling victim to this significantly.