Quote Originally Posted by Awha View Post
Might just be a dick, but if people fall for that stuff . . . well sorry but how can one be expected to help someone who falls for stuff like that?
Because honestly, people by and large don't practice proper internet security like they should be. The page the scammers use looks pretty legit to anyone who's not extremely familiar with the forums or the login-screens for the lodestone and for many people who are just going through the motions or wanting to see what this 'update' is about, they may not take the time to actually dissect the page they're sent to.

Let me tell ya a fun statistic from my workplace last year. IT wanted to run a test to see how many employees would willingly give up their password to an email account that was almost identical to the admin's, except with a few letters/numbers changed in the name. 36% of people in the workplace fell for the IT test's trap. 36%.

And that's with the company doing routine password security meetings/notifications/etc.

There'll always be people falling for these things due to the nature of people, but it takes Square very little effort to stay on top of the latest scams and give big warnings in the launcher about them to potentially inform someone who may have fallen for this scam otherwise. The only way to help these people is through preventative measures and hope they work.