Stop selling our accounts RMT

[Vyrerus]

I got one of those messages today. Looked up the name of the person who sent it on the lodestone. Three identical midlander females across all three NA data centers, all level 29 Gladiators. Heh.

[Zsolen]

I know many of us warned people previously on this stuff, but it does not hurt to tell FCs, friends, LS, discords, and NN one more time about this kind of stuff and then every so often (like for new people).

[Jojoya]

Best to put things simply.

There are a couple of different scams going around in shouts and tells right now. The "SE is doing a bad thing, follow this link to the forums to complain" phishing scam and the "I can sell you a game item code for half the Mogstation price" RMT scam.

Compromised accounts are being used to spread those scams. The real owner of the account is not the one doing it - they are as much a victim as the players who fall for the scams.

Don't send nasty tells to the real owner once they get their account back because you were dumb enough to fall for a too good to be true scam. They aren't at fault.

Be smart and report it to the GMs in the first place. You protect yourself. You alert the GMs so they know there's an account that needs to be suspended and others are less likely to fall victim to the scam.

[KageTokage]

Selling off all those compromised accounts would be a fairly practical way for those phishers to get additional profits after they've stripped them of their gil.

They know people are likely to contact a GM for assistance in retrieving it, so they could simply sell the account at a much lower price then the norm to get it to sell quickly before the original owner can reclaim it.