Quote Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth View Post
Did you try to join a giveaway for gil, or a raffle, etc?
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This. Especially if it was a website ending in ".com-x-cd/" - as an example, the letters after the .com are dead giveaway that it is a FAKE site. The other giveaway is that the username, password, and one time password are all on the same page. Anything with that is a phishing site that gives your login information to a third party who takes your gil(at the very least). NEVER click on a link in game, always go to the websites directly(I recommend going to the official lodestone, and bookmarking that, as well as keeping the forums bookmarked - then if something tells you to go to the forums and comment on a post, open your bookmark first, double check you are logged in, then ignore the tell that told you to go comment, 100% are fake and scams)