How to report in-game scam?

[HQuest]

Noted, thanks. Seems unfortunate, this person might have been a victim: there is quite some invested time on leveling jobs to 80/90.

[AnimaAnimus]

The person definitely was a victim. But they can recover their account, although the items and gil will be lost forever. To be fair though, if you fall for this scam in 2022, when most of us have grown up with the internet and with an abundance of knowledge and warning of this and similar scams, I have very little sympathy for them. Do not click random links is first day of internet 101 and even my 8yr old niece knows better.

[Breakbeat]

To be fair though, if you fall for this scam in 2022, when most of us have grown up with the internet and with an abundance of knowledge and warning of this and similar scams, I have very little sympathy for them. Do not click random links is first day of internet 101 and even my 8yr old niece knows better.

To be fair, anyone over the age of 40 grew up without the internet and without any knowledge about scams. That's about three billion folks. Some of these folks become victims.

You can have 'little sympathy' if you wish, but the idea that 'everyone' should know how to sniff out a scam, when three billion people came of age before the internet was widely used, is pretty silly. Removing sympathy for folks that fall prey to this stuff is cold. Some people are vastly different than one's self, one's friends, and one's family and social circles; that includes folks with zero knowledge of how to tell a scam from something real.

Have sympathy, offer advice, educate and uplift. There's no need to negatively judge others based on their lack of some random knowledge you personally take for granted. Those people you have no sympathy for... likely they have knowledge that you are ignorant of, too.

So, there's two choices. Either you respect the next person, and they respect you, despite being different, or you both just have disdain for each other, over the simple fact that person A knows things person B doesn't, and person A figures person B is an idiot for lacking that knowledge.

We can do miles better than the latter.

/shrug