Beware scam tells are back

[Valoria3]

It happened to me during shadowbringers. Only because my fc leader posted a link..and i didn't read her post that well. It was something like "hey guys dont go read this crazy forum article" but i didn't realize my fc leader would post a fake forum login link lol.

Yeah that's because your FC leader had gotten infected.. Those can be damn easy to fall for because it's from an otherwise trusted source. It's when it's some random stranger that suddenly drops you a tell saying like "300M raffle giveaway starting in 15mins, post a number 1-30 on the FFXIV forum thread to enter: <insert fake webadress> That peoples alarm bells should start to ring and have them go "NOPE NOPE NOPE" and then rightclick name then report.

[Kranel_San]

I still don't entirely understand how people fall for this stuff. You'd think MMO players of all people would be wise enough to at least look at random links before pasting them into their browser?

I believe the reason why some players are falling for this is due to the game being their first MMO. Other players who have grown around playing other and older MMOs such as Runescape would instantly know this is a scam (Likely because it's not their first time getting scammed in MMO as well). Still, without such prior experience, players would become prune to falling for it, especially when this game is very social in comparison to others, and such supposed 'waffles' are not hard to imagine happening around (Which in reality, is not, but that it is easy to imagine it is)

[AllenThyl]

I still don't entirely understand how people fall for this stuff. You'd think MMO players of all people would be wise enough to at least look at random links before pasting them into their browser?

I have some very bad news about the state of humanity for you ...

[AnnRam]

They never left.

The amount of hacking in this game is insane, I still seeing people teleporting right away in main cities like nothing.

[Shialan]

They never left.

The amount of hacking in this game is insane, I still seeing people teleporting right away in main cities like nothing.

Both are completely different things.

[iVolke]

If you're still falling for this stuff in 2024 that's on you tbh.

[weebtext]

Did you win the 300m gil though?

[hynaku]

Whenever I get a tell to enter to win 300m gil I just blacklist them.

[Boblawblah]

You guys get tells?