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psistarprime
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So..... I received an interesting PM in PE today.
[Tell] From [Character name@handle]: Visit this site and claim your StrongHolds Free Legendary Mount Rewards at link removed
Of course the site has the official SH preview movie and a copy of Strumslinger's announcement concerning SH Siege, followed by a choice of free mounts including the Flail Snail and Tenser's. "All" you have to do is input your registered email account, password and @handle. This is almost certainly a method to hack and steal accounts.
[Tell] From [Character name@handle]: Visit this site and claim your StrongHolds Free Legendary Mount Rewards at link removed
Of course the site has the official SH preview movie and a copy of Strumslinger's announcement concerning SH Siege, followed by a choice of free mounts including the Flail Snail and Tenser's. "All" you have to do is input your registered email account, password and @handle. This is almost certainly a method to hack and steal accounts.
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No?
There you go.
Btw. friends requests, goldseller spam and even spam mails have increased massively, would be nice if some CM would poke the Devs and ask for some help...
I reported both as spam. I would hope no one would fall for this, but I know better. A newer more trusting guild member just lost his account to what sounds like this scam yesterday. It would be nice to see Strum put out an official warning, since there are people desperate and hopeful enough to fall for this stuff.
it's really annoying, i get constantly friends inviting from such sellers.
most annoying is when i'm fighting on pvp -.-
If it's too good to be true, it obviously is. This trick has been around for decades. Don't ever give ANYONE your account information. And certainly not to another site. The only places you'll ever log into Neverwinter is via the ARC homepage (or the forums) and the actual game client. You'll never, ever, ever need to input or give your account information to anyone else. Ever.
Also, please don't post the actual links on the forum. While you might think it's good as a warning, it actually drives more traffic to those websites, and increases the risk that someone will mistakenly fall victim to the scam.
It's simple enough to say "Don't give out your login information to anyone". We don't need a thread for every scam, or a list of every scammer or website.
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I played a game where one of the most common scams was "type your password, look it gets filtered by the censor. See: *******" and of course it didn't.
Eventually the company ended up putting both forwards and backwards incarnations of passwords on to the filter but then of course those people just find new ways to trick the young, naiive and gullible into compromising their account security.
This topic actually fostered a nostalgia trip between my brother and me yesterday. The simplest recourse is to make sure people know that they should ALWAYS question when they are asked for account information. If they jump the gun due to greed or whatever other factor then unfortunately that falls on them regardless of the excuse.
It is proven that telling people not to do something often has the adverse effect for whatever reason. Whether you call it reverse psychology, curiosity or sticking it to the man people tend to see " don't do ____" and it encourages them to do it even if they were not originally interested or planning to do so. Even if this wasn't the case though it would quickly become a massive and cumbersome list when it is as simple as:
Do not use your PWE username and password anywhere besides Official PWE Websites.
Having some real GMs in the game...
A GM also doesn't just bann one bot after the other, a GM could get the whole traffic from the botters IP address banned/blocked, forcing the botters to get a new IP every time, they send a bot into PE to spam.
And botters couldn't risc it anymore, to have farm and spam bots running from the same IP... since all of them would be removed from the server within a single moment.
This isn't just about banning only the spam bots on the spot, but GMs can also go after the farm bots, the AD seller and buyer accounts too, and that will hurt the botters really.
Besides, even police officers do more then just walk the street, i think you are confusing real police officers with security personal/watchmen, that only patrol around objects/places, and call the police if something happens.
*Friend falls and breaks her ankle*
YOU DESERVED THAT, CALL THE AMBULANCE YOURSELF, R-TARD!
Sorry, but people like the poster above really get to me. Maybe if we spent a bit more time looking out for others, they would have a bit more time to look out for us as well. World's a better place and all that.
Anyways, yeah. Never give out your info, change your password every 30 to 45 days, write the info down on paper instead of putting it "in the cloud" Cause people have to have a way to steal stuff up there.
You can hide your real IP as good as you want, when your account gets banned, it doesn't matter anymore what IP it was running under.
And sure, they can make new accounts, but those have to get to level 60 again to provide the botters with stacks of enchantments to sell for AD, and to replace a farm character will cost them more time then just a few minutes.
Now imagine that "sad and pathetic dude" coming down on those farming bots every day like the personated wrath of the good lord himself.
Those botters will have a hard time getting their millions together, when they have to restart new accounts on a daily basis.
Or when their banking accounts with millions of AD in it get banned too... add some players banned for buying AD from them to the mix, and we might at least make it a lot harder for the botters to sell their AD for real money.
Besides it's not just that, in other games with a real GM support, GMs do really support the players to get things sorted out or restored... and this would make it harder for scammers too.
Not sure, why that would be so bad...
I don't work as GM, i never have and probably never will... but i can still respect those people and their work.
Afterall it's just a job like many others out there.
In the end, GMs are still the only viable option to fight botters.
your words, not mine.
And what tools would that be?
The botters in NWO are not hiding in game, they're out in the open for everyone to see.
The same goes for their transactions, they're using the Auction House for moving the AD from the seller to the buyer account. Some of them are even advertising, that they will cover the auction house fee for the buyer...
These are just the facts. And real GMs would make a difference, since they are not only there for banning and removing botters, but also to help and support the regular players.
Two birds, one stone.
1. If someone you don't know PM's or mails you a link in game just don't go to it.
2. If you do go to it, check the url. Is it arc? or playneverwinter.com? Nope? Then it's not a direct promotion.
3. If it asks for more than just your character or handle details? Be wary.
4. Asks for password? - Total scam
It's sad that people still fall for these sorts of scams
People need to remember, you don't get anything in this life for free, theres always a catch and when someone offers you great riches, you should be thinking: whats the angle? why are they doing this and what do they need from me? Anytime anyone or anything asks you for your password or to know specifically which email address is linked to your @handle you should be suspicious.