In-game password scam

phantomensemble
phantomensemble Posts: 1 Arc User
edited October 2009 in Support Desk
I'm pretty sure that's what it was.
Hopefully that's where this would go.
A heads up to any fans of PW out there (gonna be tough to find them here, huh?) about an account theft scam I almost fell victim to. One I've NEVER encountered on PW before.

I was browsing player shops, and I clicked one. Immediately PW froze up and crashed, and I had a window about an error report. It requested my username, password, and e-mail address, as well as a description of the problem. I typed in all of my info, although before hitting "send" it occurred to me. I WAS SIGNED IN ALREADY. PW would already have all of my info. I immediately closed it afterwards.(Sorry, I paranoid-freaked and just closed it and changed my account preferences before taking a screenshot or getting the player's name).

Anyways, I just wanted to let the community know about this. It was VERY convincing when compared to other password scams, so don't fall victim to it likeI almost did.
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  • Kourindou - Lost City
    Kourindou - Lost City Posts: 7 Arc User
    edited October 2009
    Oops. I forgot to include my problem.
    Other than just warning the community, I wanted to ask if there were any similar problems drifting around PW right now. I just got back into the game and I'd HATE to lose my character already.

    Any reports on currently active scams would be greatly appreciated, thank you.
  • IceJazmin - Heavens Tear
    IceJazmin - Heavens Tear Posts: 4,206 Arc User
    edited October 2009
    If your game crashes, sometimes you remain logged into the game, that is why you got the message you were already logged. All you have to do it to force login.
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  • Lord_of_wind - Sanctuary
    Lord_of_wind - Sanctuary Posts: 110 Arc User
    edited October 2009
    phantomensemble wrote: »
    I'm pretty sure that's what it was.
    Hopefully that's where this would go.
    A heads up to any fans of PW out there (gonna be tough to find them here, huh?) about an account theft scam I almost fell victim to. One I've NEVER encountered on PW before.

    I was browsing player shops, and I clicked one. Immediately PW froze up and crashed, and I had a window about an error report. It requested my username, password, and e-mail address, as well as a description of the problem. I typed in all of my info, although before hitting "send" it occurred to me. I WAS SIGNED IN ALREADY. PW would already have all of my info. I immediately closed it afterwards.(Sorry, I paranoid-freaked and just closed it and changed my account preferences before taking a screenshot or getting the player's name).

    Anyways, I just wanted to let the community know about this. It was VERY convincing when compared to other password scams, so don't fall victim to it likeI almost did.

    dw about it , it just ask ur User name and char name in bug report cause when they chking bug report u sended they nd to know in Which ACCOUNT and WHICH CHAR the error occurred, and they ask ur email cause to send u reply or to ask u more info about bug occurred , I many times send bug report when crashed but they nvr contacted me in email
  • MagicHamsta - Lost City
    MagicHamsta - Lost City Posts: 10,466 Arc User
    edited October 2009
    phantomensemble it really asked you for your password???
    b:shocked

    the error reports me get quite occasionally only asks for acc name/char name/email/description.
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  • Kourindou - Lost City
    Kourindou - Lost City Posts: 7 Arc User
    edited October 2009
    Lord_of_wind - Sanctuary wrote: »
    dw about it , it just ask ur User name and char name in bug report cause when they chking bug report u sended they nd to know in Which ACCOUNT and WHICH CHAR the error occurred, and they ask ur email cause to send u reply or to ask u more info about bug occurred , I many times send bug report when crashed but they nvr contacted me in email
    MagicHamsta - Lost City wrote: »
    phantomensemble it really asked you for your password???
    b:shocked

    the error reports me get quite occasionally only asks for acc name/char name/email/description.
    (o.O)

    Yeah, I don't think this was PW's thing. It asked me for my username, password, AND email. Pretty sure it was a scam, although sorry if it wasn't and I just caused a scare. I was already logged in though, which is what made me think they wouldn't need my password if it *was* actually part of Perfect World.
  • FatherTed - Dreamweaver
    FatherTed - Dreamweaver Posts: 3,723 Arc User
    edited October 2009
    The 'ReportBugs' screen? That's not a scam, thats PWI collecting information about the reason for your crash.

    edit - everyone is so fast :O

    And it actually asked for your password? Not heard of that before.
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  • damnation
    damnation Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited October 2009
    pretty sure it didnt ask for ur pass, i get this error daily because i play in full screen and go back in forth with the windows button...sometimes has a problem opening back up
  • Baalbak - Dreamweaver
    Baalbak - Dreamweaver Posts: 1,624 Arc User
    edited October 2009
    next time you get that screen, post a screen shot of it - k?
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  • Kourindou - Lost City
    Kourindou - Lost City Posts: 7 Arc User
    edited October 2009
    Baalbak - Dreamweaver wrote: »
    next time you get that screen, post a screen shot of it - k?

    I intend to.
    It happened *ages* ago, but I had a false report thing come up a little past a year ago (Late October, 2008) and it happened quite similarly to this.

    And, to make things more simple, would anybody happen to have a picture of the normal report bug screen?
  • surtr
    surtr Posts: 3,378 Perfect World Employee
    edited October 2009
    I don't have a screenshot of my own handy, but here's another post where someone posted one:
    http://pwi-forum.perfectworld.com/showpost.php?p=2804211&postcount=2

    As someone said earlier, this is the official bug report screen that's part of the game.
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