Nordic Gold
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Nordic Gold's Anti "Phishing & Scamming" Guide.
Phishing is defined as:
"The fraudulent practice of sending emails purporting to be from reputable companies in order to induce individuals to reveal personal information, such as passwords and credit card numbers."
It's a huge problem and there are so many methods in which to fall victim. Almost all involve the user visiting a "forum", or being asked to login to the website. Emails which appear to come from "[email protected]" but on inspection come from a fake email address - Be careful of this.
Common methods in OSRS & RS3 are as follows:
"The fraudulent practice of sending emails purporting to be from reputable companies in order to induce individuals to reveal personal information, such as passwords and credit card numbers."
It's a huge problem and there are so many methods in which to fall victim. Almost all involve the user visiting a "forum", or being asked to login to the website. Emails which appear to come from "[email protected]" but on inspection come from a fake email address - Be careful of this.
Common methods in OSRS & RS3 are as follows:
- Creating fake giveaways & Prompting users to enter information of a forum post
- Creating fake streams on twitch (Made to look legitimate with twitch bots), where famous players are "quitting" and you must see their forum post to find out why.
- Joining clans where you must apply on a forum
- You've been selected as a PMod and must follow their link to accept.
There has recently been a new method with the announcement of OSRS & RS3 Mobile.
Using Facebook & Instagram accounts claiming to be Runescape/Jagex - They lead users to download fake apps where logon information is taken. The official release is in 2018. Official Jagex/Runescape accounts have the full names. Eg. "Oldschool Runescape"... NOT "OS Runescape Mobile".
In short, the best methods to avoid phishing attacks are:
- Always navigate to www.Runescape.com directly
- Always mouse-over a hyperlink to see where the link will take you
- Always check the RS / OSRS news section to verify any offer or promotion you've seen
- Always be wary of links posted in comments on 3rd party sites (YouTube, Twitch, etc.)
- Never visit an unknown site that promise free Bonds/XP/Gold/PMod status
- Always be suspicious of any 'support' email, if you've not contacted Jagex Support yourself
- Always be wary of anyone asking for your Bank Pin - Jagex will NEVER ask you for this information
If you think you've been phished - Change your password immediately! Changing passwords logs out any users currently on the account - Potentially saving you a lot of $$$.
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because once you know you won't fall for it but most the time people only know about it when they experience it.
