Important: phisher alert
Dear Basilers, we have ourselves a phisher.
This user posts the link of a website which claims to give out MaplePoints. I just filtered the URL of the website, but can't guarantee that'll stop the phisher.
If you see a suspicious link [i]don't[/i] quote it. You're spreading the link, making it possible for more people to click it. Instead report it or send an active moderator a PM. Whatever you do, don't click and especially don't feed in your account info if it asks for it, also if you're planning to post false info a la
Username: You
Password: are
PIC: al0s3r
It might be a keylogger.
It's very important that this phisher is stopped. He has literally made more than a dozen accounts which we have forwarded to the administrator and is not going to be stopped very easily. We very much need your help.
Thanks in advance,
Pav
PS: It's good the title was initially too short or I'd have posted it in the wrong section by accident. </3
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[quote=oreeeeeeo]What's a phisher? [/quote]
I used the word "phisher" to describe the person who posted these links, but phishing basically is the act of pretending to be a well-known company (in this case Nexon- only Nexon is able to give out Maplepoints) and having people leave valuable and inportant information on a fake site which often looks like the official site*. The sites which were spread by this phisher promised they'd give Maplers Maplepoints in they logged in on their site, which would record their login info so hackers could get on their accounts and strip them bare.
Basil Market is the target of such phishers very often. They come in surges. As soon as one of us sees a link like this (they all look the same) we alert the other mods and MrBasil and if the phisher isn't defeated quickly we also alert the community.
Every site that pretends to be Nexon America but doesn't belong to the nexon.net domain is a phishing site. Always check for extra letters or the URL suffix.
*I've seen some exact copies. And by that I mean flawless copies. The only directly noticable thing was that the URLs weren't right.
Thanks for heads up! I have this obsession of pressing any link i see
@Liam: I meant it more in the sense they were outwardly communicating with the community about a specific problem.
[quote=Ezze]If you actually click on a link that you have no idea where it's from and expect rainbows and sunshines, you're stupid and deserve whatever comes around. Then you'll learn.[/quote]
I prefer teaching them without having their computers messed up. If I were to be that harsh as a moderator (i.e. Extreme every tiny violation- your fault if you don't read the rules) people'd hate my guts even more than they already do. XD
I think this dude that your talking about sent me a link lolol! It was either yesterday or the day before yesterday. Not really sure since I have poor memory for irrelevant stuffs. Its a good thing I didn't click on it. Haha I knew it was kind of funky/fishy.
[quote=Krill]Good to see the mods actually actively moderating.[/quote]
they're active..just cause you don't see them being proactive to every situation doesn't mean their eyes are any less of a hawk.
[quote=Speed]People can easily bypass the filter by shortening their URL on BitURL, just saying, maybe you should filter it?[/quote]
To be honest I don't know what the admin's policy towards URL shorteners is. So far we haven't been bothered much by them (I can remember only two cases off the top of my head and one of them was harmless), but if people start using URL shorteners en masse to bypass malicious or filtered URLs we'll have to do something about that. :S
For some reason I initially wrote the second half of my last sentence in reverse. Hm.
People can easily bypass the filter by shortening their URL on BitURL, just saying, maybe you should filter it?
Good to see the mods actually actively moderating.
[quote=LOLfwappz]You talked to Mr.Basil?[/quote]
Through MSN yesterday evening. /anticlimax
I never had a voice chat with him. I'd be too nervous anyway because I'm not native English and am a bit worried about my accent and fluency.
[quote=Pavchka]Pardee! Ye are all a bunch of stinkers undamaning mah athoretee. I feel wounded.
I had a chat with MrBasil about this phishing stuff and filtered the URLs of the websites he was trying to spread, but he hasn't given us and is now bypassing the filter. -_-" A lot of thanks to the people who reported him.[/quote]
You talked to Mr.Basil?
Pardee! Ye are all a bunch of stinkers undamaning mah athoretee. I feel wounded.
I had a chat with MrBasil about this phishing stuff and filtered the URLs of the websites he was trying to spread, but he hasn't given us and is now bypassing the filter. -_-" A lot of thanks to the people who reported him.
SHUT.
DOWN.
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