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 Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 1:47 pm
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If you don't read this thread in its entirety, and take necessary measures to protect your account, then it's not our fault for your lack of brain activity.
There have been too many incidents lately involving botting/scamming + MADG. Way too many, and since no one bothered to read Nor's old thread, I'm taking the time out of my busy day to cram it in your heads as a warning.
What is Hacking?
In a security context, a hacker is someone involved in computer security/insecurity, specializing in the discovery of exploits in systems (for exploitation or prevention), or in obtaining or preventing unauthorized access to systems through skills, tactics and detailed knowledge. In the most common general form of this usage, "hacker" refers to a black-hat hacker (a malicious or criminal hacker). There are also ethical hackers (more commonly referred to as white hats), and those more ethically ambiguous (grey hats). To disambiguate the term hacker, often cracker is used instead, referring either to computer security hacker culture as a whole to demarcate it from the academic hacker culture (such as by Eric S. Raymond) or specifically to make a distinction within the computer security context between black-hat hackers and the more ethically positive hackers (commonly known as the white-hat hackers). The context of computer security hacking forms a subculture which is often referred to as the network hacker subculture or simply the computer underground. According to its adherents, cultural values center around the idea of creative and extraordinary computer usage. Proponents claim to be motivated by artistic and political ends, but are often unconcerned about the use of criminal means to achieve them.
What is scamming?
Scamming is a collection of techniques used to manipulate people into performing actions or divulging confidential information. While similar to a confidence trick or simple fraud, the term typically applies to trickery for information gathering or computer system access and in most cases the attacker never comes face-to-face with the victim.
In short
Hacking - Unauthorized access of your account, someone manages to crack your password on their own
Scamming - You screwed up, clicked a link that lead to a fake log-in page and got swindled.
There are also several other definitions that go with this, seeing as the PM scams and links associated with us also have these.
Computer Virus
A program that enters a computer usually without the knowledge of the operator. Some viruses are mild and only cause messages to appear on the screen, but others are destructive and can wipe out the computer's memory or cause more severe damage.
Spyware/Malware
1. Software that secretly gathers information about a person or organization.
2. Any malicious software that is designed to take partial or full control of a computer's operation without the knowledge of its user.
Rootkit
A rootkit is a program (or combination of several programs) designed to take fundamental control of a computer system, without authorization by the system's owners and legitimate managers. Access to the hardware (ie, the reset switch) is rarely required as a rootkit is intended to seize control of the operating system running on the hardware. Typically, rootkits act to obscure their presence on the system through subversion or evasion of standard operating system security mechanisms. Often, they are also Trojans as well, thus fooling users into believing they are safe to run on their systems. Techniques used to accomplish this can include concealing running processes from monitoring programs, or hiding files or system data from the operating system.
Rootkits may have originated as regular, though emergency, applications, intended to take control of an unresponsive system, but in recent years have been largely malware to help intruders gain access to systems while avoiding detection. Rootkits exist for a variety of operating systems, such as Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Solaris. Rootkits often modify parts of the operating system or install themselves as drivers or kernel modules, depending on the internal details of an operating system's mechanisms.
Keystroke logging
Keystroke logging (often called keylogging) is a method of capturing and recording user keystrokes. Keylogging can be useful to determine sources of errors in computer systems, to study how users interact with systems, and is sometimes used to measure employee productivity on certain clerical tasks. Such systems are also highly useful for law enforcement and espionage—for instance, providing a means to obtain passwords or encryption keys and thus bypassing other security measures. Keyloggers are widely available on the Internet.
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Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 2:11 pm
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SOME WELL KNOWN SCAMS INVOLVING MADG
THE PM SCAM
This is one of the much older scams that has involved us, and usually it's done by someone who's scammed another out of an account. These have been floating around since Peasant was captain of the guild.
Either way, it's still a scam.
A typical scam pm pertaining to MADG goes along the lines that the user has won a golden ticket to win 5 million gold. And will show the url for the guild, which is actually a tinyURL of a FLP (fake log-in page).
There's a big problem with this.
We don't advertise anywhere but outside our Chatterbox thread.
We don't give away 5 million gold.
We don't invite like that. If anything, we use the invite form in our moderator panel.
For your protection, and for our sanity, please remember who your moderators are
Captain
Pailzor
Vice-Captains
Simplistic-Tyranny
Norayr
`Tahirah
Crew Members
Moonlight_Bella
[Noi]
FairyFlowers
Pelvic Thrust Fairy
THE BANNER SCAM
Banner Scam 1
Banner Scam 2
I don't know what else to say about this. What's happening is that scammers are joining the guild, taking our banners, using bots, and trying to scam everyone by having them click it. In almost all cases, the banner is masked with a TinyURL link, which hides the ripway link.
IF YOU SEE A BANNER OF OURS THAT IS MASKED WITH A TINYURL, REPORT IT VIA THE REPORT FORM, IF YOU SEE A BUNCH OF THEM IN THE SAME THREAD BY DIFFERENT USERS, REPORT THEM DIRECTLY TO AN ONLINE OMNI MODERATOR.
I've taken necessary precaution as to 'thwart' these scammers by adding a warning text at the bottom.
OTHER SCAMS?
Ticket/game items Scam
Not really MADG related, but it's a rather messy glitch right now in the Marketplace where botters are managing to get past the quantity and put up game items at 0 quantity for 0 gold. WhiteJoker has stated that this is a glitch exploit, is reportable/bannable should one use the glitch, and users who purchase the glitched items will not be refunded their gold |
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Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 2:39 pm
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Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 8:37 am
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Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 1:44 pm
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Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 12:02 am
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Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 12:07 am
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Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 11:52 am
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Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 5:32 pm
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Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 9:53 pm
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Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 1:33 pm
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Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 6:53 pm
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Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 2:31 pm
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Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 10:48 am
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Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 8:21 am
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