Five RuneScape Phishing Scams You Should Beware of OSRS gold.

Today, Phishing is known as an online crime where the victim is approached by a person pretending to be an authentic institution to entice people into giving the personal information they are sensitive to like the personal information of the person, banking and credit card numbers and passwords.

The information then is utilized to access crucial accounts and may cause identity as well as financial loss.

Phishing scams aren't just occurring on the outside, but also in MMORPGs such as Runescape.

It's true that we're not secure in our little virtual worlds, but we need to be alert always because hackers can target us in ways that we thought of, just so they can sell OSRS Gold they stole from you.

Phishing ads/Websites

Players should not enter their login information or other private details to any website other than that of the authentic Runescape website. Therefore, it is important to check the URLs you visit or address bars in order to verify that the website is legitimate as some sites attempt to mimic official sites in terms of design and appearance.

The scammers attempt to draw users with what they typically want, such as appearing to be Jagex employee and asking for your personal information about your account as they have been offered a position as a Moderator for Player'. This is to inform you that Jagex will not ever contact players in game and request you to visit an external website to input your account information.

Anyone who makes an offer for an opportunity as a moderator for players moderator may be penalized as acting as Jagex under the rule 5. of our code of conduct. Scammers also send fake email messages to inform players that they've been barred from Runescape. Runescape platform and that they must login to show their ban.

Twitch Phishing Streams

Twitch streams could also have hyperlinks that are phishing, so you must be aware of the links you see on other websites.

One of the most popular twitch scams is the fake double-experience weekend' which is where the host connects viewers to fake websites and are victimized.

They usually impersonate bigger channels such as OSRS channel. They has many viewers, but they are more like "view bots"; fake viewers who aim to increase the number of viewers so that the stream climbs over at the very top line to appear authentic.

Players must always verify their usernames on the channels they would like to view since no official Double XP Weekend event of this kind has been held within Old School Runescape.

If the domain doesn't end with runescape.com or jagex.com or any other official Jagex domain, then it is almost certainly a scam.

Reset Passwords for Phishing Emails

Phishers can create emails that appear to be authentic and come from a websites such as Runescape asking users alter their passwords as quickly as they can before the expiration date.

They share a malicious URL or attachment to steal passwords and account information directly from the user in order to gain access to secure information.

The link will take users to the password reset page. Then, in the background, it loads an application that steals the session cookies of the user, which is then a result of an XSS attack, and opens the account to criminal.

They will send an email asking users to input their most recent passwords they can remember, that trick them into giving access to the account details to buy RuneScape gold. The other term used for the scam would be password recovery fraud.