Hey, so, if you get a /tell that goes:
“750M Gil Giveaway Starting in 15Mins! Search for Gil722 On YouTube Then Trade Me To Collect Your 5M Gil Entry Prize!”
It is, in fact a scam. The name could be different, the method too maybe but: It’ll take you to a youtube link, with another link linked in a pinned comment that will, from what you can tell, look a like a legit ffxiv forum link. Login page looks the same as always, except when you enter your info, it’ll look like it didn’t go through and just refresh.
If you enter it, you will be disconnected from the internet within minutes or less. When you log in next, you will be standing in Rhalgar’s Reach and your gil count will look like this:
If this happens to you, you need to:
change your pasword, stat
contact SE via their support center
contact a GM online via ticket, just in case they used your account to continue the scheme.
How do I know this? Because it happened to me. It robbed me of 5 years of hard earned savings and housing dreams. Worse than that though, they cleaned @luckysparrowffxiv ‘s fc chest too through me. That means they took years of donations of the community that sustained the fc. Personal accounts can be rerolled but FC chests cannot be. I asked.
I’m usually extremely careful. I’ve never fallen for any of these. I examined the link and it legit looked like something linking to a ffxiv forum. But. I clicked just to see what in the world would spawn such a giveaway, not even to enter it cause… who in the world would need that amount of gil. Alas. I clicked, I fucked up. And so, I vowed to repay everything the FC lost if and when my account can be rolled back or, if it won’t be, I’ll farm it back asap to not let other people be found lacking for my lapse of judgement.
But please, let my experience be a lesson no one else needs to learn on their own skin. Share this, don’t let innocent people become victims of these scammers. Thank you.
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