Thursday, September 08, 2005

Terra Nova: Virtual World Phishing

"Though many MMORPGs have 'fishing' as a profession, I recently received the first phishing email related to VWs. Yes, it seems that your game account may be as valuable and vulnerable as your bank account.
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It's an indication of how significant the asset holdings are in some of these worlds, that it's worth setting up a scam like this for the account details. And it can hardly be an accident that the first one targets EVE--a world known mostly for its trade.

Expect more attempts in other MMORPGs in time."

So, be careful fellow SLers!

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