Oh, i despair. How do we save people from themselves? How do we protect the innocents? How do we REACH people and make them truly understand the risks?
We can share the information such as is posted in this thread, and in other threads like it, and you'd hope that with our clan ties we'd be able to spread the word pretty effectively. But the message - is not getting through.
Phishing is worse than ever before, it's widespread and professionally done. Many people from this forum have made note of the very eye-catching, Jagexy emails-with-phishing-links. Some of you may have stumbled across innocent-looking-deadly-phish-links on 3rd-party websites. Phishing is epidemic. How do we protect people from it?
I feel sometimes we are actually doing the opposite. For example, once Jagex started to use email for "select purposes," it opened up the floodgates for phish email. It might seem "common sense/obvious" to many of us, how to tell a phish mail from a legit Jagex email. But it is NOT common knowledge to the playerbase at large. The security-related posts in the forums are excellent - but how many do they actually reach?
Another example - clan websites. Before we had "clan pages" on the official website, many/most clan leaders maintained offsites - and probably the majority of clans still do. We must stop perpetuating the myth "trust me I'm a clan leader." Sure, all of us here are Upstanding Runescape Citizens - but those with evil intent can dress up in the guise of clan-leader respectability - how's the typical player supposed to tell the difference?
Jagex has made it harder for rwt's to create new accounts. GOOD. But there's a downside - when you can't make a new/throwaway account, STEALING an existing account becomes a very attractive option. Rwt's are going high-gear perfecting their ability to do this. WHAT can we do to stop this menace in its tracks?
(Short of removing free trade)
Sigh!
02-Jan-2012 17:08:01
RSC - Gone, but never forgotten.
