This looks like a stupid scam. Why are players always fooled? Expose game scams

When Boat-fruited Sterculia was in junior high school, there was a popular end-game called "street basketball". Soon boat-fruited Sterculia became addicted to it with her classmates, and often skipped classes and went to Internet cafes to play games. One day, I just hid in the Internet cafe to open the game client, and then I found an email in my inbox.

I believe everyone has guessed the content, which is nothing more than "you were selected as a lucky player by the game company and won a prize worth several yuan." Please pick it up at the following address. " I believed it at that time, almost paid the IQ tax and transferred it to the liar 1000. The reason why I was not cheated was because I was too poor to give so much money.

Looking back now, this scam has become a stalk for gamers. It seems that this low-end scam has no soil for survival. But in fact, you don't know that those seemingly simple scams are always fooled by players. Today, Boat-fruited Sterculia will talk to you about the stories of those "liars" in the game.

Players who play games will encounter all kinds of scammers more or less. But if you let players choose which online game cheats the most, it must be DNF.

How many liars there are in dnf is naturally impossible to count. But around Boat-fruited Sterculia, there are almost no dnf players who have not been cheated. Even the swindlers of dnf can become a major attraction in the game and are watched by countless players. One of the most famous players is the "one-dollar spike".

"One Dollar Seconds" should be the only online game that makes the scam aboveboard. The scammer directly shouted: "All kinds of props and materials sell a gold coin" to attract players to watch. Then start to set up stalls, put some high-value equipment materials on the shelves, and sell only one gold coin for you to rob. In the end, players often buy worthless and expensive materials.

In addition to the classic "one dollar spike", there are also trading scams, auction house scams, number buying scams, "deposit" scams, and people who play emotional cards send equipment. It can be said that the scams in dnf cover almost all the scams that appear in online games, and some even play out various new tricks.

Why are these seemingly low-level routines so successful?

In fact, summing up these various scams has a common feature. It is all to arouse the players' greed for cheap. As the saying goes, no desire is just. This is really the best way to deal with fraud.

But in the game, it is often just a joke to see other players being cheated because of their greed for cheap. Only when I was cheated did I realize that I was so stupid.

In fact, all scams have several basic steps. The first step is to use various channels to lure players to be greedy and cheap, and then use the carelessness of players to succeed. Scams in online games are generally divided into two categories, one is low-cost "willing to take the bait" and the other is various routines with high technical content.

The willing takes the bait mainly uses the carelessness of players to achieve the success of deception.

For example, in a trading scam, among many low-priced materials, a high-priced material with the quantity of 1 has suddenly been added. Or use the error of digital digits to make the first place of a high-priced material look much lower. I believe that many Dnf players have encountered examples of buying crystals at high prices.

High-tech fraud often has a fixed routine, or uses trojans to achieve their goals. Use the loopholes in various mechanisms of the game to achieve the purpose of cheating. Different games have different ways of operation. Here is a classic example outside the game.

A player lost a branded mobile phone, and the other party could not use it easily because the fingerprint was unlocked. The player locks the mobile phone at the first time through the "mobile phone retrieval" function and sends the phone number to the other party for easy contact. But the other party did not contact, but immediately shut down.

When the player uses the mobile phone retrieval function to locate the location of the mobile phone, he suddenly receives a message.

The other party is cracking the phone, please reply to the received verification code to lock the phone.

However, after the player replied to the received verification code, he found that the phone had been unlocked. If the player doesn't send the verification code, this directly locked mobile phone can't be cracked by ordinary people.

However, the other party got the verification code through a phishing message, thus successfully cracking the mobile phone lock. This seemingly simple scam is actually the core of all scams. Various account trading scams in the game often use this method.

This is the type of people who have been cheated the most before. First claim to buy equipment at a high price, and then ask for a formal third-party platform. Then, through the mastered information, impersonate the customer service of the third-party platform to obtain the password and defraud the device. In addition, various awards and free auxiliary information are often phishing websites, which use Trojans to steal player account information.

In fact, no matter what kind of scam it is, it takes advantage of the player's greed for cheap. Being vigilant and familiar with the various prices and trading settings of the game can help players reduce the chance of being cheated. Game cheating has not disappeared now, and it will still exist in the future. After all, there are rivers and lakes where there are people, and online games are no exception.