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Thread: Evony Scammers

  1. #1

    Default Evony Scammers

    Thread motivation
    I'm starting this thread for two reasons.

    - Firstly to alert Evony to parties trying to use Evony as a vehicle for fraud and money laundering.
    - Secondly to alert players on the various servers of these scammers.

    While a player could post the relevant emails to Evony via other mechanisms, actioning such issues will take time. In the period from reporting such a scammer to Evony terminating the abusive account, people could have been defrauded. While purchasing accounts is against the Evony TOS, fraud and money laundering is a much more serious issue.

    As such this thread.

    Scam Methodology

    A scammer creates and account on a server. He then looks for a strong player whose name can be impersonated by changing a character so that it is hard to spot the difference between the real and fake account.

    Typical candidate characters are
    - i and I (eye) - changed to a lowercase l (el) or 1 or vice versa
    - O (oh) changed to a 0 (zero) or vice versa.

    As an example, say JOE has a strong account, scammer J0E may suddenly spam unsuspecting players with an ingame mail. He'll say he is selling his account or a hero. He'll try to lure you and offgame place like Skype. here you will be asked to use an anonymous payment method like MoneyGram or Western Union to pay.

    Once you pay, you never get the account, or if you do, it's a civilian account.

    Where I have dug into this issue, it appears these parties are extremely organized and out to target the community.

    What to post here

    - The server
    The party that contacted you. If in an email, it's best to press reply and copy the name form there with by highlighting it and either right-click-copy there and right-click-paste here, or ctrl-C in the game and ctrl-V here.

    - The mail content or the content of the chat.

    - Any other additional resources used by the scammer like email addresses or accounts.


    General
    Please let's not troll this thread. Yes we all know the scammer spam us players. That's why we can alert the community to them in a civilized way while allowing Evony staff to do their bit.

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    Server 166
    Player FRAGlLE impersonating FRAGILE

    From: FRAGlLE
    Subject: Selling Cheap w/top hero

    Greetings! Just wanted to drop by and offer someting worth it and valueble to me, and since i am about to quit as soon as possible. I got promoted and would like to focus on my new job position. I have think about selling my account to any interested veteran player like you my very account for a low and reasonable price. Which includes all heroes and some of my alts to support the account as feeders.

    Consider this a gift,contact me if interested

    my skype ID is Moses.Goodin

    Cheers!
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    Last edited by macquari; 02-10-2013 at 07:29 PM.

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    great idea to have this thanks

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    Quote Originally Posted by macquari View Post
    Server 166
    Player FRAGlLE impersonating FRAGILE



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    had this same person and exact mail from a person named named Z0UL trying to sell ZOUL account on 170 about a week ago

    no longer have the mail as its deleted after 5 days




    Quote Originally Posted by Ophy View Post
    my luck some stuck up mod will close it as usual no freedom of speech .. evony is lucky they dont live near me or ide barb em ....lol

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    the guy is pretty lazy.. i got the exact same mail.. word for word except the name... i seen a few people get up-set in wc after "buying a top ten acc" when they bought a brand new civilian acc lol or i should say I0I in this case...
    -rep for not trusting all he reads on the net +Rep as a bribe to drop it
    unearned red rep + unearned green rep = nothing
    All i asked was for one person to STEP UP and admit they were wrong
    Apparently having integrity on this forum is frowned upon

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    There is a very easy way to stop this type of behaviour: don't engage in it. And if someone does send these types of things to you, please by all means, report it so customer service can review and take action.

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