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The old saying amongst con men holds very true on Battle.net, "You can't cheat an honest man." | The old saying amongst con men holds very true on Battle.net, "You can't cheat an honest man." | ||
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==Confidence Tricks== | |||
A very common type of social engineering is a two man confidence game. One player starts this in a public game. He'll claim to have an amazing ability; a way to dupe items, or hack them to increase their stats, or something else desirable. Naturally no one in the game believes him, and the wiser players simply squelch him. His (secret) partner (the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shill shill]) is the most vocal in his disbelief, they appear to argue, and finally the skeptic throws up an item to be duped or otherwise manipulated, "Just to shut him up." | A very common type of social engineering is a two man confidence game. One player starts this in a public game. He'll claim to have an amazing ability; a way to dupe items, or hack them to increase their stats, or something else desirable. Naturally no one in the game believes him, and the wiser players simply squelch him. His (secret) partner (the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shill shill]) is the most vocal in his disbelief, they appear to argue, and finally the skeptic throws up an item to be duped or otherwise manipulated, "Just to shut him up." | ||
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Never assume other players aren't secretly working together, and never believe anything that seems too good to be true. | Never assume other players aren't secretly working together, and never believe anything that seems too good to be true. | ||
==Sneaky Game Commands== | |||
These are another form of Social Engineering, where players trick you into doing something stupid with a command you might not know about. They claim the command will do something special, usually dupe items, but it instead drops you, or incapacitates you, so they can kill you while you aren't paying attention. | |||
There were a number of debug codes left in the final game that have been removed over time, "scrollhack1" used to cause half the screen to go black, but it's disabled now. "Soundchaosdebug" is an interesting command, just type that in and you get an incredible babble of character and NPC voices. Type it again to stop it. Alt+F4 is the basic close program command for Windows, so obviously if someone tells you to dupe by dropping all your equipment and hitting Alt F1-F5, they're trying to get you to close the game so they can run and grab your loot. | |||
Various packet sending programs are popular now, though their only purpose is as a cheat, or way to dupe, etc. They are also used in scams, one is detailed in the Trade Hacks section, but be aware that a packet you send can mimic most any command you can do with your mouse or keyboard, and it's quite likely that what someone says a packet will do is not what it will do, and they might be causing you to crash out, or drop an item, etc. | |||