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[[Image:Bnet-scam-altF4.jpg | [[Image:Bnet-scam-altF4.jpg|thumb|300px|Someone almost falling for the "drop your items and hit Alt+F4" trick.]] | ||
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." | ||