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Social Engineering is a term that basically means "talking someone into something." It's not hacking or cheating, though it's often used in conjunction with such activities. Successful confidence men and used car salesmen are consummate social engineers. So are successful cheaters in online games, since the trick of succeeding at that venture isn't to find the hacks and key loggers and item droppers, it's to get other people to use them. | '''Social Engineering''' is a term that basically means "talking someone into something." It's not hacking or cheating, though it's often used in conjunction with such activities. Successful confidence men and used car salesmen are consummate social engineers. So are successful cheaters in online games, since the trick of succeeding at that venture isn't to find the hacks and key loggers and item droppers, it's to get other people to use them. | ||
There are countless social engineering scams covered on the [[warnings]] page, most of them Battle.net adaptions of classic "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confidence_trick grifts]." The '''vast''' majority of these involve ways to (supposedly) get rich quick by duping items, hacking items, creating special item types, boosting your character's level or powers, etc. | There are countless social engineering scams covered on the [[warnings]] page, most of them Battle.net adaptions of classic "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confidence_trick grifts]." The '''vast''' majority of these involve ways to (supposedly) get rich quick by duping items, hacking items, creating special item types, boosting your character's level or powers, etc. | ||
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==Confidence Tricks== | ==Confidence Tricks== | ||
[[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." | ||
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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. | ||
==Lying Beggars== | |||
Not so much a scam as an annoyance. Players will often beg for items, saying they got ripped off, hacked, scammed, etc. Maybe they did, and maybe they are just greedy and lazy and looking for free stuff. It's better to give extra gear away to real newbies, or players who are trying to fend for themselves. They deserve it more than some begging leech who asks everyone in the game for items every 30 seconds. If you give a beggar an item to shut them up, you're just reinforceming their unfortunate behavior, and ensuring they'll continue it. There's a reason restaurants near the ocean have those "don't feed the seagulls" signs posted. Don't look up. | |||
==Impersonators== | |||
Players will impersonate Blizzard employees, or even prominent members of the Diablo fansite community, if they think it'll gain them some benefit. | |||
The usual trick is to try to get players to reveal their account passwords. Some players can hoax themselves to look just like a Blizzard representative, and they'll list clever reasons for why they need your information, etc. Never believe it, as Blizzard so often says, they'll never ask for your password or cd-key in an email, only by a Blizzard employee with the correct avatar and name, in the closed support channel on Battle.net. | |||
Scammers will also try this via email, mailing players with addresses found on d2 forums, claiming to be Blizzard and asking for account information. Blizzard Support will never contact you unsolicited, and anytime they do mail you the return address will go to an @blizzard.com address. If it's [email protected] or something like that, it's obviously a scam, and in any event Bliz will never ask for your account password in a mail. It's easy to set up your email client so a mail appears to come from an @blizzard.com address, but very very hard to intercept a reply, so just be sure you are replying to who you think you are replying to. | |||
===Fansite Impersonators=== | |||
[[Image:Rush.jpg|thumb|300px|Diabloii.net staff played anonymously.]] | |||
In the busy early days of Diablo II, the staff at Diabloii.net often saw themselves impersonated on the realms, by players looking for free stuff. | |||
We never used our semi-celebrity to ask for free things, and didn't conduct any website business over Battle.net, so anyone asking for anything in our names was running a scam. | |||
==Sneaky Game Commands== | ==Sneaky Game Commands== | ||
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[[category:warnings]] | [[category:warnings]] | ||
[[category:d2 Hacks]] | [[category:d2 Hacks]] | ||
[[ | [[Category:Glossary]] | ||