Merchant Archive
Thread: Bank tip question
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Balin76
Sun Mar 21, 2004 6:01 am
#1
I recently got an email warning about a new scam, and thought I'd post here to see what's up with it.
Long story short, it involves people sending fake bank transfer messages. Anyone know if this is a true scam, and if te devs have anything in the works to fix it? Also curious if this is a Scylla only kind of thing, or if it's broad range. Thanks all.
Kothmia
Astronaut_jones
Sun Mar 21, 2004 7:08 am
#2
Could you elaborate on the nature of this and how I could be scammed by recieving a fake message?
Dronae
Sun Mar 21, 2004 8:32 am
#3
The victim gets an email exactly like the one recieved when there is a real bank tip, causing him to think that he has recieved payment when he actually has not.
ArusSaab
Sun Mar 21, 2004 11:13 pm
#4
I just posted on the Open Discussion thread an idea I can't believe hasn't been brought forward before to solve this problem/scam.
Simply change the "from" line in the bank tip/transfer email notices to be from "the bank" not the player. The player's name still appears in the mesage body. So unless your player's named "the bank" you can't scam 
Let's everyone get behind this idea - it should be a fairly small code fix that will prevent an entire class of player grief and reduce CSR tickets.
MerchantCatt
Mon Mar 22, 2004 12:36 am
#5
I heard about this scam a few weeks back. For the time being I would use the trade window for getting your credits and careful watch how many credits you have at a time.
I think your "the bank" idea would work, if devs want to do it.
JTGAlpha
Tue Mar 23, 2004 8:17 pm
#6
Smugglers have been concerned about it as well. TH is aware of it and said they were looking into extra layers of security for us on this.
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