According to RuneScape veteran and Eurogamer guides from Xiamu's blog
If you went anywhere near Twitter it is likely that you watched the aftermath of a security breach in which several star accounts and cryptocurrency firms were hacked to tweet a bitcoin scam. Elon Musk, Barack Obama, Bill Gates and Kanye West were one of the safe rs gold sites accounts, all of them tweeting a similar message. "I am feeling generous due to Covid-19," the compromised Elon Musk accounts tweeted. "I will double click any BTC payment delivered to my BTC address for the next hour."
And while it ought to be obvious that sending into an wallet is a bad idea, for RuneScape players, they all understood from experience.
Much like the bitcoin scam, the scammer offers to double the victim's money. But only if the victim sends some over first. The doubling will then occur in a separate transaction (making it a trust trade), but now the scammer can merely take the money and run, world hopping and blocking the victim in order to escape.
According to RuneScape veteran and Eurogamer guides writer Lottie Lynn, some scammers first begin by actually decreasing small amounts, for example 10k or 20k coins, even prior to bringing in the participant's confidence and making off with 100k. "The scammer may also attempt to trick another player into simply dropping the cash, wait for one minute until it seems to the entire world, and then do a runner," she added. More elaborate methods include setting up a bargain for millions, then backing out with the promise of adding items, then restarting the bargain - and altering the countless gold into thousands, ideally with no other participant noticing (such as swapping 10m with 10k).
Jagex tried to stop this practice (and real-money trading) with the introduction of trade limitations in 2007, which could block anything deemed an"unbalanced trade", but following community protests and surveys, that this had been reversed and free trade returned to RuneScape in 2011. Given scams of this character became an issue over 10 years ago, naturally, many RuneScape players found it funny that the exact same method is now being utilized to commemorate Twitter users of their bitcoin.
In terms of the Twitter hack, in the immediate aftermath of this breach verified users lost the capability to log-in: but it appears this function has returnedand we now have some idea of what occurred. Twitter Support confirmed a"coordinated social engineering attack" occurred which can you buy gold in osrs targeted Twitter employees with access to"internal tools and systems," that the hackers then utilized to handle high-profile tweet and accounts on their behalf. Motherboard apparently circulated on the underground, and saw leaked screenshots of an inner Twitter management tool.
And while it ought to be obvious that sending into an wallet is a bad idea, for RuneScape players, they all understood from experience.
Much like the bitcoin scam, the scammer offers to double the victim's money. But only if the victim sends some over first. The doubling will then occur in a separate transaction (making it a trust trade), but now the scammer can merely take the money and run, world hopping and blocking the victim in order to escape.
According to RuneScape veteran and Eurogamer guides writer Lottie Lynn, some scammers first begin by actually decreasing small amounts, for example 10k or 20k coins, even prior to bringing in the participant's confidence and making off with 100k. "The scammer may also attempt to trick another player into simply dropping the cash, wait for one minute until it seems to the entire world, and then do a runner," she added. More elaborate methods include setting up a bargain for millions, then backing out with the promise of adding items, then restarting the bargain - and altering the countless gold into thousands, ideally with no other participant noticing (such as swapping 10m with 10k).
Jagex tried to stop this practice (and real-money trading) with the introduction of trade limitations in 2007, which could block anything deemed an"unbalanced trade", but following community protests and surveys, that this had been reversed and free trade returned to RuneScape in 2011. Given scams of this character became an issue over 10 years ago, naturally, many RuneScape players found it funny that the exact same method is now being utilized to commemorate Twitter users of their bitcoin.
In terms of the Twitter hack, in the immediate aftermath of this breach verified users lost the capability to log-in: but it appears this function has returnedand we now have some idea of what occurred. Twitter Support confirmed a"coordinated social engineering attack" occurred which can you buy gold in osrs targeted Twitter employees with access to"internal tools and systems," that the hackers then utilized to handle high-profile tweet and accounts on their behalf. Motherboard apparently circulated on the underground, and saw leaked screenshots of an inner Twitter management tool.
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