Have you ever been victim of hacking or any type of internet scams?

Marter

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No, not once. I'm pretty safe while on the internet, and any type of scam e-mail I get I just delete.
 

Kajt

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Some asshole hacked my Steam account. Fortunately the support managed to get it back for me.
 

Sleekgiant

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Well when my Anti-virus and firewall had a dispute I got a nice little rogue virus that wiped out my user account, so sure.

Also had one of my Runescape accounts hacked, luckily it was a crap account so I had the last laugh
 

Icecoldcynic

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Never even got a virus (well a serious one anyway). I make sure to be careful what kind of sites I go on.
 

NeedAUserName

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I once fell for the worst trick on Runescape (bare in mind, I has 7 or 8), someone said "Jagex doesn't let you type your password, try it", cue me, the idiotic child (who has managed to get his hands on a decent amount of loot) typing in my password, then realizing my mistake right after I press enter.

So did I do the sensible thing of making a PIN number on my bank account, and just putting everything in there? No. I logged off immediately, thinking I could change my password before they could. I was wrong.
 

Hashime

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I have never been hacked or taken advantage of on the internet, but a friend of mine left his facebook account logged in on my computer. Naturally I had to change his status to "I just lost the game"... damn it! I just lost the game. Anyways all of his friends bombarded him with playful hate mail after seeing the update.
 

tunnel b1

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one time I clicked on a pop-up that said I had won a million euros and talk about timing,just then my computer got infected with a massive virus.
 

PurpleSky

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Once I got scammed in silkroad to drop down my Seal Of Sun item :*** .He promised me he would unseal it and give it back.

[HEADING=1]STOP LAUGHING[/HEADING]
 

DarkMessiah

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Nope, never.
Not even one little piece of malware.
It's not that difficult if you're tech-savvy and have a reasonable amount of common sense.
 

Rkiver

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DarkMessiah said:
Nope, never.
Not even one little piece of malware.
It's not that difficult if you're tech-savvy and have a reasonable amount of common sense.
And this is why we have so many people screaming "OMG I GOT HACKED!".

Because most people have little to no tech knowledge or common sense.
 

laggyteabag

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I downloaded 'Anti-Virus 7' but thanks to my amazing brother he fixed it in a matter of minutes.
But my cousin has gone through about 10 XBL accounts 'cus he keeps on trying to get 10th prestige on CoD or free Microsoft points and gives his account details away to some randomer he says that 1 guy spent £100(Of his money) on Microsoft points...
 

DarkMessiah

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Rkiver said:
DarkMessiah said:
Nope, never.
Not even one little piece of malware.
It's not that difficult if you're tech-savvy and have a reasonable amount of common sense.
And this is why we have so many people screaming "OMG I GOT HACKED!".

Because most people have little to no tech knowledge or common sense.
The worst thing about it is that there are so many simple, basic things to do that have a pretty big impact on your security, and people ignore them or don't know about the.
 

Viper1265

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Had my WoW account hacked recently. It all worked out fine, got it back in less than a week and probably made a profit off it cause I got to keep all the gems the hacker was gonna sell and got my badges back that he bought them with.
 

The Eggplant

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Norp. I'm reasonably cautious what sites I frequent, and between Stinger, Ad-Aware, ESET Antivirus, and a handful of small custom-built search-and-destroy programs I wrote to monitor the most at-risk portions of my computer, I can generally stay safe even when partaking in some of my more insalubrious activities.