You probably didn't need that Second Life account anyway
Filed under: News items, Second Life
We feel a little odd about this one. Not because we're giving you a warning about a scam to steal your Second Life account information, but because you'd have to be just a bit retarded and greedy to fall for this ... or maybe just unsophisticated and ignorant would be enough. Certainly a level far below our regular discerning and informed Massively readers.
Nonetheless, some people are going to fall for this. Some people always do -- and it is a very convincing copy of one of the Second Life Web-pages. Remember, though, the only Web-sites that legitimately prompt for your Second Life password are at secondlife.com. If you think win-lindens.tk could be an official Second Life website, think again.
So, here's the drill. Feel free to sing along:
- If you give your account details to any third-party, regardless of the proffered incentive, you should probably cancel your account -- because heaven knows, they can lock you out of it and keep it, or do whatever the heck they want with it.
- If you ever get the urge to do so, because someone is offering you EXP, game-gold, Linden Dollars, free items, or whatever, go find someone responsible to talk you out of it. That would be pretty much anyone else.
- Short version: No. No, no, no, no, no.
Got all that? Odds are, dear readers, that if you're here reading this then you aren't one of the poor unfortunates who really needs this advice.
The offending site (which we'll not grace with a link) is http://www.win-lindens.tk/ which is using one free Web-host in Amsterdam, and another in Italy for their nefarious deeds. We wouldn't be surprised if it was the same people that were behind freelindensnow.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Doubledown Tandino said on 5:34PM 10-12-2008
what about when i log into the SL jira?
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Frans Charming said on 6:07PM 10-12-2008
The jira is a secondlife.com website. jira.secondlife.com/
;)
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Shirley Marquez said on 6:08PM 10-12-2008
jira.secondlife.com is an official Second Life site, so giving it your password is OK.
There are third-party sites that have a legitimate use for some of your account information. If you choose to do business with XStreet (nee SLExchange) or OnRez, you will have to give them your account name and do an in-world step to link your account. Even after they have done that they can't automatically take L$ from you. The magic boxes for delivery of items bought from the web site don't need payment permission. OnRez has optional in-world vendors that DO require payment permission to work; always buy those directly from OnRez if you want to set one up.
There is NEVER a legitimate reason to give your account password to any site that is not in the secondlife.com domain. None. Just don't do it. And don't give it in email or IM to anybody, not even a Linden. Lindens won't ask for it.
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TigroSpottystripes Katsu said on 11:42PM 10-12-2008
shouldn't you omit the "http://www" part of the adress too? don't some search engines take regular text on pages in consideration? (and I would think some might even decode text urls into actual links, dunno for sure though)
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