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Phishing attempts
Dear citizens,
We would like to warn you about several phishing attempts that have been taking place, which have not necessarily been a widespread problem, but have still nonetheless fooled some of our citizens. And it's always better to be safe than sorry.The mechanism of the phishing attempts is very simple: somebody promises GOLD, or other benefits and all you have to do is to either install a “wonder software” or use an external site where you are asked to enter your eRepublik user name and password. Of course, not only will you not receive anything, but immediately your money and items will be “drained.” Such software, some of them promoted on YouTube and other international sites, asks you for your eRepublik user-name and password and then lets you choose how much Gold you would like to receive. 10? 1000? 10.000 GOLD? Just type it in. Pretty tempting, but instead of a thousand GOLD, you'll loose everything that you worked hard to obtain.
It's all about your password. Please don't choose a weak and easy to guess password. An easy password can be figured out without even using an elaborate program or complicated methods. Keep in mind that eRepublik admins will never ask for your password, so please don't share it with strangers promising you all sorts of goodies. If an eRepublik “admin” asks for your account password, for “verification” or other excuses, report that citizen immediately. And never, never type your password in places other than the erepublik.com. There have been, and we are sure there will be, sites that appear as though they are eRepublik, so be careful when you follow different links. Web pages that promise GOLD, items, etc, are all just ways to get your password and hence everything that you posses.
Private messages like “dude, I found a site where you can get 1000 GOLD in a minute, here's the link” should be reported immediately. And of course, don't follow the link, if you care about your stuff. Also, rumors that X citizen has a cool software that only asks for your password and will make you rich, should be reported in order to stop the spread of the phishing attempt.
You must be careful when you use a shared computer. Be sure that your password is not remembered, and don't forget to log out, especially if other eRepublik citizens use the same computer. There are some ways to retrieve a typed password when there is physical access to a computer, but this falls under your responsibility: make sure your account login details are safe. If you share your password with somebody, or enter it in any place other than www.erepublik.com, it would be entirely your fault for the lost goods.
So, take care of your account and don't let yourself get hoaxed by the “easy money” promises.
Regards,
The eRepublik Team
We would like to warn you about several phishing attempts that have been taking place, which have not necessarily been a widespread problem, but have still nonetheless fooled some of our citizens. And it's always better to be safe than sorry.The mechanism of the phishing attempts is very simple: somebody promises GOLD, or other benefits and all you have to do is to either install a “wonder software” or use an external site where you are asked to enter your eRepublik user name and password. Of course, not only will you not receive anything, but immediately your money and items will be “drained.” Such software, some of them promoted on YouTube and other international sites, asks you for your eRepublik user-name and password and then lets you choose how much Gold you would like to receive. 10? 1000? 10.000 GOLD? Just type it in. Pretty tempting, but instead of a thousand GOLD, you'll loose everything that you worked hard to obtain.
It's all about your password. Please don't choose a weak and easy to guess password. An easy password can be figured out without even using an elaborate program or complicated methods. Keep in mind that eRepublik admins will never ask for your password, so please don't share it with strangers promising you all sorts of goodies. If an eRepublik “admin” asks for your account password, for “verification” or other excuses, report that citizen immediately. And never, never type your password in places other than the erepublik.com. There have been, and we are sure there will be, sites that appear as though they are eRepublik, so be careful when you follow different links. Web pages that promise GOLD, items, etc, are all just ways to get your password and hence everything that you posses.
Private messages like “dude, I found a site where you can get 1000 GOLD in a minute, here's the link” should be reported immediately. And of course, don't follow the link, if you care about your stuff. Also, rumors that X citizen has a cool software that only asks for your password and will make you rich, should be reported in order to stop the spread of the phishing attempt.
You must be careful when you use a shared computer. Be sure that your password is not remembered, and don't forget to log out, especially if other eRepublik citizens use the same computer. There are some ways to retrieve a typed password when there is physical access to a computer, but this falls under your responsibility: make sure your account login details are safe. If you share your password with somebody, or enter it in any place other than www.erepublik.com, it would be entirely your fault for the lost goods.
So, take care of your account and don't let yourself get hoaxed by the “easy money” promises.
Regards,
The eRepublik Team
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& Good article admins
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Yeah, that sucks. Any update on the war with Russia?
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Good advice, although obvious for some.
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only fools would do that ..and they deserve to get "spankd"
/salute
Yes, i saw some phishing attempts on YouTube, i reported videos as soon as i saw them, but 1 report is not enough to take down video, so more people report video, quicker it will be taken down and, hopefully, nobody will get his account taken over by scammer.
True.
And most of all, don't be greedy
First hour !
FRIED TURKIYE!
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What about Russia - USA war?
admin what about this?
<a href="http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/warning-invader-914279/1/all" target="_blank">http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/warn[..]/all</a>
Wiki page of erepublik is infected!
What are you going to do ?!
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Wow! Who would think it would happen...? eScammers!
everyone who is greedy enough to try to cheat to obtain gold deserves to have his account drained of everything IMO
Turkey is best at Thanksgiving dinner.
NOT first, NOT last.
admin what about this?
<a href="http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/warning-invader-914279/1/all" target="_blank">http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/warn[..]/all</a>
Wiki page of erepublik is infected!
What are you going to do ?!
I'm with rustweaver. Greedy cheaters (like the guy that had hundreds of eAccounts) defeat the purpose of the game...
If somebody just gave me 1000 gold right now I think it would make me quit the game because it would take the fun out of it...
What about the API? Might want to mention that perfectly legitimate website use the API to verify accounts.
Hey, dude, I'll give you 20 trillion gold if you click this link... JK lol.
TURKİYE !
Never, never type my password in any other site than erepublik index? Actually, that means I can't go to eRepublik Suggest.
"And never, never type your password in another place other than the login page of <a href="http://www.erepublik.com."" target="_blank">www.erepublik.com."</a>
And api.erepublik.com...
My username: Blackcarmafia
My password: Sigurnocenekoprobatxd
Thank you admins for sharing this important information.
Turkey is delicious.
So API sites that make you enter your password are now unsafe? You guys are geniuses aren't you?
Yeah, I saw a video on YouTube about some program.
yeah??
Wow.
ΠΑΟΚ ΡΕ!
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that's the oldest trick i've ever heard... i used to have a useless account only to give them that one xD and so they wouldnt get anything... and believe me, that's frustrating
Kind of obvious....
*coughPadraigPearsecough*
Fix the bugs!!!
<a href="http://www.erepublik.com/en/company-employees/sg-iron-working-for-eworld-184948/1" target="_blank">http://www.erepublik.com/en/company-empl[..]48/1</a>
My company here has 9 workers instead of 10, meaning it can work with 100% productivity with 9 workers. I have 1 worker less, fix it please.
Note, that your contact page isn't working since ages... You want to fix that too when you have some time .
Good job keeping the users on their toes.
erepublik.ws asked me for a password, should i also report it?
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You should mention official api way of authenticating on external sites.
Now this article kinda throws sites using this into pishers group
my password is:hjufijuhjwefuiiwfe89328r92783ryuhyfby 4w8 8v4n 8v7t89y978vy547hgt78renyt78yn74y387n509n 8u0493u5972t45788nv78475u87vn37tnh8uhfmd g8h87y75nyv...
Anyone who would be dumb enough to enter their username and password on another site *deserves* to have their account hijacked.
it'd be interesting to know if these attacks have been to the benefit of random ne'er do wells, or to particular governments/alliances.. if there's one thing I've already learned in my short time here... don't put anything past anyone.
TURKİYE !
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<a href="http://www.erepublik.com/es/article/diario-18-faf-el-futuro-de-espa-a-914798/1/20" target="_blank">http://www.erepublik.com/es/article/diar[..]/1/20</a>
GOD SAVE THE SOUTH!!!
TO ARMS DIXIE!!!!!
"you'll loose everything"
I wasn't "tight" with everything in the first place.
wow
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If he was getting so much gold, why would he want to devalue it by telling everyone?
I went Phishing, and found a virus in the wiki...
THIS BIGGGGGG (12)
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Turkiye the best
Next time, autodetect for phishing sites. If an eCitizen enters a site which is detected a phishing one for eRepublik, delete that account immediately!
Voted.
hellas ole
cyprus is greek
Just send us money for a shovel to dig up 1 million dollars which we will send you. Just make sure you give us your bank info.
If you fall for something like that, you deserve to lose your stuff.
admin ne den kardeş sen
greed
<a href="http://www.erepublik.com/en/newspaper/eworld-lottery-197757/1" target="_blank">http://www.erepublik.com/en/newspaper/ew[..]757/1</a>
But don't forget that there are some legitimate third-party tools that will redirect you to the eRepublik site to login. The page legitimate tools send you to is ALWAYS <a href="http://api.erepublik.com/login," target="_blank">http://api.erepublik.com/login,</a> so check your browser window before putting the password in.
Pissing ?
good, voted
еКидалово -развивается...
fix a bugs better
Give a man a phish, and he will hate you for the rest of your life. Teach a man to phish, and expect to see him being busy on his computer for the rest of his life!
LOL people still fall for phishing scams?
turkey sucks balls, and france. they are just greedy bastards
this article should be in greek ,mainly they fall into these traps:) admin i advice u to make some classes for our graise neighbours, how to use pc and internet:)
Stop phishing!
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survey question 7 is bugged
Gon' Phishing.
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Voted, ty for the heads up.
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Long live our noble Admin,
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Admins what with <a href="http://erepublik.ws/suggest/" target="_blank">http://erepublik.ws/suggest/</a> ? If you want to vote must write user and pass its secure or ?
tl;dr
Too smart to be fooled by those simple tricks.
You should add api.erepublik.com to that message, that page is yours and some of us are using it to let the people login...
Those so naive to do that deserve to lose all they have!
phishing attempts? in my ERepublik??? DO NOT WANT!!!!
homo semua