LittleBigPlanet General #1
【Warning】 - LBP2 BETA Phishing Scam - scammer has been permanently banned. Peace ^ ^
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| 【Warning】！！！ This LBP2 Beta Phishing Scam guy is getting serious I posted here yesterday about a suspicious guy claimed to be Media__Molecule* ( * 2 _ _ in the middle) He sent me a PSN msg about the coming lbp2 beta avalaible to be purchased soon. We soon figured that was a total scam. Clearly, I?m not the only one receiving that msg, I thought this guy has to be stopped before more innocent child gives away their login informations. So, I did report this guy. However, this guy doesn?t seem to know when to stop. And today I received 2 more PSN msgs from him. He?s even more serious this time claiming he?s working with SONY. Here are all 3 msgs I received from him. So, guys watch out for this guy, don't let this jerk get any of us. The 1st PSN msg I received: 'Dear PSN online user, we would like to notify you of the ?LittleBigPlanet2 Beta? that will be released shortly. If you wish to purchase this limited beta please confirm your online sign in and your password. Everything on or used in connection with our Sites, including text, images, graphics, logos, audio and video content and software (collectively, ?Content?) with the exception of User Generated Content is owned by us or our affiliates, subsidiaries, licensors or suppliers." The 2nd PSN msg I received: "To participate in this Beta you must confirm that you as the PSN online user are over 16. If you wish to purchase this limited Beta please confirm your email and password. If you have any queries please contact us at Riley RussellLegal & Business Affairs DepartmentSony Computer Entertainment America Inc. 919 East Hillside Blvd., 2nd FloorFoster City, CA 94404 By phone: 650-655-8000 By email: infringement@playstation.sony.com" The 3rd PSN msg I received: "If you wish to participate in the LittleBigPlanet2 limited beta you have 24Hours to reply. Thank you for your time. " This guy seriously wanted to fool some innocent users. He has to be stopped. X-NOBODY-X BTW: I replied his message titled "My login ID ^^ " ID: You are such a liar Password: You have been reported I can't thank you enough for giving me this opportunity to play Lbp2, please give me your bank information, I'll send you the money ^ ^ | 2010-06-25 22:41:00 Author: X-NOBODY-X  Posts: 13 |
| Why would MM want your login details? Guaranteed fake, plus I think that username is known as an imposter. | 2010-06-25 22:43:00 Author: OneEyedBanshee  Posts: 1370 |
| It's fake. Anying asking your pass is fake. ANYTHING! | 2010-06-25 22:44:00 Author: Fishrock123  Posts: 1578 |
| Yes, more than likely fake. I believe Mm would've announced the beta anyway. | 2010-06-25 22:52:00 Author: piggabling  Posts: 2979 |
Yeah, it's fake.  They should never ask you for your login details whether it's Sony, or Media Molecule, or anyone else for that matter, I expect if for some weirdly strange reason they did need your login details they probably have it recorded on some super secret thing... And this is actully something they encourage you to report to them, please, report them here (https://secure.eu.playstation.com/psn/support/grief-reporting/), immediately before some innocent child gives away there login details.  | 2010-06-25 22:53:00 Author: Doopz  Posts: 5592 |
| If and when a beta comes out, it will probably be announced in advance and the invitations will go out by email. You will not be required to provide your account details to anyone as you will simply need to sign into the PSN store and enter your code as though it was a DLC code. As doopz suggests, please report this using the link above. | 2010-06-25 23:08:00 Author: rtm223  Posts: 6497 |
| The report site isn't working for me, it says my email address is incorrect, and I can't find any help on that. | 2010-06-25 23:10:00 Author: Arkei  Posts: 1432 |
| The report site isn't working for me, it says my email address is incorrect, and I can't find any help on that. Are you definitely using the same email and password you use to sign into PSN on your PS3? Click Forgot Password (https://store.playstation.com/accounts/reset/beginPasswordResetFlow.action?target=login) and try that, I've had trouble before and found out I was just using an old password.  | 2010-06-25 23:13:00 Author: Doopz Posts: 5592 |
| I reported already | 2010-06-25 23:13:00 Author: X-NOBODY-X Posts: 13 |
| Nice to see ya XnobodyX! Stick around much? | 2010-06-25 23:26:00 Author: KQuinn94Z  Posts: 1758 |
| I hope so, Pretty excited about the LBP2, Can't wait to see what we can do with it ... ^^ | 2010-06-25 23:29:00 Author: X-NOBODY-X Posts: 13 |
| Everyone is the same. So excited! | 2010-06-25 23:37:00 Author: KQuinn94Z Posts: 1758 |
| i wish i got to use the beta for LBP2, ive never even played Any beta before | 2010-06-26 00:13:00 Author: AfterBurner9901  Posts: 113 |
| Sony or any other game developer/empoyee will never ask for your login credentials, password, credit cards, or any other personal information related to your account. And definately not via the PSN. Note: Moved this to the Everything Else LBP2 subforum for lack of actual news/media content. | 2010-06-26 01:24:00 Author: schm0  Posts: 1239 |
| Sony or any other game developer/empoyee will never ask for your login credentials, password, credit cards, or any other personal information related to your account. And definately not via the PSN. Note: Moved this to the Everything Else LBP2 subforum for lack of actual news/media content. why would sony themselves need you to give your password? they already know it, so you have a very good point | 2010-06-26 02:11:00 Author: AfterBurner9901 Posts: 113 |
| Are you definitely using the same email and password you use to sign into PSN on your PS3? Click Forgot Password (https://store.playstation.com/accounts/reset/beginPasswordResetFlow.action?target=login) and try that, I've had trouble before and found out I was just using an old password. Actually, the US site doesn't have the same grief reporting, it's just a "report user" thing, and it sucks. It makes you enter your email and PSNID but not your password, and it doesn't let you specify what they did or when. So it's not recognizing my email, and it's definitely the right one. | 2010-06-26 03:03:00 Author: Arkei Posts: 1432 |
| I posted here yesterday about a suspicious guy claimed to be Media__Molecule* ( * 2 _ _ in the middle) He sent me a PSN msg about the coming lbp2 beta avalaible to be purchased soon. We soon figured that was a total scam. Clearly, I?m not the only one receiving that msg, I thought this guy has to be stopped before more innocent child gives away their login informations. So, I did report this guy. However, this guy doesn?t seem to know when to stop. And today I received 2 more PSN msgs from him. He?s even more serious this time claiming he?s working with SONY. Here are all 3 msgs I received from him. So, guys watch out for this guy, don't let this jerk get any of us. The 1st PSN msg I received: 'Dear PSN online user, we would like to notify you of the ?LittleBigPlanet2 Beta? that will be released shortly. If you wish to purchase this limited beta please confirm your online sign in and your password. Everything on or used in connection with our Sites, including text, images, graphics, logos, audio and video content and software (collectively, ?Content?) with the exception of User Generated Content is owned by us or our affiliates, subsidiaries, licensors or suppliers." The 2nd PSN msg I received: "To participate in this Beta you must confirm that you as the PSN online user are over 16. If you wish to purchase this limited Beta please confirm your email and password. If you have any queries please contact us at Riley RussellLegal & Business Affairs DepartmentSony Computer Entertainment America Inc. 919 East Hillside Blvd., 2nd FloorFoster City, CA 94404 By phone: 650-655-8000 By email: infringement@playstation.sony.com" The 3rd PSN msg I received: "If you wish to participate in the LittleBigPlanet2 limited beta you have 24Hours to reply. Thank you for your time. " This guy really seriously wanted to fool some innocent users. He has to be stopped. | 2010-06-27 00:01:00 Author: X-NOBODY-X Posts: 13 |
| Well he's just an idiotic 9 year old sitting behind a computer who has 4 author hearts. | 2010-06-27 00:03:00 Author: TehUberZac  Posts: 587 |
| Its sad to see that people use the good name of MediaMolecule to take over accounts maybe u should tell MM?! | 2010-06-27 00:04:00 Author: Smelling-Cowboy  Posts: 668 |
| wait this guy is only in PSN or in LBPC? This guy sound serious. Does he have any prove that he works for sony? Also if he wants your email and your password you know that is a really bad idea  | 2010-06-27 00:09:00 Author: Arnald23  Posts: 1843 |
| Report this kid, he is just an Mm wannabe. | 2010-06-27 00:11:00 Author: Alec  Posts: 3871 |
| Report this kid, he is just an Mm wannabe. CrazeAlex is right he is just a wannabe that is desperate report him! Also did anyone else got this message? extra: this is of topic but congratulation this is the 100 thread posted in LBP 2 news but that is not the point. | 2010-06-27 00:15:00 Author: Arnald23 Posts: 1843 |
| I sent out this message to Mm using the 'contact us' option on the Mm site. I don'e know how long it'd take for them to notice this, I'm hoping that the guys running this forum could pass my messages to Mm if you guys have connections with them. Seriously ! | 2010-06-27 00:17:00 Author: X-NOBODY-X Posts: 13 |
You know what I'll do if I get a phishing attempt from this guy? I'll reply to them with a calm, reasonable message complimenting their work and giving them some suggestions on how they could improve. Then I'll send them a friend request. That'll annoy the hell out of them.  | 2010-06-27 00:26:00 Author: Starchy  Posts: 353 |
| Threads merged, as they were literally the same. Report and ignore. | 2010-06-27 00:27:00 Author: comphermc  Posts: 5338 |
| thought this was a coming soon thread. please keep me updated on beta happenings on facebook if i'm not on here, guys | 2010-06-27 02:14:00 Author: Unknown User  |
| I think I got the first message just before E3. I didn't look at the name though. I knew it was fake because I had applied to the water beta without using my PSN Password. | 2010-06-27 09:07:00 Author: Jedi_1993  Posts: 1518 |
| I love how 5 people at the beginning of the thread felt the need to "confirm" that this was fake, even thought the OP already said that. | 2010-06-27 09:24:00 Author: qrtda235566 Posts: 3664 |
| The only person you need to worry about is KeVfErRarRi or something like that who I smashed into in NFS shift yesterday. He invited me to QUEBEC Canada for my face to be smashed in! | 2010-06-27 10:54:00 Author: BasketSnake  Posts: 2391 |
| I love how 5 people at the beginning of the thread felt the need to "confirm" that this was fake, even thought the OP already said that. The original thread was asking if it was fake or not. So, they all have every right to "confirm" it was fake. After a while, Nobody (I mean the person Nobody) changed the thread title to avoid people getting there hopes up about this thread (As it was originally called "LBP2 Beta!" or something similar). | 2010-06-27 11:34:00 Author: Doopz Posts: 5592 |
| infringement@playstation.sony.com? LOL, why would you want to contact infringement about LBP2??? | 2010-06-27 13:34:00 Author: davestanley Posts: 87 |
| Phishing scams are a breach of SONY's EULA. The best we can hope for is that SONY track his PS3 via the PSN ID and disable it. That is if he is using a PS3 to do this. Hmm I just searched on LBP @Media_ _Molecule..... He has 1 very short conspiricy level that *****es about stickers and materials that are not included in the game. | 2010-06-27 13:57:00 Author: Strangepom  Posts: 445 |
| Nice reply. Don't suppose he fell for it. | 2010-06-27 14:14:00 Author: ADS_LEGEND  Posts: 140 |
| Oh oh i know what we should do, if any of us recieve this message we give him a beliveable but fake account info! The idiot's gonna be there for a while trying to get the info right (caps lock and stuff.) XD Like for example, if he sent it to me i'd writte something like: "Oh cool really? Ok! E-Mail: Yarudark13@Hotmail.com Pw:thedarkness13" (^fake email/ pw  )Or somethin like that, the fool's gonna think its real and keep trying various similar (caps on/ off) convinations or try over and over. If he replies saying that its the wrong info just give him another similar but still fake log in info and watch him keep doing it to see how many times he does it before realizing he's being tricked. I'll do it if he send me a message at least, i mean, its gotta be funny watching a scammer being messed with no? | 2010-06-27 14:27:00 Author: Silverleon  Posts: 6707 |
| Lol. He deserves a Crown! | 2010-06-27 15:31:00 Author: CYBERSNAKE  Posts: 280 |
| Cant sony just know your psn username and pass if they want? well,they do have all that info, ya know??? | 2010-06-27 16:07:00 Author: Jamesta  Posts: 39 |
| idiots these days..... this guy needs to be shut down! | 2010-06-27 16:10:00 Author: Jamesta Posts: 39 |
| Oh oh i know what we should do, if any of us recieve this message we give him a beliveable but fake account info! The idiot's gonna be there for a while trying to get the info right (caps lock and stuff.) XD Like for example, if he sent it to me i'd writte something like: "Oh cool really? Ok! E-Mail: Yarudark13@Hotmail.com Pw:thedarkness13" (^fake email/ pw )Or somethin like that, the fool's gonna think its real and keep trying various similar (caps on/ off) convinations or try over and over. If he replies saying that its the wrong info just give him another similar but still fake log in info and watch him keep doing it to see how many times he does it before realizing he's being tricked. I'll do it if he send me a message at least, i mean, its gotta be funny watching a scammer being messed with no? How deliciously evil except I think we should use lots of similar looking characters like O 0, l I | 2010-06-27 16:27:00 Author: JKthree  Posts: 1125 |
| Cant sony just know your psn username and pass if they want? well,they do have all that info, ya know??? idiots these days..... this guy needs to be shut down! There's an EDIT button in the lower right area of your post, clicking it will allow you to edit that post, so no need to double post m8. (Not to mention Double-posting os not really looked well upon these forums, so that should save you some unnecessary trouble. ) | 2010-06-27 16:34:00 Author: Silverleon Posts: 6707 |
| Spoiler: The phishing scammer is the main villain in LBP2. | 2010-06-27 16:57:00 Author: Tyler  Posts: 663 |
| Report this kid Well he's just an idiotic 9 year old sitting behind a computer who has 4 author hearts. Why do people always associate things like this with being a kid? Maybe he's not trying to get hearted, maybe he wants your credit card. | 2010-06-27 17:20:00 Author: Arkei Posts: 1432 |
| Oh oh i know what we should do, if any of us recieve this message we give him a beliveable but fake account info! The idiot's gonna be there for a while trying to get the info right Nice one, Yaru! I've done that before with Moo-Molecule! I got a good laugh out of it! lol Someone should make a thread with good replies to give to an obvious phisher!  | 2010-06-27 17:24:00 Author: Rhys125  Posts: 841 |
| did anyone think that he is trying to get Tons of stuff free? have you heard of "Game Sharing" on PSN? me and my mate do it between us to save money, but you can do the same "type" of thing to steal Credit card info, you need some items like a KeyLogger to uncover the pin for the Credit card, so you can then make Forgeries to effortlessly Drain the Bank account of all Info & money, wow i sound like a bank robber i just hope nobody falls for it | 2010-06-27 17:41:00 Author: AfterBurner9901 Posts: 113 |
| did anyone think that he is trying to get Tons of stuff free? have you heard of "Game Sharing" on PSN? me and my mate do it between us to save money, but you can do the same "type" of thing to steal Credit card info, you need some items like a KeyLogger to uncover the pin for the Credit card, so you can then make Forgeries to effortlessly Drain the Bank account of all Info & money, wow i sound like a bank robber i just hope nobody falls for it Yea, but game sharing is against the ps3 law | 2010-06-27 17:53:00 Author: Jonaolst  Posts: 935 |
| There's an EDIT button in the lower right area of your post, clicking it will allow you to edit that post, so no need to double post m8. (Not to mention Double-posting os not really looked well upon these forums, so that should save you some unnecessary trouble. )Thanks,again dude XD | 2010-06-27 18:12:00 Author: Jamesta Posts: 39 |
| Sony never punish anyone for game sharing. They've allowed it for a reason. They only punish people who phish, or gain other peoples details by questionable means. I get people attempting to get my crown/beta costumes :/ Its funny how many people say 'I have the week one tshirt. want it' lets game share' And I say get lost. This is a direct quote of my personal favourite: "hey yo can u help me get da crown im doin a competion fir mm and they said i need a crown so they could allw me" Hope it gives someone else a chuckle | 2010-06-27 18:28:00 Author: chimpskylark  Posts: 335 |
| Actually I'm pretty sure that Sony doesn't allow game sharing. It's just that they haven't found a way to stop it. Maybe idk, but if I was the owner of Sony I would get really ticked off if I found out people were just sharing stuff with each other. It would mean that your loosing alot of money. | 2010-06-27 18:58:00 Author: Amigps  Posts: 564 |
| They could easily stop it, by only allowing games to be played by the user that bought them. And while they may not 'approve' of it, they still allow it. Its just like Mm saying they won't listen to proposed dlc: they have to say it for legal reasons, but they don't actually care about it too much. Policing something thats such a grey area would not only use alot of resources, but earn them some bad PR and give them a bad reputation. Being stringent on the legal issues as long no-ones getting hurt is in the companies interest. And its kinda an incentive if you can share a game with your friends, as you have someone to play with. Its no worse than buying pre-owned games, because the publisher and dev team get no money that way either. That said, I wouldn't advise talking too much about your own game-sharing habits, especially on official sony forums! (or sharing your details with anyone you don't entirely trust) | 2010-06-27 19:16:00 Author: chimpskylark Posts: 335 |
| I love it how he acts all informative and trust-worthy, then makes terrible mistakes as you guys have pointed out. P.S. Whoa! I never knew "the legend" Nobody was on the forums! | 2010-06-27 19:32:00 Author: talbot-trembler  Posts: 1114 |
| Hmmm. Your right (lol I just heard my family screaming because their team made a goal in the world cup CX), so what your saying is that it's not allowed, but they just won't do anything about it? Just frowned upon? P.S. I'm not talking about my game sharing habits. It's just that people have asked me if they want to gameshare I say no. (<------only read if you meant that statement towards me. If you meant it in general just ignore it CX) | 2010-06-27 20:00:00 Author: Amigps Posts: 564 |
| Wow, those are some pretty pathetic attempts. The first looks official (but there are a few minor spelling/grammatical errors), but the second and third one was just awful. | 2010-06-27 22:10:00 Author: Chdonga  Posts: 388 |
| Oh oh i know what we should do, if any of us recieve this message we give him a beliveable but fake account info! The idiot's gonna be there for a while trying to get the info right (caps lock and stuff.) XD Like for example, if he sent it to me i'd writte something like: "Oh cool really? Ok! E-Mail: Yarudark13@Hotmail.com Pw:thedarkness13" (^fake email/ pw )Or somethin like that, the fool's gonna think its real and keep trying various similar (caps on/ off) convinations or try over and over. If he replies saying that its the wrong info just give him another similar but still fake log in info and watch him keep doing it to see how many times he does it before realizing he's being tricked. I'll do it if he send me a message at least, i mean, its gotta be funny watching a scammer being messed with no? To add to this diabolical scheme, maybe you should say: "Great, I can't wait to see what my crown looks like in LBP2" That ought to keep them trying the fake e-mail for a while. | 2010-06-27 22:50:00 Author: Jedi_1993 Posts: 1518 |
| Yea, but game sharing is against the ps3 law lol, sooo you found out the bank robber desguise was a Decoy, my real intentions is to be a PSN Robber, ill rob the worlds Trains and take all thats theres, ill take from the rich and give to the poor......oh wait thats a train robber...meh same thing... [On Topic] i hope they catch the guy or guys doing this soon PS i ONLY game share with my mate, no one else and we only trade one or two games aslong as there worth under ?5, we both support Sony and i add funds to my account as much as i can | 2010-06-27 23:37:00 Author: AfterBurner9901 Posts: 113 |
| you know whats strange this is almost the same thing that happen to sackcast a long time ago there was a guy name steelsack. | 2010-06-27 23:40:00 Author: Arnald23 Posts: 1843 |
| you know whats strange this is almost the same thing that happen to sackcast a long time ago there was a guy name steelsack. LOL, steel sack, did Sackcast relise it was a fake? i think it might be either 3 things 1# A GROUP of people doing this, how can they send so many invites in so little time 2# He/They could be Ex-Sony employes because one guy said they have un-released items on LBP 3# He/They have to be over 16 because they know the ins and outs of certain stuff | 2010-06-27 23:50:00 Author: AfterBurner9901 Posts: 113 |
| To add to this diabolical scheme, maybe you should say: "Great, I can't wait to see what my crown looks like in LBP2" That ought to keep them trying the fake e-mail for a while. That's evil, I like it i hope he/she/them gets caught soon | 2010-06-28 17:52:00 Author: gili450  Posts: 70 |
| Great News !! I just got an email from SONY saying that user has been permanently banned. Peace ^ ^ | 2010-06-28 18:27:00 Author: X-NOBODY-X Posts: 13 |
| Great News !! I just got an email from SONY saying that user has been permanently banned. Peace ^ ^ Awesome news! Was it really Sony though? | 2010-06-28 18:33:00 Author: Rhys125 Posts: 841 |
| Yes, It's SONY | 2010-06-28 18:44:00 Author: X-NOBODY-X Posts: 13 |
| To add to this diabolical scheme, maybe you should say: "Great, I can't wait to see what my crown looks like in LBP2" That ought to keep them trying the fake e-mail for a while. Good, but change it to.a question, that'll be less obvious. like: Are my Crown and Beta stuff gonna be transferrable to LBP2 as well?"  | 2010-06-28 19:10:00 Author: Silverleon Posts: 6707 |
| Hmnn :/ Why do people do this, is just not fair on those poor inocent kids, let alone the parents with credit card details on there | 2010-06-29 22:15:00 Author: Unknown User |
| I love how 5 people at the beginning of the thread felt the need to "confirm" that this was fake, even thought the OP already said that. It hadn't been confirmed fake yet. The OP was asking if it was fake when we replied. It was edited since then. EDIT: Oops, what Doopz said! Defending myself... | 2010-06-30 00:49:00 Author: piggabling Posts: 2979 |
| if i met the guy who did this i would ban hammer his a** back to Scam Central (little big planet central's older knife wielding cousin) | 2010-06-30 16:52:00 Author: AfterBurner9901 Posts: 113 |
| OMG, now i'm thinking if someone felt for this scam... poor guy! | 2010-06-30 17:07:00 Author: Settowin  Posts: 5 |
| EZIO AUDITORI DE FIRENZE SEZ.... THREAD iS DEAD! | 2010-07-02 19:47:00 Author: VeRsioNs_Z Posts: 341 |
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