kronix3 Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 Why was kyle banned? what did he do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShannenName Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 He had a fake runescape page on his site which stole people account details Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kronix3 Posted February 23, 2008 Author Share Posted February 23, 2008 okay. how did you find that out? i was able to view why he got banned on his details page. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashoat Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 One of his accounts (he should've only had one...) had a "Runescape 3 beta" running on it. It was a phishing scam... he asked for a pin number when logging in, and also asked for credit card information in order to register new accounts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kronix3 Posted February 24, 2008 Author Share Posted February 24, 2008 okay. wait. i know of that phishing site that he used..but i dont recall him asking for any credit card information... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShannenName Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 okay. wait. i know of that phishing site that he used..but i dont recall him asking for any credit card information... Whether or not it was asking for credit card details or not it was still a phishing site Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AverageJoe Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 I don't think that it was the same kyle, as I find it highly unlikely that a 15 year be trying to pull of some illegal scam. I tried to help him out once, and he was all but to hesitant to open a .css file I sent him because he thought I might "hack his computer through it". He just doesn't seem like the type. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashoat Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 That's what I thought, but this was absolutely obvious. He had a Flash login to Runescape that failed indefinitely that requested a bank PIN, and he collected credit card information. There's no question that this was a phishing scam. A lot of young people conduct scams like this. I've had some spammer try to blackmail me into giving him a free domain once; he was like 13. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awesomegamer Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 Haha. Didn't seem like the type? Phishing is one of the easiest internet scams. I bet he was a script-kiddie too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShannenName Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 There are many kids out there downloading and using phishing scams on free websites, but most of the time they try to hide the free address so it's harder to distinguish between the real thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wizard Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 @awesomejoe You can scam and be a paranoid n00b. Scams done by 15 year old idiots are usually pretty obvious though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashoat Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 I think this one was a copy of another scam site... I did a Google search. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShannenName Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 Yes there have been many repostings of Runescape 3 BETA sites. I don't think he could of made everything himself if he did he must of been working on it for a while! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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