Clearly, people are a lot dumber than I originally thought, therefore I have decided to make this short but handy guides on how to
not endanger your login credentials and private information.
First things first, here's a quick, short lesson from you.
Nothing comes for free. In ZARP, we're familiar with the occasional giveaways of steam games and SSRP items, however in the real big boy world such things don't happen.
If a site claiming to be a big company such as Steam and is offering you anything for free, immediately leave it. Steam might have good deals, but they'd NEVER do something such as "iPhone giveaways" and the like. It goes against their business strategy. Their business strategy is to allure you with good deals on good games, not to give away things for free.
Perhaps you're used to a climate such as ZARP, where we're more open and more kind to one another and where we do actually give things away for nothing at all. In a way, you'd almost say people have gotten hungry for free things - the moment someone launches a giveaway people respond extremely quickly, sometimes not even reading the post properly. I've made many such giveaways myself where I'd ask for two numbers between 1 and 200, and yet people would still only give one number and choose fivehundredandwhatever.
So the biggest tip I could give you is not to go "grabgrabgrab" the moment someone offers you something for free. Instead, carefully consider your actions and what the other's offering. Else you'll get into a dangerous situations such as today where Steam accounts are easily endangered and could actually be stolen. Besides that, it also causes a whole lot of confusion about whether the site is real or not, especially when ZARP staff members start spreading them.
Look. I get it. We all like free things. But you have to understand that in the real world, things simply aren't given away for nothing. It's because of this that you'll almost never see me join a giveaway - it's a nice gesture, but you shouldn't depend on it going fair and square or in your favour.
Say you're still interested in getting things for free (or cheaper) online. How do you know whether it's not a scam? For this, I've got this quick guide down below:
1. Does the site belong to the company it claims to be? This is the easiest step in finding out whether or not something is a scam. For example today you had a site that might have sounded similar to the Steam website, however it was not the same at all. To avoid confusion, big companies will always hold events on the same domains where they always do their business. This means that they will
not create a seperate site to give away points for new TVs or whatever. If you're unsure whether or not it's a scam or real, you can easily check whether or not the domain name is the same as always. If anything is different compared to usual, leave the site immediately.
2. Is there an ongoing scam? Say the domain name
is the same, or you're so desperate for a free thing that you're wondering whether or not now is an exception to the first rule and they did make a new site (spoilers: they most definitely did not), what's the next thing you can do to check whether or not it's a scam or real? Well, this one might be even easier than the first one: just google it. The internet is big and millions, if not billions of people make use of it every single day. The moment such a scam goes live, other sites such as news sites, reddit and even youtube will rush out with the news and warn everyone to be careful. There are even
websites out there that message you the moment there's a large scale scam.
3. I have gone through 1 and 2 and everything checks out fine, so this is real? Well, that depends. You need to use logical sense when on the internet, so do that now. Is it a big, large, capitalistic and/or monopolistic company that offers you free stuff? Sorry to have to break your heart, but such a company would never give anything away for free, and I literally mean never. They might give you a good deal or something similar, but they would never give you something for free. But what if it's a smaller, more local company? One that does these things often, usually for some kind of charity event? Well, that makes things a little harder. Most people will not be familiar with such sites, and scammers try to catch most people. The chances of a scammer trying to imitate a smaller company is small, so you've already got more certainty. But don't get your hopes up! They'll do anything to make your lives miserable and steal your personal information and even your money. Therefore, try to use Google once again. Is this the actual site of that company? They must have some registered trademark somewhere with which you can check whether it's the real deal or not. If it is the real deal, congrats! You might just get something for free, finally. If it isn't the real deal or if you're unsure, don't do it. Something you don't have currently can never be worth as much as losing account information and getting your private details leaked.
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