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NEW THREAD? WHY?

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As you could have noticed, the first "Report Scam Websites Here" thread (Quick find code: 103-104-8-58548663) became quite popular with hundreds of posts from different users trying to help us in our cause. We are really thankful for all your assistance, but due to the growing number of scam sites the time has come to optimize this thread for us to work even more effectively and process your reports using the automated system. This new thread serves the same old purpose: to contain reports of all suspicious and potentially dangerous sites that endanger our safety and gameplay.
The only difference is that now we ask you to post your reports in a very specific format described below for our system to understand. All other posts will not be read by the system and will have to wait for our manual review (and that could possibly take much longer). So please, remember to post the reports in the format described below.

REPORTING FORMAT

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Actually, the syntax is very simple. All we ask you to do is to write all reported URLs (links) each on a separate line ended by the following tag: [#]
([#] indicates ending of one particular link)

Example:

yourlinkhere.com[#]
Yourlinkhere2.com[#]
Yourlinkhere3.com[#]

You are free to write any comments in any part of the post as far as the links are still on the separate lines.

Example:

Hi there!
Below are several links that look suspicious:

yourlinkhere.com[#]
Yourlinkhere2.com[#]

And this one as well:
Yourlinkhere3.com[#]

I think that those are phishing sites

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That's it! This simple rule of writing every link on a separate line ending with [#] saves us an incredible amount of time, please try to get used to this format!
If you make a mistake or forget to use the aforementioned tag at first it's not a problem, just edit your message or post another, corrected one and it will still appear in our system.
Many thanks for reading!

Note: please refrain from writing "http://" and "www." in your links, as it's already obvious enough that you are reporting website URLs, not cookie flavours.

Investigation in the Community Unit


P.S. For users who have never used the "Report Scam Websites Here" thread before I am copying the original thread's content below to clarify what's all that noise about.

REPORTING SCAM WEBSITES

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We know that there are a lot of websites which are designed to compromise the security of our players accounts or promote cheating. In fact, we have a team who spend their time searching out these sites and doing everything they can to stop them operating.

Of course, many of our players also come across these sites and want to let us know about them. For this reason, we are currently developing a system which will enable players to enter the details of problem websites directly into our site, which will then be passed on to our investigation teams to look at.

For now, if you want to let us know about a website please post the name on this thread. You can post any site you like, but we are particularly interested in Real World Trading sites (those who offer to sell accounts, items or gold).

We would also like to know about any sites which look very similar to our own sites, these 'phishing' sites are usually designed to steal peoples passwords.

IMPORTANT - Please don't go 'looking' for these sites - we just want to know if you hear about it or happen to come across it - searching for these sites is not something we would recommend!

Your message will be instantly hidden - and we will get our investigation team to take a look!

Please don't post the names of these sites on our other forums, as although we really appreciate the good intent, some people may well be tempted to visit the sites after seeing the name.

If you see a player in-game advertising a website which you think is unsuitable, please use the in-game reporting facility - choosing Rule 11 'Advertising Websites'.

Please note that we do have an agreement with some sites to provide access to our games, you can check who these sites are by clicking this link to affiliate sites.

The Community Management Team