In the gaming world.
It's normal to play with strangers,
but sometimes they are hackers posing as gamers.
The hackers begin by building trust within the community.
And then hack into other gamer accounts many of which
have credit card or PayPal accounts tied to them
as well as personal information that can
be used to steal an identity.
A common method used to hack accounts
is by offering free game tokens skins weapons, et cetera.
And then requesting the gamer to log
in to a fake website with their account credentials
to receive the freebies.
In many cases, the gamer will actually
get the freebie in return.
The hacker captures the gamers password,
then logs into the compromised account steals
payment and personal information and resets the password locking
the gamer out of the account.
So what can be done to prevent this.
First, never enter your username and password into any website.
Other than the official one even if that is the only way
to get a freebie.
Secondly turn on two factor authentication.
We're going to talk about this in the next video.
And lastly, don't use the same password everywhere.
If your password gets hacked then
all your accounts will be hacked.