Proposal: False links leading to 'potential' free Pokecoins in Pokemon GO

[CyborgHD]

Some users, bots, whatever they are, have been posting false links on Twitter (and possibly other places) where it is believed it is linked to a virus. Here's a tweet about it:

https://twitter.com/Boettam/status/755007274557538304

Might be good to have an article for this so people know.

 

[bobandbill]

I'm not sure how far of a reach an article on a Twitter scam will get - if anything if we wanted to warn about it it'd be more useful for the SMT team to tweet about it (and I'll poke them to see what they think). I imagine it's a rare scam though and pretty equivalent to fake email scams - something easily avoidable by anyone in the first place.

 

[CyborgHD]

I'm not sure how far of a reach an article on a Twitter scam will get - if anything if we wanted to warn about it it'd be more useful for the SMT team to tweet about it (and I'll poke them to see what they think). I imagine it's a rare scam though and pretty equivalent to fake email scams - something easily avoidable by anyone in the first place.

Might be good let people know anyhow, in case they tend to believe it.

 

[Jefries]

i actually see the links to Pokecoins often in youtube videos people commenting in the comments I also comment.