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The green goods scam, also known as the "green goods game", was a scheme popular in the 19th-century United States in which people were duped into paying for worthless counterfeit money. It is a variation on the pig-in-a-poke scam using money instead of other goods like a pig. The mark, or victim, would respond to flyers circulated throughout ...
Video game trading circles began to emerge in the years following, with networks of computers, connected via modem to long-distance telephone lines, transmitting the contents of floppy discs. [2] These trading circles became colloquially known as the Warez scene, with the term " warez " being an informal bastardization of "software".
• Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.
In issue #6 (April 2002), on page 42, there was a one-page preview for an Xbox game called Metal Gear Solid X. Before Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance was announced for either PlayStation 2 or Xbox, GameNOW ran this preview for the fake game. MGSX was said to be an Xbox port of the PlayStation 2 game, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty.
For scams conducted via written communication, baiters may answer scam emails using throwaway email accounts, pretending to be receptive to scammers' offers. [4]Popular methods of accomplishing the first objective are to ask scammers to fill out lengthy questionnaires; [5] to bait scammers into taking long trips; to encourage the use of poorly made props or inappropriate English-language ...
Fake news websites are those which intentionally, but not necessarily solely, publish hoaxes and disinformation for purposes other than news satire. Some of these sites use homograph spoofing attacks , typosquatting and other deceptive strategies similar to those used in phishing attacks to resemble genuine news outlets.
Leaked onto 4chan in June 2020, and contains pre-release Half-Life 2 and Team Fortress 2 content. [201] Ragnarok Online 2: 2007 2014 Windows MMORPG: Gravity Posted on a forum found through unknown means. [202] Raid 2020: 1989 2019 Atari 2600 Side-scrolling action game: Color Dreams: Source code was found on a floppy disk and uploaded to archive ...
The game's creator Garry Newman made a post telling users that they may have noticed certain Nintendo-related contents removed. While Garry's Mod began removing Nintendo-related contents, some users believed the requests were from a troll, but Newman confirmed that he has been assured the takedown requests are legit. [45]