Board Thread:Wiki discussion/@comment-36546725-20180812084515/@comment-35690225-20180910130049

PK Okey wrote: i might have some theories about the robux scams:

1. the removal of tickets made scambots more popular. sure, there were scambots before the tix removal, but they werent  nearly as common as today. if you dont know, tickets can be converted into robux. the person(s) behind the scambots are being greedy and want more robux.

2. the scambot avatars dont look like the avatar you have when you first make an account. my theory is (this means its not 100% true) that roblox gets rid of accounts partly by how they look and how much clothing they have. the reason scambots dont look like ordinary bacon hairs (most of the time) is because they're trying to bypass roblox's code to make them seem like ordinary people. (if it sounds confusing, that means i cant explain it better :P)

3. the CAPTCHAS. this one is a bit hard to explain, but ill try my best. for those who dont know, captchas are those things with squiggly letters that you have to type in when you make an account to determind if ur a bot or not. bots cant read those squiggly letters, so they cant make an account. so how are they getting in? well,(this is where it gets hard to explain) the bots "place something" (a piece of code) on "someone's computer" (this does NOT MEAN you have a virus, its just what it "seems like") and whenever a new person makes an account and completes the captcha, the bots "read" what the person put for a specific captcha and remembers it and "tells" it to other bots, so if they come across it, they will know what to put. (if you think this makes no sense, then no offense, but you dont really know how these things work. also, the quotes i put are not literal, they are just there to "summerize" what the bot is doing.) 1 and 2 make sense because they sound legit, 3 is a bit weird. Not always when you make an account, there is a captcha. The only time I had a captcha was when I got my password wrong but I got the second time correct. Then there was a captcha. Again 1,2 nice job they sound true. 3 is weird.