User blog:ScriptedObjects/How to prevent scamming

Introduction
Hey there! I'm ScriptedObjects, a new contributor to Wikia and the Roblox Wikia. On Roblox in general, I've noticed lots of scammers and phishers, and I'd like to make a guide on how to avoid this. There are many types of scamming, including stealing, tricking, etc. I'll go over some of the normal types of scamming and how to avoid them.

Stealing:
Stealing can be a broad statement of many types of scamming. The most common type of steal-scamming is stealing limited items or accounts on ROBLOX. Becase stealing accounts is more in the phishing category, we'll get to that later. Stealing limited items has been a problem in many instances, and you may never expect it to happen to you. Many people will be tricked by another person to scam you, or they may just want your items for themselves. Your friends could even be part of the scammers, so you should always watch out. Item stealing is mostly common when someone gets access to your account, allowing them to send a trade with their main giving you a small item and them all of your big items.

In order to avoid item stealing, you need to avoid giving your username and password to anyone through Roblox, not even a staff member. Nobody will ever ask for your password on Roblox.

You may recieve a suspicious trade where you will trade a large item for a small item, which is not most likely to happen but is totally possible. If you see a trade you don't think is fair, you just decline it.

Bait and Switch / Thumbnail Scamming
Some users on Roblox use a process called Thumbnail Scamming, more commonly known as the Bait and Switch scam. If you'd like to know more about this process, click here. Some users that are known for pulling the Bait and Switch scam can be found here.

You can avoid the bait and switch scamming process by checking ratings. Since the ratings update was added, users can vote down a game if it is pulling this method. This process is not used as much as it was used before ratings because of this reason.

If the comments are disabled, and there are many dislikes (possibly more dislikes than likes) then it is most likely a misleading title/thumbnail.

Another sign of this scam is when a game title and game thumbnail are irrelevant, or tags listed in the description are irrelevant. For example, if you find a game titled "Ride a Cart Up 10,000 Studs!" and the thumbnail is an image of minecraft, it's most likely false.

"Free robux/item" phishing:
If you go into the comments section of a popular game, you will have a 99.9% chance of seeing a comment saying "I just got 100,000 ROBUX from robux.space! Get yours now before it runs out!" These comments always lead to a fake ROBLOX-looking website that will ask for your username and password. These comments are there because users were tricked into putting their password and username into the website, and then the website will ask them to comment that on 10 (give or take) games before it will give them ROBUX. This causes the player to spread the comment around to new games thinking that once they do it enough times, they will get robux.

The easiest way to avoid this, is to remember that when things are too good to be true, they probably are. Again, '''you should never give your password to ANYONE, including Roblox staff. Roblox staff are not allowed to ask for passwords and they will never ask for one'''.

"Testing site" phishing:
This is basically the same as 2.1, however, people are instead saying that ROBLOX is allowing users to test new, cool features. Once you get to the site, it will require you to log in. Once you log in, they will lead you to the official ROBLOX 404 page to make it look like you logged in successfully at the top, but had an error.

To avoid this, follow the same intructions as above.

Conclusion
That's about it, stay safe! - ScriptedObjects