Board Thread:Roblox help and discussion/@comment-30144972-20180210164450

Please watch out for this place called "𝐑𝐎𝐁𝐔𝐗" on the front page, seemingly having over 10,000 players playing the game. That place is a scam, using you to download viruses into your computer.



What does the scam do?

Using bots to send the place into the front page to get everyone's attention (note the number of users playing compared to the number of accounted visits), it'll ask you to go to a website in order to gain robux via watching ads, participating in surveys, and downloading apps on your phone. It also claims to have a group that you can join to get the group funds, but the link is only obtainable when you do the tasks.

What's fishy about it?

There are several things that are fishy about the offer, inside and outside the website.

For one, it asks you to go onto a website that isn't trusted or owned by ROBLOX. That's usually a red flag to be wary about the offer.

The owner of the place is a bot themselves because of its relatively new join date and the lack of user badges from other places. They use this method so they can easily keep their anonymity from ROBLOX. Then, they use bots to easily get the place to the front page. Why use these dirty tricks to spread the word about the website?

Secondly, despite the website's clean and friendly interface, there's no other links that direct to the author, its contacts, or its terms and conditions. Again, this is to preserve anonymity. In addition, having no terms or conditions means you don't have any written rights or guarantees when taking their offers or using their website.

Thirdly, how would the website know if you have done the tasks?. Most of the offers they're trying to sell you are from third-party advertisers you'd probably never heard of. How would this website and the third-party websites transfer information that you have done the task? Why would these third-party websites look towards sponsoring a website like this?

What's the risk?

The obvious risk is that by downloading or participating in survey that ask for your information, the third-party websites would either get information from you or download viruses into your computer/phone. If you have programs such as McAfee, they will warn you that these websites are not to be trusted.

Be careful about this new, current scam that's happening right now. Stay safe! 