Gaming scams
Scammers target what players value — accounts, skins, currency, rare items — usually by pulling you off the game's official systems and onto a lookalike.
How it works
Common schemes promise free currency or items in exchange for your login, offer "trades" that never complete, or run fake giveaways through sites dressed up as the official store.
The trick is almost always to get you to act or log in somewhere outside the real game. A free-currency generator is never real, and a "trusted middleman" who needs you to send first is the oldest move in the book.
Common forms
Red flags
Spot it in the wild
There's no such thing as a free-currency generator — it exists to capture your login. The domain isn't the official one, "verify you're not a bot" is the hook to make you enter credentials, and "working this month" discourages a second thought. Never log in anywhere but the real game or store.
What to do instead
The right response
Only trade through the game's official system, and only log in inside the real game or store. If an offer needs you to go somewhere else to claim it, it's a scam.
If you fell for it
- 1Change your account password immediately, and remove any linked payment method you can.
- 2Turn on two-factor authentication or a sign-in PIN.
- 3Check for unfamiliar logins or purchases and report them to the game's support.
- 4If you were charged, contact your payment provider about a reversal.
- 5Report the scammer's account to the platform.
Test your judgment
See if you can spot scams like this one in our quiz.