Phishing

I know it sounds like fishing -.- But you know what i mean, the mapleSEA website just recently posted something about the recent phishing activity in maple. Have you guys ever gone to kerning city, Free market and Monster Carnival, only to be met with @@@@@@@@www.maplestory.asiaso.net@@@@@@ Free masks reverse weapons @@@@@@ bla bla bla? Yeah well, they've gotten a bit too far to be honest, even to the people who spread that crap, even they say it's too much!(don't ask how i know f3). So here's a guide taken directly from the website
Dear Maplers,


It has come to our attention that there are phishing websites recently trying to acquire players’ login and password information.


What is phishing?
Phishing is a way of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames and passwords.


Fake Websites are often the common practice of a “phishing” scheme.
Fake Websites can be very convincing. They often use copies of official artwork and logos.

Official MapleSEA Website

Phony Website

Here are some ways to detect whether you’ve been directed to a fake site.


• How did you get here? Did you follow an email or chat link to get to the site?
If you did, be caution.

• Check the URL: All official Asiasoft sites or related MapleSEA sites use the URL pattern “http://[gamename].asiasoftsea.net“ or “MapleSEA.com“
If a site doesn’t end as stated above, it’s not an official Website.

• No matter what situation, Official Sites will NEVER ASK for your PASSWORD of your passport or game accounts.
No matter in what situation, you should not disclose or share your passwords to anyone, be it to buddies, websites or any other ways.

• Look for blind links and broken or dead end pages:
Look around for ways to get back to the home page or to find other information. If there are no other links on the page and no way to get to any other locations on the site, be suspicious.

• Be careful at “fan” Websites: Most fan Websites are not just what they appear to be.
Some are fronts for scammers. Never use the same name, password and email you use for your passport or game account for a fan site account.

The key here is to always stop and think.

Protect yourself, game safely and happy Mapling!

– Maple Administrator
And by maple administrator, i mean the maple administrator wrote this at the mapleSEA website. Link is here : http://maple.asiasoftsea.net/notices/view/stay_clear_of_phishing_websites/

And i believe there has been a breakthrough in the enhancement scrolls. Recently, a few people have gotten bad spells over their enhancement scrolls, including me, which resulted in their equipment being blown up. But when other people are getting bad luck, other "people"(Aka hackers, file crackers etc.) get all the luck from the scrolls, just by editing one minor file in the maplestory folder. I understand that the maplestory administrators have tried hard to make the files UNCRACKABLE , but if they did that completely, they wouldn't be able to update files now would they :) (Maple admins please don't feel offended :X) So how they protect their files are, no doubt, really really good. But there are hackers out there who can achieve much better results, sad to say.

Anyway, i'm getting off the topic. To make it short, Hackers and file crackers and all that nonsense are making all their enhancement scrolls succeed everytime they need them, and fail everytime they sell them. Terrible people yeah? I just hope that the IP from hackers can be traced >_> and the punishment would be electrocution >:D like what happened to me when i wanted to fight krexel >_>

So... yeah, i "MISS"ed the wire, and i still got zapped. ~_~ what the hell man. Oh yeah by the way, i didn't get to fight krexel, i didn't have the required items. And what's more i wasn't sure IF i could kill him. Total hp : 500mil >_> . I'd rather take my chances and go fight zakum instead. Here, you'd have to whack all over the place!

Speaking of which, did you guys notice the corkscrew blow skill looks like a falcon crashing into something? xD

And sometimes, everything in maple comes down to the timing involved xD

Cartwheel over a trojan while leveling up xD Grats HoldTheFlood F33333333

Oh yeah and by the way i'm still sick, so i went online for a few hours before i had to get some rest.