I'm proud to say in over 10 years of playing MMO games. I have never once ever been hacked. Yet I know loads and loads and loads and loads of people who have.
Whats my secret?Well I'll tell you:
Email:
Whenever you register for a game you need to provide an email address. This email address is your first line of defense against hackers. So why not make it a good one?
Open a G-Mail account (you may think a work email is a good idea, can you access your work email from home? are you gonna stay with that company forever?). Make it something tricky like "[email protected]". Then give yourself a monster password. This must have symbols, numbers and letters.
Now write it down and put it somewhere that you wont lose.
Wire your accounts to this email address and -DONT- use Black Prophecy Gold for anything else. I have my nearly 12 game accounts tied to an email addy like this and I dont/wont give it to anyone. You don't need to login to this email address often either.
You may think having all my game emails tied to one account is dangerous. Well not really... people who hack accounts are normally trying to sell the gold for real world money. They normally don't care about other games cause they have no buyers for it.
Lets have a look at some of the common techniques people use to hack accounts:
Scamming - This is a sophiscated method that is difficult to find or spot. What players do is they actually play the game. They get to know you over an extended period of time being very friendly and eventually people trust them. These players will often give you their account details for some reason (although they keep the amount of stuff on it to a minimum).
Defenses: Imagine this scenario. I pass you my username and password for some reason. I go away for a day or two, come back and find I was hacked. Well guess who I am gonna suspect? It takes years to build up trust and only suspicion (not proof) to break it. You could well see yourself booted out of Black Prophecy Money guilds or getting branded as a hacker.
So why ever give someone your account name/password? I mean really all it will do is make you suspicious of someone else -IF- you did ever get hacked. Be a friend and don't give your account or accept one from anyone. There is never a good reason.
Example I have seen: A female gamer who we knew managed to take 5 guys at once with this claiming she had feelings for them etc etc. The account she used was never her main one and she robbed all five of them at once after getting to know them over the course of a year. I believe the way she caught main one was she offered to pay for his monthly subscription while he was going through hard times.
