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AusGAF 10 - Node Country for Old Men
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ThoseDeafMutes
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On Monday Wolfenstein comes out (hopefully they don't delay Australia...). Then on Thursday I'm seeing Chef at the state cinema. Then seeing X-men: DOFP on Sunday.
Gonna be a damn good week.
Gonna be a damn good week.
reptilescorpio
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Got an email saying I had purchased a shitload of FIFA point out of my PSN wallet money.
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Call up Sony and they were straight onto it thankfully. They could tell it was done on a PS3 and said they could see the IP address. Hope they brick the fucking cunt.
The guy I talked to seemed to think I would be reimbursed the wallet credit, so hopefully it doesn't turn out to be a Shaneus situation.
Motherfucker.
Now I can't afford to re-up my PS+ sub so now I'll lose all these games >_<
Thankfully I don't use that password on any other accounts. Also really odd since the username is unique to that account too. No fucking idea how they were able to get in and buy FIFA points. I have to assume you can buy them through the FIFA games themselves as I was also pretty sure I had a PIN on the account as well as the password.
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Call up Sony and they were straight onto it thankfully. They could tell it was done on a PS3 and said they could see the IP address. Hope they brick the fucking cunt.
The guy I talked to seemed to think I would be reimbursed the wallet credit, so hopefully it doesn't turn out to be a Shaneus situation.
Motherfucker.
Now I can't afford to re-up my PS+ sub so now I'll lose all these games >_<
Thankfully I don't use that password on any other accounts. Also really odd since the username is unique to that account too. No fucking idea how they were able to get in and buy FIFA points. I have to assume you can buy them through the FIFA games themselves as I was also pretty sure I had a PIN on the account as well as the password.
Dick Smith has it marked as 22nd May, next Thursday!
Oh, so they refund YOUR fucking money.
Cunts.
Edit: Wait, didn't read the full post. D'oheth. Make sure you mention my name/gamertag when/if they say they'll give you a refund. How much did you lose?
Dead Man got banned again? Dammit
They just don't understand the difference do they :|
reptilescorpio
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It was a fair bit, I topped up because of the $50 Paypal promo. Once they get back to me I'll make sure to note to them how they ran that deal if they try and stitch me up.
In any case I don't see how they could get around it, they acknowledge that the purchase came from another PS3, I called up within 30 minutes for getting the email AND I have step verification on both my Origin accounts and my SEN account.
Pretty much the same, except I don't think two-step verification was around when I got done on my SEN account. Nor Origin.
You should totally bump my thread from a while back, because it's likely there's a wave of people who got done.
reptilescorpio
Member
The key thing is they used up my wallet amount but didn't draw any down from my CC. I wonder if the whole transaction was done inside FIFA, which might explain it using my wallet amount only.
If there were any decent investigative journalists around they should be able to track the process through from start to finish and maybe make enough noise to force EA/Sony/MS to fix the fucking problem.
I'll bump the thread once I hear back from Sony on what is going to happen.
ThoseDeafMutes
Member
Wouldn't it be a shame if I had to get somebody from America to unlock it for me.
Neverender
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Wolfenstein is out on the 20th here
reptilescorpio
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I'm going to hazard a guess that the 2 step is only for changing details like email address and passwords. Nothing was changed, all that happened was one large transaction of FIFA points on a PS3 that was situated in a timezone 2 hours behind AEST.
Like I said, if the transaction can be made within FIFA all they would need is my username and password. Not sure how they got that though as I had changed my password since the hack ages ago and it's a unique password for my SEN account.
Probably some kind of money laundering scheme
Sneaky fuckers, oh well good thing you noticed it.
reptilescorpio
Member
They sell the points on eBay I assume
Fuck it. Maybe I'll do some research into it since no one else has.
Poimandres
Member
There are a bunch of buses driving around with Wolfenstein posters that have the 20th listed as release, so I doubt it will be delayed.
Ruthless_Barbarian
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This fifa points scam seems to be an EU/AU PSN accounts issue, haven't heard about this thing happening to any US accounts. Hope you get your money refunded rep.
So pissed I missed out on tickets to the red carpet premiere of Xmen on the 16th. Peter Dinklage was going to be there
Booked Vmax for both Godzilla and Xmen.
'Cause people tend to shop more on the weekends?
All this movie talk reminds me, Gold Class Godzilla on Friday and Gold Class X-Men next week, what a glorious waste of money, can't wait
So pissed I missed out on tickets to the red carpet premiere of Xmen on the 16th. Peter Dinklage was going to be there
Booked Vmax for both Godzilla and Xmen.
'Cause people tend to shop more on the weekends?
So pissed I missed out on tickets to the red carpet premiere of Xmen on the 16th. Peter Dinklage was going to be there
Booked Vmax for both Godzilla and Xmen.
The casting in Game of Thrones for the most part is top notch. Peter Dinklage has been giving an incredible performance, he is such a talented actor.
ThoseDeafMutes
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My preliminary estimates using the ato tax calculator are tleling me that I'll be getting a tax return of ~4500-5000 this year.
Hue hue hue hue
Hue hue hue hue
Ohhhh, so points are transferable/sellable, makes sense now. Before I was thinking why anyone would wanna steal itchy&scratchy bucks
Panel submissions to AusPAX are now open.
I'm trying to choose between "Australian Game Journalist Ethics: Does Anyone Know Any?" and "Seriously, Ozisoft Were A Bunch Of Crooks, Weren't They?"
I'm trying to choose between "Australian Game Journalist Ethics: Does Anyone Know Any?" and "Seriously, Ozisoft Were A Bunch Of Crooks, Weren't They?"
DarthHomer
Member
I'd love to see that second one. That'd be amazing!
Also, now I gotta get to work on my panel. Thanks for the reminder!
Can't you do both.
reptilescorpio
Member
The fault lies entirely, ENTIRELY, with EA on this. They created a system that can be abused fairly easily.
Sony and MS can't do much more than refund money, ban consoles and ask EA to fix their shit.
Minimum 2 step process on FIFA UT transactions. No exceptions. If they do that the problem will be shifted to abusers needing to gain access to the Origin account holders email or mobile phone.
EA are making millions off FUT. It simply isn't good enough they continue to use this broken process.
Dude, how do you expect game journos to write about this if they haven't received a press release about it? You want them to do some original research or something?!?!
endlessflood
Member
Get Serrels on the case.
BananaArnie
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come see my panel "what the fuck is up with "gamers" paying for shit that doesnt exist yet: auspax was a joke wasnt it"
Ruthless_Barbarian
Member
It's totally been worth it. I've got:
New Super Mario Bros U
Wii Party U
Super Mario 3D World
Pikmin 3
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze
All of them are fantastic (Wii Party U is a legitimately good party game. So much better than the latter Mario Party games).
Then at the end of the month I'll get Mario Kart 8 and either Wonderful 101 or Wind Waker HD. Nintendo completely botched the console and I understand why it's selling so horribly, but I'm going to end up with 10-12 high quality Nintendo exclusives and some awesome VC titles. Worth the money for me.
New Super Mario Bros U
Wii Party U
Super Mario 3D World
Pikmin 3
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze
All of them are fantastic (Wii Party U is a legitimately good party game. So much better than the latter Mario Party games).
Then at the end of the month I'll get Mario Kart 8 and either Wonderful 101 or Wind Waker HD. Nintendo completely botched the console and I understand why it's selling so horribly, but I'm going to end up with 10-12 high quality Nintendo exclusives and some awesome VC titles. Worth the money for me.
ThoseDeafMutes
Member
Dick has been having crazy numbers of sales recently. I expect another 10%+ off storewide soon.
ThoseDeafMutes
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I don't know if they stock WiiUs anymore but they definitely have plenty of games. I got my PS4 from them and today I preordered TLOU.
lol
Nah. Makes too much sense! But I think it is partially in EA's court, or something.
Make sure you bump my thread while doing it!
I need to see my name up in lights again
Tehehe:
(was an in-joke on a fairly insular forum I'm a member of)
I never really found out how it works... is it that EA accounts are directly linked to XBL/PSN ones so a hacking of an EA account is all that's needed? I was under the impression it was my PSN account that was hacked.
Oh, I guess they just discriminate against unprofitable products :<
reptilescorpio
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WiiU hardware has been gone from Dick Smith since the fire sale.
No hacking involved, more social engineering.
You can access the EA store in-game with FIFA. You can only buy these FUT points in the EA store, not on PSN/XBL.
All the authorisation/encryption is on EA's side. Not PSN/XBL.
All you need to log into someone's PSN/XBL account in the EA store is their username and password, bypassing the need for 2 step.
If the abuser can get these 2 pieces of information one way or another they can buy the points. These points can then be transferred to another account.
They can get your username just by looking online in tons of places that do stats on profiles. It's all open information.
Password is the tricky one. Lots of ways to attempt this anywhere from random Googling trails to calling up customer support using the username and any other information they can link to you to trick them into giving up a password which might work or at the least give them one to try with another account you have somewhere.
No hacking involved, more social engineering.
You can access the EA store in-game with FIFA. You can only buy these FUT points in the EA store, not on PSN/XBL.
All the authorisation/encryption is on EA's side. Not PSN/XBL.
All you need to log into someone's PSN/XBL account in the EA store is their username and password, bypassing the need for 2 step.
If the abuser can get these 2 pieces of information one way or another they can buy the points. These points can then be transferred to another account.
They can get your username just by looking online in tons of places that do stats on profiles. It's all open information.
Password is the tricky one. Lots of ways to attempt this anywhere from random Googling trails to calling up customer support using the username and any other information they can link to you to trick them into giving up a password which might work or at the least give them one to try with another account you have somewhere.
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