Evony fraud

[Vivendel]

Does anyone make any sense of this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFb9QKkNDU8&annotation_id=annotation_137161&feature=iv

The creepy music makes me kinda sceptical, and I'm not really into technical Internet lingo

 

[Hiphophippo]

Not enough boobs imo

 

[Vivendel]

I was thinking more about the technical aspects of the video. You know, the whole "chinese goldfarmers did it and now they are going to kill your puppies" stuff

 

[imp_spittle]

Not enough boobs imo

The motion has been seconded. Opposition? No? We're ready to vote on the matter.

Back to being on-topic, I keep seeing ads for Evony on zshare, and they drive me batty. Something just feels sleazy, like most of the ads on zshare. Perhaps this should be a rule to follow: if a site advertises on zshare, then don't go for it.

 

[Zombie_Fish]

I was thinking more about the technical aspects of the video. You know, the whole "chinese goldfarmers did it and now they are going to kill your puppies" stuff

If you want to know the basics of what it meant, he was basically explaining that the companies, servers, people and IPs (these are a computer's equivalent of ID over the Internet, so it is how servers and their locations can be identified across the internet) who run Evony also run goldfarming sites and scamming sites as well as sites simply for the purpose of advertising Evony. It then goes on to list the connections the site has to other scamming sites, before explaining other scams it has done over time (inlcuding copyright theft and use of images/ CSS or layouts without permission -- aka the tits in the ads -- and has been scamming off advertisiers by using a Pay per click advertising campaign [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay_per_click] and then clicking on its own links to get money otherwise known as Click fraud [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_fraud]).

I do think the guy could've gone into a bit more detail about how it 'logs and stores everything in your computer's memory' and the program iEvony, which the video says is simply used to spam people your mailing lists with codes for the game iEvony, and so it continues like that, though. The first claim is completely unsupported by any evidence unlinke the rest of the video and for the second claim I found his description to be pretty vague myself so I had to look it up to get an idea of what he meant.

 

[Left4Meds]

Isn't Evony some stupid game that sells it self by showning off cleavage in Ads?

 

[Vivendel]

I was thinking more about the technical aspects of the video. You know, the whole "chinese goldfarmers did it and now they are going to kill your puppies" stuff

If you want to know the basics of what it meant, he was basically explaining that the companies, servers, people and IPs (these are a computer's equivalent of ID over the Internet, so it is how servers and their locations can be identified across the internet) who run Evony also run goldfarming sites and scamming sites as well as sites simply for the purpose of advertising Evony. It then goes on to list the connections the site has to other scamming sites, before explaining other scams it has done over time (inlcuding copyright theft and use of images/ CSS or layouts without permission -- aka the tits in the ads -- and has been scamming off advertisiers by using a Pay per click advertising campaign [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay_per_click] and then clicking on its own links to get money otherwise known as Click fraud [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_fraud]).

I do think the guy could've gone into a bit more detail about how it 'logs and stores everything in your computer's memory' and the program iEvony, which the video says is simply used to spam people your mailing lists with codes for the game iEvony, and so it continues like that, though. The first claim is completely unsupported by any evidence unlinke the rest of the video and for the second claim I found his description to be pretty vague myself so I had to look it up to get an idea of what he meant.

Thanks man. That simplified it a bit

 

[barryween]

Wow, this is...
amazing.
I always knew there was something fishy with Evony.