Will you be my victim-I mean Valentine? Scam Awareness repost!

Deep Terror Nami·2/11/2017, 7:22:29 PM·27 votes·2,496 views

Please be cautious of offers that promise "Free RP/skins". Far more often than not they are just scams, and you are risking your account and personal information by going to them. They like to say they are giving away a recently released skin or some RP just for signing up and sharing their link, and are almost always distinctly different from a Twitch streamer giving RP cards which is recognizable by the verbiage used (Click this link for free RP!); if you can't find the offer through a Riot source first, it isn't an offer from Riot.

Do not share the links no matter what. If you want to report it to Riot but include the link for them, submit a Support Ticket so that other players are not exposed to the scam who otherwise wouldn't be. If you see one of these scams being shared, immediately report it.

Riot Games official pages are leagueoflegends.com, riotgames.com, or lolesports.com. If you want to see what current promotions they are offering you can find them on their support page here, and most new offers are announced on the home page of this site.

Riot censors the most common scam sites shared on the boards so that they're harmless, but the link section doesn't benefit from the filter, and some may use a link redirection service to give it a different name that isn't censored. Think twice before trying to redeem offers that seem too good to be true; more often than not, they are. Double check the URL for inconsistencies with the Riot sites if it looks real, because the scammers often create a new site that looks exactly like the official sites and is named relating to a current in-game event (Such as Harrowing or Snowdown + rewards/giveaway etc.); it's sometimes possible for your computer to be compromised without you actually giving them information, so don't even go to look at it. As I said, crosscheck with the official sites when in doubt.

Here's an article about protecting your account and avoiding account theft

If your account gets compromised, please follow the steps in the account recovery article here.

11 Comments

Big Lincoln2/11/2017, 7:28:28 PM17 votes

yeah but i clicked for the nami pic

Papa Andrei2/11/2017, 11:55:49 PM6 votes

I thought this would be a "who can come up with the sexiest fanart" competition

Spice POWAH2/11/2017, 11:43:30 PM2 votes

best clickbait NA

Handy Sandy 2/11/2017, 7:33:57 PM1 votes

be a rioter already

Aeszarck2/11/2017, 10:22:06 PM1 votes

Keep looking out for the community Deep Terror Nami.