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September 27, 2011 Tom Mills

FIFA 12 UT: Stay Safe

In the age of the internet nothing is safe. Not even a card based add on to a popular gaming franchise. UT is for some strange reason a prime target for scammers, or as I call them, wankers. We posted a guide to staying safe at the start of the year, but it’s time for a refresher. EA have put together a list of things you need to know to enjoy Ultimate Team without going through the stress of having your hard work stolen.

  • Phishing.

Some websites are spoofs. They cleverly (sometimes….) disguise themselves as the legitimate UT site to trick you to logging in and, in doing so, handing over your log in credentials. Here’s a handy URL comparison courtesy of EA themselves.

  • Redirects.

Redirecting is a technique used to first make a stop at the real site, before moving you on to the fake one. For example: http://www.ea.com/redirect?url=http://fakesite.com. EA Don’t ever redirect away from EA.com

  • Scare Tactics.

You may recieve an email or forum communication telling you that “your account has been suspended etc….” with a link to login and correct the error. It’s false. EA will never contact you about account comprimises.  If you recieve anything of the sort, ignore it and use the appropriate console/forum tools available to report the message.

  • Shared Squad links.

Scammers are also now using shared squad links to trick people into logging in to phishing sites. You don’t need to be logged in to EA.com to view them, so if you click a shared squad link and get redirected to a login page, don’t log in.

To read the full article including some extra tips for staying safe when using UT, head over to EA.com.

 

16 Responses to FIFA 12 UT: Stay Safe

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  1. Spike Chapman says:

    Great article guys, one bit of advice, if you’re ever worried about an e-mail you have received or logging in on one of these sites just tweet @easportsfifa or one of the respected community members and ask their advice :)

    September 27, 2011 at 2:33 pm

  2. Champions67 says:

    What are the pictures all about these days hahahah :p

    September 27, 2011 at 2:50 pm

  3. Tom Mills says:

    @champions67 it’s just something myself and Dave do to amuse ourselves. there have been some stonkers over the last year. :D

    September 27, 2011 at 2:56 pm

  4. TheLiverpoolWay says:

    I once drank holy water. I bathed in it too. It made me feel sexy.

    Anyway….. I hardly play UT because I’m a Career Mode kinda guy, but this year I have pre-ordered the ‘FIFA12 Special Edition’ so I will get like 12 or 18 Packs or something for Ultimate Team. So yeah, thanks for the tips guys as I will be playing UT for the first time this year :)

    September 27, 2011 at 4:51 pm

  5. StefanFox says:

    @Theliverpoolway

    I think you’ll love UT, its like a Career mode but you get to use it competitively online =)

    September 27, 2011 at 4:58 pm

  6. Total Football says:

    Ultimate Team is amazing, easily the best mode in any football game.

    September 27, 2011 at 5:11 pm

  7. TheLiverpoolWay says:

    Yeah I have friends who play Ultimate Team all the time. I just never bothered to get into it. But now that I’ve got a little more knowledge on it I think I’ll give it a go, it seems good!

    September 27, 2011 at 5:21 pm

  8. Liam says:

    Cheers guys. This is very helpful to me as I got scammed in last year’s UT & I also pre-ordered the Ultimate Team Edition.

    September 27, 2011 at 5:52 pm

  9. Nick says:

    Who else had CPU made the following trades?

    Wesley Sneijder -> Man City
    David Silva -> Arsenal

    I ran CM 3 times and this transfer happened each time.

    Also I ran sim games using Man Utd after releasing Rooney, Nani, Vidic from my roster. My Man Utd is still unbeatable in sim matches. Top of the league after 20 simmed games.

    I’m starting to get a feeling that everything is scripted except the matches you play obviously.

    Arghhhhh. Offline mode is going to be so lame again!!!

    September 27, 2011 at 7:05 pm

  10. walks says:

    I have been getting e-mails about an account being suspended just sent them to junk box and delete them when they come through.

    September 27, 2011 at 7:39 pm

  11. Dejilinho says:

    I have my UT gold packs from my pre-order but I dont play UT. Anyone interested can add me on dejilinho, PSN. Tell me how you’d get the 24 gold packs. I am a Nigerian by the way.

    September 28, 2011 at 9:18 am

  12. Urchman says:

    @ Dejilinho am adding you now, my PSN is also Urchman. I play UT so i would love to have ur packs.

    September 28, 2011 at 10:49 am

  13. Dejilinho says:

    Ok mate, you got it then. I will add you when I get home from work later today, in about 10-11 hours from this message. PM me on PSN about how you’ll get it, do you need the code or will i trade on UT? I have no clue how the thing works.

    September 28, 2011 at 3:09 pm

  14. Steven says:

    ever since fifa 12 came out I can not get on ultimate team all it says is “ due to high demand you might not be able to login “ and if I make a different account I can login to ultimate team.

    October 2, 2011 at 3:36 pm

  15. Mark says:

    It doesn’t matter what you do to protect your account. I know a number of experienced hackers who have been able to extract login details (user, pass, postcode, card payment method etc.) simply from an insecure Algorithm built into EA’s squad sharing links.

    Not to mention that EA Customer Support give away account details like they’re giving away candy – 8 of the top 10 on the top squad leaderboards have been hacked in the past week, and EA will not offer any compensation; even though it is EA who have comprimised the account, and not the player.

    October 20, 2011 at 3:52 pm

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