WEPLAY INTERNET FRAUD PREVENTION

We know there is another side of popularity. WePlay has a new challenge nowadays connected with global fraud in the Internet. This fraud exists as clone (twin) sites that are combined with phishing, banking scams, charity scams and so on.

The most popular scenarios are:

- Illegal receiving money supposedly for charity COVID-19 purposes (it has been arisen since WeSave Charity Play tournament);

- Illegal receiving money and bank (financial) information supposedly for participation in WePlay online tournaments. Actually, participation in WePlay Tournament platform is available only through the premium-subscription. Ignore any offers from unauthorized persons which say they are WePlay’s managers and do not pay money to them;

- Illegal receiving of your personal information via registration on fraud WePlay Tournament platform which is not exist (login, password, name, email, telephone number, etc.);

- Illegal placing of applications on App Store and/or Google play with trademarks, logos, name and referral links to WePlay site.

- You may find out the similar site with one-to-one content that original WePlay’s site has. WePlay really appreciate and honor all our users and eSports community and it is the main reason we want to pay your attention on this problem and prevent you from to become the victim of the scammers.

PLEASE, FOLLOWING RULES OF YOUR SAFETY:

1. First of all, pay close attention on URL.

WePlay domain name of site is https://weplay.tv/ and subdomains like mvp.weplay.tv, go.weplay.tv, etc.. There aren’t any other sites that belong or may belong to WePlay. If you find out occasionally web-site that has similar URL as https://weplay.tv/ do not use this web-site – it is fraud. Please, be responsible and contact us to support@weplay.tv to inform about such clone-site.

2. Check HTTP security connection.

HTTP means hypertext transfer protocol. Any communication via HTTP can be stolen or manipulated. That’s why SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) was developed. HTTPS is more secure version of HTTP. Original URL of WePlay has HTTPS security connection.

3. Look for bad language

Most of fraud-sites are made hastily and by developers who are not English native-speakers. Of course, every of us can make grammar mistakes, even international companies. But if you find outrageous mistakes you should to take thought about that.

4. Pay attention to UI/UX design and content of web-site.

WePlay’s web-site is high quality developed and everyday maintained and updated, meanwhile clone-sites have only two or three web-pages with the irrelevant old copied information.

5. Check yourself twice to be sure and ask us

If you want to buy premium subscription for WePlay Tournament platform or order the private tournament holding contact us support@weplay.tv to be sure it is real WePlay company and you receive real original services.

6. General recommendation to keep in safety your personal WePlay account

- If you received some emails requesting some personal information like login (username), password, telephone, credit card number or bank account details, social security number or other ID that looks like it came from WePlay, it all most certainly did not. WePlay never asks for disclosure of sensitive information.

- Do not provide any personal or financial information if it some doubt of reason it is requested.

- Do not click any suspicious links or open any attachments.

- Choose and install some anti-malware software to protect your personal devices and information within it. Update this software permanently to have the best result of safety.

- Change your password to personal WePlay account from time to time.

- As for applications on App Store and/or Google play pay your attention to name and contact of developer/vendor, number of downloading’s, general quality of product. Such products have no any relation to WePlay and actually are fakes.

7. If you are US resident you can contact to Federal Trade Commission and file a complaint via email ftc.gov/complaint to protect your rights. FTC is US federal agency with mission to protect America’s consumers. If you reveal some intentions to steal your sensitive information or you have already disclosure such information to scammers you can report about it to FTC. FTC helps you to coordinate your roadmap how to fix this problem and resolve different situations.

For our part WePlay is doing our best to stop and blocked fake-sites and prevent our users from the Internet fraud. Please, do not stay away from this problem and contact us support@weplay.tv to inform about suspicious sites. All together we do it more effectively