CD Projekt RED recently warned fans/players about an email ‘phishing scam’ which is being employed to entice gamers interested in playing Cyberpunk 2077 to sign up for a beta, and also in an attempt to steal their personal sensitive data.
The scam asks users to sign up for a gameplay BETA of Cyberpunk 2077, which has prompted the Polish developer to address this situation via the game’s official Twitter account. Scheduled for release in late November 2020, Cyberpunk 2077 is one of the most hyped games of this year.
But no matter how much you want to access this game now, it’s very important to remember that Cyberpunk 2077 does not have any beta, since CD Projekt developers have already stated before in the past that no beta for this game will be made available before the official release date. Though, this is not the first time this has happened, because a 1 year old Reddit thread already warned players of a similar email advertising scam before.
1/2 If you recently received an email claiming to be granting you beta access to Cyberpunk 2077, it's not from us. Unfortunately, there have been more of these being sent out over the past few weeks. When we contact you via email, it'll always come from @ cdprojektred com address
— Cyberpunk 2077 (@CyberpunkGame) July 30, 2020
CD Projekt RED has issued a statement that all future content will be announced through CD Projekt Red’s official channels, and emails will come from this ‘@cdprojektred.com’ address. Just in case you got this phishing email in your Inbox, please do not open it. Mark the email as spam, and consider warning your friends and family of this scam as well, so that they don’t fall for it either.
“If you recently received an email claiming to be granting you beta access to Cyberpunk 2077, it’s not from us,” the polish dev wrote on Twitter, confirming that a new batch of phishing emails have been circulating in recent weeks. “When we contact you via email,” the developer noted that, “it’ll always come from @ cdprojektred com address”.
CD Projekt further wrote.“Same goes for content creators,”, “We always reach out directly from @ cdprojektred com domain. If you are being contacted by a third party claiming to be working with us (an ad agency for example), you can assume it’s not genuine.”
As mentioned before, Cyberpunk 2077 will not have a beta before its release date. Cyberpunk 2077 will release on November 19th on the PC. The game will only support DX12 and will only work on Windows 7 and Windows 10. Moreover, it will feature real-time Ray Tracing effects, as well as support for DLSS 2.0.
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WELL THIS WOULDNT BE HAPPENING IF THIS GAME CAME OUT WHEN IT WAS SUPPOSED TO
Sadly dumb people on the internet will exist no matter when this game comes out.
At this point… if you don’t know how to check the Sending email address/directing web address from an email… there is just no hope for you on the internet.
Don’t end up like the woman that got scammed a week ago. The 2nd time she got scammed… “Vin Diesel” emailed her and said he wanted to date her but also asked to borrow money and she sent it. LOOOOL. Ppl are so dumb. My god.
If people would stop responding to scams there wouldn’t be so many of them. There’s one scam going around where they call you on the phone pretending to be the IRS and tell you that you owe money on back taxes and to send them a gift card with the amount owed on it or you could be facing fines and possibly jail time and some people do that. It’s amazing what some people will fall for,
Yeah I have got those calls. I just insult them. I read about a woman maybe a month ago.. she sent $2000 in google play gift card pin codes over the phone. How do people fall for this sh*t? It’s not like the internet is brand new. I remember dateline years ago showed a guy who spent $50,000 of his own money to forward stolen packages to this fake sexy woman that said she wanted him. Then there is the dude who remortgaged his house to send someone like $300,000 to pay for fee’s to claim his $50Mil grand prize he won. HAAAAAAAAAAAAA HA HA. Man… ppl are dumb.
They already have a demo they let youtubers and game journalists play. Why not release it for their actual paying customers after 2 huge delays in less 6 months??