Fortnite Scammer Warning Issued By Epic Games In Response To V-Buck Offers
As with many games that have in-game currency, Epic Games has issued a Fortnite scammer warning to caution players against believing people who are offering huge amounts of V-Bucks for free if you click on a link. However, as Epic has said, there’s no such thing as a free V-Buck.
While it’s unlikely that most players would be dumb enough to fall for a suspicious link on the internet that promises free money, a warning is still needed just in case people actually fall for it. If you decide to disregard the Fortnite scammer warning and actually click on one of those links in order to get your “free V-Bucks”, you’ll likely get nothing out of it but a virus, and might even get your identity stolen to boot.
Or, even if it’s more benign, you’ll still give them ad revenue money because you’ll have to click through advertisement after advertisement in order to get your nonexistent free V-Bucks, and that’s even possibly on top of logging into your account and racking up microtransaction charges, since you also have a debit or credit card tied to your account.
While V-Bucks can be bought from the game if you don’t want to grind in order to earn them to get a skin or emote, you can still just earn the bucks automatically by playing the game. It’ll take longer, but it’s safer and you don’t run the risk of getting a virus on your computer or having your identity stolen.
Along with the Fortnite scammer warning, Epic Games has announced that they’re hunting down the various sites that are offering free V-Bucks and shutting them down, so hopefully, eventually, these scammers will get the idea and stop trying to sucker people into giving them sensitive information. But even if they don’t, just earn V-Bucks the legitimate way, rather than through shortcuts.