Over the last couple of weeks, we've had an increasing number of scams/hacks happening as a result of guildmate impersonation.
The method by which the scammer gets access to another person's account is to listen in on public conversations between guildmates in Eden Group.
They then create a novice character with a name that is similar to one of the people in the guild. Commonly, they will switch capital "I" and lowercase "l" and add "." to get as close as possible to the name they want to impersonate.
They then message guildmates to convince them to a) borrow equipment previously mentioned or give them login info. This has already resulted in stolen items worth billions of zeny and hours of GM time lost tracking these down.
Please make sure that you are face to face with the guildmate you are trading items with and (while I understand that players -especially in guilds-want to share login information) be extremely careful with who has access.
Let your friends and guildmates know. If you have been a victim of this scam, if you can send me screenshots showing this happening I would like to use them (edited to remove names) to show how this scam operates.