Whether you’ve spent countless hours or hard earned pounds (or dollars or whatever your currency) building your Ultimate Team, it’s an investment that you don’t want to lose and there are plenty of people out there looking to take it.
Follow these Ultimate Security tips to make sure your Ultimate Team doesn’t get hacked!
Never Give Your Log In Details To Anyone… Ever!!!
EA will never, ever, ever, ever ask you for your log in details, ever. No matter what.
Scammers send e-mails (amongst other things) to try to get you to give up your Ultimate Team log in details. These e-mails often look really convincing and may contain your name and other information but don’t be fooled!
If you get an e-mail, text, a PM on the official EA forum or anything that looks like it came from EA always verify who it came from.
No matter how convincing people are, if you’re contacted by anyone asking for your log in details it is a scam!
Do not give your log in details to anyone.
Beware Of Fake “Phishing” Sites
A large number of websites have been set specifically to trick you into giving up your username, password and security question.
A number of these look identical to the official EA log in page so be extra vigilant logging in to the Ultimate Team Web App.
Always make sure that the URL of the website starts with http://www.ea.com/.
The safest way is to bookmark the official site and use your bookmark each time you access the web app.
Other types of Ultimate Team phishing sites offer all sorts of incentives like free Ultimate Team coins or players.
If it looks too good to be true then it probably is.
If you think you may have been a victim of a phishing site then get to the official EA site as quickly as you can and change your password. You may get there in time to save your account.
Don’t Buy Ultimate Team Coins
A lot of coins being sold, particularly ones being sold on ebay, have been obtained by underhand means.
By buying coins you incentivise people to get more coins to sell but more importantly you make yourself a prime target for being hacked and risk losing coins, players or Microsoft Points etc.
If you don’t take my advice about buying Ultimate Team coins then make sure you buy them from someone you know and trust.
The Duplication Glitch Does Not Exist
Every time I play a drop in match with my virtual pro I invariably receive 3 or 4 messages saying,
“I’m doing the duplication glitch, message me back if interested”
By the sounds of the senders of these messages I’m amazed that they managed to turn on their consoles by themselves, never mind performing a clever piece of hacking wizardry but rest assured they’ll know how to take your best players from you.
These scammers will usually ask you to send your best players to them for them to duplicate for you and once you send them you’ll never see them again.
Alternatively they may try to get your log in details from you with false promises of fantastic players.
Every time I get one of these messages I want to smack the sender but in all seriousness, if your daft enough to fall this scam then maybe Ultimate Team (and online gaming) isn’t for you.
Use A Secure Password
You may think your password’s secure but if you’re using a word that’s in the dictionary then it’s not.
Even if your password is followed by numbers or substitutes numbers or symbols for letters (for example “5” instead of “S” or “@” instead of “a”), if the word’s in the dictionary there are programs that can break your password in a matter of hours.
Best practice is to use a password that has 8 characters or more and use a combination of upper case and lower case letters, numbers and special symbols (e.g. & or %) and that is not in the dictionary.
More Ultimate Team Security Details From EA
For more details on how to keep your FIFA 13 Ultimate Team safe and secure and details of where to report phishing sites read EA’s official advice here.
Have you been a victim of an Ultimate Team scam or know of any other threats we haven’t mentioned then please let us know in the comments.
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I have been hacked by KINGKENNYSLFC (PSN Name) He first duplicated my sahin and then he scammed me for my gerard. I never saw it again. But the duplicating glitch works but they use it too convince people to trade there players. And ofcourse be believable. thanks for your time reading this greetings by gianny6
Oh dear.
Once again, THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A DUPLICATION HACK/GLITCH.
dont be stupid again.
my son was very supid and gave all his details and passwords to a ea sport help email and lost players and coins. It wasn’t until i complaied that they replied to the email was full of flith.
I’ve done the same, I’ve changed my password I shall see now if anythings gone.
Why am I continually asked to re-input the security question when launching Ultimate Team? A note says to login into my EA/ Origin account and re-set the password (as my account has been frozen), which I’ve done but I still get the security question set-up every time I relaunch FIFA. My account hasn’t been frozen. I despair with how complicated EA make these things. Why have so many different profile accounts for one game?
im not even being asked to enter a security question am i safe
i just got hacked and i didnt do any of that glitch crap or give my details out i logged out and within 3 hours of me logging off some asshole took all my coins and sold my players for half the price is sold them
Same Aaron exactly the same story something going on like last year where you just needed date of birth and email eas security is so shit it’s unreal
Hey i recive a msg on my PS3 from ( Jannimoney ) he wan’t to give his ultimate Team because he will going to get a Xbox for his birthday and ask me for e-mail and password and security question !! I didn’t give to him u need to be stupid to give your information to someone u don’t know !1 i have a special e-mail just for ea account and online games i never use it for nothing
i was hacked i dont know by who but lost all my players and 30k
My sons account has been hacked, all players and coins gone. Logged it with EA support over a week ago, no response. I dont understand how this happens, never had this issue with XBox only had PS3 for a week. If he builds his team again, how do I stop this from happening again, just having a more secure password? is that all we can do? Thanks
I was hacked last night. i didnt give my details out to any of these sites and that. i just logged off before i went to sleep, and when i woke up, all my players were gone. i dont know why EA let this happen. they should seriously try and fix it, because i know it is affecting people everywhere. I had about 200,000 coins worth of players and 50,000 in coins. All of which, are gone. all i was left with was a bronze manager contract. Anyway, i hope EA fix it before FIFA 14 because i am seriously considering PES
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Some guy on instagram tried to scam me he had pictures of 3 mil and told people to ask for some then he said what is your account details for origin but i was smart enough not to give in