‘Mum, where did my Robux go?’ The Roblox scam targeting children

Source: www.theguardian.com · Section: business-tech · Bias: Center · Published: Sun, 27 Sep 2026 06:00:56 GMT

Criminals are trying to glean login details to harvest players’ in-game currency and personal dataYour 10-year-old son has started playing Roblox, when he realises all of his in-game currency, Robux, is gone.When you try to find out what happened, he says he was recently promised extra Robux if he followed a link on YouTube. When he signed on at the site link, he was taken to the Roblox site as usual but there was no sign of the extra currency. Continue reading...

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