Hunter, an assistant professor of legal studies and business ethics at the Wharton School of Business, knew that this type of hoax, a phishing scam, was usually used to get access to PayPal or online bank accounts. But this was a new one to him: phishers targeting an online game player's login data. "The mechanics of (this) phishing attempt are no more sophisticated than usual, " Hunter wrote on Terra Nova, a blog about the economies of virtual worlds that he co-edits, "but I'm struck by the fact that the scammers are... read full review »