CD Projekt Red has moved to warn fans that a recent round of emails claiming to offer sign-ups for beta access to the developer’s highly anticipated Cyberpunk 2077 are a scam.
Although, as CD Projekt recently reiterated, no Cyberpunk 2077 beta is planned, scammers have been piggybacking onto game’s popularity in a bid to tease sensitive information from unsuspecting punters for quite some time now, as this year-old Reddit thread illustrates.
Still, it seems a sufficient number of new phishing instances have been reported of late to warrant CD Projekt making an official statement on the matter.
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“If you recently received an email claiming to be granting you beta access to Cyberpunk 2077, it’s not from us,” the developer wrote on Twitter, confirming that a new batch of phishing emails have been doing the rounds in recent weeks. “When we contact you via email,” it noted, “it’ll always come from @ cdprojektred com address”.