What to do to protect me or my family from this internet threat:

First of all you need consider as an urgent manner, the installation of an Antivirus, while antiviruses doesn't protect you at 100%, it can prevent that  You to be another victim of this scheme. Remember that the antivirus database for virus, Trojans and worms is constantly updated by the developer and new threats can be easily avoid by having an antivirus installed and updated in your PC.

The second part is to teach yourself and the members of your family to NOT share any personal information with third parties, this can include:  in real life friends or even close family, as passwords, usernames, email addresses, payment details.

Third, teach yourself to research a link before you open it, one tool that you might want to take advantage of is Sucuri. You can easily copy the link and paste it in the box and then click the button, all information related to the website will be displayed to you and is up to you to access to it or not.

Fourth, never open attachments in that a friend of you has sent you via email. Sometimes this files might contain virus, malware or Trojan that will harmful your PC.

If one day you are a victim of one this attacks, first of all contact the customer support of the video game you are currently playing to find out how they can help you. Please consider a security check for your PC, you might need a IT technician to do this task in your behalf.

If money is involved, remember that every credit card has insurance and you might consider contact your bank or Credit Card Company immediately you detect any potential risk in your account.

I hope that the information listed above helps to understand that playing video-games is not a game, is a serious business when we’re talking about Internet Security.