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Xbox One emulation scam added
[[File:Fakexboxemu.jpg|thumb|250px|right|If the supposed emulator sounds too good to be true, '''avoid it like the plague.''' Remember to observe common sense and refrain from clicking on random download links.]]
As with most sought-after things on the web, emulation has also been the subject of '''scams''' and confidence tricks that pretend to offer either an emulator that doesn't exist, especially for consoles that have just been released and as such aren't documented and/or emulated yet, or a particular port of a popular video game such as ''Grand Theft Auto''.
* Fake websites with the appearance of a legitimate emulation project, complete with doctored screenshots and video footage along with seemingly-convincing yet patently false claims about compatibility and/or performance, and with some setting up an equally phony Github repo again to give the illusion of legitimacy.
* Videos from less-than-reputable sources or compromised YouTube accounts claiming to offer an emulator or a mobile port of a console game, examples being ''Grand Theft Auto V'' for Android or iOS.
* Scam apps on Google Play. Due to the anarchic nature of Google's app ecosystem, it is easy for fraudsters and script kiddies to either upload an adware-laced fork of an existing open-source emulator, pass them off as their own and profit off of it, or cobble up an outright fake like those "PS2 emulators" that sprung up for a time prior to [[DamonPS2]]'s release, which are little more than [[PPSSPP]] deceptively repackaged and riddled with advertisements.
* Using "Remote Play" or screencasting to make it look like it's running on natively on a PC or mobile and claiming it's an emulator. Remote Play is a feature that let's users stream the input and visual data from their console to a different device and is available for the PS4/PS5 and Xbox One/Series X|S. With this it's entirely possible to make it ''look'' like a PS4/PS5 or Xbox game is running on a PC or a mobile device at full speed when really it's just streaming the video information from the physical console.
*PCSX4 - Appears to be a site hosted in France with the usual survey malarkey. It also is alleged to have been set up to steal PSIDs from legitimate PS4 consoles.
*eMu3Ds - Uses the fake emulator shell scam. Installing the emulator leads to a fake UI which prompts users to fill up a survey for a non-existent BIOS. Site now hosts a likely infected build of [[Citra]].
*Artemis - Has a channel on YouTube demonstrating a purported PlayStation 3 emulator for Android. Youtuber MrSujano has made a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFKuoe3t4g8 short video] dispelling such claims, besides the fairly obvious fact that PS3 emulation is already system-intensive even on high-end systems, let alone commodity mobile devices.*An emulator simply named "Xbox One Emulator" - Joshua Cannell from MalwareBytes said that this emulator has files from PCSX2, had fake "proved" images and videos, and gives you a trick used to gather your personal information for spam and other malicious purposes.
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