Announcement: Gaia Staff and Moderators will never ask for your password!

[admin]

Hey, Gang! We just wanted to take a couple minutes of your time to deliver an important safety reminder: never give out your password to anyone! Not to friends, not to Gaia staff, not to anyone.

A common tactic used by account thieves is to impersonate Gaia staff or moderators, then demand to know your password. Often these ne'er-do-wells will attempt to influence you with one of the following strategies:

• Trying to intimidate you by saying you will be banned unless you reveal your password within a few minutes.
  
• Saying they need your password is needed to resolve an issue with your account.
  
• Saying they need your password to check for viruses.
  
• Saying they need your password to clear up a report against you.
  
  

The good news is that it's super easy to avoid these traps. Nobody representing Gaia will ever ask you for your password. We can handle any potential account issues without ever needing to know it.

If you ever encounter anyone asking for or demanding to know your password here on Gaia, please help us out and report them right away!

Sharing your password with friends or strangers can lead to your hard-earned items and Gold getting stolen or your account getting banned... not to mention a big huge mess for us to clean up. So, to repeat: never share your password!

Still don't believe me? Check out this short video by the Gaia staff saying the exact same thing in far fewer words and with the added bonus of a whole lot of bloopers at the end. We're really serious about this!