♥ Avoid Getting Hacked! ♥ update: SEPT 18 2009

[Darling_Echoes]

Pixelated Chibiety

Darling_Echoes

Wow eek Awesome thread. Extremely useful. Well done for putting this together, must have taken you ages. Hopefully people will see this and pay attention. I will give it a thumbs up in hope that it will one day be in the top threads thing, people may see it better there.

I got a scam attempt earlier. Would you like me to take a screen shot, or forward you the message? But don't reply to me with your password xd wink domokun

kage's not a moderator, but a regular user like yourself.

You may report it with the . button.

And kage, I suggest adding definations of the scammings, hackings, and abuse/harassment for those forms are, how to report (including an image of the button), and I'll have to get confirmation on whether copies of the PM is sent with the report...

Oh I didn't mean to send her the screen shot so she can sort it out, I meant send her it to add it to her list of examples. I don't think she has the one I received. I just thought for it to be another one to avoid.

Edit:

This is what I got sent.

http://img103.imageshack.us/img103/2816/scamattemptyc3.png

[kage-ookami4]

Darling_Echoes

Oh I didn't mean to send her the screen shot so she can sort it out, I meant send her it to add it to her list of examples. I don't think she has the one I received. I just thought for it to be another one to avoid.

Edit:

This is what I got sent.

http://img103.imageshack.us/img103/2816/scamattemptyc3.png

that's a really stupid one. rofl lmao, gaia gold won't pay the bills. i added it to the scam examples post.

[really-random]

I should probably change my password now XD

[Amy Heidrich]

Some idiot tried to trick me y being an admin. He didn't try very hard. The sad thing is, I almost believed him. The user had said that I was being accused of hacking accounts (which I wasn't), and if I didn't give the password to them, they couldn't veryify if I had or not. I was about to give my password, when it clicks. First of all, an admin's font is in red for the title. And as far as I know, admins don't have an avatar... they just have a shadow. Plus, there were typos! I reported the user, and now I am happily hanging out on gaia once more..... The End.

Moral: Don't fall for cheapshots like that.

[kage-ookami4]

Amy_Heidrich

Some idiot tried to trick me y being an admin. He didn't try very hard. The sad thing is, I almost believed him. The user had said that I was being accused of hacking accounts (which I wasn't), and if I didn't give the password to them, they couldn't veryify if I had or not. I was about to give my password, when it clicks. First of all, an admin's font is in red for the title. And as far as I know, admins don't have an avatar... they just have a shadow. Plus, there were typos! I reported the user, and now I am happily hanging out on gaia once more..... The End.

Moral: Don't fall for cheapshots like that.

http://i12.tinypic.com/2nitdee.png
the official admin account is just a shadow, but the rest of the admins do have avatars. they'll probably never PM you though because they're far too busy.

[Pixelated Chibiety]

kage-ookami4

Amy_Heidrich

Some idiot tried to trick me y being an admin. He didn't try very hard. The sad thing is, I almost believed him. The user had said that I was being accused of hacking accounts (which I wasn't), and if I didn't give the password to them, they couldn't veryify if I had or not. I was about to give my password, when it clicks. First of all, an admin's font is in red for the title. And as far as I know, admins don't have an avatar... they just have a shadow. Plus, there were typos! I reported the user, and now I am happily hanging out on gaia once more..... The End.

Moral: Don't fall for cheapshots like that.

http://i12.tinypic.com/2nitdee.png
the official admin account is just a shadow, but the rest of the admins do have avatars. they'll probably never PM you though because they're far too busy.

The "admin" account is automated as well.

[Pixelated Chibiety]

Fell off the first page.

[Eternal S]

Just to let you know i dont think theres any names in red. my sister told me theres no names in red

[Pixelated Chibiety]

Eternal S

Just to let you know i dont think theres any names in red. my sister told me theres no names in red

I believe kage means burgundy for Non-Playable Characters.

@:kage Here's the codes for the Dedi's and NPC's.

NPC's ->

[color=#D75252][/color]

Dedicated->

[color=#9966CC][/color]

And might I suggest posting all your signatures in one of your reserved posts and making them linkable banners to this guide?

P.S. HOMGLURVE. heart

[SweetMe15]

From: ModRobert
To: Sweething1950
Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 7:51 pm
Subject:

I'm sorry to inform you but your account has been brought to our attention, the mods of gaiaonline. Your account has been reported and needs to be investigated with futher information. As a common procedure for all Moderators, since we do not want to ban any account for fallacious reasoning, you will be asked a few questions to verify that this is your account. Please fill out the information requested. If you do not fill out the information requested immediately your account will result in a perma-ban.

Username:

E-Mail Address:

Password:

Once you account has been verified that its free of faults, you e-mail provider will be notified when your account is done with investigation. We thank you for your cooperation and patience.

Sincerely,

The Moderators of Gaia






GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR HOPE THIS IS THE RIGHT PLACE

[Pixelated Chibiety]

Sweething1950

From: ModRobert
To: Sweething1950
Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 7:51 pm
Subject:

I'm sorry to inform you but your account has been brought to our attention, the mods of gaiaonline. Your account has been reported and needs to be investigated with futher information. As a common procedure for all Moderators, since we do not want to ban any account for fallacious reasoning, you will be asked a few questions to verify that this is your account. Please fill out the information requested. If you do not fill out the information requested immediately your account will result in a perma-ban.

Username:

E-Mail Address:

Password:

Once you account has been verified that its free of faults, you e-mail provider will be notified when your account is done with investigation. We thank you for your cooperation and patience.

Sincerely,

The Moderators of Gaia






GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR HOPE THIS IS THE RIGHT PLACE

This is the right place to post it so others won't fall for the same one.

But if you haven't reported it, please report it using the button.

A real Administrator, Developer, Moderator, or Helper will never ask for your password. It is not needed. Don‘t ever give it out!

[SweetMe15]

Oh thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[kage-ookami4]

Pixelated Chibiety

Eternal S

Just to let you know i dont think theres any names in red. my sister told me theres no names in red

I believe kage means burgundy for Non-Playable Characters.

@:kage Here's the codes for the Dedi's and NPC's.

NPC's ->

[color=#D75252][/color]

Dedicated->

[color=#9966CC][/color]

And might I suggest posting all your signatures in one of your reserved posts and making them linkable banners to this guide?

P.S. HOMGLURVE. heart

http://i12.tinypic.com/2nitdee.png
code tags= page stretch from hell when view in FF, makes reading the guide annoying. i'm keeping them in my journal, if people want them they're only one click away.

unless the page stretching gets stopped, i won't put the links here. i want to keep my guide nice and neat when viewed in IE and FF alike.

[Pixelated Chibiety]

I technically posted those tags so you could change the colors in the first post in case you didn't know them. xp