'Attention!'?

[xEmiiChan]

Someone with the username 'Account Verification Lynn' sent me this message:

Attention exclaim
xEmiiChan
We are sorry to inform you that your account has been brought to our attention. Your account has been REPORTED and needs to be investigated for further information. Like any other Gaian Administrator, we don’t normally ask for this information but to clear your report we must. You will be asked a few questions to verify that this is your account. Please fill out the information requested.If you were offline when you received this message, you have been given 10 minutes to reply to this message as of the time you logged in or this report will not be able to pass the maintainence.

IF YOU IGNORE THIS MESSAGE YOU WILL BE BANNED AUTOMATICALLY !


User Name:

Password:

Verify Password:

Email:

Birthday:


For some tremendous reason , your account password won't process
*REMEMBER* TYPE THE INFORMATION ABOVE WITH A SPACE BETWEEN EACH LETTER
EX: P A S S WO R D c o c o 1 2 3

Please do not submit PM reports for swearing, attitude, or issues not covered in the Gaia Online ToS. Additionally, please DO NOT submit this form multiple times, abuse this reporting tool, or spam this form with meaningless information. Thank you for your cooperation. Sorry for this disturbance.



Your sincerely,

-Gaia Administrator & Help & Support Team-

©REPORT 423.738.435.889.349

PLEASE, IF YOU HAVE ANY PROBLEMS GETTING THE INFORMATION ABOVE TO US PLEASE EMAIL US AT [e-mail]

IF WE DO NOT RECEIVE THE INFORMATION YOUR ACCOUNT WILL BE DEACTIVATED. 2012

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So, is this real or not? I'm only new here, and I'm not really sure... I haven't done anything bad or anything to get reported. So I was wondering if this was just one of those scammers (Although it looks pretty real... o.o)

[Delicate Wish]

告訴我怎麼抵抗心裡 潛伏的脆弱

No, moderators will never ask for your password. Report the PM; yes it is a scam PM.

可憐我越是迷戀煙火越害怕寂寞

[HauntingEchoes]

It's fake. Please report the message. Staff will never ask for your information and never need it. Anyone who does ask for that sort of stuff should be reported.

Here's some handy hints:

This thread is really helpful to avoid staff impersonation.

-The basic rule is not to give anyone your password. Nobody, not a single soul, needs your password for any reason.

-You only ever need to put your password in when logging in (and only on the proper page, www.gaiaonline.com, always check the URL is accurate), doing trades, and to sell or buy from the marketplace. Again, always check you're on the correct URL before you go putting your password anywhere.

-Don't write your password down anywhere, not only could someone easily find a piece of paper, but it's just generally a bad practice to get in to, you should never write your password for any site or anything down anywhere, you never know when you might lose it, or someone could just find it.

-Don't make an easy password. For example "hello" is a terrible password (and don't use personal details like your name or something), however "h3lI0" is far better, still not perfect, but much better than before. Make your password reasonably complex, and something that people aren't going to be able to guess.

-Also, make sure you don't put your password into any pop-ups. Gaia doesn't have "botting" pop ups, we have captcha things for that, as a matter of fact, Gaia doesn't have any pop ups that would ask for your password.

-Make sure you don't download anything suspicious. Ensure you scan your computer regularly for keyloggers (they're quite uncommon, but just keep an eye out).

-Change your password fairly frequently.

[Lorelei1992]

I have had the same thing I reported it.