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This was posted in the DS live journal community, and I think it's important to share:

WARNING! YOU NEED TO READ THIS!!!

Everybody, please BE CAREFUL when you make a trade with a shady person. This will seriously become a bigger issue once more people learn about this.

Ok, so I was doing a transaction with someone that said they'd give me a Metroid for free. I was all "yayyy" about it, until seconds after the initial transaction.
A friend came in to the gate seconds after and behold, I could see that this other person was HACKING my game! My gate had turned into a Museum! I quickly powered off so everything was okay, but I couldn't have been so lucky if it wasn't for my friend coming in at that presice moment.

If your gate turns into a Museum, you won't be able to get on Wifi Mode anymore without restarting your entire game

Other people on the forum quickly began complaining that their gates had turned into a museum. Now they are stuck with a Museum Gate.

I really don't know ways to prevent this and as of right now there's no way to fix this, but please just be careful! You could lose either any chance to go online or your entire town if you find yourself attacked by anybody doing this.

Oh, and watch out for this person:
code: 5025-7505-3343
name: Griefer
town: LOL

If this has happened to you(copied and pasted from somebody in the Gamefaqs forum):


1.get a friend to activate Immigration Mode
2.Grab all the bells & items you can
3.move to a friends town
4.if you still have items you want, move back & nab em
5. Create a new town
6. move back.

Moral of the story: BE CAREFUL who you invite to your town!

OMG how is this possible?

wait i'm confused, how were they hacking your game? What do you mean by "your gate became a museum" ?

and what's immigration mode?
.. I feel like a newbie x.X

There's a hack out on the internet that will let you mess up your town or other people's towns...

If you play over wifi, and let someone into your town, they may be able to hack your town and turn your gate (where booker and copper are - the area that allows you to go into other towns and lets other people come to your town through DS to DS or wifi) into a museum - so if you get hacked, you won't ever be able to invite people into your town or ever leave your town.

The only solution is to make a brand new town... I've also heard that if you use the hack on your own town you can put it back (but I haven't heard of anyone using it and it working, and I'm pretty sure it's against Gaia's TOS to put the link to it here)

Moral of the story: BE CAREFUL with who you invite to your town!

Should I sticky/turn this topic into an announcement, until it's fixed? I think it's a good idea to warn everyone, but it almost seems like people will notice it easier as a regular topic (as long as it stays towards the top of the page), as opposed to another sticky (since there's so many and a lot of people have already read them xd ).

Oh my god! That's horrible. Thank you SO MUCH for the heads up.
@Alaina: Please do. I'm sure it will keep many people's towns safe.

I'll keep that in mind when I get Wifi.