Scam-How NOT to fall for one!-For the newbies~READ~

[engineer-of-doom]

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[Joiewe]

Thanks for the warning.......... I would love to pull out his foxy whiskers one by one!!!! sad  

[Teh Bestest Best]

A good friend of mine had that happen to her, except that when she gave her password to ga!amod, they kept her account. She's completely without an account and she had a lot of expensive items on it.  

[Arana Kamina]

Some one tried to steal my password the other day by saying that I had been reported for botting and I had to give my username and password to make sure my reply wasn't a botted message. When I replied and didn't give my password they threatened me and started using bad grammar, so I knew it was a fake.  

[`English~Angel~Queen`]

Hello,

I am the owner of this subforum.Feal free to post.  

[`English~Angel~Queen`]

Arana_Kamina

Some one tried to steal my password the other day by saying that I had been reported for botting and I had to give my username and password to make sure my reply wasn't a botted message. When I replied and didn't give my password they threatened me and started using bad grammar, so I knew it was a fake.

Good job Don't Fall for fake scams newbies!  

[DesertSkorpion]

That was a nice thing you did, thanks. Being a moderator on irc.icq.com (ChanOp, nick Skorpion) I see scams all day long of every variety. What amazes me on Gaia (I have been here for only a few months) is that the gold is not real, but yet they still scam for it as if it was. They're the kind of ppl we z-line where I come from.  

[Khitty]

wow  

[MysteriousToker]

hey thanks a lot. ill definitely look out for scams like that. I appreciate you taking the time to educate us on these occurrences heart biggrin  

[The Name of the Rose]

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[Allie Fox]

I agreed with you. I had to report some bots in while back. I found 3 of them advertesing in GCD forums.  

[GoneByeBye]

I think I experienced it too, I clicked on the link on a forum which somehow linked to another page that looks exactly like a Gaia one with the top borders and all. The page stated that I had somehow lost connection and I had to re-login.

I did, but something felt wrong, so after a while I changed my account password, thank god that it was still valid, and when I instinctively checked my items... lo and behold, my elemental hair was already missing. But since I do not have much gold then, it was all there. And luckily the scammer (if it was) didn't get my other 3 collectibles.

I am not sure if this was a scam process or a glitch, because even when the hair went missing, my avvie still has it on her head... is it possible?

I can usually detect a scam when I see one, and most of the time I just ignore the messages and delete it. It's just that that one looked kinda genuine. sigh.. but i know better now.  

[welshlad2008]

thanks for posting this i had a pm thru saying i woz being investigated for hacking(i can barely start up a computer lol) he asked 4 my username and password needless 2 say i reported it  

[Dacy_13]

I got one of those gold things I didn't do it because my friend got one and it took all her gold from her!  

[awesome007123]

thnx alot!!!!!!! 3nodding 3nodding 3nodding 3nodding