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 Post subject: WARNING email 'become a staff member'
PostPosted: Sun May 07, 2006 2:15 pm 
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I just received a very suspicious looking email, in which it was said that you could become a staff member. DO NOT open the link, it will redirect you to a non-neopets site where you are supposed to download firefox, and after that you get a fake login page.

Needless to say: DO NOT ENTER ANYTHING, don't even click the link in the mail.

As precaution measures I changed my password (and no, I didn't enter anything in the grid). Maybe it's nothing, but I thought I'd get the word out.


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PostPosted: Sun May 07, 2006 2:24 pm 
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Report it to TNT immediately. I got a neomail like that last week. TNT really takes those messages seriously. The person that I got my neomail from is now frozen, I'm assuming for sending messages like that.


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PostPosted: Sun May 07, 2006 2:27 pm 
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Already did that immediately


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PostPosted: Sun May 07, 2006 4:49 pm 
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%$&@ I just got one of those Neomails. I can't seem to find the automatic "Report" button, though....

Off to change my password now. :x

(Nevermind; found the report button.)


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PostPosted: Sun May 07, 2006 6:41 pm 
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I got one of those neomails last night. I didn't go to the link; I just reported it as a scam... Anyone claiming to be able to make people staff must be scamming. At the very least, linking to a site outside of neopets is against the rules. I checked the user look-up just now, and it's already been disabled. I just hope it wasn't some poor kid's stolen account that got frozen...


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PostPosted: Sun May 07, 2006 10:37 pm 
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It's a shame people do that


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PostPosted: Mon May 08, 2006 2:30 am 
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That must be why they were telling everyone to change thier e-mail to something different besides thier username.


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PostPosted: Mon May 08, 2006 2:06 pm 
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I just got the same neomail. Do they honestly think there's some one stupid enough to fall for it?


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PostPosted: Mon May 08, 2006 2:08 pm 
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_lexxia wrote:
I just got the same neomail. Do they honestly think there's some one stupid enough to fall for it?


Some newbies, who might not know any better, may fall victims to this scam, but you shouldn't call them stupid, they're just clueless...


I really should train myself to not get my hopes up with Neopets because I'll just end up falling harder on the ground... face first!


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PostPosted: Mon May 08, 2006 5:21 pm 
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Erm I did something that I think may be stupid after I got that email....
I logged out and set the internet to 'private browsing' (meanings cookies etc cant be taken) then I went to the page and put some very rude words in the login box that was there.
I thought it was just gonna send them words to the lovely scammer who made the page but now you're all saying dont even go to it im worried, should I be???

And to the person who thinks people would'nt be stupid enough to fall for it, it looks very convincingly like a neopets page, and like the staff login page may look like, I think people could easily fall for it.


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PostPosted: Mon May 08, 2006 5:24 pm 
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But it's an offsite link, that should be your first clue. Besides, there's a page on Neo that lists the job opportunities.

Neopets Job Opportunities


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