Category: All About Neopets

Its happened to many Neopians. You’re on Neopets, doing your usual thing, when *WHAM* you’ve just lost all you Neopoints and items, quite possibly your password has been changed too. Yep, you’ll later come to find out you’ve been scammed. When most people think about a scam on Neopets they think of something such as the the Neopets item/neopoint Generator where a person will ask for the username and password assuring the user that they will get any item(s) they want, I see this scam all over Internet sites about Neopets. Then there’s the cleverly placed login pages in shops, before you buy the item your after (usually a very cheap one) the login page comes up telling you to login, this scam is not very common as it is reported right away and stopped ASAP by the Neonates Team, the only way to tell it’s a scam is by looking at website URL, if it starts with anything other then http://www.neopets.com it’s a fake page. Lastly there are the people you find all over the chat boards, you know, the people that come up with lame reasons for you to give them your password… like ‘I’ll neo-sit for your Neopets while your away’ though most of these fall through as the board gets flooded will people who know better and post it’s a scam. Basically all these scams listed above are easy not to fall for as long as you know what to watch out for and remember not to ever give out your password, just like the Red Blumaroo says that bounces by in random events… ‘Never ever give out your password!’. Only people new to Neopets (these people are referred to as ‘Newbies’) get scammed for the most part, and this brings me to what I came to write about. Like I just said, only Newbies get scammed, and this isn’t your ordinary scam… if you were to think about it, what’s the point in hacking an account if it’s only a Newbie? Where’s the profit? Well the person that thought up this ‘scam’ was smart. They don’t take the Newbies accounts, they just take advantage of their ignorance.
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