Scammers, they keep getting smarter, keep finding new ways to exploit the system, new ways to rob you of your hard earned Neopoints, new ways of sticking your precious pet in the pound without you knowing what’s happened until it’s too late. Of course, there are exceptions to this rule, for example, recently a Neopian User realized they were being hacked mid-hack and requested the new password to the account. They then changed the password and logged back in with the new password. Afterwards they checked the trades set up and realized the person offering junk on them was the hacker, using the hacker’s username and the password the hacker changed their account’s too the hacked player managed to get into the hacker’s account and take his items back. You may read this and think that if that hacker was dumb enough to do that then you’ll be fine. Think again. For every failed hack attempt there are dozens of successful ones, not to mention the fact that the hacker in question will never make the same mistake having learnt from their fault.
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