Tag: scams

What They Don’t Want You to Know About Scams by fiddelysquat

There is a 99.99% chance that you have absolutely NO IDEA who I am, and I don’t blame you, really. My username is fiddelysquat, and I’m setting about the task of making Neopia a better place. I plan to do this not by reporting every scammer and freezing every hacker, I plan to educate Neopets players. Please, don’t hit the back button just yet: I plant to teach you some lessons not only valuable on Neopets, but valuable in life outside of Neopia.

People are always writing articles that simply list the ways of being scammed, and telling you not to fall for them. I have yet to see an article that answers the single most important question a human being can ask. Why? Why is it impossible to generate neopoints? Why cant there be a program out there that multiplies items and such? Being the inquisitive young girl I am, I set about to find out for all of you.
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The Pink Poogle Toy Show 26: The Neopets Scams Edition

From the desks of Kym, Dave, Evan, Jonny, Demon and Siobhan come this full-rostered episode which breaks the record for longest running episode ever. Full of hilarity and fun (make sure you check out the bloopers reel afterwards), this episode talks about scams on Neopets and how to avoid them, some background history of famous Neopets hacking, the concept of petpetpets and petpets, PPT’s upcoming changes, previous episode comments, an interview with the creator of Subeta Keith Kurson, and the free preview of The Pink Poogle Toys’ new song called Trollin’.

Jman’s List of Currently Known Scams in Neopia by Jman

Section 1: Extremely Obvious Scams:

I. Fake Login Pages
II. NeoMail Scams
III. Shop Scams
IV. Item Scams
V. Password Scams
VI. Staff Impersonators
VII. Program Scams

Section 2: Scary Scams

I. YOU ARE A SCAMMER!
II. Cookie Grabbers
III. Creepy Shop Scams (different)
IV. The site is crashing!
V. You have been caught by the Neopets Team

Section 3: Extremely Fake Scams

I. Ooh, you little cheat you have been reported to the Neopets Team.

Section 1: Extremely Obvious Scams

Fake Login Pages:

This is probably the oldest scam there is and it’s totally obvious. Say you want to log in to Neopets. And then you go to the login page. If the URL isn’t http://www.neopets.com ITS FAKE! If you would like to see an example of a fake login page, go to http://www.neopetz.com. Sometimes, after you enter your info and your account is bye-bye, you’ll see a message such as this, HAHAHAH I SCAMMED YOU! I say it’s extremely hilarious but I don’t want it to happen to me. ;D
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In Depth Trading Scams by Chocobo

Hi there! This article is more in depth about the item switch scam and other trading related scams which I’ve come across to. I use the trading post for hours daily so I’ve met almost every trick available.

Item switch scam

I am sure almost everyone knows how this trick works. The scammer will put in a trade and then remove the trade after a few seconds so you can have a good view of how good the offer is. There are two ways the scammer can do this:

1. Puts up a good trade and cancel it after a few seconds. Then recreate the trade with different look-a-like item
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All About Scams by Concerned

1. Definitions

Scammer: A person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud.

Hacker: One who uses programming skills to gain illegal access to a computer network or file.

Computer Program: A series of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute; programs are also called software to distinguish them from hardware, the physical equipment used in data processing. These programming instructions cause the computer to perform arithmetic and logical operations or comparisons (and then take some additional action based on the comparison) or to input or output data in a desired sequence. In conventional computing the operations are executed sequentially; in parallel processing the operations are allocated among multiple processors, which execute them concurrently and share the results. Programs are often written as a series of subroutines, which can be used in more than one program or at more than one point in the same program.^—> *I found this meaning to be the most elaborate and understandable* <—
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