x__________How To Spot A Hacker/Scammer

[Kitten Rose73]

well i have two different things happen to me on two different accounts.

1.on geisha princess i clicked on a link that a hacker had on his profile trying to see what it lead and it brought me back to home page and i lost my account that way.

2.on a mule account i got the pm from someone claiming to be a mod and asked me for my passwords and things and then they took that account from me that way.  

[Kitten Rose73]

Arashiyama Kisaki

It hurts to think people could be as stupid as to answer to a PM like that... sweatdrop

are you calling me stupid? thats not very nice . i was trying to help someone else at the time that i was cheated ! you need to think before you say something sweetheart. not all people know what to do and in my case i didnt read the pm clearly as i should have.  

[iADDY]

I have gotten so many of those..its funny.. I like to send them a message back and tell them fake pass.

And who asks for your user name..hello? They most have sent you the message somehow...so why ask it?  

[iADDY]

blackcat73

Arashiyama Kisaki

It hurts to think people could be as stupid as to answer to a PM like that... sweatdrop

are you calling me stupid? thats not very nice . i was trying to help someone else at the time that i was cheated ! you need to think before you say something sweetheart. not all people know what to do and in my case i didnt read the pm clearly as i should have.

ya I agree with you.. I almost fell for it.. But i asked some people and they told me it was a hacker thingy. So you shouldn't call people stupid, I will laugh when it happens to you if you ever fall for it.  

[Angel of Evernight]

i havent gotten a hacker pm yet, but i have gotten a spam pm saying i could buy 500 gaia gold for 75$ U.S, and all these other cheats for other sites and games. i reported them.  

[serentiy2]

i was hacked >.<
(ive been on since 03)  

[Kitten Rose73]

my geisha princess account would have been 4 years old this october 25th  

[Kagome-chan_InuYasha]

I have 2 people I want EVERYONE to put on their ignore list:

SilverWingedManager
&
ToS - Forums report  

[Kitten Rose73]

have you reported those two people yet? thats what you should be doing ...  

[aryal_glorious]

this is one that i got recently:




i had a good laugh & reported it. and laughed some more.  

[Rargon]

Yaeka-Sama

I've gotten plenty of messages during my time on Gaia that all were like this:

a-dmi-n

I'm sorry to inform you but your account has been brought to our attention,the mods of gaiaonline. Your account has been reported and needs to be investigated with further information. Like any other Gaia Moderator, we do not want to ban any account for no reason so we just want to help some innocent people out. You will be asked a few questions to verify that this is your account. Please fill out the information requested. If you do not fill out the information requested immediatley your acount will result in a Perma-Ban.
USERNAME
PASSWORD
E-MAIL ADDRESS
Once your account has been verified that its free of faults, your e-mail provider will be notified when your account is done investigation. We thank you for your patience.

Sincerely,
The mods of Gaia

Don't bother talking to them. Report them right away. Admins NEVER ask for your passwords and never will. It's been said many times in the announcements and I believe I've seen a notice above PMs that Admins will never ask for your passwords.

Report them right away if you EVER get a message like this.

Also, if you've ever gotten a message like this, go ahead and post it up here and give your own warning comments to others that have never gotten one or aren't aware of this kind of trouble.

He's right.I got the same message twice from the same girl who asked me to the the same exact thing Yaeka-Sama put.To spot a hacker just check their Username,if it's colored green then it's urgent,anything but blue is urgent. 3nodding  

[MasterMind45]

Also Admins have name and like for example like Admin lead or somthing below that  

[clawofdragon]

I goy a PM from this guy once askin me to be his friend I said sure why not send the request through. I usually don't turn down friend request unless that person is really creepy or something. So he PM's me back sayin if I'm goin to be his friend than I have to have a cool profile and to give him my password so he can make it cool. I told him I wasn't born yesterday and that he was out of his bloody mind. I reported the PM after I told him off. Some people, I swear.  

[iADDY]

LOL
I heart heart LOVE heart heart heart getting those lol.
usually when I do. I enter some fake password and user name. Like Fu, or something. And why would they ask for your username?