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Welcome to LupeMoneyCounter's petpage Somewhere in the dark you will see a faint shadow. It looks as though he's watching every move you make. Who is this creature and why is he following you. Many have heard of him before, he's a myth in Neopia. But nobody ever believed he was real, until you see him standing before you. It's:
He's the only one who can stop the criminals in Neopia. Many honest Neopians have been saved by his fast moves. All he wants is to make sure that all bad people will be behind bars and that the citizens of Neopia can walk freely without fear of losing Neopoints, their homes or pets.
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LupeMoneyCounter:
There are two types of scams in Neopia. One is after your account and the other is after your NP and items. Here are some tips for you so you will be safe from all criminals:
*Stealing your account*
Neopets
blocked urls outside Neopets in shops, Petpages and Guilds, so the only way you can get to one is by copying and pasting the url (which must have a lot of spaces between each letter to even let it show). The last part must
warn you that the page is bad otherwise Neopets would allow you to type it normal.
Some people say
that when you enter your entry code in the message box it will apear like stars. Don't fall for this scam, cause you're giving away your account to the scammer. When you post your code the scammer will take over your
account and you will lose everything. This also goes for typing your entry
code backwards on the message boards, you won't get np or items if you
do. (sent in by
boswalii)
Fast ways to get
1 million Neopets, free Krawk etc are all ways to get you to a website were you must fill in your username,
(PIN) and entry code. If you do this you will get registered in a database and the person can get into your
account. There's no fast way to get NP's, you have to work hard for it.
Cookie grabbers are one of the more common scams nowadays. Someone posts
a board claiming youll get free
NeoCash. The link will lead you to another page
outside Neopets and that will read your cookie when you install the
program and run it while playing Neopets.Or they use -disallowed_word- to read
it from your computer when you visit the link, this could also be a fake
login page or the "cannot be displayed"-page.
What's a cookie?
If you want to be completely safe just don't visit ANY links which leads you outside Neopets or delete all cookies when you go there.But when you visited a page with a cookie grabber without deleting any
cookies, go back to Neopets and change your entry code via
Help
-
User
Prefs -
My
Profile.
Another warning: if you downloaded a program and opened it, you could also get a
virus on your computer which gives the hacker full control over your computer. He can do whatever he wants, like
deleting files etc. Or it could be a Trojan Keylogger, which keeps track of everything you type. The scammer will know all your entry codes within minutes. So never ever download programs, and certainly not from
people you don't know (even neofriends can become scammers, cause scammers never use their own accounts). Having a virusscanner on your computer is a pro. Also spyware is a way to get information sbout
your computer, so you also should download Ad-Aware and Spybot to eliminate those.
You will see
these posts on chat rooms or they neomail you a link with the scam to "triple your neopoints and items." This scam works in different ways:
[A] When you go to that site, you need to type in your entry code,
(PIN) and username and give up an item or an amount
of np's which you want "tripled." Well since you gave away your
info, they can now steal your account and you're left with nothing.
[B] You need to download a program which "triples" your items and nps. This program is like the "cheaters program" (see
the warning against Cookie Grabbers). (sent in by
natoinal)
[C] The scammer wants you to send them the item, cause he or she owns a program which can double or triple the item in no time. Once you sent it, you will never see it back, cause
you've just been scammed.
[D] You get a neomail from someone telling you they know a way to get your Items "tripled." All you have to
do is change your code into something else and it will work in no time. If you change your code into something a scammer tells you to, then you're giving away your account, cause he now knows your entry code. So
all the scammer has to do is login and steal your account. Keep your entry code a secret!!!!
(sent in by
my_pets_r_tha_best)
[E]
Secret Laboratory Maps can't be sold once you got access to the
Lab Ray, this also goes for the Lab Ray. The only person who has
access to the Lab Ray is the one who ownes all 9 pieces of the Secret Laboratory Map and traded them in at
Games
-
Puzzles
-
Treasure
Maps -
Secret Laboratory.
The Lab Ray stays on that account forever and is not
tradeable. People who claim otherwise are trying to scam you.
[A] If you get a neomail from someone claiming to be from the Neopets Team, for example Adam, then just remember that Neopets will never ask for your code. Why
should they, it's all in their database. The only original account of Neopets which will ever contact you, is
theneopetsteam.
If you get a neomail from another username, it's fake.
Another way to see if they are Neopets Staff: on their userlookup you
will always see something like this at the bottom: Username here" is a Neopets Monitor
- This means that they are entrusted with looking after the site, and given the power to delete messageboards and noticeboards.
Also only
theneopetsteam (and some official accounts used for notification) can
use the Asplode Avatar. Anyone who sends you a Neomail and claims to be
The Neopets Team or a representative and does not have that avatar is
lying and should be reported
[B]
Someone posts they know a Neopets Staff member who uses MSN, so you have to add her or him. This is a scam, cause Neopets
email addies can be verified as being authentic and when you add the fake Staff member onto your MSN list it will say
(E-mail Address Not Verified) after their email. This shows you they are not really
Neopets Staff members but someone who tries to scam you out of your account. The also send you an email from
support@neopets.com
so you believe it's for real. This email is
FAKE. There are programs which allowes you to change the header of an email, so it looks like someone else, in this case support@neopets.com,
sends you the message.
This is what Neopets said in the News section on
26th November
2001: IMPORTANT - The Neopets Team will NEVER contact you over AIM or MSN Messenger to
ask for your entry code. Anybody posting that is trying to get into your account. If you see anybody doing so on the message boards we ask you to
e-mail us immediately, and warn the other people on the
board about the scammer! Thanks!
[C]
You'll get a neomail from someone who claims they can make you part of
the Neopets Staff Team. All you have to do is to go to a certain link
(outside Neopets of course). Scam
Alert! - No staff member will ever contact you claiming to have chosen
you for a position here at Neopets. Monitors and other staff are not
chosen at random, and no staff member will ever ask you for your
username and code. Anyone claiming to have access to an
"admin" or any other "secret" page outside of
Neopets.com, especially one that requires your Neopets username and code,
is trying to scam you. Please remember to never, ever give out your
username and code to anyone, regardless of who they claim to be!
[A]
If someone asks you to change your email into something else so they can make
you rich, you're giving away your account. The scammer only has to fill in your username in the entry code-retrieval box and Neopets will send your code,
and possibly your PIN too, to their email. Say bye bye to
your account.
[B]
Someone might claim their email account will be disabled soon, put up a
sad story about how they will lose everything and can't make a new one
etc., so they ask if they can use your email. Since your email is now
linked to that account you are going to get frozen for either gaining np
on more than one account, or if that person tries to scam other people
or breaks the rules, ALL your accounts will be frozen. Only use your
email for your own accounts and keep it private. Some people might also
try to get into your email in order to gain access to your info.
(sent in by
sand_in_a_bottle)
Sometimes you get a neomail saying there's a glitch in Neopets and you can take advantage of this. They send you a vague secret writing, which involves random chosen symbols letters and numbers,
but in that writing you're asked for your username, (PIN) and code. Or you have to make up some weird line of characters for your username and code like 1 number or letter further.
Example: If your username is
Bla and your code 123, then it would be Cmb 234. There are no such glitches which can give you free items or np, this is just a way to get into your account and steal everything you have. And even if there were
glitches in Neopets and you do take advantage of it, you will get your account frozen for cheating. So either way you lose everything.
(sent in by freak_of_dancing)
People are asking for someone to watch after
their pets or want to look after your pets. But in order to do that, they will need your entry code or want to trade entry codes, so you can "trust" each other not to scam (at least that's what YOU think). But when you do
that you will lose the account, cause the other one has the entry code to get into your account and he will change the email address as well.
Then you may think: "I have his entry code," but that's a FAKE ONE! So you're left with nothing: account gone, together with your pets, Items and NP.
Are
you allowed to go over to other peoples accounts to take care of their
pets that know you in the real world and have an arrangement? I know
that the neolodge doesn't collect your freebies or make your pets any
happier. ~ anonumus
[A]
Once a
scammer stole an account and stripped it of anything valuable, they
will often try to give it away or sell on chat boards. Sometimes the real owner
of the account has no idea his or her account has been given away or
sold. So
when he comes looking for it, the new owner often is called and reported
as a scammer while the person who did steal it is free to continue with
what he or she was doing. Plus it's against the rules to give away or
sell accounts, both the giver as the receiver will be frozen.
(sent in by smilienegg)
You
may not sell, trade, give or buy a Neopets account or pets for
Neopoints, money, Neopets' Items, or anything else.
[B]
This
also goes for users who want to quit Neopets and try to give away their
accounts on the Boards along with their info. Once the account is taken,
the new owner changes the code (most likely the same one as used on
their main one, since they had to be quick enough to get it), but the
email address hasn't been changed yet (or protected with PIN). So the
former owner can now request the info which will be sent to his/her
email and can now login to your main account. That's also a reason why
giving away accounts is against the rules. (sent in by jillbillisi)
If you
want to share accounts with someone, you're also sharing your entry code,
PIN, Neopoints, Items and Neopets. The person wants you to create an account to share it with. After a while you made a lot of NP on that account and
that's when the other person steals it by blocking you from the account, cause he changed the entry code. Neopets can't do anything about this
scam, cause it's at your own risk.
You
may not share accounts!
Someone offers
to do HTML or CSS for your Userinfo, Shop, Guild etc, but they want you to give them your entry code
or email address so they can put it there themselves. This is just a scam to get into
your account and steal everything. If someone wants to do your HTML or CSS,
then they should post the coding in a text area box onto their Petpage
so the user can copy/paste it. Or make a picture of it by using the
"PrtScrn button" and pasting it into a Paint program and
posting that picture onto a Petpage of their own. That last part might
take a little longer since you have to type everything yourself from the
picture. (updated by fiammata85)
This
is mostly posted in shops and it says that it's the new Hidden Tower or a way to Dr. Sloth's Vault. If you click on the link it will lead you to a login page which asks for your
username and code. DON'T login, that way you'll lose your account. Go back and report the shop.
[A]
If you use Hotmail as your email to create accounts, make sure it's not the same name as your userinfo. It seems that
Hotmail-accounts are very accessable to outsiders, mostly by guessing the answer to the secret question. To avoid this, make the answer to your question impossible to guess, use symbols, weird words etc... When
someone has access to your E-mail, they only have to fill in your username in the entry code-retrieval box, Neopets will send it to them and you will lose your account(s).
[B]
If you happen to use Hotmail as your email to create accounts, and
forgot to login to your email account for more than 30 days, then
Hotmail will deactivate the account. So now someone else can recreate
your email and gain your Neopets info! So always keep your email private
and don't forget to login to your email at least once a month. (sent in by
lilshadowdweller)
[C] They neomail you asking for your E-mail and if you don't mind to answer some questions. This looks very innocent, but it's a way to get to know your secret answer to gain access to your email-account! So if you're smart, don't answer the
neomail and delete it!
You'll get an e-mail in your inbox from
support@neopets.com
asking you to renew your Neopets account because of a datebase error. They want you
to send them your account info (username, entry code and name used in your account) to a Hotmail account so they can maintain it. This e-mail from support is FAKE. There are programs which allowes you to change the
header of an email, so it looks like someone else, in this case support@neopets.com, sends you the message. Remember, Neopets DOESN'T use Hotmail and will NEVER ask you for your code. If you send your
information to that Hotmail account you will lose everything. Ignore and delete the E-mail.
Watch out when you use chat clients such as AIM.
A scammer is sending people links asking them to take a look at their 'artwork'. This image link is embedded with a trojan keylogger, so it will start recording everything you type, including
your Neopets username and entry code. *Stealing NP and items*
Contests
are forbidden anywhere on the site as stated in the Terms and
Conditions:
you
understand and agree that you will not post or send through the site any
words, images or links containing or relating to promotions offering
prizes of any sort (including contests, raffles, lotteries, chain
letters or any kind of giveaway)
[A] Shop contests are against the rules. They mostly sound like:Whoever buys the secret item in my shops wins
a ... (fill in something expensive),whoever spends the most in my shops wins a ... or you have to buy items to get tickets. The
junk items are priced very high, so the only one who's making a profit is the shop owner. This is just a trick to get you to buy items at high prices.
[B] This warning also goes for joining
Guilds
who have Donation Shops in which you have to
donate a certain amount of np or Items. It happens a lot that the Leader deletes the Guild and leaves with everything, while you are left with
nothing at all. Plus its against the rules. (sent in by 0osuper_nova_venuso0)
[C]
This scam is the same like [B] but with the change that the Leader gives leadership to someone else because (s)he has to go away for a while. The new Leader is told that the members can
still donate to the shop. Since the old Leader isn't linked to the Guild anymore, the new Leader is now the "bad guy" and gets frozen for scamming. And once again you are left with nothing. (sent in by
tj_wagner)
You see a trade or message on one of the Chat boards that someone
is selling an unbuyable in his/her shop, example Earth Faerie Leaves, Battle Potato. You visit the shop and can't see the names of the items cause the dark background made it unreadable. The Earth Faerie Leaves
are really Golden Ivy Leaves, which is a cheap Tyrannian Food item. Same goes for the Battle Potato which is in most cases a normal Raw Potato.
If you want to highlight the words so you can read the names of the items, press Ctrl+A.
Real versus Fake:
The original right-click scam has been blocked. Now they ask you to keep
on pressing enter when you right-clicked the item. This won't lead you to a secret place or getting a ... (fill in item), it just lets you buy an overpriced item. So if you see this scam, don't fall for it!
[A]
They ask you to click on an item, push those buttons at the same time and
press enter, so you'll earn a lot of np's (or get an expensive item). But those buttons don't do anything, you just end up buying the item you
clicked for a really high price, so don't do it!
[B]
They send you an E-mail or post on the message board that you can
get any item you want (they usually use a Paint Brush to get your attention) if you go to their shop, click on any item, type a word
(example Neopets) and click enter. Like the Ctrl+Alt scam, you only end up buying an overpriced item. (sent in by ihatebacon)
[A]
Since TNT introduced the NF only Auctions, people have been taking advantage of it to scam others. They sell a wanted and expensive Item for 1 np in the auction. On their userlookup they state that whoever
buys an overpriced Item in their shop will get an auto-acceptance to become their Neofriend. After you bought the Item, they will reject the request and leave you with an overpriced junk Item. You have been
scammed. Only go for auctions which actually allows you to offer
without buying something.
(sent in by
pika_deluxe
and milogirl)
I've seen a lot of people do this and I wanted to know if this is
allowed. A lot of people say buy an item from my shop (usually an
over-priced junk item) and you can be my neofriend and participate in my
neofriend only 1np auctions. They're usually paint brushes. ~
smartgal2696
[B] Someone will auction an Item at an expensive price (around 100k more),
then go onto the Neopets boards and advertise that he has a good Item in the auction and posts the link for you to check it out. But instead of giving you a link to the auction, they gave you a link in which you bid
on the overpriced Item. And since you can't cancel a bid, you just lost a lot of np's (sent in by esemble)
[A]
Some people want to trade items, but say they can't use the
Trading Post,
because of a glitch/bug/etc. They want you to
send the item via neofriends or ask you to buy a really expensive item in their shop, which normally costs 5np or less. Only trade via the
Trading Post, that way you'll get the item you paid for or ask them
to put the item in their shop for that price. If they want to sell it that low, that shouldn't be a problem. But guess what... they won't cause they only want to have your items and np.
[B] Now they try to scam you with a fake Trade page.
They post on the chat that they have a ... (fill in an unbuyable or something) and you need to neomail them your offer. Then that person neomails you a link (which looks like a trade link, but is outside
Neopets) and you have to hurry with your offer because he will leave in a few minutes. When you go to that link, you will see a Trading lot, but it's a fake one. Just check these things:
The link of the page, if it doesn't start with
www.neopets.com
it's fake; The name of the pet (if it's not yours, it's a scam);
The amount of np (he doesn't know how much you have cash, so it's a guess...). If you do offer on that lot, your money will be deducted (the link of the offer button leads to a real Neopets Trading lot) and you will receive whatever is on that lot (read worthless item).
That's why the scammer needs a fake Trading Lot page, because you
can't cheat with items in the real one!
Some people try to sell their Dubloons for other valued
Dubloons in the Trading Post. Like a Two Dubloon Coin for two One Dubloon Coins. This sounds like a good deal, but you're actually being scammed. For example: A Two Dubloon is worth about
3,113 np and a One Dubloon is
worth 3,100 np (if you multiply this it will be 6,200 np). So when you want to buy Dubloons be sure to check the worth on the
Shop Wiz
or
Trading Post first.
First of all, ALWAYS check the
name of the Item on which you are bidding on, if you're not sure it's
the correct Item, ask around. This will save you a lot of trouble and np
in the end! [A]
A scam in the trade is that a:
or or
Starberry Rainbowberry Rainbow Painting will
paint your pet Starry or Rainbow after they eat/read it. This also goes
for other Items which have a Paint Brush color in them (like Starry Hotdog
etc). The Items to color your pet are:
[B] There's a scam on
behalf the Dual Expert Bow. At first they put the Dual Expert Bow in the
trade and let you offer. Then they tell you there are more people who
offered to buy the Dual Expert Bow, so they take it out of the trade and
put it back and the fastest
bidder gets it. The trick is that the Bow they put back in the trade is a
normal Expert Bow and you're the only bidder. So when you don't check
before you bid, you're paying a lot for a cheap bow! Always check the name of the item before you offer
something for an item. But this can be done for any item which is
expensive!
[C] Only magical plushies can turn your pet into the
species of the Plushie. [D]
If you see a lot in the trade with
messages like these:if u wanna know a cool secret about how to
make 1,000,000 np, bid a ... (fill in item) orI know
how to get to the Dark Faerie Caves or any other (non-)existing place, then don't bid. These are
only scams to let you pay a lot for some junk item. There are no secrets
to get NP's fast (it takes a lot of work and effort) and there's no such
thing as a Dark Faerie Cave. If you want to kow if a place exists, just
ask around.
[E] Then there are scams like this one:The best bid on this offer get's a ... (fill in item) orif you bid on my other lot, you will get this one (one lot
contains the item(s) you want, the other lot contains junk items).
[F] In the Trade they try to fool you by making you believe some Items
are Hidden Tower Items, like a Super U-Bend is a U-Bend of Great
Justice. The normal Super U-Bend is worth 350np, the U-Bend of Great
Justice is worth 1,732,500np in the Hiden Tower.
The Bendy Sword of Skardsen is like the Super
U-Bend used to scam others. It looks exactly the same as the Hidden
Tower Sword of Skardsen. The only difference between them is that the
real Sword of Skardsen is worth 11 million np in the Hidden Tower and
the other one is buyable in the shops. If you don't know
which on is real, always ask someone you trust. (both
sent
in by raiden638218384)
For more info about Real versus Fake Items, check out [http://www.neopets.com/~Ayame_Landis]
or [http://www.neopets.com/~NUB_ITEMS].
Real versus Fake:
[G]
The newest Paint Brush Plushies don't paint your pet, but are just Toys.
These are the names:
Disco Paint Brush Plushie
Faerie Paint Brush Plushie
Split Paint Brush Plushie
Starry Paint Brush Plushie
Baby Paint Brush Plushie
Desert Paint Brush Plushie
Island Paint Brush Plushie Fire Paint Brush Plushie Ghost Paint Brush Plushie Cloud Paint Brush Plushie
From the Neopian Times
Editorial Issue: 213, 20th day of Collecting, Y8
Today someone was trading a
Starry Paint Brush Plushie. They said it would make your neopet starry
if he or she played with it. I neomailed the person, asking about it (I
was curious about how the user exepected anyone to fall for it), and
they said that it worked for a friend and that it is random. Is it true
that your pets will randomly be painted? ~ vicky199199 [H] Another scam using
Paintbrushes: someone might post that they are selling discounted Paint Brushes. You
neomail that person asking how much they are selling for
and they want you to offer whatever you want. They will put the Paint Brush
in the trade inside a Giftbox to protect it against scammers. Well that's
the scam, Giftboxes are only Items, you can't actually put anything inside
them. (sent in by fire_angel_2)
They might even try and convince
you that it's part of a redeeming an Item Code. Since the scammer already
used a code on his account, he can't open another one, so he says. Don't
trust a word this scammer says, it's all part of scamming you out of your
hard earned NP. Go to the
Trading
Post and buy the REAL Paint Brush instead, don't waste it on junk
Items. (sent in by boofy113)
[I] If you want to exchange Codestones,
just remember that the prices per Codestone aren't the same.
[J] Someone neomails you that they are
going to offer on your Trade. But first they tell you that something
went wrong with their Lot. The User had a ... (fill in expensive Item)
in the Trade and someone offered junk Items on it. When they pressed
"Reject", the offer got accepted. So now the User wants you to press the
"Accept-button" in case you want to reject the offer, so you won't
experience the same drama as he or she did or else they would return the
Item to you.
[K] Someone
tries to sell you Items claiming that they will give you expensive Items
when your Pet plays with it. One of these so called Items are the Bumper
Prize Stockings, or the Empty Pillow Case. These Items won't give you
anything. Another scam is the Battle Duck Negg gives you a Battle Duck
once your Neopet eats it, it's only a Negg and once it's eaten it's gone.
The Battle Duck is a Battledome Item which is sold at the
Battle
Magic.
[L] Since
the release of the Avatars, people have also been using the Trade to
scam. For example the Faerie Queen Doll which is worth 2 million np. The
scammer will ask for pure np collateral, so you can borrow the Item.
Since you can only offer up to 800k in the trade, they'll ask you to
offer on two different lots (one on the FQD and the other a junk Item).
Once you offered, they would only accept the junk lot and leave you
empty handed. If an Item is worth more than 800k in the Trade, ask
the User to put it in the
Auction. (sent in by davisj3608)
[M]
If you reserved a lot for someone special, like a Neofriend, a scammer
might create an account which is almost identical to the
neofriend's Username and offer a junk Item. Now it looks like your
Neofriend offered on your lot so when you accept, you were just scammed
out of an Item. Always double check the Username before you accept! (sent in
by aceofspadesx)
[N]
You're selling an unbuyable and very wanted Item in the Trading Post
(example Faerie PB) and someone neomails you saying they will offer an
Item worth millions (example a Zafara Plushie) on your lot. You don't
want to accept a hard to sell Item, so they reply that they know someone
who will buy it from you after you accept. You check the TP and see lots saying that Item is really worth that amount and accept. Then the
User who would offer on your accepted Item, doesn't and you see the price of the Item dropping
fast. You just have been scammed. This is an organised scam set up by
multiple users to scam you out of unbuyables with Items not even worth
half. If you don't think the Item is worth your lot, ask around for more
info.
Someone
told me that a Molten Borovan Rod is worth 11.5 mil nps so I went to
double check on the trades and most of them said they want 11 mill nps but
one of the trades said that it's a scam and that on the shop wizard Molten
Borovan Rod was less than 100k? is that true? I'm confuzzled ~angle_lovely
[O]
People claim that Wish Sticks will get you more random events on Neopets.
This is not true, Random Events are what they are: RANDOM. No Item,
except the Lutari Beads, will
get you more events on Neopets, it just has to do with how active you are
on Neopets. You can buy this Item at the
Tiki
Tack Shop. (sent in
by100_persent_unreal) [
[A]
People
who are trying to sell their account, cause they are quitting Neopets,
post this add in the Trading Post or Chat room:Highest bidder gets this
account, don't worry you will get your NP back.
You may not sell, trade, give or buy a
Neopets account or pets for Neopoints, money, Neopets' Items, or
anything else.
[B]
On online auction sites people may offer accounts or NP for real money. These
are even worse then other scams since you are not losing real money. If you
do, both you and the seller will be frozen. (sent in by kearsleyclaire)
The accounts, activities, items, neopoints, characters, locations, faeries,
games and pets are for you to play with while on the site. Except as permitted
by the functionality of this site, you can't sell them (for money or
Neopoints), give them to anyone, trade them for anything (including
Neopoints), or pretend you made them.
Since the update of the
Pound
You just adopted a very cool Neopet, high stats and/or painted and
suddenly
you get a neomail from the "former owner." He asks you if the Neopet
still has the Petpet and if he could have them
back. Or he claims the Neopet was abandoned by accident and now he wants
it back. IIf you disown your Neopet all
petpets will go with it. Once you disown your Neopet absolutely anybody
can adopt your Neopet, there is no guarantee you will be able to get
your Neopet back again if you change your mind. Since the Avatars are released people have been trying to get them in all kinds of ways, which makes it easier for them to get scammed. [A]
One person offers to start a pool to get the Item (example Faerie Queen Doll) and whoever donates NP will gets to borrow the Item to receive the
Avatar. You can donate by buying overpriced Items in their shop or
by trade, but afterwards you won't get the Item as promised. You have been
tricked into buying overpriced Items. (sent
in by iwannakittyname and marvelousmew) More often than not, item pools are scams. Everyone sends their contribution to one person, and that person ends up running off with all the items or NP. While you may trust your friends enough to pool with them, it is such a common scam that we've had to completely disallow it. Please remember this if anyone asks you to pool with them. You may be scammed, or be frozen for attempting to participate in one.
[B]
Lending Items to get Avatars is also a way to get scammed, since the
person who borrows the Item, doesn't have to give it back, especially
when the Item was "bought" with collateral. Most people know the stories of a kind lender having their item taken, but there have also been numerous instances of a lender asking for collateral that is worth more than the item, and then running off with that collateral, leaving the lendee with an item they paid way too much for. Either way, someone is taking advantage of the other party's trust in order to knowingly rob them of items or NP. This is definitely a scam, and scammers get ALL their accounts frozen. This is why we don't recommend lending AT ALL. However, we know it's a good way for people to obtain avatars they wouldn't be able to otherwise, so this is why we allow it. Just know the risks you're taking and be VERY careful when involved in a lending situation, whether you're lending or borrowing. [C] Adopting Neopets via transfer to get Avatars is another way to scam. After the person transfered the Pet (example Grey Krawk to get 2 Avatars) and the other person accepted it, you could lose it forever. The other person refuses to give it back, which is considered scamming. Therefore always keep neomails about lending Neopets or post on the board for witnesses. Also seeSelling Neopets for more information. [D] You can also
get Avatars by playing games. A scammer might ask you to let them play
on your account, so they could win it for you. If you give away your
entry code you will lose the account for good, Better start playing a
lot and practise does make perfect ;) Is getting game avatars for
other people against the rules? I know people have been frozen for it but
I don't know why it would be against the rules. ~ sparkyfish [E] Pinata Avatar scam: people have been trying to sell Furniture Pinatas for an expensive price claiming they will give you this Avatar. Only the Toy Pinatas like Vira, Balthazar, Hubrid Nox and Meuka will give you this one. (sent in by pinky_aleki) [F] Sometimes people with animation programs will make fake avatars and claim they are "unreleased." Then they want you to neomail them in order to find out how you can unlock them. They will reply that you should go to their shop and buy (insert item here) then refresh. It turns out it was fake, and you just bought a way overpriced junk Item from their shop. (sent in by bunnymommy1) [G] Some people are claiming that you can get the Titanic Giant Squid Avatar way faster when you own a Fancy Fishing Pole and are trying to sell the Pole for lots of NP's. The Fancy Fishing Pole was a gift from the Advent Calender and does no such thing. It's only a collector's Item. The Avatar can only be achieved at Level 80 and higher, so just be patient. (sent in by the_elite_defenders)
[A]
You
may have seen them before. The SECRET-scams in Userlookups. In order to to tell you a secret to
get rich, you need to send them some items. Well as I told you before,
there isn't a fast way to get NP, it takes a lot of work and effort. If
you give Items to those people, you won't get anything in return. You
will only lose NP and the items. Never pay for secrets on how to get
rich. It is scamming innocent players out of items for something they don't even have. Anyone we find doing this will be frozen (if you see any of these, please report that user by using this form. If you really want to find some secrets or hints, check out some of the really cool fan sites or message boards. If it's a site/board/post that is really worth reading it will not try to scam you out of items, ask for your code or anything like that. [B] Another scam: people who claim to know how to make 1000k (or more) in a day. They ask you to send a ... (fill in an Item like Lab Piece or something) for a secret. Then they send you a neomail, which you have to copy and paste to send to others as well in order to get items too. It's just another copy and paste scam like the one in the userlookups, but you have to neomail it. If you want NP, earn it the honest way and not via scamming. You will get frozen if you send those messages to other people. [C] Someone could offer a Wishing Well Code for an amount of NP so you could get any Item. There's no such thing and you will only lose your NP. The only Wishing Well is at the Neopian Plaza. (sent in bypotiotwo) Ever since Neopets released (real life) Items which include Rare Item Codes, people have been trying to sell them for Neopoints and/or items. The chances are that these have already been used and are worthless to those who buy them. If you want Rare Item Codes, buy the real life Items instead. (sent in by hoshiharetsu)
It goes like this: you get a neomail from someone claiming that YOU are a scammer and want you to give them NP's and/or Items so they won't report you for it. Don't worry about this threat, they are just trying to scare you. If you didn't do anything wrong, then Neopets WON'T freeze you. They need proof before they do something like that. Just remember that everyone can report you, but it's the proof that counts! (sent in by lupe_care)
Accessing Neo through school
computers, computers at friend's houses, library computers, hotel
computers or ANY type of computer that's not yours can leave you open
for being scammed. Someone logs onto the computer and goes to
Neopets.com. They go to log into their own account and see that YOU
never logged out. They now have FREE access to your account until they
log out. If a scammer sends you an Item, TNT will see you as a scammer aswell. This also goes for buying expensive items for a cheap price from a scammed account (even if you don't know they are scammed). If you see cheap HT items, be warned! To be protected from scammers sending you unwanted Items, go to your Site preferences and mark the box after Only Neofriends Can Give You Items. (sent in by mika__)
If you are using Internet Explorer 5.5 or 6.0 you should download Service Pack Two. You can do this by:
You might have to restart a couple of times, but this will ensure that no malicious scripts can be used to gain access to your Neopets account. Also check the Windows Update page often to keep track of changes. How do you report this people? Go to Automatic Submission Form - Abuse Report (Contact us at bottom page) and fill in the username of the abuser, the type of abuse, where it happened and the message they posted or neomail they sent. Also put the link to the message in this form, so neopets can check it. Or click on the report link when you see it posted somewhere on the page (like on message boards, neomails, trading post) If it's a shop scam, just click on report shop and it will be automatically reported. Some people have found a way to make that link invisible. Then you only have to highlight the shop and click it. Notice: Don't be afraid to report someone. The scammer will never know it was you who reported them and he didn't only try to scam you, he did that to other users aswell. Plus the Neopetsteam is also looking out for scammers. So ALWAYS report a scammer! Don't let them get the best of you :) What if you fell for one of these scams?
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If
you know it's a scam, go to
Userinfo
and
change your entry code into something completely
different, make it long enough (11-16+), use numbers, caps and symbols. Don't let it be logical in
any way, not your pet's name, not your real name etc.Also put it in
a text file or something and make it a copy/paste entry code, so keyloggers
will never log it. * Add a PIN number to your account. This prevends a scammer from:
removing Items from your Gallery pounding your Neopets unequipting your Neopet's Battledome Items cleaning out your closet selling your stocks changing your email So even when a scammer got into your account, (s)he can only get the items or np on hand. * Your email address should be your own. If a scammer changed that, change it back! Otherwise the entry code can still be retrieved by email and the problem starts all over again * If you downloaded and opened one of the programs mentioned before, then do a full virus scan on your computer. Just DON'T restart your computer, cause then the virus will disable the virus scanner. * Also if you lost your account to a scam, then go to Automatic Submission Form - Account Access (Contact us at bottom page). They need you to send them information so you can verify that it's your account, like the names of neofriends, type of bank account, birthday etc. *Banners and Plushies*
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