If you find out any glitches, scamming schemes, cookie grabbers or anything that can be harmful to us, please post it here to warn us and help us to be safe from being frozen.

From JellyNeo

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Today is obviously going to be a great day. xD First up, duplicate items. Unlike last Dupe Day, this appears to be smaller in scale. Why? People aren't mass donating the duplicate items. Instead, they're trading them to users by bidding on users' trades. You should also watch out for people sending you items high in value that you haven't asked for. If you get a bid on your trade or get sent some expensive item (such as a Faerie Slingshot) that wasn't solicited, reject the trade. That is currently the safest method. Please don't steal me! Now, onto cookie grabbers. This is the same scam that has been going around Neopets (and other fan sites) for a month or so now. Essentially, they tell users that the link goes to a Item Duplicator, NP Generator, or something that is illegal (and promises you great things if you use it). When you visit the page, the site steals your Neopets cookies and gains access into your account. You should be wary about links that you have never seen before, links that use a free host, links with hosts that sound suspicious, as well as links that jnStaff haven't posted on JN. (Jeesh, that's a long list.) I suggest hovering over a link and looking at the status bar to see what you're going to be going to regardless of what the link text says. Hover over this. What do you see in the status bar? I would also suggest for you to add a PIN number or make sure that it is enabled for all locations possible. You should also make sure that the email linked to your Neopets account does not share the same password. (That essentially defeats the purpose of the PIN number, as they can just request it. ) If you find that you have fallen for a cookie grabber site, do the following things in order: 1. Change the password to your Neopets account. 2. Change the password to your email account. 3. Report the site to TNT. If you have been frozen after falling for a cookie grabber, do the following: 1. Submit an Account Access form. Explain that you fell for a cookie grabber scam, and give the page URL to them. You should fill in as many details as you possibly can.

Gosh, too many scams nowadays.

I copy this from SunnyNeo.

SunnyNeo wrote:

It appears that Neopets once again has cookie grabbers on the site. They are in user shops as well as on userlookups. Some people have been pricing the items in their shop well below the average price, ensuring that plenty of people come to the shop, where the cookie grabber is located. To keep your account secure, we advise you to do the following: Go here, activate a PIN, and place it on all available areas of the site. PIN numbers cannot be gained by a cookie grabber Place all items from your inventory into your Safety Deposit Box. You cannot place a PIN on your inventory, but you can place one on your Box. Change your email here, and not validate the change. This will ensure that if your account is compromised, whoever gets in cannot change the email to which the account is assigned for 24 hours. We also suggest that you withdraw all neopoints from your shop till, as they will be easy for someone wrongfully in your account to take, as the till does not have a PIN number assigned. Also, it is recommended that you bank all neopoints, and then proceed to withdraw one neopoint from your bank fifteen times. This locks you out of your bank, only allowing you to deposit neopoints. And last, but by no means least, you should make sure that your password is not easy to guess. You can change your password here You don't want all of these stolen!

Some nice tips there, that should show them scammers!

their is a big scam website going around all i know is that it is i think (edited)

crazycompgeek wrote:

don't post the scam/cheat website here

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if whats goes up most come down
if it goes down does it come back up???

what about if you change your password on a different computer?

I think if you change password it will be okie despite the computer.

http://www.neopets.com/~Locked_Topic
^ Most neopets editorial about things like glitches, scams etc are covered there.
Perhaps it can help us a little,
i have never really experienced getting scammed yet,
but i find the editorials pretty useful.

I have been scammed before. It was a trading post scam and i was young.

but all we have to do is report it.
we should get the stuff back.

Okay after reading this `I Know` how I was scammed ( Twice ) at the Trading Post ( Duplicate Item ) AND Yes ! People have been trying to steal my account since the day I signed up at Neopets !

( Every month, change pin on ALL things, change password ) .. yep, yep, yep !

This is the info. I have gathered so far as to what may have happened on my account:

smartgirl
I found a very interesting pet page guide which better explains cookie grabbers. Also what I found interesting in this explanation is that the writer states that PIN numbers can't be grabbed by cookie grabbers, since PINs are not stored in cookies. So now the question is, how was the hacker able to circumvent your PIN number? Here's the pet page guide:

http://www.neopets.com/~Macky

And here's a script for a cookie grabber ~~ just to see what it actually looks like:

http://www.undergroundnews.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Forum=14&topic=000197&Number=0&site_id=1

Apparently, when you're on Neopets, there are more vulnerabilities using Internet Explorer than Firefox. Anyway, it's always useful to arm ourselves with as much information as possible.

Smartgirl
Well, it`s easy enough to understand how they got into your account. While on one of your shopping trips, you tripped a CGer somewhere along the way...and that person grabbed your cookies and placed your cookies into his/her computer and ran a similar script as the one I gave you a link for...which doesn`t require that person even knowing what your special word is. That person might even have been in your account at the same time that you were in it...and would have lost access to it once you logged out of your account. What I can`t understand is how he/she circumvented your PIN number since you said you had everything in your account pinned. Are you sure you had your gallery, stock portfolio, bank account and shop pinned?

McKenzie01
I am sure, ALL of it was pinned. Along with The Pound, Equipt Pet, SDB. :/

Smartgirl
It sounds to me like you interrupted the theft while it was in progress. I`m sure the hacker would have taken a lot more had you not logged out of your account. It takes time to move items and that amount of neopoints.

It could be that you tripped a CGer while you were logged in during that particular session. There has to be some way that these people can circumvent players` PIN numbers because that`s what would have happened more than a year ago when a hacker got into munsterpoo`s account, and TNT then disabled her account as well as those of featheralley, hrobi and several other big accounts in an effort to protect all of those accounts.

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Could it be by any chance that you had a keylogger during that time?

Keylogger
definition: captures user's keystrokes. used to determine errors in computer systems
neopet.relation: cheaters use it to record what you type, most importantly your username and password.

I can`t say for sure but it certainly seems so. What I do know for sure is that my account WAS HACKED by someone on Neopets. Sad !