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Reminder

“Go Here! You enter your username and password and you get free paintbrushes and neopoints!”
1. First; look at the link. If they’re asking you to go off Neopets, it’s not real.
2. Second; if they claim that TNT told them this or that they’re TNT, don’t believe them. Why would TNT encourage people to cheat on their own website?
3. Third: The rules quote “Impersonating Neostaff or claiming to have special influence with members of the Neopets Staff. Remember—Neopets staff will never contact you through instant messengers, phone calls, private neomails or personal emails. The only way we will contact you is through the neopets.com email address or from the account, theneopetsteam. And we will never ever ask you for your password!”
4. Fourth; one of the most obvious, why would TNT need your password to give you points or items? You’re already logged in if you’re on the Neoboards!

Pet Sitting. I’ve been struck by one of these guys but thankfully didn’t fall for it.
Most of the neomails go like this:

Hey! I’ve seen you on the Neoboards and thought you were a caring, good Neopian. I’m going on holiday and I need someone to babysit my account and pets for me. I thought you would be a good choice. I’ll pay you 30,000np (or higher) and you can take any paintbrush you want from my inventory. You’ll need to feed and play with them everyday. I‘ll be away for 5 days (or whatever). If you agree to this please neomail me back!

So if you neomail them back saying Sure! I’ll babysit your pets; you get a neomail:
Cool; thanks for agreeing to look after my pets. I’ll give you my password. To make it fair I think you should give me your password too. You send me yours first and I’ll send mine after.

If by this stage you’re still fooled; you send your password to them. Ok! My password is: Imsosillytogiveoutmypw

They usually don’t respond after that. You might not hear anything from them again. You’ll probably notice that some (or all) of your neopoints are gone and as are most of your items. Your pets might even be missing as well.
That would be awful and it all happened because you were on the boards and someone picked up your username. There’s nothing you can do about that. But if someone does neomail you saying that; report them immediately. They may be neomailing several people at a time.

Another newer scam that has been noticed by a few neopians recently on the Pound board is similar to pet sitting but I’m not quite sure what exactly happens but it does go something like this; The scammer tricks you into sending them your pet to look after. They only went for Painted, Limited Edition or rare pets. Currently I don’t have a clue how they did it but I hope to find out.

Anyway these people send their pets to them possibly on a promise of being returned or traded for another. The scammer then takes the pet never gives it back or releases it into the pound where anyone could get it. Bye bye Draiks & Krawks and see you later Cybunnies.
So be aware of this and never give you pet to anyone unless you’ve arranged a transfer using TNT’s method where you can’t lose your pet (or so it has been proven up until this point so far).
If you see other people falling for this; neomail them and tell them what is actually happening.

This is another newer one but more serious. A person creates a board claiming to give a link to Tarla (that Ixi from Terror Mountain). They post the link; people click on it thinking they’re getting some glorious gift from Tarla. They find a page with nothing on it and link “Oh Well! That was rather weird!” Little do they know that page was a Cookie Grabber. I won’t go into details on them but I will say that they are very bad and can do things to your computer.

This next one is incredibly rude and offensive. You hear of people getting Terminal Illnesses. They get told they’ve got however many months/weeks to live. Imagine how awful that would be?

Anyway these spammers make a board saying “I have a Terminal Illness, I have only 1 month to live!” Good, kind-hearted people see this board title and think “Oh! Poor them, I’ll click on this board”
The board simply says that they’ve got a terminal illness of cancer or another disease and that they’ve never had a paintbrush and don’t have time in their life to earn the money for the paintbrush. Your alarm bells for a scammer should be up straight away. If you had only a few months to live would you make a board drawing attention like that to yourself, making it sound like you’re proud that you’re going to die soon? And begging people to give up their belongings? I shouldn’t think so.

These people send over paintbrushes and other items. The scammer pretends to weep (how you do that online, does puzzle me) with thanks. Later he laughs evilly to himself. He’s not sick; he has a full life ahead of him. He’s just scammed innocent people out of their items. That just shows you how low scammers will go to get items.

There are other ways scammers try to scam you. All I say is; don’t fall for it. If you’re unsure make a board on another topic and ask for help; neomail a helpful friend, refer to this guide and others and ask your fellow guild members what they think.

Doing that; you should stay safe on the Neoboards. Have Fun!