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Just A Word About The Recent Hackings


Sejuani

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I am, personally, a recipient of 2 of these nasty PMs going around, and just wanted to warn you. Here's a couple tips on how to avoid them:

  1. I've noticed that both senders of those PMs had bad grammar, capitalization, and spelling. Don't open a message with any/all of these mistakes, especially if you know that member not to make those mistakes.
  2. Really, don't open a message you're not interested in. I'd rather not open a message than risk seeing those horrible pictures again.
  3. Try to avoid PMs from people you've never heard of. Unless you're really interested in it.
  4. If you get a message from a non-staff member saying +/- PE, DO NOT OPEN IT.
And if you have already gotten one, try this to figure out whether or not the member's account was hacked:
  1. Click 'reply'
  2. Copy the image's web address
  3. Paste it in a new window
  4. Then, go to the member's profile
  5. Click on a link to a picture in one of the member's topics
  6. If the two image hosting sites match up, it's most likely not a hacker. If they don't, it most likely is.

For more help, read some of the comments.

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Why don't I ever get these love letters? :(

 

-Omi

 

Remember I forwarded one of those to you in 2007 when somebody decided to first spam people with them and a friend of mine here got one and forwarded it to me to ask me what to do. ^^

 

On the other hand, as a rule of thumb, never open messages from people you have never EVER heard of before and suddenly start you sending weird PM's.

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