Hijacking question
Wed Nov 29, 2006 6:47 am
I hope nobody gets mad at me for asking this ....(I can't search through all the forum parts it's late and I should be in bed so forgive me)....here is my questuion......
Are people still getting their accounts hijacked from cookie grabbers?
My 9 year old daughters account got frozen so we turned in the abuse form and got this in reply
The account you are writing in about was frozen for being hijacked.
This means the account either had an obvious password that a scammer took
advantage of, or had an abandoned email address that was taken over
because the account name was the same as the username on Neopets.
We cannot return this username because we have no way of fully knowing
who the original owner is.
She had someone on her neofriends list that asked for her password but my daughter told her no she wouldn't give it to her. Since my daughter replied to her message do you think it had a cookie grabber on it? Her pass word wasn't something that most people would guess. We did reply to the TNT staffer who wrote us that and are trying to get back my daughters account and I'm trying to be hopeful. I'm not computer savy like most when it comes to Neopets so please forgive me. I did see that there was a person or persons that hacked the site....someone told me this person and friend are jacking accounts right? I think the person that asked for my daughters password would be the one that jacked the account right? I hope someone can educate little bit ....
Thanks
Spits
Are people still getting their accounts hijacked from cookie grabbers?
My 9 year old daughters account got frozen so we turned in the abuse form and got this in reply
The account you are writing in about was frozen for being hijacked.
This means the account either had an obvious password that a scammer took
advantage of, or had an abandoned email address that was taken over
because the account name was the same as the username on Neopets.
We cannot return this username because we have no way of fully knowing
who the original owner is.
She had someone on her neofriends list that asked for her password but my daughter told her no she wouldn't give it to her. Since my daughter replied to her message do you think it had a cookie grabber on it? Her pass word wasn't something that most people would guess. We did reply to the TNT staffer who wrote us that and are trying to get back my daughters account and I'm trying to be hopeful. I'm not computer savy like most when it comes to Neopets so please forgive me. I did see that there was a person or persons that hacked the site....someone told me this person and friend are jacking accounts right? I think the person that asked for my daughters password would be the one that jacked the account right? I hope someone can educate little bit ....
Thanks
Spits
Wed Nov 29, 2006 8:18 pm
I can't fully reply to your situation, but there haven't been much known cookie-grabbing incidents lately (or maybe because I'm on neopets so little during the school day, I probably haven't even noticed).
Sorry about your daughter
Sorry about your daughter
Thu Nov 30, 2006 3:27 am
Cookie grabbers are usually found in userlookups, in shops, or more rarely in petpages. I don't think cookie grabbers can be sent by Neomail(but I'm not positive). Is it possible they could have gotten into the email account some way, and requested the Neopets account's password? That seems more likely.
Thu Nov 30, 2006 6:28 am
Not that I know of. Spitsfireatspeedy isn't even a part of the email so I'm not sure how they could have gotten the password that way. When I asked my daughter about the person sending the neomail she said not long after her account got frozen. My daughter is 9 and knows better not to hand out the password to her account but what she didn't know was that she shouldn't check out other peoples user lookups or pet pages>.<. I had no idea that is how people can get passwords . What I find irritating is that I doubt she will get her account back no matter how much information we provide although I'm trying to be hopeful . What do they need a blood sample or something to tell it's hers? It's not like it's a bank account it's a game they aren't out anything anyway if they gave it back to the wrong person. Who would thunk that people would be so bad on a free game site 
. I do apperciate your answering my question:).
Spits
. What I find irritating is that I doubt she will get her account back no matter how much information we provide although I'm trying to be hopeful . What do they need a blood sample or something to tell it's hers? It's not like it's a bank account it's a game they aren't out anything anyway if they gave it back to the wrong person. Who would thunk that people would be so bad on a free game site . I do apperciate your answering my question:).
Spits
Thu Nov 30, 2006 6:43 am
Gosh...I didn't know CGers on lookups were possible...
*Hides from lookups*
Just keep trying...maybe you can get the account back? Give them as much info as possible to prove that your daughter is the rightful owner of that account... Good luck.
*Hides from lookups*
Just keep trying...maybe you can get the account back? Give them as much info as possible to prove that your daughter is the rightful owner of that account... Good luck.
Thu Nov 30, 2006 6:55 am
sily_sicily,
See your like me in a way I had no idea either
. I will keep trying I would hate not to get it back I worked long hours to save up for a poogle morphing potion. I had thought about a premium account but someone said just because you pay doesn't mean your account won't be frozen though so I have decided not to go that route. I just can't comprehend why people steal stuff and what not because it's a game for kids as well as adults. I have to keep reminding myself people are immature .
Spitsfire
See your like me in a way I had no idea either
. I will keep trying I would hate not to get it back I worked long hours to save up for a poogle morphing potion. I had thought about a premium account but someone said just because you pay doesn't mean your account won't be frozen though so I have decided not to go that route. I just can't comprehend why people steal stuff and what not because it's a game for kids as well as adults. I have to keep reminding myself people are immature .
Spitsfire
Thu Nov 30, 2006 7:08 am
It's sort of weird that people steal virtual stuff...if they really can steal why not steal real things? o_0
Anyway, why steal? It's a funner game when you put in effort to earn the nps yourself. If you have unlimited number of nps, neopets would be a boring game because dreams can be fulfilled in an instant. The fun part is actually the route to earning lots of nps.
I just cannot understand these scammers. They hurt others really badly and they can't enjoy the game themselves.
Anyway, why steal? It's a funner game when you put in effort to earn the nps yourself. If you have unlimited number of nps, neopets would be a boring game because dreams can be fulfilled in an instant. The fun part is actually the route to earning lots of nps.
I just cannot understand these scammers. They hurt others really badly and they can't enjoy the game themselves.
Sat Dec 02, 2006 10:07 am
perhaps it wasn't a cookiegrabber but a fake loginpage that your daughter fell for. It sounds more likable
Tue Dec 05, 2006 11:31 pm
Saw this and had to respond. Yes, during one small period of time a few months ago, there supposedly were cookie grabbers in the neomails. And on the trading posts. Somehow the evil nasty jerk was able to stick it in amongst the enriched text. Many of those savvy to this changed their email preferences to plain text coding and did not even go near the trading post.
During the past year there have been several instances in which cookie grabbers were in users' shops, petpages, and users' lookups. Particularly one particularly nasty day in January of 2006 when quite a few people got grabbed, myself included. I had found a cheap negg in a shop, went to the shop and instead was directed to the front page of Neo, which I thought weird. Luckily, I kept my head, realized what was happening (thanks to the heads up given by other PPT members who had been previously hit), changed my passwords faster than lightning, and didn't lose a thing. The page I had been directed to was a fake and had the cookie grabber on it. Needless to say, I was a bit ticked off about it.
I do believe that Neopets has fixed the CGer problem. I keep my ear to the ground about this. Once bitten, twice shy, you know? And I haven't heard of anything happening in the past few months.
Best of luck to you in getting your daughter's account back.
EDIT: If you go to the top of this page and do a search for cookie grabber, you will find a number of threads made throughout 2006 that discussed this problem, as it was happening.
During the past year there have been several instances in which cookie grabbers were in users' shops, petpages, and users' lookups. Particularly one particularly nasty day in January of 2006 when quite a few people got grabbed, myself included. I had found a cheap negg in a shop, went to the shop and instead was directed to the front page of Neo, which I thought weird. Luckily, I kept my head, realized what was happening (thanks to the heads up given by other PPT members who had been previously hit), changed my passwords faster than lightning, and didn't lose a thing. The page I had been directed to was a fake and had the cookie grabber on it. Needless to say, I was a bit ticked off about it.
I do believe that Neopets has fixed the CGer problem. I keep my ear to the ground about this. Once bitten, twice shy, you know? And I haven't heard of anything happening in the past few months.
Best of luck to you in getting your daughter's account back.
EDIT: If you go to the top of this page and do a search for cookie grabber, you will find a number of threads made throughout 2006 that discussed this problem, as it was happening.