PLEase help i think someone is trying to scam me

[nacine82]

someone keeps asking for my username and password on AIM he says that hes from here, the name is Sian or something.. screen name fruitysian anyone know?

Edit:
Im not gonna give any info of mine but i want to know what i can do is there any way I can report them?


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[Cranberry]

Block him. You probably shouldn't have your AIM name visible on these forums, either. There are a lot of nice people here, but there are nasty lurkers, too.

[Twisted Sanity]

I don't really think there much needed to be done here. Just block the person

They have no right to ask for your username and password. Doesn't matter if they're from here or from Jupiter, they can't ask for your password

EDIT: Stole your sig

[Cranberry]

You can only use the Neopets abuse form to report them if you know their Neopets username. Also, you can't really prove it unless they're asking you in Neomail.

[nacine82]

Yes, they told me their username was aphromeda
I sent a neomail to that username asking if they had been talking to me in AIM .. after that they signed off AIM.. I am not stupid I am not going to give out my password, it just really bugged me.. I don't know if I can show what they were asking me, if I can let me know I could block out the username or something.. they had their friend IM me and say they were not a scammer too then she told me to go to her forum LINK BLOCKED.com and I said I would check it out she said NOW I said excuse me? And then she called me a F*$^ Face, I blocked her. Then the other person kept asking if we could share spare accounts and other things.. makes me so mad! And asking to lend my grey pet for her FQD

[Cranberry]

Change your password just in case her site had a cookie grabber.

Also, don't report that username until you get a response back. The scammer could have been (and probably was) lying, and that's probably some uninvolved person's account. Maybe the scammer has a problem with aphromeda and is trying to make her look bad.

[nacine82]

Scammer: Hello Are you there?
Me: umm im good whos this
Scammer: Sian from PPT
Me: ohh ok
Scammer: Do you play neopets?
Me: yup
Me: on it right no
Me: now
Me: looking for the mp lol
Scammer: Whats your username?
Me: nacine82
Scammer: ok
Scammer: I have 7mill wooohooo
Me: woo hoo that's cool
Scammer: yup
Me: save upo?
Me: or did you win something
Scammer: Im gonna be leaving neopets for 19months soon
Scammer: I wont the jackpot on scratchcard
Me: oh no why's that
Scammer: and been restocking
Me: that's cool
Scammer: im traveling around the worl
Scammer: world*
Me: cool
Scammer: yup
Scammer: do you want my stuff when i go/
Me: why?
Scammer: dunno :s
Me: umm if you want to lol
Scammer: lol
Me: why would you pick me?
Scammer: cause your cool
Scammer: and you deserve some cool stuff
Scammer: *smiley face*
Me: lol i dont even know if i talked to you before have i?
Scammer: dunno :S
Scammer: I have faerie queen doll
Scammer: i lend out too
Scammer: Do you wanna share usernames?
Me: oh that's awesome i need that av but i dont have much np
Me: no sorry i dont give out my password
Scammer: Like i put all my np onto your username
Scammer: k
Scammer: Can i lend your grey pet?
Scammer: and ill lend you fqd after?
Me: ive been hacked before so im very careful about that
Scammer: ok
Scammer: but im not a hacker
Me: umm id lend the grey pet if i got the fqd first..
Me: i know
Me: but im just careful ya know
Me: so many mean people out there
Scammer: cant we share then
Scammer: cause i swear to god
Scammer: im not a hacker
Scammer: my usernme is aphromeda
Me: im sorry but i mean you imd me out of no where so i dont really know you
Scammer: Loom at my username
Scammer: I have 160odd avatars
Scammer: Why the hell would i scam
Me: i didnt say you do scam
Me: but i dont give out my password
Scammer: ok
Scammer: i know
Me: im sorry
Me: but it's not really nice to ask to share accounts
Me: you should never give out your password
Meyou should keep yours
Scammer: change your password to something that we both know and then you would not be telling your main password
Scammer: I have Secret Avatars : 181
Me: no
Me: I don't tell it im sorry
Scammer: k
Scammer: do you have msn?
Scammer: cause aim annots me
Me: no i only have aim
Scammer: ok
Me: Tell your little friend to stop annoying me
Scammer: lol
Me: it's not nice to call me a F8ck face
Scammer: he is my brother
Scammer: block him
Scammer: i hate him too
Me: well they said it was your sister
Scammer: lol
Me: i like y our lookup very nice
Scammer: thankyou
Scammer: o u have any spare usernames
Scammer: /?
Me: just one
Scammer: cause we could share on a spar
Me: Im sorry like I said before I don't share, it's agaisnt the rules
FruitySian: ok
Me: So what av's do you have, 181 man that's alot
Scammer: yup
Scammer: most of tem
Me: very nice plushie koi
Scammer: my fav is suap
Scammer signed off at 7:17:33 PM.


EDIT: I never have been hacked, it was just a nice reason to say no thank you, because I wasn't sure if she was a scammer at that time.

I never went to the page, anyways but I am still gonna change my password

EDIT: My lord alot of edit's anyways I notcied at first she said she had 160 some odd av's then she said she has 181 which was the real amount that the USERNAME she stated was hers had.

Last edited by nacine82 on Sat Apr 02, 2005 1:31 am, edited 1 time in total.

[Cranberry]

I doubt the scammer really owns that account, because a scammer wouldn't risk a nice account like that with lame scams like this. I'm interested in hearing what kind of response you'll get to your neomail.

[nacine82]

Me too, I will let you know I wrote to the person and said, Hiya have you been IMing me from this AIM account and put the screen name

[hyperflutterby]

Just to let you know, this person has IMed me too. They asked me about my neopets username and if I had MSN. I wasn't very forthcoming with information and they stopped talking with me. I blocked them as a result of seeing this though.

Last edited by hyperflutterby on Sat Apr 02, 2005 1:45 am, edited 1 time in total.

[nacine82]

good i hope everyone blocks this person and takes this as a warning, i hope it helped more then one person by posting this i mean this person is just wrong.. lol

[Medusa]

So long as you didn't hand over any information it should all be okay

Also, you can't really prove it unless they're asking you in Neomail.

You can always try taking a screencap of the MSN/AIM conversation and then sending that along with the report as proof. It may not be as good as neomail but its better than just words.

Yes, they told me their username was aphromeda

I highly doubt that it was their real username. And I would be completely shocked if it was. Aphromeda seems like a good and nice enough person to not go about doing things like this.

[nacine82]

thanks for all the help guys

[Qanda]

Aphromeda is a well-known neopian and the scammer is probably using her name as a fake cover.

This really is a no-brainer, just block that person and that's it. So long you don't actually give out your password nothing can happen.

Thanks for alerting us though. There have been a couple of reports lately, seems like some guy's idea of an April Fools joke is to go around scamming PPTers.

[Bangel]

Block him. You probably shouldn't have your AIM name visible on these forums, either. There are a lot of nice people here, but there are nasty lurkers, too.

Completely agreed. The majority of the forum won't give you a problem, but there always will be things like this. It's just so much wiser to not list your AIM name here at all. I didn't at first, and that resulted in a hack threat, not just for Neopets, but for AIM, etc.