Monitors...

[Asparagus Queen]

A lot of email programs you can type in any email address you want to make it look like it came from that email address. So it may have come from mailto:dfjiojgfa@jfdiosaj.com but they typed in mailto:support@neopets.com, and now it looks proper. It's easy to do on many email programs. (It's not on mine, so I can't think of any off the top of my head, but I have seen it.)

[Cranberry]

I did a 411.com search on the phone number:

(910) 338-4018 is a land line based in Wilmington, NC

Anyone wanna call?

If the myriad other things wrong with that scam mail didn't tip anyone off, the snarkie stuff should. I thought it was pretty well-known that snarkie works out of TNT offices in California (and has in fact lived in California her whole life), not North Carolina.

[Asparagus Queen]

I googled that number, and it came up with this: http://www.neoitems.net/neohelp/showfla ... in/437581/ that's the only thing google came up with. it's a link to the neoitems forum, from someone back in February.

Edit: I read the whole thing, it's so fake. Pretty much report everything to Borovan? What? And it's said in too much of a conversational tone.

[stampsyne]

The e-mail is SO much like the fake Ebay log In scam. It looks official because the sending e-mail looks correct and so does the link, but both are easily faked.



Hasn't that fake neopets staff handbook been around for years?

[aarickman]

Wow, just the thought that there are people out there with nothing better to do than to pore all their energy and time into something just to get someone else's account. Don't these people have job's or go to school.

I'm so happy you didn't fall for that piece of garbage.

There is no way Neopets would get regular Neopians to be monitors, the real staff doesn't even monitor the site, especially the boards, or else there wouldn't be all of that "would you be my boyfriend" "who wants a girfriend"
"No boys allowed" "Am I stupid" nonsense that is strewed all over the boards.

It's one thing I think Neopets could do to improve the quality of the site,get some monitors whose specific job would be to monitor the boards. Twenty-four hours a day. Everyday. One to two monitors per board. Please.

And I agree, the letter is written with too much of a conversational demeanor.

[anjuna]

They may think they are having cyber sex with another 15 year old, but in reality that user may be a vulnerable pre-teen or an adult.

I think there is just something very very wrong with that statement.
Such scammers should actually read the T&C sometime, in my opinion.

[thelilbear]

Wow, just the thought that there are people out there with nothing better to do than to pore all their energy and time into something just to get someone else's account. Don't these people have job's or go to school.

I agree. I mean, I could a least see the point of this if they were trying to scam real money, but they are going to all these trouble for something that does even exist! These people are crazy!

[Jerch]

+Security: You must not reveal any passwords to anyone - not even fellow
monitors or staff. You must not reveal who bans a user. You can say `A staff
member banned you for xyz reason`. You must never give out account info,
account names, emails etc.

Gotta love that paragraph....seeing that it asks for the passwords later on...

[AySz88]

Grrr....because of my situation I thought it was real... This is what I ended up sending to Snarkie (with parts containing the method of contact censored so she doesn't get inundated), and I guess I'll just wait for a response now....

Dear [Snarkie],

Hello! I recently received an e-mail on my old e-mail address from mailto:support@neopets.com. The e-mail offered a monitor position to me, contained a very long "Monitor Handbook", and listed you as my "Monitor Guardian". As this was apparently unsolicited, I was wondering whether this e-mail was genuine, especially as it did not use the e-mail address currently associated with my main Neopets account, AySz88. The e-mail address cited in the e-mail is also strange, with a domain of zzn and a subdomain of neopets.

The date of the e-mail appears to roughly correspond with the date I friended your <blank>. Does this have any connection? I have also corresponded with Mr. Powell as an informal point of contact with Wikipedia - perhaps that is related?

Just in case this was a phishing attack, I have <beeped> this to your <blah> for verification instead of the e-mail address in the e-mail. If you desire, I will forward the e-mail to you if you provide an e-mail address; the e-mail claims to have sensitive information.

Thank you!
AySz88

[Gondra]

You can download a lot of programs from the internet that can allow you to send an e-mail from any e-mail address and make it look like it came from somewhere else ie. mailto:support@neopets.com, I know because I used to use one years ago when I was a little poo head and liked causing havoc on the net.

It is not real, report it, as Cranberry said, Neopets for one would NEVER ask for your password

[kentieness]

I got the exact same e-mail a few days ago. I figured it was a scam (apart from having to give my details) because although it was sent to my main e-mail address, I use a different one for my main Neopets account, so basically they'd sent it to an e-mail with an inactive Neopets account.

Edit - (*didn't just quote self, by accident) Question: Was it sent to your Hotmail address? Because I just noticed we both have them displayed here. Very interesting...

[varii]

I think the creepiest thing about this email is how much detail they go into the cybering thing. Teenagers have natural urges? So if they could make sure that the 15 year olds are only cybering with other 15 year olds they'd let it happen?

+Users asking for neopoints in return for cyber sex

That kinda made me lol though.

[Pardona]

Edit - (*didn't just quote self, by accident) Question: Was it sent to your Hotmail address? Because I just noticed we both have them displayed here. Very interesting...

Yes, the thought had struck me long before you mentioned it, but it just seemed a little ... to think that the scammer wouldbe someone here at PPT... Know what I mean?

[VeXeD]

I cannot believe that someone would go through that much work for a scam! Some people really need lives!

On the upside, if the person is using PPT as a way to get e-mail addresses, hopefuly they will see this thread and realize the gig is up!!

[Runevalkyrie]

Edit - (*didn't just quote self, by accident) Question: Was it sent to your Hotmail address? Because I just noticed we both have them displayed here. Very interesting...

Yes, the thought had struck me long before you mentioned it, but it just seemed a little ... to think that the scammer wouldbe someone here at PPT... Know what I mean?

I've been on this forum for several years now and I'm not surprised at all. PPT is a popular Neopets site and a good number of members list a Hotmail address as their MSN username. It's easy enough to farm the addresses and send such crud in that case (that's why I've kept such information off of my profile.)