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They're out in the cold because of a limit on the number of logins you can attempt in a time period. To guess someone's password by trying all combinations would take a relative eternity because of those restrictions.


Not really -- it's still vulnerable to a whole host of attacks (cookie grabbers, key loggers and those "verify your bank account" e-mails come to mind).

Uncrackable as in people just guessing. Any account is crackable if you yourself give away your password or let cookie grabbers or key loggers on to your pc. That goes without saying.

But if you are safe and sensible then that way is uncrackable and far more safe than the way neopets uses.

well i don't know about good but my friend was recently felt pray for a scammer * i told him not to do it* but he was tempted by the premium that the user was offering the user set him up as a premium user he had his own neomail account and all not sure how this was done but he was able to do everything the other premium members could do he took screenies and all and i was at his house anyways the chick changed his email he seen it and couldnt touch it but LUCKILY the scammer was stupid and posted a FAKE email addy so the confirmation never went out, my friend tried to email the adress they entered and it said it didnt exsit so he knew after no one clicked on it he had no worries because they couldn't click on something that they never received anyways she took back her premium after several warnings of reporting her neo name and she disapeared into scammerville XD

I don't really like that idea of them sending an e-mail confirmation to both accounts. I mean, sometimes you can lose an e-mail account due to reasons beyond your control. (I know I have. Including one account that disappeared without a trace along with the host site...) But I think one thing they should do is not say up there what your current e-mail is and have you enter your current e-mail address when you change your e-mail. Then it's probably your own fault if someone changes it.

nancine, you have no idea how really angry that makes me, that someone signed up for premium it sounds like just to try to scam someone.

I think I know how she did it -- that your friend was able to have all the premium stuff. It's called an Alias. When you sign up for premium (not the dial-up, but the regular $7.99), you can choose to either reserve a username not in use or you can use, say, your gallery or storage account and add that. That alias account will not have ads, will be able to go to the premium board and I think? get stealth on their lookup, etc.

I have my ex-gallery/now pet storage only account as my alias. I haven't done anything except go to the premium board on it, and I like having no ads.

Thing is, when you set up an Alias, you need the username and the password to that account if it's already an existing one. So that's how I think this awful person got your friend.

I certainly hope it is not a "regular" paying member of premium, but someone who was able to get in and just took advantage of the 15 day trial period. This is someone who should definitely be reported, IMHO. We are seeing more scammers on the premium board, so everyone please! be careful.