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Memoirs of a Veteran Neopian
Written by Aqua_Squee
I am not the oldest Neopian, not the newest, but nowadays I suppose I’d be
considered a veteran. Not one of those cranky ones who are protective over every
single point they earn. I have a modest amount and some modest pets.
You see, I have seen a lot of the troubles of Neopets, and fallen victim to
quite a few myself. I am, admittedly, gullible. Scams, cheats, and hacks, you
name it, I probably have fallen to it. Then there are the stupid things I’ve
done.
Those fake log-in pages… First ones I fell for. Got an e-mail from an AOL
account that did not exist, saying they wanted to give me a Starry Paint Brush.
That was in my second month on Neopets, and I wanted to paint my Kiko. So,
naturally, I went and made a trade offer without a second thought. Boom. Ten
minutes later, I went to check if I’d gotten the paint brush, and my account was
frozen. That quick. I made another account and worked on getting my first
unfrozen.
It took three months, but I got it back. By then, I’d made peace with loosing my
first beloved pets and had a new set which I cared for. I’d even begun to save
for the lab map, and had around five pieces. I was a real idiot then. I went to
the General Chat one day when I was bored, and made a lovely post. The title was
something along the lines of “AIMAIMAIMAIMAIM!” and the message was my old AIM
account: “AdruGolden”. I was proud, I’d just gotten it. I found myself flooded
with messages. Someone asked for my e-mail. I gave them it without thinking.
That was really, really stupid. They signed off about ten minutes later, and a
new person sent me a message. “What’s your zip code?” Yeah, what harm could a
question like that do? No one knew my name. Wrong. I had forgotten my zip code
was my password for everything then. Yeah, really stupid.
Of course, within the hour, I had lost my Neopets accounts, e-mail address, and
AIM account. I was absolutely stunned. But I still chugged on along, and made a
new e-mail, a new AIM, and worked on getting my Neopets account back again.
Only a month and I’d gotten my accounts back, along with a warning letter from
Neopets. The same person had unfrozen it this time, and told me to be careful.
Oh, I knew now! I wasn’t going to be dumb again… or so I thought.
I was clean for six months, but then I got my mutant Chia. Oh, I loved him. I
drew him until I had perfected it down to the last mediocre line – I was just
about thirteen and still had no artistic talent. Then I entered the Beauty
Contest. Every spare minute I advertised. I checked the votes I had – this was
before they took down the ability to see how many you had. I was one vote from
second place in the Chia category! Being totally excited, I wondered what would
happen if I voted for myself.
Big mistake again. I voted for myself on all seventeen accounts I had
accumulated. It was like an addiction, I couldn’t stop. Then, the day before the
contest ended, all my accounts were frozen. I lost everything, and no doubt I
was pretty upset. I knew I wasn’t going to get them back this time – I had
broken multiple rules without even knowing it.
So I started over on an account left over from when I had gotten my cat. It was
“Crazy4CallieCatz”. Oh, I worked! I got a mutant Blumaroo, Mutant Shoyru, and a
Mutant Techo. I worked on making my Cybunny faerie to offset the rest. I was at
least remotely smart by then, so I chatted in the Fan Clubs. I made some mistake
I still do not know, and a painful 20k from my goal, I was frozen.
Powered by the prospect that I had done nothing to get frozen, I e-mailed the
Neopets Team. It wasn’t even a week before I got a response. The staff member
who responded was so nasty, so cruel I nearly cried – I was in the emotional
stage of a thirteen year old.
So I wasn’t getting it back. Time to start over again! I found another old
account which had been spared and got smart.
Oh, the worst part? I left out about half of the scams I fell for.
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