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Neopets: The Scams, Hacks, Cheats & Darkside of Neopia
by Freak369 | Oct 13 '04
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by basic_abc
That was quite an awful experience you had there? I wouldn't dream on letting it happen to me. Any chance I could ask, are you still playing neopets?

Your opinion was quite informative, I know that everyone wants to be rich in an online game. Its just sad to say that there are a lot of neopians who would go out their way just to be rich by scamming and hacking.

But there are some sites that I found that help neopets players earn NP without doing anything. I'm not talking about daily visits like fruit machine or tombola. Although there is a chance of getting frozen, its quite a risk.

Also to people that offer to babysit their accounts then stealing them off is just *******. Well, its only a game right.

But I got striken by your comment cause I'm babysitting 3 accounts from my friends. I would never anything away from them unless I have their permission. This is of course illegal but they gave their pw to me so I could help their neopets grow. Of course, if their pw was given to me through neomail, we would both been frozen. 2 of them already quitted and 1 of them is still playing whenever he has a free time. But nevertheless, I treat them as I treat my main account.

This ends my comment, I wouldn't be probably back to view your reply because I only came about this while I was surfing the net and this got my attention.

The account I use is not my username, sorry I want to be anonymous.
Dec 15 '07
12:51 am PST

i know how to get anyone on neopets' password!!! (Reply to this comment)
by martinimartino
My brother used to program for neopets, and i know when people are scamming. Anyone that says anything about giving anyone your password is wrong.

On some sites i have seen people with the right idea, but who turned it into a scam. The only way to hack into a neopets account is to trick the server into thinking you`re on the neopets staff. People will tell you this (which is the truth), then say you have to send someone (them) in neopia your password. This is a total lie.

Neopets used to be easy to hack, but then they improved their server. In doing this, they changed their way of sending people password retrievals. They used to do it by email, but now they only do stuff like that through their neopets account ("theneopetsteam").
The old email address is actually still active. It`s "neopwretrieval@techie.com".
More people than you would expect actually know this, but if they say anything about sending your password to anyone, they`re just scamming you.

First of all, you need to trick the actual neopets server into thinking you`re the original neopets team, and you also need to contact the original email address.
To do this, you just need your own neopets account, and your own email address.

You have to change your email address to "neopwretrieval@techie.com", the original neopets server address, on your neopets account.
Then you have to send an email to "neopwretrieval@techie.com" from your personal email address with the subject "retrieval" that looks like this:
Pwretrieval(username of the person whose password you want here)
Username(your username here)
Sendto(your email address here)

Then, you need to send an identical neopets message to "theneopetsteam" with the same subject line.

Changing your email to "neopwretrieval@techie.com" tricks the neopets database into thinking that you are a part of the original neopets team, and links your neopets account to that email address.
Sending "neopwretrieval@techie.com" this same email, after your neopets account is linked to their email confuses the database because both the old server and the new server are receiving the same message.

The reason you need to send them both your username is because then, your username gets mixed in with the neopets teams` usernames.
Once you send them that email, your email address, also in the message, will get mixed in with their database.
The database will then be convinced that you are a member of the neopets team (who have access to any username and password they want), and send you the password of the username you entered.
The reason for "pwretrieval" "username" and "sendto" is that those are the codes that the neopets team uses.

After you do this, within a week, you will get a neomessage from "theneopetsteam" with that person`s user information, including username, password, email address, birth date, how long they have been on neopets, and any other information they have entered into neopets.

Once you get this neomessage, you can change your email address back to your normal one.

I`ve done this TONS of times.


P.S.!!!
Anyone who says you need to send your password to anyone IS DEFINITELY just scamming you!!!
Aug 12 '07
9:24 pm PDT

Neopets Suck (Reply to this comment)
by foxamadeus
My neopets account was stolen and the staff (namely Heidi, who seems to be the only staff for neopets) refues to give me back my account. Don't sign up for neopets because all they want is for you to go on their site so they can make money and if you upgrade they make money and they don't give squat about their members (many of whom are young children).
Jun 21 '07
2:23 pm PDT

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by Freak369
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Oct 13 '04
8:13 pm PDT