People who know how to HACK should be STOPPED!!!!!

ievilstar · Joined: 23 May 2009 Posts: 4 Location: United Kingdom

Some users on IMVU know how to hack people and steal the credits in our account.

It's not fair that they know this and everyone are scared of being hacked so they can't even dislike that person who knows how to hack.
Some claim they know. But I know people who know, it's like we can't enjoy IMVU (freedom) instead we have to like someone we don't otherwise they will hack us and disable us. I even have proof.

How do I let IMVU know? This is an unacceptable behaviour. IMVU should change their ways of disabling people. Or tell these people who know how to hack to STOP! Or IMVU should disable them so people don't fear them again.

Seriously, how do I let IMVU know?

ievilstar · Joined: 23 May 2009 Posts: 4 Location: United Kingdom

Should I file a help ticket? But this is serious, my friends are being disabled and it's not even fair.

I even have the names of the people who know how to hack.

Invictus · Joined: 19 Jan 2008 Posts: 131 Location: USA - TX

I totally feel you on this. I am extorted constantly. Infact recently I had a user order me to comply with his wishes or he'd damage my sales. I reported the conversation. Nothing was done about it. Later, nasty reviews are left on over 3 dozen products from a mule account. Nothing was done about it. In his group a boycott was organized. Nothing was done about it. A help ticket was filed. Not only was nothing done about it but I got nothing but pre-typed responses from (name removed by Mod).

If you're wanting security, accountability and competence, you won't find it here.

There are ways you can prevent being hacked though. Try these steps:

1. don't save your password in client or previewer
2. don't set your password to "remember" on your web browser
3. Have your email account on IMVU top secret. Make an email that no one knows of, don't distribute it, don't even tell anyone you have it. Make the password different from your email account.
4. On passwords for your IMVU account and email account, generate a random 16 character password using a mix of characters (letters, numbers, and signs) and in mixed case. Even using brute force will take forever to figure that one out.
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LordRiccardo · Joined: 30 Jan 2009 Posts: 13707 Location: United Kingdom

You report them whilest in the chat under the safety feature.
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ievilstar · Joined: 23 May 2009 Posts: 4 Location: United Kingdom

ievilstar · Joined: 23 May 2009 Posts: 4 Location: United Kingdom

Auntiepjl · Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2010 11:03 pm Post subject:

report the messages please.
you can do this either from the client or the panel on your homepage or the old inbox,
http://www.imvu.com/catalog/web_messagebox.php

depending on which you use there will be either a 'report' or a 'safety' link beside or under the message.

IMVU does disable people who scam and threaten to hack, but they have no way to stop them making a new account.
As already said, use a strong password with symbols and capitals and numbers, NEVER tell anyone what it is. Do not use one that ca be guessed by someone who knows you. Don't use the same password for different sites.
If an offer seems too good to be true, then it is a scam.
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B3Y4Z1D_disabled_30853241 · Joined: 25 Oct 2008 Posts: 12 Location: Turkey

IMVU moderators and admins lack some vital info,I think...

"As already said, use a strong password with symbols and capitals and numbers, NEVER tell anyone what it is. Do not use one that ca be guessed by someone who knows you. Don't use the same password for different sites.
If an offer seems too good to be true, then it is a scam."

What about cookies & log files,my dear friend?

Funny how hackers know more about IMVU than the admins...

Nimit · Joined: 09 Apr 2010 Posts: 614 Location: USA - IL

DiaaNeumos · Joined: 22 Nov 2007 Posts: 428 Location: USA

I agree these people should be disabled, so I'm not saying what you say is BS or anything. What I do have to say in opposition to your thread, though, is that IMVU, or any other online company for that matter, can't stop EVERY hacker in the world... What can they do? Put up a question on the registration that says, "Do you know how to hack others? oYes oNo"? LOL!

Now, what I would LIKE very much to see from IMVU, as I have stated before, is IP bans for those who are found to have hacked or threatened to hack. That would at least work towards preventing the issue... I know, I know, there are IP changers and a lot of ISPs change your IP every time you log in etc etc... but it would weed out at least SOME of them. And so what if that would prevent others using the same IP from getting on... imo I'd rather see an innocent get banned along with the guilty than have hundreds of people's accounts disabled from the guilty just so the innocent can stay on. Maybe that would weed out some more, too, i.e. if a family member would get banned along with them, it might make them less apt to hack in the first place.

Auntiepjl · Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 11:09 pm Post subject:

IMVU will not ban IPs because there are many people who share IPs (schools, colleges, family homes,)
As you said, the IP is changed so easily that if blocked the scammer is back in ten seconds.
Anyone who knows how to scam, and especially those who know how to hack, will not be inconvenienced even slightly by an IP block.

The vast majority of people who lose their accounts to others, do so because they told them their password themselves. (some fall for the 'you won a lot of credits scam', some think they are going to have their hp redesigned, some give it to their best friend and then fall out, some fall for the 'we are investigating your account tell me your password to prove that you own the account' scam.)

Yes, some are genuinely hacked by keyloggers (which they have to have been tricked into downloading) or clicking on the wrong link and getting a cookie stolen on the wrong site, but most scammers do not bother with such techniques because scamming is so much easier.

A good antivirus, malware program, script blocking addons on your browser and a sandbox are the best way to keep safe from hacking, while lkeeping your password strong and secure and SECRET is the best way to keep safe from scammers.

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Marilena · Joined: 23 Dec 2006 Posts: 4863 Location: Italy

i agree with you Sad

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B3Y4Z1D_disabled_30853241 · Joined: 25 Oct 2008 Posts: 12 Location: Turkey

Auntiepjl · Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 10:32 am Post subject:

mod hat off

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I'll pass on the big wet one if you don't mind. Shocked

fyi Mods are not admins. We are just volunteers who try to keep order in the forums, and pass on whatever tips we have managed to learn over a few years of being here. (And pass issues over to staff if we can't help.)

We have no input into IMVU's systems or security. If you have any detailed knowledge of how the real hacking is done then posting a detailed breakdown of it to a member of staff might get somewhere. Try one of the techs who post in the feedback thread.

mod hat back on
Please don't post specifics in the forums though, cos we don't want to give people tips on hacking.
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Nimit · Joined: 09 Apr 2010 Posts: 614 Location: USA - IL