Impersonations.
 

It has come to be that people like to impersonate me and other global staff to gather passwords and such.

As graal staff, we do not ask for your passwords, ever. Why? Because when we change your passwords we cannot see what the password is. So why do we actually need your password?

Secondly, if someone has the name Nemesis, if the account name isn't Nemesis....Then I can bet you 10 times out of 10 it isn't me, so why trust that person? It is hard to enforce the rule, so frankly people need to wise up.

I do not do ANY graal work without being on RC, if I am not on RC, I do not do anything because it is like I am not working. I help people still but I do not change any information, or request anything from anyone. So if you see a global pressuring you for something, chances are that person is a fake and needs to be reported so it can be taken care of asap. Thank you and hopefully people can help one another and make announcements so people aren't falling victims to this.

Thanks.

Re: Impersonations.
 

Bah.. though it was about PW news.. but anyways, nice to hear.

someone with the mail "[email protected]" e-mailed me asking for my password. I sent it to them, then I looked at my inbox.. then I remembered his e-mail is "@graalonline.com" and "graal.net" was the free e-mail. So I went and changed my password :p in the mail they said they were checking for inactive accounts and they needed everyone to send them back their accs + passwords.

That was alittle stupid to give your password out.. :asleep:

*****, ditto.

I wasn't thinking :\ I'm glad I looked at my inbox again though.

Re: Re: Impersonations.
 

Read the other post then =]

Whenever people ask for passes on anything that they shouldnt I always give them my account name and then a fake password, so they waste their time :P

That would give it away. His name is 'unixmad' not 'unximad' XD

Oops, I ment to spell it 'unixmad.' But, the only thing that gave it away for me was the 'graal.net' mail.

well unix is stupid for not reserving staff name e-mails in the first place

Actually... anyone can make their send address show up as that, and make their replyto address their email address, and presto, suckers are formed.

I know exactly what you're talking about Nemesis, the newbie staff at Babylon always call me Nemesis and I go off my head and say "do you think If I had global RC and was the classic PW's GM, do you honestly think i'd be here?"

Dont diss babylon ;_;

i think that anyone who would ever NEED your pass... would have access to it
=X
(graalonline staff and such)

but impersonation can be a problem... someone once impersonated me on G2K1, so they could get votes for a fake (DK) tag.... anyways, MadWolf, i'm glad nothing too bad happened
:)

Yea.. I wouldnt even give Nem my pass if it WAS account *Nemesis ;o

Nem could just change your pass if he wanted
lol,
but he wouldn't
=P

Thats what I was getting at.. is that you dont need to give them your password because they can change it anyway.. (Them = Staff peoples..)

My password is j00r5tuP1d

Your post is also 5tuP1d

I don't think my intentions of that post was to actually be intelligent.

I had some idiot come on Providence with his name as Nemesis once demanding that I unbann a certain individual I laughed at him and told him if he was really nemesis to get on RC and I would consider it. It went into about a 2 minute debate in which I finally said you are not Nemesis and impersonating staff is a bannable offense you have 10 seconds to leave before you are banned permanently. He left within 5 seconds. :)

That was YOU? jkjk x:

I'd yell at you for bringing back old threads but it was stickied...
so let the take over of the useless off-topic spam replies flying back and forth commence!

actually.. YOU brought it back, since Arc replied 4 days ago...

there had been no new replies for 4 days, and then you replied
:P