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Today was a horrible day on Gaia.

"Check this out" was the phrase that would cause a crisis on Gaia, or so to speak.

Here's a summary of what happened, followed by intel I picked up or that was given to me.

Okay, I don't know where it's origins were, but it caused panic throughout the site. The PM read "Check this out". The "This" was hyperlinked to a page embedded with a type of password theft thingy. [Poor choice of words.] It saved your info, but it didn't stop there. It automatically forwarded itself to your friendlist. Despicable!! o_O

I kinda fell for it, but I also sent out a warning PM and an apology PM after that. I hope nobody fell for it.... I wouldn't want that resting on my conscience. I would've taken a hit the first time around because I fell for it and took a while to change my password but something amazing happened. My frickin' browser [Teh almighty Mozilla Firefox] couldn't properly load the page, in turn saving me from being hacked/scammed!!

AMAZING!!! O_O

And yeah, that's how it went. Now for the details.

- The scam PM was very easy to fall for, seeing as all you had to do was click a link.

- Everyone was on edge today.

- The problem has been neutralized by the mod team.

- Firefox is better than IE, Opera, Safari and AOL combined. Can you say "PWNage?"

- There was small crash around 5:00 PM, which made me VERY uneasy because I thought I fell for a phishing scam.

And that's all for now, I guess. but today was hella chaotic.

It's official. I've seen countless scammers today trying to get my, or someone else's password. They are organized and their names are somewhat believable to an inexperienced Gaian..... This HAS to stop.

Yup. Some retard tried to scam me. Of course I didn't fall for it. Here's a look at what went on via screenshot.




And this, too.




I just kept asking for proof over and over. It was REALLY funneh. xD