Lets talk about se…curity. Actually what we write here is important. The first ever and ever rule on account on the internet is: “Tho shall never give away your password to anyone else.” – No it wont be punished by a death penalty but if you loose your account by doing that it probably feels like that for the virtually you.

Even the communties staff workers would never ask for your password. So do not give it away. Understood it? Never. If you are trusting a dearest friend that might be the only exception, but nothing besides that.

Just a bad example for this topic:
I once had requested support at the Windows Live Account Support and they asked me to mail them my password for the Account including the allowance for them to enter it. That is totally against the basic principle. Never means never and should not be different. If an staff worker really needs to access an account they have their ways to do so and thats not a privilege its also an exception.

Why we are picking this topic? Well, we noticed a few messages on IMVU telling you to send them your password for various reasons (Getting more credits, getting anything else or any service that maybe sounds nice). In general this would result in almost all times in loosing your account, loosing the credits. So if you follow the principle to never give away your password and maybe also changing it from time to time you should never be in the risk of loosing your account to someone else.

This leads us to more rumors of fakes in messages. For example you will never earn millions or billions of credits if you spread the message over the community a few times. Thats in word: bullshit. There never had been such a behaviour nor there will. New credits cost money (unless you earn them by deving or using promotional credits). Stop sending those messages to plenty other users and trick them again! Inform the sender of the message as well and maybe you find a new friend doing that

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Tags: community, fakes, falsities, fraud, message, password, security, staff, stealing, support

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