If you got a message on your homepage from an avatar and you want to report it you should use the given “Report abuse” above the message. Like this you can flag a chosen message for review and IMVU will get all evidences to take action.

Also messages containing fake links, disgusting words, spam and very suspicious messages should be reported.

If someone attacks you in the client there is a button as well to report the whole chat. The whole chat history might be send to IMVU in case of clicking the button.

Reporting an issue later after the chat is closed or the message deleted makes it not easy and maybe also impossible to search for evidences of the case. Therefor: If needed, report in time and not too late and of course do not ignore it.

IMVU will block the avatar straight ahead if you report them. Like this they will not even have the chance to get in contact with you again.

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