IMVUSTARS - the magazine » support http://www.imvustars.com Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:58:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Making stars shine, would like to do that too? http://www.imvustars.com/2009/06/making-stars-shine-would-like-to-do-that-too/ http://www.imvustars.com/2009/06/making-stars-shine-would-like-to-do-that-too/#comments Sun, 21 Jun 2009 12:21:59 +0000 Productions http://www.imvustars.com/?p=85 So my turn I guess. First about this page. The idea came quite spontanously but thats like all ideas are made up, right?

My name is Benjamin. Short versions like Ben, Benny, Benni, Benji are welcome as well. I am now 22 years old and living in Germany. Since April 2007 you can find me on IMVU with the avatar name Productions.

I started to be interested in programming like about 7 years ago now. Most of the knowledge is so far made out of practise and self-teaching.

Besides imvustars I am also running imvucodes and a few other pages as well, most of them came out by another spontanous idea :)

The main target for this page should be to move a spotlight on some great and fantastic content developers from IMVU, if you are interested in applying for a volunteer job as author at imvustars you can do this by filling out this application form. If you think you know a good dev you want to suggest you can do that too by submitting this form. We are looking forward for your submissions and appreciate that very much!

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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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