www.whyville.net May 22, 2004 Weekly Issue



Sk87
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Ways to Prevent Hacking

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Have you ever had a scammer hack your account? Well, there are ways to prevent that. Here are some ways listed below:

1. Make sure you have the correct e-mail address set in your Whyville account.
2. Change your password frequently.
3. Don't give out your password to anyone for any reason.
4. Don't say yes to any people that offer makeovers or offer to raise your salary.

If anyone tells you that if you type your password in a certain way that it will show up differently just don't answer them. What you should do if that ever happens to you is leave the room, silence them, vaporize them, and if they ask you for your password, 911 report them.

If you don't know how to 911-report someone, then you'd better read carefully. All you do is double click on them and press the 911 report box. If you want to permanently silence or vaporize them go to your Y-mail book then to your address book. But first for that to work, you have to add them to your address book. Once that is done, you simply click on their name and then check in the boxes of your choice. For more info on this, check out the callbox rules.

Do any of you remember SkUmBaG68? Well, I read about him in the Times. SkUmBaG68 goes back to 2002. As you may or may not know, he has plenty of other accounts. He thinks it's fun playing his mean games. He enjoys messing up your accounts. If someone hacks your account, it could be him. But really, it could be anybody!!

In many stories that I have heard about Whyvillians, they are so gullible. They will believe anyone. For example, some guy comes up to you and says, "Did you know that when you type in your password with spaces in between each letter is comes out like *****?" People actually do that because after the scammer says, "Try it."

I hope my information about ways to prevent hackers has helped you. Be careful, everyone, and don't tell your password to anyone. Not even to your best friend. You don't know if you can really trust them that far.

Logging off to ponder my books for my exams and watch TV....

Yours truly,
sk87

*bee bop*

 

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