I have interviewed a few fellow Whyvillians who have been scammed this way. Each one asked to remain anonymous.

Cutie2228: Can you please explain to me what happened???

Anonymous1: Well, there was somebody giving away free Why-Passes. So I Y-mailed them. They asked for my password, and for some unknown, stupid reason I gave it to them. One hour later, I logged back into my account and all my clams were gone!!! I had been saving up for a year. I had logged in every day and collected my clams. I never touched any of them. I had 25,000 clams, and they stole them all.

Cutie2228: And how many clams did you lose when you were hacked?

Anonymous2: I had been saving up for a month. I had 1,000 clams and was about to sign up for Club Why. Then I saw somebody "giving" away "free" Why-Passes. So I gave them my password and they hacked me and took away all my clams.

Cutie2228: And approximately how many clams did you lose?

Anonymous3: I had been saving up for two years. I had well over 50,000 clams. I stupidly gave away my password and they took away all 50,000 clams.

So as you can see you can loose all your clams with just one little scam. So I warn you now before you do it: DON'T GIVE AWAY YOUR PASSWORD FOR THIS SCAM!!!

-cutie2228 signing off.

Editor's Note: Thanks for your article, cutie2228. In the future, all authors who interview someone who wants to be anonymous, please include the anonymous people's usernames in a note to me, the Editor, as part of your email. It won't be published, but I need to know that the people you're interviewing are real and you really did talk to them. I don't mean to question cutie2228's interviews at all, but the fact that they were anonymous reminded me that this is an important principle in journalism: Always tell your editor where you're getting your facts from. It's very helpful in many ways.