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imo this is 100% still happening. i'm on the ODCA pinglist and have recently been pinged for a lot of 5-6 digit dragons that come from oddly suspicious accounts, in terms of, they seemed entirely inactive before trying to sell these low digit IDs, with a lot of knowledge on who to ping and how much to sell these dragons for

although FR has stepped up their account security by requiring a code when you haven't logged in for a while, this isn't entirely foolproof. with some of the methods people use to get into older accounts (not just on FR), it's possible they also have access to the email the account was made under

This is why I believe that accounts not signed into for a long time, should be made unable to log in without going through staff verification.

iirc they do have some kind of verification process set-up for very old accounts to try to prevent hackers but depending on what it is, it might be easy to game, and there's nothing to say the account holders aren't selling their accounts because they don't plan on coming back to fr.

no measure is going to be fool-proof.

Thank you for mentioning this! I’ve thought about posting about it here but was worried I was just being paranoid. I’m also an oldie collector/keep track of the 5- and 6-digit market and there has been a weird influx of old/otherwise abandoned accounts selling off their low digits. One supposedly returning user in particular seemed suspiciously familiar with the current g1 and custom uma markets…I haven’t wanted to point fingers without proof, but it’s been fishy.

Not sure what could be done to prevent it—whether these accounts are being hacked or sold for rl currency…

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