Recovering a stolen account

[D_o_S]

Hi,

just wondering, is there any way to recover an account that is stolen from you? Like I want to crunch with my friends, and in order to do so, I have to give them my password... and if they decide to change it and lock me out, is there anything I can do to reclaim my account?

[ZX7891]

give it to him let him do what he needs to do then you change the password

[D_o_S]

give it to him let him do what he needs to do then you change the password

Well, he installs it, I give him my password... and then I change it? Will it still allow him to crunch or will he have to provide my changed password?

[Martijn]

Nope, but when he wants to login to the account manager he hasn't got a password that works ;)

[[XC]thewildblue]

The question is why do something like this with someone you dont trust ?

[Martijn]

The question is why do something like this with someone you dont trust ?
More points? :slap:


I do exactly the same, it works well (at least the service install :))

[[XC] serlv]

^^ RE: what wildblue said... 'Zactly.

I want to crunch with my friends...

If they are friends they won't do something like to you. If they would do something like that they are not friends and why crunch with them.

[Martijn]

True, but sometimes you just don't want a 'stupid' (in the means of not knowing what he's doing) guy ruïning your options...

I have (and you probably as well) the same with hoaxes. The keep sending them to me, how often I tell them not to do it...

[[XC]thewildblue]

If they are a stupid then you go and do the install yourself, they dont need the password.

[WesM63]

I would create a 2nd account and use a diffrent email/password.

[mad mikee]

AND NEVER Will be :down:. Since merging users is IMPOSSIBLE @ this point, and from some of the postings there (Rosetta) they want to keep it that way.

(Was in here trying that stuff out in the beginning w/ others, that might be why you didn't see it Wes :D )

It seems like the best way if you are truly paranoid :para: is to coordinate that a person is given a temp password AFTER you change it on the site, then when they are done, switch it back. Will prolly be doing that when we all get to that point.


I would create a 2nd account and use a diffrent email/password.

[WesM63]

yea, i know it wouldn't be part of the team. It was more of a "if your that paranoid".

Thats just the way I would do it, or like Mikee just said, use a temp password.

[[XC] serlv]

True, but sometimes you just don't want a 'stupid' (in the means of not knowing what he's doing) guy ruïning your options...

I have (and you probably as well) the same with hoaxes. The keep sending them to me, how often I tell them not to do it...

yeah, or forwards. ya tell and tell 'em and tell 'em, but they just keep doing the same thing. I give up and now just delete them. If it is not important enough to create a new email instead of a forward, then it is not important enough for me to read.

[STEvil]

you cant "steal" points anyways really.. so the point of stealing an acct would be......?

[L0$t Pr0PhEt]

DPC has a cool system for this, they use nicknames like TEAM~Nickname and the stats they use (made by them I guess) only shows the teams. There's a lot of competition between DPC teams.

[Fr3ak]

Isnt there an option "Forgot Password"? You could let it send the changed pw to you email addy this way...