Hey everyone! Happy Feast of Thanks/Thanksgiving, if you celebrate!
As many of you know already, there have recently been users on Animal Jam who have mass obtained party favor potions illegally, by blocking transactions through their card providers or other methods. This allows them to bypass AJ’s paywall. Because of this, they are selling lots of potions for extremely cheap– some people have reported buying potions from them as low as 1k to 2.6k. For now, please be careful when buying large quantities of potions and hold off on attending mass drop parties! As a rule of thumb, if they are selling a high amount of potions for below 2.6k sapphires, or for an otherwise suspiciously cheap price, avoid buying from them, especially if they have a username similar to one of the confirmed sellers or made up of random numbers!
CONFIRMED Fraudulent Potion Sellers:
Kainmuna
Vichz
4rise
Hachiivchz
34616
67622
DO NOT TRADE OR INTERACT WITH SUSPECTED USERS! Doing so puts your account at risk. Just report and block them and move on!
A similar incident happened a while ago, where the user Apogado hacked in millions of sapphires and then went around buying expensive items from others’ shops. This resulted in some of the users getting banned for having hacked sapphires in their inventories.
If you think you may have bought potions from one of these users, it may be wise to send a message to AJ Support clarifying that you had no idea what was going on and you are not participating in the fraud, and asking what you should do. You can contact AJ Support here. Customer support responded to a user under the comments of this post that “If you purchase the item inside the game, it will not effect (sic) your account. However, if it was bought with real money outside of the game, our moderators will examine your account, and, if required, take the right action.” (Edit: So far, there haven’t been any genuine confirmed bans on innocent users, and AJ has confirmed that they’re not taking action against people just for buying potions.)
Also, this should go without saying, but if anyone is thinking of using this exploit on here, know that it constitutes FRAUD and will probably get your account banned in game, as well as leading to potential legal action being taken against you for credit card or wire fraud! If I or the other staff receive proof that any wiki users are exploiting this hack, you will be immediately perma-banned on here. We take community safety and integrity seriously!
Stay safe out there, everyone! Please check out the linked posts if you want a little more information on the situation, as I may have gotten details wrong or forgotten something. Please let me know if you have any suspicions about users in-game or on here– providing photo or video proof, of course– and make sure to report and block them!
Stay safe and Jam On!
-JJ
Edit: also, these were also just posted by AJHQ!
https://www.instagram.com/p/DC44UNDorLr/comments/ (post was made by L30ra, a Jambassador, but in it are screenshots of AJHQ’s recent story. I didn’t want to directly put the screenshots in this post since they would clutter it up.)
https://www.instagram.com/p/DC42YahJEZy/comments/ (by AJHQ, clarifying/changing the rules about party drops!)