To My Supposed Hacker: So Near Yet So Far

2 PM Manila time. December 11, 2010.

Being trapped between the stages of awake and slumber, I grogilly clicked on that Dollmail icon at the top of my Stardoll homepage.

I got a few messages from Lolita, Maggie and Chad... (no Tyra Mail in there) and a familiar one with the yellow star icon.  

Stardoll Mail.

Stardoll messages are always a priority for me (who knows, maybe they'd have another refill-with-more-stardollars-and-get-50%-for-free campaign going on again).
Anyway, here's the message I got:

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"Great. More freebies. So much for encouraging chain mails." I thought.
... but I was in for a BIG surprise.

Clicking the To the club! hyperlink took me here:

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A bogus club. Now I'm awake. And pissed.

I just brushed the whole thing off and went about answering tons of Lolita's mesages (hahaha!). As I was staring at the endless queue of broadcasts a few minutes after, I thought of that Stardoll-mail-about-a-bogus-club  again and went to read it for the second time.

Right that very moment, a sick feeling got over me and I checked my email (the real one that real people use) linked to my Stardoll account. 

And I was in for the real shocker.

Click on the image.

Read it?

Click on it again. Read it carefully this time.

Yes.

Someone did try to change my password.

...Whoever that person is, he or she succeeded alright. 

But only up to that part.  

Damn! 

That's noelle's password over there. Right on the hand of that doll.

So near yet so far... right?

RIGHT.

Now, what am I trying to say here?

What I am trying to say to all of you is that NOBODY can hack your account unless you explicitly provide your password to them.

You will be notified on and for all attempts to change your account settings, your password in particular, through the email linked to your Stardoll account.

Granted, that you are stupid enough to give your password out to someone you don't really know outside of this world of pixels, It is always advisable to have different sets of password for your email and Stardoll account.

Why?

Because even an attempt to change the email address linked to your Stardoll account would have to be confirmed through your old email.

Simply put, Stardoll.com is not stupid.

But some of us can be.

Having said that, I just have a few questions left for you guys to speculate on.

Were you able to receive that same message that I got?

Was there a connection between that letter I received and the attempt to take over my account?

Or was it all just coincidence?

I hope so.

I really hope so.

P.S. Where is Isabella?