Hello members!
Just wanted to go over a small safety tip that was inspired by one of our users (@Ryan). See, RyRy has a nice portfolio of premium usernames, the entire collection is worth a pretty penny. In order to keep them protected, RyRy only shows them to users who have been ID Verified. This is smart, because even though we try our best to keep scammers at bay, we don’t keep tabs on “lurkers” who just join and keep asking for handles. Quite a few times we’ve found out that some lurkers are actually notorious and well-known (to us) scammers, who just register here to load up on potential leads. They don’t need to interact with staff, they never buy anything, so they just fly under the radar. What they do is just message people for their URLs/properties in order to:
- Talk to them off-site, in hopes of conning them out of the property.
- Try a hostile take over, whether it’s by software or unapproved tricks (Verification scams/AdBreaks/etc.)
You would not believe how many people fall the blue tick verification scam, just the other day during a transfer one popped up, but thank god the buyer didn’t approve the request even though he didn’t know what it was. Anyway, back to the point. The point is, there are people here that don’t have your best interest in mind. I am not trying to cause panic, as scams here are rare, and most people contacting you don’t want to rob you, so no need to ask everyone for verification. However, if you believe you have very valuable properties, consider asking the user to become ID verified before you give him the URL/@handle. To see if someone is verified, click their avatar, you should see this badge:
If you don’t see it, tell the user to send a message to our @VERIFICATION bot, to begin the process.
That is all! Thank you for reading.
