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I was one of the lucky 2,000 players to receive 500,000 neopoints as part of the billion neopoints giveaway in 2000. I was 11 and some time later gave my password away to someone claiming they would make me a moderator so you know... important lessons were learnt.

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This sounds so much like modern cryptocurrency. They were ahead of the curve.

I suppose unregulated markets will inevitably attract opportunistic scams.

And sometime later that password would probably show up in the leaked list of user accounts that's easy enough to find, since they stored everything in plain text

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