Agent Insights Ep 52: AJ Outfitters Scam Link

Hello, everyone. Flint here, to talk about something I just heard about, and thought you all should know. 

EDIT: This problem has been fixed by AJHQ. The link no longer leads to a scam site.

Just recently, meaning within the last day, the link to AJ Outfitters that is accessible when you log into Animal Jam Classic on the website got hacked. If you click the image that's supposed to link to AJ Outfitters, it instead links you to a scam site that steals your password. If you click the link and you don't immediately disable your account via parent controls, and then change your password and possibly your parent email/parent email password, you will be hacked.

A picture of the link that now leads to a scam site

Additionally, we have discovered that clicking this link may affect your whole computer or your non-AJ accounts. One of our agents clicked the scam link, and they reported that their Epic Games account was likely hacked, as when they launched Fortnite, all their currency and many of their items had been transferred out of their account. Their Epic Games account had the same password as their AJ account, but not the same username.

Additionally, this agent's antivirus stopped working. They had to contact the antivirus company in order to get instructions to reboot the antivirus, which likely removed the hack from their computer, as there have been no other signs of hacking. It's not certain that their antivirus and Fortnite account were the result of the AJ Outfitters link, but as both experienced problems only after the scam link was clicked, it's very possible that the link caused the problems.

DO NOT click the link. Even if you try it on an alt, or incognito mode, or whatever, it may affect your other accounts and computer programs too. Clicking on the link out of curiosity is a bad move that may give your computer a virus. To be especially safe, either download AJ from the AJ site and play on that, or refrain from playing AJ for now. This problem will hopefully be fixed soon, but in the event that it isn't, you should know to not click that link. I assume AJ will tell us when the link is fixed.

Logging into Animal Jam won't hack you, just clicking that link will. Be especially careful to not accidentally click that link, but you don't need to avoid playing AJ unless you think you will accidentally click the link.

If you clicked the link, disable your account via Parent Dashboard, and change your password. Also look around for any suspicious activity on other parts of your computer, and try to run a virus scan with your antivirus. This link contains some helpful tips for getting rid of viruses and making them unable to do harm, though it does plug its own program as a good antivirus.

Remember to never click strange links, and keep an eye out for news of hacks such as these. That's all for today. Bye!