Avoid opening presents from sketchy people/people that you don't know

[oak]

Can't you just wrap it back up and drop it off on a mystery island? Someone on instagram made a post saying that's how they got rid of theirs.

 

[xlisapisa]

Some people truly have nothing else better to do with their lives! Thanks for the heads up!

 

[CodyMKW]

Can't you just wrap it back up and drop it off on a mystery island? Someone on instagram made a post saying that's how they got rid of theirs.

just putting it out there because i see some misinformation about the issue: it has been confirmed that you can't rewrap, sell or drop them so just be careful guys and don't accept wrapped gifts from people you don't trust!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1297642792731082752

nope

 

[Imbri]

Thank you for the warning. I like to drop a wrapped gift when I visit someone. Guess I'll leave off with that for a while and drop plain gifts. Not as fun, but definitely safer for now.

 

[Khaelis]

I think it would be a good idea to contact Nintendo Support and notify them of users handing out maliciously created (hacked) items that cannot be removed by the player who was targeted.

This appears to be a modified "null" item.

 

[saucySheep]

dude twitter is blocked for me so ican't see the post can anyone explain further or send pics? im curious lol.

from what i can tell tho, seems like more internet trashlords being themselves thru animal crossing. oof.

 

[Khaelis]

dude twitter is blocked for me so ican't see the post can anyone explain further or send pics? im curious lol.

from what i can tell tho, seems like more internet trashlords being themselves thru animal crossing. oof.

Basically, hackers have created a hacked 'wrapped gift' which opens up to reveal an item called "-" which cannot be sold, dropped or trashed which essentially locks your inventory with irremovable items.

 

[yosie1511]

Why do some people always have to ruin the fun of others...

 

[Khaelis]

Why do some people always have to ruin the fun of others...

Easy, they are sociopaths.

 

[DragonLatios]

This suck. I Guess only open gift from those you know on the form or have the Seller open them for you and drop the items

 

[saucySheep]

Basically, hackers have created a hacked 'wrapped gift' which opens up to reveal an item called "-" which cannot be sold, dropped or trashed which essentially locks your inventory with irremovable items.

ohhhh that's scary. I don't play online too often but one time i did and someone gave me a wrapped mom's plushie, i'm glad it wasn't hacked 0-0 what does one do if they get a hacked item?? and what if someone gives them 40 oof-- tho i guess if someone got 1 then they'd be wary to open the other 39 lol. but seriously what does one doooooooo

 

[lawnClippings]

I've received wrapped items in the past, not any recently.
Wrapped items make me nervous normally because I don't know what they are and during trades I'd rather be able to tell what the item is. I've had someone wrap the DIYs before they gave them to me during a trade and I was really nervous this was some round about way to try and scam me. Luckily though I opened them and they were the DIYs I asked for and the person hung around until I opened them and learned them instead of dropping the gifts and running.

Just saying that I already have some anxiety and nervousness associated with wrapped items, and this is not helping with my preexisting nervousness.

This is wrong on so many levels. Pocket space is already limited. On top of that these are hacked items. Thirdly, it affects a lot of people negatively. We've got the people who are just trying to be nice suffering because now people are not going to trust wrapped items, and then we've got the people who are already suffering because they got one of these things and can't get rid of them.

People just really need to stop with this behavior.

And I agree this should be reported and that Nintendo really needs to do something about this. I also agree that there needs to be some consequences.

 

[Skandranon]

can't see this not get fixing soon assuming those that had this happened to them contacted customer support. Don't think nintendo would just tell their customers tuff luck

 

[sleepydreepy]

dang this suck.... having my game get hacked in a malicious way/saved file corrupted is literally my worst nightmare.

off topic but this reminds me of Pokemon's early days when people use to trade each other "bad eggs" that would corrupt ur saved file. although this never happened to me reading about it online as a kid traumatized me lol

 

[Skandranon]

one thing to be sure of is use the new back up feature nintendo gave us, so u won't lose your island if something new and messed up comes along

 

[Xara]

yikes - i really don’t see why someone would do this. if you want to indulge in hacking and hacked items, go right ahead, but don’t drag other people into it without even giving them a choice?

with how amazing everyone is here, it’s so jarring when things like this come to light as i forget that not everyone in the community is as kindhearted as everyone on the forums >_<

 

[Millysaurusrexjr]

They could have gone chaotic good and made it so that a wrapped gift could contain 1 million NMT but noooo, they just had to be chaotic evil huh

 

[Starboard]

How can it give someone so much satisfaction to wreck a random person's game Guess it was only a matter of time.

 

[Che5hire Cat]

Oh dear, this sucks a lot. I got some wrapped presents in the past when I traded on Nookazon, luckily those were just regular items. I don't understand why people do something like this, do they find it really that funny to ruin someone else's game? I hope Nintendo will offer an update to fix this asap, I feel bad for those who may now have to stick with an inventory full of hacked items and can't do anything against it.

 

[amemome]

holy cow this is really calculated and mean... i don't ever play with anyone outside of this forum so i haven't had to encounter this kind of case but wow... why are people so mean? for no reason?