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

[Dunquixote]

Thanks for the heads up! I only trade on TBT and thankfully, this community has been very trustworthy (at least from my personal experiences). I was considering looking at reddit for trades when I’m having no luck here, but maybe I should hold off until Nintendo addresses this and takes some measures. This really is scary. I don’t have the means to get a new game or switch lite either if something happens to my file ><

 

[skarmoury]

Woah thanks for the heads up. Looks like mystery gift events are a big no-no for me while this is a thing. Better to go to events with unwrapped items for full transparency.

 

[Albireo28]

Hey, I see a lot of questions here regarding this and I think I can answer some because *sigh* this happened to me days ago and I’m still stuck with the items. It happened on the nookazon discord, and the user is now banned and now wrapped gifts are prohibited. Someone said they had free gifts and a lot of people dmed them. We didn’t know anything about these being hacked.

The issue has been getting a lot of visibility and within 24 hours of it happening to me a ton of acnh discords banned wrapped items. Two of these discord servers (including nookazon) also told me they have contacted Nintendo about the issue. A few sites have put up articles with warnings about this as well.

I have contacted Nintendo about it and was told the issue would be relayed to the acnh team and hopefully the next patch will address it. If Nintendo bans my account, my phone call can be used as proof I didn’t want the items and they can unban me. If this happened to you too, please contact Nintendo so you have proof like me and so that they see how many people this is affecting.

Someone reported this to Nintendo back in May and because only a tiny number of people were experiencing the problem, Nintendo essentially said they will not mess around with hacked items. But now the issue is growing larger. And while a few of these hacked items can be dropped on nmt islands, a majority cannot depending on how precisely they were hacked.

This whole issue is very upsetting and the person who gave me the gifts seemed nice. But what worries me is they had a streamlined process where you had 30 seconds to grab bags before they closed the session since “there are a lot of people in line.” I haven’t actually talked with anyone else this happened to but I know they are out there and probably as sad as I am.

 

[Clock]

I didn’t know that until now
I don’t play online, but thanks for the reminder

 

[Kattea]

This is horrible! I think giftwrapping items adds such a nice touch but now people will be reluctant to take them. :C

 

[kindakooky]

Thanks for the heads up.

How toxic a person do you have to be that you would deliberately do this to other players?! Ugh, this is horrible, really hope Nintendo fix it ASAP. In the meantime I won't be accepting wrapped gifts from other players.

 

[Underneath The Stars]

This really sucks.. I wonder if it's specific to wrapped gifts though? What if it's just an object on the ground? Maybe I won't trade online at all in the meantime.

it’s wrapped so the player won’t see the item inside as it doesn’t have a name, it’s just “-“ so if it’s an object on the ground you can see something strange before picking up (unless you pick up stuff so quick before checking)

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Hey, I see a lot of questions here regarding this and I think I can answer some because *sigh* this happened to me days ago and I’m still stuck with the items. It happened on the nookazon discord, and the user is now banned and now wrapped gifts are prohibited. Someone said they had free gifts and a lot of people dmed them. We didn’t know anything about these being hacked.

The issue has been getting a lot of visibility and within 24 hours of it happening to me a ton of acnh discords banned wrapped items. Two of these discord servers (including nookazon) also told me they have contacted Nintendo about the issue. A few sites have put up articles with warnings about this as well.

I have contacted Nintendo about it and was told the issue would be relayed to the acnh team and hopefully the next patch will address it. If Nintendo bans my account, my phone call can be used as proof I didn’t want the items and they can unban me. If this happened to you too, please contact Nintendo so you have proof like me and so that they see how many people this is affecting.

Someone reported this to Nintendo back in May and because only a tiny number of people were experiencing the problem, Nintendo essentially said they will not mess around with hacked items. But now the issue is growing larger. And while a few of these hacked items can be dropped on nmt islands, a majority cannot depending on how precisely they were hacked.

This whole issue is very upsetting and the person who gave me the gifts seemed nice. But what worries me is they had a streamlined process where you had 30 seconds to grab bags before they closed the session since “there are a lot of people in line.” I haven’t actually talked with anyone else this happened to but I know they are out there and probably as sad as I am.

someone had done this since MAY? oh god...

and after hearing your story (which sucks btw, i’m sorry!) it does feel like it won’t be a quick fix as people here would hope. the best we could do for now is make people aware about this so it can be avoided.

 

[marieheiwa]

i have a few questions, does one singular present fill up your inventory? or is one wrapped present = one glitched item? could you fix it by dropping tools and getting wrapping paper and wrapping the items, then binning them?

 

[fluttershy300]

Hey, I see a lot of questions here regarding this and I think I can answer some because *sigh* this happened to me days ago and I’m still stuck with the items. It happened on the nookazon discord, and the user is now banned and now wrapped gifts are prohibited. Someone said they had free gifts and a lot of people dmed them. We didn’t know anything about these being hacked.

The issue has been getting a lot of visibility and within 24 hours of it happening to me a ton of acnh discords banned wrapped items. Two of these discord servers (including nookazon) also told me they have contacted Nintendo about the issue. A few sites have put up articles with warnings about this as well.

I have contacted Nintendo about it and was told the issue would be relayed to the acnh team and hopefully the next patch will address it. If Nintendo bans my account, my phone call can be used as proof I didn’t want the items and they can unban me. If this happened to you too, please contact Nintendo so you have proof like me and so that they see how many people this is affecting.

Someone reported this to Nintendo back in May and because only a tiny number of people were experiencing the problem, Nintendo essentially said they will not mess around with hacked items. But now the issue is growing larger. And while a few of these hacked items can be dropped on nmt islands, a majority cannot depending on how precisely they were hacked.

This whole issue is very upsetting and the person who gave me the gifts seemed nice. But what worries me is they had a streamlined process where you had 30 seconds to grab bags before they closed the session since “there are a lot of people in line.” I haven’t actually talked with anyone else this happened to but I know they are out there and probably as sad as I am.

Omg that’s so awful. I’m so sorry this have happened to you. I don’t care if people hack but messing someone’s game up is a scumy move. I hope Nintendo patch this up soon ban these hackers that are doing this.

 

[Albireo28]

i have a few questions, does one singular present fill up your inventory? or is one wrapped present = one glitched item? could you fix it by dropping tools and getting wrapping paper and wrapping the items, then binning them?

Hi one present equals one glitched item so one inventory space. In my case, each person was given 5 glitched items that we now can’t remove from our inventory (unless you were fortunate enough to know about these hacked items and thought to shut off your game when you opened them). Depending on how the hackers alter the items, the rules are different. In my case, the items were very thoroughly made to give people problems and can’t be sold, tossed, gifted, wrapped, dropped on nmt islands, or given away on Harv’s island. The only thing I haven’t tried is traveling back to May Day and seeing if going to rovers island where they take away your inventory and give it back would work.