I don't have an in-game account, and would only just like to see such a guide exist here, so I would decline any prize. I only ask that the guide be posted as official.
If the mods like it enough to include in-game screenshots, feel free to do so.
This guide acts as a supplement to the existing thread :
Account Hacking / Item Scamming
Nostale : Safety, Account Security & YOU!
How to protect yourself and avoid getting scammed, hijacked, harassed, or worse, Nice Boated!
If you thought that only 'noobs' would get their entire account scammed, and it would create a hilarious sight of Lvl 1 chars running around Milano screaming "ZOMG I GOT SCAMMED GM PLZZZZZZ" , you certainly haven't heard anything.
If you thought that you have some 1337 spyware, adware, anti-virus and UBER firewall and you'll never get your account compromised, think again! The trend of accounts getting compromised in Nostale has been observed to be more related to the social aspect, rather than the technical part of it.
Social engineering in MMOs have become increasingly more complex by the day. But here are a few simple rules to prevent yourself from being the next victim. They are to be emphasized because players tend to forget in the heat of the moment!
Rule No. 1 : Your defence is only as good as your password.
Don't choose anything that people in-game, or people who know you're playing Nostale would be able to guess. Poor examples would be your in-game nick, someone else's in-game nick, your significant other (in-game or real-life), birthdates, names of guilds, or even just 'password' or 'password1'.
Don't choose a short password. Brute force would break your account quickly. In the sense a program could be used to try 'a, b, c, d, .... aabb, aabc, aabc, .... gotcey, gotcez, gotcha'!
Choose a password that you can easily remember, but others cannot.
Shortforms are a good example! -> 'SFrAg00dEG!'
Rule No. 2 : If it's too good to be true, it probably is.
From time to time you might come across deals that look so attractive, you will not think twice. Someone offers something that is at half the market rate, or pays you triple the market rate.
The character would scream "Hurry! Somemore else is buying and I won't wait for you!" And then after you pay up, the character quickly disappears or fails to honour the deal.
For tradable Nosmall, another infamous scam involved cheap Amulets which in effect has only 1 try left. Make sure you scrunitize the item you're buying before you hand over your cash. No refund! Buyer Beware!
Rule No. 3 : Don't give out your password. EVER.
Sounds familiar? Someone offers you a discreet hack or cheat that the GMs would never be able to find out, or to give you some special items. But FIRST! You must tell the person what your password is.
And then you found yourself locked out of your account. By the time you get back your account, it is just only the bare character left.
There were previous instances where passwords were shared around the family so that they would be able to multi raids. However, when the poor chap came back one day to find his account stripped, the finger-pointing began and it ended up nowhere.
Even if you know the person well enough, DON'T give your password out. Lest you want to get Nice Boated...
Rule No. 4 : However Sweet it sounds, don't get Nice Boated
...Which brings us to this rule. Pro gamers in Nostale have lost entire accounts to this. Of course, when they get Nice Boated, they get humiliated so much that they state that they have 'quit the game' as a way to simply save face.
Be vary when you get into relationships. Be vary when they ask you to meet up. Love is blind, and you don't know where that relationship would take you to.
Recently, there exists such a syndicate where guys have posed themselves as girls in-game to get Lvl 90 in-game boyfriends, and then go lovey-dovey to get items and cash out of them. This form of scam is something novel and has caught several players off-guard! The classic
"If you really loved me you would have given me this" applies.
To make the character and relationship look really authentic, throw-away Facebook accounts with kewt girl pics have been created for such purposes. In such cases, the victims have no recourse because the password was given away over at IM/Facebook and it was deemed as a case of 'sharing accounts'.
Why is this known as 'Nice Boating'? In the original anime School Days, the boyfriend was stabbed to death and then decapitated after receiving the message "Goodbye" via handphone from his girlfriend.
In Nostale, the boyfriend gets a message "Goodbye", his account gets deleted along with his email account (equivalent to the decapitation), all the items get spread around Milano's market and his girlfriend now walks around town with his +15 wings that he once wore, and within days she has found a new "husband". In the process this also hurts the economy, as the rare items of these Boated boyfriends get increasingly circulated on the Open Market.
If you think "I'm not that dumb, this would
never happen to me!", I can tell you that someone managed to repeat the cycle 10 times, enough resources for the person to become the number one top player and family in another server. Nice Boat.
Rule No. 5 : This is no Matrix. Practice common sense.
You'd think that in a fantasy virtual world, only the virtual rules apply. You happily give away information about yourself in the real-world and then think that everyone are your friends...
...Until you receive telephone calls from someone you have pwned in Arena that he's gonna get you.
Remember, that when you give away personal information, the consequences of coming with it. The world is not as friendly as you think
! 
