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Nobody needs your code
Refuse any request for a code or password out loud, whoever is asking.
1Look
Five requests
Five asks
Five messages on one screen, all asking for a code or password: a best friend, 'lend me your login for a sec'; an account called Support; a squad mate; a message claiming to be the app itself; a parent's account writing in a style that is not theirs.
One of these is probably a real friend. The answer is the same for all five.
2The idea
The word 'support' is doing a lot of work
You already know not to give your password to a stranger. The versions that get people do not feel like strangers: a mate, a helpful support account, the game itself. Real support never asks for your code. It is the one thing they are built never to need.
A friend who needs your login is a friend who needs to be told no, kindly. It is still no. The account is yours, and the moment two people have the password it is not yours any more, whatever the friendship is like.
3The idea
One rule, three replies
The rule: a code exists only to be typed into the app that sent it. Anyone else asking for it, whoever they say they are, is the reason the code exists. The replies:
To a friend: Can’t, sorry. Nobody gets my login, not even you.
To support: nothing. No reply. Change the password, report the account.
To a squad mate: No. Nobody gets my code.
The reason support gets no reply at all: if a code arrived, it is because they just tried your password. They are not fixing your account. They are standing at the second lock asking you to open it. Every word you send them is a conversation, and a conversation is what they want.
4The idea
Watch it work once
Zac gets a message from Official Support: your account has been flagged, send the verification code we just sent to keep it open. A code arrives on his phone twenty seconds later, which makes it look real. It is the opposite. The code arrived because they typed his password into the login page.
He does not reply. He changes his password, four new words. He reports the account. By the time he has done all three, Official Support has messaged twice more and then gone quiet, because there was nothing to talk to. Two minutes, no conversation.
5Your turn
Five requests, five replies
Five requests
Each request appears with who it claims to be from. Tap Give or Refuse. The card shows what would have happened next for every Give, then lets you replay it.
The friend one is the hardest. Do it anyway.
6Decide
An account called 'Official Support' says your account is flagged and they need the code just sent to your phone to fix it. You:
Pick one to carry on.
7Say it
The refusal
Say it once to a friend, once to support, once to the game
“No. Nobody gets my code.”
It is the same sentence for all of them. Saying it out loud now means it is already there the day a friend asks and you feel bad.
8Find them
Who never needs your code?
Tap the ones that count.
Find all 4.
9Watch
The friend
The friend
A message from a best friend: 'lend me your login for a sec, I just need to get into the event, I'll log straight out'. The kid reads it twice. Her thumb hovers over the keyboard.
16 secondsThis is the hard one, because she means it. The answer is still no, and a real friend takes it.
10Do it
Before you leave this page
Say 'No, nobody gets my code' out loud three times: once as if to a friend, once as if to support, once as if to someone in a game. Same words, same voice.
Tick it when you have done it.
Lesson done.
Nobody needs your code. Not a friend, not support, not someone in the game.
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