A picture is worth a thousand words, the adage goes, and Xat has taken that quite literally in an effort to help thwart off recent phishing attacks. Xat has launched a new and improved redirect page that they hope will better and more universally communicate the importance of not entering your login info into fake pages.

See it at work here

Remember to use extreme caution when opening pages that have been sent to you via private message or chat and never enter any personal information (registration info, email addresses, passwords, etc…) into any page without first checking your browsers URL.

Xat has added a new feature that allows frustrated users to remove their Xat reserve.

Xat reserve, according to the Xat wiki…

…is a new xat feature to protect your xats, days and powers from other people who would try to scam them from you…

The problem, at least for some users, is that the block can sometimes limit their ability to transfer and trade with other users. Xat’s new tool allows, via phone verification, the ability to lift that block. Of course, with that also comes one small caveat, if you do happen to get scammed you’re on your own.

We’re told that you have only one shot to get it right, so do read through the instructions very carefully before trying it.

Briefly, you go to the new Xat reserve page, fill out the form with your ehem… “correct” information, and click the “Call me now” button. You will instantly, and we do mean “instantly”, scary instantly really, get a call back from an automated Xat bot (our caller ID said Compton for some reason) who will give you a 4 digit pin. Write that baby down and simply enter it into the Xat verification page.

If everything goes as planned you’ll get a “Reserve successfully reduced” message.

Just watch out for scammers!

Xat, possibly in an effort to prevent the phishing of email accounts, appears to have made a change to their login system. A quick visit to the Xat login page shows the following change (see pic).

Users will find that the traditional “email/password” login has been replaced with a new “xat name/password” login.

Oddly, at the time of this post, we were able to login using either our email or xat name. Xat may be slowly transitioning to the new system; we’ll just have to wait and see.

Early this morning Xat rolled out a new, “safer” version of Safe Trade. We’ve tried it out and, so far, we haven’t seen any noticeable changes in the trading process or the interface; we’re assuming that something on the backend has been upgraded to help secure user transactions and to help thwart user theft/scamming.

If we come across anything we’ll update this post.

Update 1:

Safe Trade 3.0 has implemented in it, among other things, this red alert box. If either party makes an adjustment to their original offer after anyone has already clicked on accept, the red box alerts both users to this change.