Fake Egg

A Fake Egg is a term used to describe a scam that happens during Easter events which involves egg hunting around the site. During Gaia Easter egg hunts, an egg could appear randomly in a thread, it is in threads where the act happens. It involves using the image of the Gaia egg and placing it as a signature or within thread comments, and thus making it appear as if a legit egg has appeared, Gaians who click on it only to discover that is just an image.

Another version of the fake egg scam involves attaching a link to the image and having it lead offsite or even a phishing site. While some Gaians were attempting to be good humored about offsite links by linking to search engines, video sites, their own profile or a random Gaia thread. It is the phishing links that stood to be too risky for the joke to continue without consequence. So during Easter events onward there is information about them in announcements and even a warning toward people who attempt to spread fake eggs. The act will lead to an account being banned.