--- title: «Free V-bucks» and other scams — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: ««Free V-bucks» and other scams», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Kai was excited, sure he had found a secret. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/416-free-v-bucks-and-other-scams/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / «Free V-bucks» and other scams # «Free V-bucks» and other scams Lesson 416 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 29 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/416-free-v-bucks-and-other-scams/). - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/416-free-v-bucks-and-other-scams/1/) — Kai was excited, sure he had found a secret. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/416-free-v-bucks-and-other-scams/2/) — «Just enter your Fortnite login and the V-bucks drop in your account,» said the man. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/416-free-v-bucks-and-other-scams/3/) — Kai was halfway through typing his password when his dad walked past, read the screen over his shoulder and said: «Ah. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/416-free-v-bucks-and-other-scams/4/) — The famous free money that needs your password.» He explained that the site was built to steal accounts. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/416-free-v-bucks-and-other-scams/5/) — They reported the video together, and Kai changed his password just in case. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/416-free-v-bucks-and-other-scams/6/) — Kai felt silly for a minute, then rather proud that he now knew the trick. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/416-free-v-bucks-and-other-scams/7/) — Not everyone was so lucky. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/416-free-v-bucks-and-other-scams/8/) — Priya's friend Amber typed her login into a «free skins» website. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/416-free-v-bucks-and-other-scams/9/) — The next morning her account was gone: two years of skins, levels and saved builds, sold to a stranger. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/416-free-v-bucks-and-other-scams/10/) — Priya told the whole class at news time. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/416-free-v-bucks-and-other-scams/11/) — Theo then confessed that he had clicked a «free gems» link and his family's computer went slow and weird, popping up adverts for things nobody wanted. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/416-free-v-bucks-and-other-scams/12/) — His dad spent a whole Saturday cleaning it and was grumpy until Sunday. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/416-free-v-bucks-and-other-scams/13/) — Some tricks were almost funny. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/416-free-v-bucks-and-other-scams/16/) — Then Mia got a message from her friend Ella: «quick can u send me ur gift card code, I'll pay u back tmrw». - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/416-free-v-bucks-and-other-scams/17/) — It was Ella's name and Ella's picture, but it did not sound like Ella, who always uses ten emojis. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/416-free-v-bucks-and-other-scams/18/) — Mia asked her at school. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/416-free-v-bucks-and-other-scams/19/) — Ella's account had been hacked, and the hacker was asking everyone on her list. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/416-free-v-bucks-and-other-scams/20/) — That evening Noah and his dad made a scam checklist and stuck it on the fridge: it asks for a password or a code; it is too good to be true; it rushes you; it wants you to keep it secret. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/416-free-v-bucks-and-other-scams/21/) — Zara used the same checklist when a man rang her grandma «from the bank» and asked for her card number, and Grandma put the phone down and rang her bank herself, on the real number printed on the back of her card. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/416-free-v-bucks-and-other-scams/22/) — No real game company ever asks for your password to give you free coins, skins or prizes. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/416-free-v-bucks-and-other-scams/24/) — A stolen account can lose years of progress, and it is often sold to strangers. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/416-free-v-bucks-and-other-scams/25/) — Links that promise free things can also bring harmful programs that make a computer slow or unsafe. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/416-free-v-bucks-and-other-scams/26/) — You cannot win a competition you never entered. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/416-free-v-bucks-and-other-scams/27/) — A stranger who asks you to give first and promises to give more later is almost always tricking you. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/416-free-v-bucks-and-other-scams/28/) — Codes and currency sold cheaply by other kids or strangers are often stolen or fake; only official shops are safe. - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/416-free-v-bucks-and-other-scams/29/) — A message can carry a friend's name and picture and still come from a hacker who took the account. - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/416-free-v-bucks-and-other-scams/30/) — Common signs of a scam are: it asks for passwords or codes, it is too good to be true, it rushes you, and it wants secrecy. - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/416-free-v-bucks-and-other-scams/31/) — Scammers use the same tricks in games, on the phone and by email, so the same checklist works everywhere. - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/416-free-v-bucks-and-other-scams/32/) — If you are tricked, telling a grown-up quickly, contacting the game's support team and changing your password limits the damage. - ← previous: [Gift cards and birthday money: making it last](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money/) - next →: [Just one more game](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/417-just-one-more-game/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)