Hey Mafia community.. I am having mixed thoughts & also mixed answers on this topic. In the IMVU modeling world, IMVU Lite has become very popular as the models can take the pictures in the shop & post the ads for the creators they are doing. I am being told & shown some post (some from here) that people are being permanently banned & losing their accounts for using IMVULite add on... Is this true? I have a few friends who are doing the modeling & using IMVULite, dont want them losing their accounts over it, and defiantly dont wanna lose mine.. Any help or insight on this one would great!

The answer is sort of complicated, but ultimately no ... for the most part, people are not getting banned for using IMVU Lite.

IMVU Lite has been around for over 10 years, with 100's of thousands of users, 350,000+ downloads. Yes, a couple dozen people have been banned, out of over 350,000. You have to understand, modified clients are against IMVU's TOS and if IMVU staff find out you are using IMVU Lite ... you can get banned for it. However, instances of that happening are rare, and when they do happen ... our scientists quickly swoop in to patch whatever allowed IMVU staff to find out, and protect the rest of the Lite users. With our current track record, the chances of getting caught are about 1 in 20,000. Those odds are 4,000 times better than condoms.

Furthermore, take into account that the default official IMVU clients are crammed full of spyware that IMVU staff uses to spy on their users, collecting over 120+ data points on each user. (including your name, address, phone number, hardware ID's, software keys, agent data, IP ... all sorts of private information, even chat logs) They not only sell this data to third parties, but also use it to detect and track users who break their TOS, keeping the same ban profile for you across all of your accounts. The mafia made clients, such as IMVU Lite have all of that spyware ripped out and removed or fully deactivated. So, while you are taking a 1 in 20,000 chance of getting banned for using Lite ... at the same time you are receiving protections from getting banned for other reasons. In the end, it more than evens out. You're safer with Lite / other mafia made clients than without them.

Where most of the ban rumors come from ... are people downloading modified clients from websites other than our own. We don't know of any other site that rips out the spyware and releases regular security updates to patch issues like we do. Without those updates and the added protections, yes ... modified clients are dangerous. Modified clients from other websites / random discord servers often get their users banned in large waves, 10's of thousands of people loosing their accounts all at once.

I have been using imvulite since 2015 and it really does wonder….and i have never used the client imvu since then….

Awesome! Sorry for the delay in responding back, I was away for work trip & just got home.. My account is priceless to me because of so much money I have invested in it from shopping & creating for the last 13+ years.. I dont want to take a chance of losing it from using lite & Modeling. My friends accounts who also currently model for creators & using Lite. I dont think they got it from the Mafia, I believe their version if Lite was given to them from the model agency... So If I read correctly, they should uninstall IMVU Client completely & just get the IMVU lite version from the Mafia? I just want to make sure we are all secure...

Your assessment is correct. We can not guarantee that the version of lite given out by third parties, the modeling agency in this case, contain all relevant updates and security patches.

like everything that is not oficial by imvu can get you banned because you are not giving them the money, the only think i can recomend you is try not to speak about the imvu lite to friends or stuff like that because sometimes people can just report you, and if imvu checks somethings wrong... there is the ban for you