damn if that happens to me and i lose all my stats from the cupcakes I will be devastated, why do you think you have been caught? I have already heard of this happening and knew the risk but have been doing this cupcake trick for years with nothing like this happening to me. when you adopt the pet and claim the cupcake do you then immediately abandon that same neopet? I always do that as fast as possible
Looks like they were creating the pets themselves then abandoning. I don't think there is as much of an issue with adopting one from the list then abandoning. Always proceed with caution, however.