An attempt on my life!

[Smallpackage]

Hi Foos

Just a heads up... I know most of you are not ******ed enough to fall for stuff like this... but this was the contents of a email I had sent to another email account of mine, strangely it went to this email but not to the one which is used as my Gamer login..

"Hello,

Your account has come to our attention that there are Involved in illegal transactions

We ask that these Accounts, if confirmed, be removed your Account as
soon as possible. Additionally, we would like to request access to the data at
this account. As it has been used for account , we would like to take
steps to ensure that any customers who were taken in by this account are protected
as quickly as possible. If you not join the illegal transactions could grant us access to whatever your RIFT account data are stored at this location to check, we
would be extremely grateful(Please login <link removed> to provide your login info),and we will not remove your account
Your prompt attention to this matter is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Gustav Rydstedt
Security Researcher
Trion Worlds, Inc



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Dont be a fool, guard your tool!

Regards

Reverend/Smallpackage

[CrayfishDeathClaw]

Nice one on the info

[Chomag]

Pfft, when I played wow, I used a different e-mail adress, a hotmail one. Only later did I change it. Even now, I get about 12 emails every week on that old adress, from Blizzard spitting threats at me, some of which are in a horrible english.

[Amonkira]

Haaahahahaaha omg....such horrible spelling! HAAHAHAHAHA

[Drainmus]

i lost my wow accounts 1000 of times, makes me actually wonder how and when i obtained an wow account

[mmmEcchi]

I got mails (and still get) asking me for my WOW account info, I gave them my lv 2 troll and told them to enjoy the ****ty game as I'll be playing L2 thanks

[WTFFTW]

well what can i say, good decision

[mmmEcchi]

Probly most likely saved my life yes.

[praggers]

Hi Foos

Just a heads up... I know most of you are not ******ed enough to fall for stuff like this... but this was the contents of a email I had sent to another email account of mine, strangely it went to this email but not to the one which is used as my Gamer login..

"Hello,

Your account has come to our attention that there are Involved in illegal transactions

We ask that these Accounts, if confirmed, be removed your Account as
soon as possible. Additionally, we would like to request access to the data at
this account. As it has been used for account , we would like to take
steps to ensure that any customers who were taken in by this account are protected
as quickly as possible. If you not join the illegal transactions could grant us access to whatever your RIFT account data are stored at this location to check, we
would be extremely grateful(Please login <link removed> to provide your login info),and we will not remove your account
Your prompt attention to this matter is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Gustav Rydstedt
Security Researcher
Trion Worlds, Inc



This is a service email related to your use of Trion Worlds games and/or services. To learn more about Trion's use of personal information, please read our Privacy Policy.
Trion Worlds is located at 303 Twin Dolphin Drive, Suite 500, Redwood City, CA 94065.

Please note: This email message was sent from a notification-only address that cannot accept incoming email. Please do not reply to this message."

Dont be a fool, guard your tool!

Regards

Reverend/Smallpackage

just so you no if you get emails like this its because you have purchased currency from a gold seller, they have no other way of getting you email, silly man

also people that get hacked its because you have used a gold selling service how can ppl be not relise this

[Vayra]

just so you no if you get emails like this its because you have purchased currency from a gold seller, they have no other way of getting you email, silly man

also people that get hacked its because you have used a gold selling service how can ppl be not relise this

I get **** like that from blizz every week and the only blizz games I play are SC2 and Diablo. Never even had a trial account in Wow ;) But then again, that adress has been floating around the net for well over a decade now, so I'm surprised it doesn't get more spam

[Aenathel]

Quite a few misconceptions here.

Pfft, when I played wow, I used a different e-mail adress, a hotmail one. Only later did I change it. Even now, I get about 12 emails every week on that old adress, from Blizzard spitting threats at me, some of which are in a horrible english.

This is an inherent problem with e-mails, due to the way the whole system works. I could send you an e-mail and make it look like it came from Blizzard, Trion, or your mother. There are ways around this problem, for example SPF and DKIM, and Blizzard uses both.

just so you no if you get emails like this its because you have purchased currency from a gold seller, they have no other way of getting you email, silly man

also people that get hacked its because you have used a gold selling service how can ppl be not relise this

Not true. Unfortunately, e-mails are routinely sold to the highest bidder from sites with a lack of morals, harvested by malware, or simply conned out of people who don't know better. Accusing someone of gold-buying just because they get spam is a non sequitur.

I get **** like that from blizz every week and the only blizz games I play are SC2 and Diablo. Never even had a trial account in Wow ;) But then again, that adress has been floating around the net for well over a decade now, so I'm surprised it doesn't get more spam

Again, it's not from Blizzard--chances are that e-mail that looks suspicious isn't from them. Again, SPF and DKIM can help you tell for sure.

SPF: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sender_Policy_Framework
DKIM: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DomainKeys_Identified_Mail

Oh, and common sense usually applies as well.

[Maruta]

@Aenathel: I assume they did not really think that these mails came from Blizzard itself, just from a Blizzard-fake.


@email: Companies usually don't threat that way and write in proper English.

[Vayra]

Quite a few misconceptions here.


This is an inherent problem with e-mails, due to the way the whole system works. I could send you an e-mail and make it look like it came from Blizzard, Trion, or your mother. There are ways around this problem, for example SPF and DKIM, and Blizzard uses both.


Not true. Unfortunately, e-mails are routinely sold to the highest bidder from sites with a lack of morals, harvested by malware, or simply conned out of people who don't know better. Accusing someone of gold-buying just because they get spam is a non sequitur.


Again, it's not from Blizzard--chances are that e-mail that looks suspicious isn't from them. Again, SPF and DKIM can help you tell for sure.

SPF: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sender_Policy_Framework
DKIM: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DomainKeys_Identified_Mail

Oh, and common sense usually applies as well.

I know it's not from Blizz :P It was more wrt this:

just so you no if you get emails like this its because you have purchased currency from a gold seller, they have no other way of getting you email, silly man

also people that get hacked its because you have used a gold selling service how can ppl be not relise this

[Aenathel]

@Aenathel: I assume they did not really think that these mails came from Blizzard itself, just from a Blizzard-fake.

A fair assumption, but one that I have seen not to be true many times. In any case, I felt like clarifying--other people who read the topic might not be as astute as yourself.