[SCAM ALERT] "Investigating your account"

[EmilyStrange]

Edit: Sorry for posting this in the exploits section. I didn't realise there was an actual "Scam" section until after I posted. Please move the thread if you can.

Nothing new in being sent an email with a link to log in to your battle.net account to enable you to unlock your account due to inappropriate activity that goes against the EULA.

I got one of those emails today. I receive them quite regularly.

What was unique about this particular email is that it arrived at the email address that is exclusive to, and only used on, MMOWNED.COM.

So, somehow, even though my email address is not publicly displayed, someone managed to send me a scam email using a very unique and not particularly easy to guess address. The odds of "guessing" the address would be astronomically high.

Just wanted to let people know.

And no, I didn't click the link. Blizzard doesn't have the email address that this email arrived at so it was obviously a scam email.

[XC4T4LY5TX]

this makes me lawl..

[Stones]

Why would it make you lawl? Did i miss the funny?

@ Emily, thanks for the heads up. Hopefully admins will look into it

[korric]

over the last month I've had about 300 emails from these people saying that I have to go to a certain address and change my password, then don't change it for 2 days. or that I have to verify my information by giving stuff like account name and password.

I followed one of the links once, it took me to a page that looked exactly like the WoW account management page, but a few things were off-center and didn't look right, so I didn't put in any information.

The emails I've been getting are to my general email address, most of the emails are from "[email protected]" etc, etc. (One time it was "[email protected]) LOL!

[smusen]

over the last month I've had about 300 emails from these people saying that I have to go to a certain address and change my password, then don't change it for 2 days. or that I have to verify my information by giving stuff like account name and password.

I followed one of the links once, it took me to a page that looked exactly like the WoW account management page, but a few things were off-center and didn't look right, so I didn't put in any information.

The emails I've been getting are to my general email address, most of the emails are from "[email protected]" etc, etc. (One time it was "[email protected]) LOL!

Sure for me, getting spammed down atm with supid mails about they gonna close my account.

[EmilyStrange]

It is a pretty weak scam for the most part. The links in the emails are usually egregious enough that it is quite obvious it is a scam. Normally I wouldn't even bother opening it, but what piqued my interest was the email address that the scam used.

[pyriel]

same here, cept from [email protected] lol.

and as tot he original poster, there are ways to find out the email thru the mmowned site, non to user friendly. oh and yea, the mod and admin forum accounts can see it even if users cant. not implying anything just food for thought

[XC4T4LY5TX]

Why would it make you lawl? Did i miss the funny?

@ Emily, thanks for the heads up. Hopefully admins will look into it

I guess so, lol cause if you fall for these fail scams, ur retarded XD wich is FUNNY so there, i clued you in

[pqs]

I guess so, lol cause if you fall for these fail scams, ur retarded XD wich is FUNNY so there, i clued you in

You are retarded. Its not funny, and although you have to be pretty computer illiterate to fall for it, doesn't make you retarded. He was just warning people that he has had his email stolen (not literally) and is being spammed.
**** you.

[EmilyStrange]

Quick addendum: I fished the email out of my trash folder, and the first line reads "Greetings EmilyStrange!" rather than my actual name of "Emily Stranger" so yeah, immediate suspicion.

I don't think it is funny that people lose accounts over these trash emails. Yeah, you can laugh and point at the people that do, but from a business perspective, grabbing a person's account achieves what exactly? Just remember, some day we might be pointing at laughing at you because you got taken in by a fake bank account alert.

[oldmanofmen]

well said brother

[kkksux]

Lol Fail for him :P

[Yori89]

i'm into making website's etc and i also receive so many scamming site's and tought never to be scammed because i recognize them directly, most of the blizz site's are protected, see https before the domain.. But there was a day that some chinese farmer stole all my money from my account.. i was freaking the shit out of me.. i used to play on private servers sometimes and i knew my latest server where i used to play on was 'wowbeez' and my password and email address was just the same of that account, so propably one hacker, or admin got into there database and copied it, so they found my account information. You cant never be to carefully! thanks to blizz they gave everything back in a week or 2 ^^ plx don't mind my typos and bad explination

[pandaman]

Someone has somehow accessed MMOwned account emails, even if hidden, or something more sinister is going on.

First scam email I have ever received, to my MMOwned email address, using my forum name as the greeting.

Strange indeed

[Grim32]

This is why you use a separate email address for different tasks. It would be foolish to use the same email address/usernames/passwords for everything...

Just never believe emails which claim to be from sites. If you want to make sure your account is safe, just manually go to the site & check its status.

Though you guys are correct, it is very strange - if only a mild inconvenience...

-Grim