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Post by dancingdan on Jan 17, 2012 20:20:19 GMT
The easiest thing to check suspicious scams is to go to the real page and just log in. If anythings wrong they leave messages on your account or something and don't mail you only. I also got phishing mails from amazon, like mails which stated I had unpaid bills. Because I use direct debiting system I never need to pay bills so I instantly knew it was a scam. Just to be sure I logged in to my account from the real page and checked if there were any bills. Guess what? Nothing. Same I did with the somewhat real looking mails about being hacked on my battle.net account. I just logged into real battle.net and there was no mentioning of needing to do something. One time someone seemed to even really tried to hack my account. I just got a short notice mail by battle.net (no link) that my account is blocked because of hacking suspicion. Right after I logged in again on the real page I immidiately got redirected to a page where I needed to change my password.
EDIT: Ok, checked that again. Still got the mails. There was a link to change my password. But I tried to log in on the real page and it stated that my account is blocked and I should've received an email.
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Post by M2VASH on Jan 17, 2012 23:41:51 GMT
yeh I do that too if the mail seems convincing, mostly it's out of curiosity. almost certainly as soo as you attempt to login in to any account thats been 'pulled up' or suspended, there will be a warning shoved in your face like "You account has been suspended please call 00000 and quote xxxxxx" on a side note, ppl are actually brute force hacking window live accounts so everyone keep a eye for spam bounced back to you...... also my file host has been hacked, they are like "bad news, we were hacked, they got ya name, tele, address....good news, they aint got ya cred cards ;D) lol feel sorry for all the simple folks who do fill in that data honestly XD
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Post by Jjos on Jan 18, 2012 8:17:29 GMT
(delivery address wise, i think you can send gifts to other locations? unsure) i know amazon asks at each order which address to dispatch to... Sure, you can send gifts to other locations - but you need to enter the new delivery address the gift shall be send to and will be asked to add your payment informations again cause it's the first time you send at the new entered address (had to do this twice during X-Mas time). Got word from an IT person by this morning. He got this mail too and said "this phishing mail is real proffessionel!". So it really seems to be one *deleting mail*
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Post by dancingdan on Mar 19, 2012 13:33:26 GMT
haha, I really thought I got another phishing mail:
'Diablo III Closed Public Beta Test Invitation' send from Diablo3EUBeta@blizzard.com strangly there was no real link in that mail like 'click here and log into your account'. There was only a step-by-step guide on how to play the beta. And guess what it's real.
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Post by malice on Mar 19, 2012 20:21:23 GMT
Not exactly related to Blizzard but I started getting these quite regularly from 'jagex.com' about runescape. First one completely fooled me at first because I didn't (and still don't) know how on earth it's possible to send an email from jagex.com without actually being an admin of jagex.com, but the link inside was a bit of a giveaway 'runiescapei' and 'runeescrape'
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Post by dancingdan on Mar 19, 2012 21:32:41 GMT
I already got 3 mails stating my Runescape account (do I have one?) is under suspicion of being sold and I should verify my ownership to prevent suspension. Like I care...
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Post by M2VASH on Jun 16, 2012 15:16:48 GMT
Dear Sir/Madam I hope this letter meets you in good health. I am in control of US$25,000,000.00 deposited in my bank by the Late Libyan Leader Gaddafi. The fund is being held under a Non-investment account without the Gaddafi Family's name as the late Gaddafi instructed that the funds be kept TOP SECRET until he decides what to do with it. As the Gaddafi’s Account Officer and manager of this branch of HFC Bank Ghana Limited, I plan to activate the account with your name as the original depositor and then process outward remittance of the funds to you.
I got to admit, i laughed. Now i'm thinking who would fall for such a thing xD has anyone got that wall of text facebook one? pretty convincing xD
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Post by Jjos on Jun 16, 2012 16:55:08 GMT
These kind of messages actually appear pretty often - but most likely addressed to companies (I remember throwing lot of them into the thrash during my apprenticeship). However, now with the internet all present is it no surprise that even single persons get these kind of stuff.
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Post by dancingdan on Jun 16, 2012 18:05:21 GMT
Dear Sir/Madam I hope this letter meets you in good health. I am in control of US$25,000,000.00 deposited in my bank by the Late Libyan Leader Gaddafi. The fund is being held under a Non-investment account without the Gaddafi Family's name as the late Gaddafi instructed that the funds be kept TOP SECRET until he decides what to do with it. As the Gaddafi’s Account Officer and manager of this branch of HFC Bank Ghana Limited, I plan to activate the account with your name as the original depositor and then process outward remittance of the funds to you. How is this phishing? Do you need to click a link? I can't imagine harm by telling someone your name
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Post by Jjos on Jan 11, 2013 9:52:05 GMT
The amount of Blizzard Phishing mails is increasing strong lately (at least for me).
But they are easy to identify at all: Mainly Yahoo addresses just having a showing name like "donotreply@blizzard" "Diablo III" and so on.
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Post by dancingdan on Jan 11, 2013 15:23:00 GMT
I've got one stating I'm involved in gold trading or whatever. Easiest way to figure out it's fake: it's from *@battle.com. "Battle what? Never heard of it."
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Post by M2VASH on Mar 7, 2013 23:25:30 GMT
Small heads up for Yahoo email users (I needed one for flickr years ago) Found out yahoo's ssl encryption is optional like google so it's currently off for everyone by default :/ also your account seems really vulnerable if you HAVEN'T enabled 2 step verification on your mobile phone... but more importantly, there is an exploit which has existed for around 7 months which basically hacks into people's email account via security hole, (yahoo mobile) it's actually happening to a lot of people but yahoo haven't patched/ not admitted, yet they update their pass reset/compromise FAQ a few days ago
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Post by M2VASH on Jul 3, 2013 22:36:50 GMT
I was going to post and say I received a email from ubisoft asking for a password reset due to a recent server hack, and for 5 seconds I believed it but then realised it was a scam and the email looked incredibly fake..... and then I read joystiq report today and it was real.. so ubisoft did get hacked, damn suspicious mail all the same
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Post by dancingdan on Jul 4, 2013 15:50:54 GMT
you always got one good solution to this. go to the official website and see if there are any news or just log in and change the password or whatever they ask you to do in those mails. I also got a seemingly phishing mail from blizzard, went on battle.net, logged in and was asked to reset my password. I didn't use any links in the mail.
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Post by M2VASH on Jul 7, 2013 13:25:25 GMT
Yeh definitely don't use those links but I do hover over them to see how well they faked the url xD some are particularly good and you really would not notice it unless you were techy.
Actually I did go to official ubisoft website, no front page mention of it!! only tells ya after login.
Nintendo Japan got hacked.
(why do we not have a gamer news channel lol!)
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