Okay ... riddle me this ...

[Beer_Cayse]

I have 6 email accounts - let's call them "A" thru "F". One is exclusively for EA stuff which includes UO and Pogo. It is NOT used for any of the following:
Lineage II
World of Warcraft
Warhammer


Can someone explain to me then, why I just checked and a WoW phishing attempt was there? Actually not in my inbox, the ISP trapped it and sent it to "junk" (thank you!!).

And I have just changed the EA account password. Thanks for any clues on this one.

 

[Cear Dallben Dragon]

are any of them tied to stratics which gets hacked constantly?
might have something to do with this.
http://cyberinsecure.com/antoher-crime-server-discovered-contained-44-million-stolen-game-accounts/
who knows.
When i had my email attached to stratics staff i got Viagra adds out the wazoo. i do get these phishing attempts.

 

[olduofan]

I have 6 email accounts - let's call them "A" thru "F". One is exclusively for EA stuff which includes UO and Pogo. It is NOT used for any of the following:
Lineage II
World of Warcraft
Warhammer


Can someone explain to me then, why I just checked and a WoW phishing attempt was there? Actually not in my inbox, the ISP trapped it and sent it to "junk" (thank you!!).

And I have just changed the EA account password. Thanks for any clues on this one.

same thing has been happening to me as well I get a lot and it has to from stratics they can say its not them I know it is and they are lying and covering it up

 

[chuckoatl]

they phis the e-mail servers, they can get e-mail addresses in a vast number of ways. Just ignore them.

 

[Gildar]

Can someone explain to me then, why I just checked and a WoW phishing attempt was there?

I do not have a WoW account, and never have, yet I get WoW phishing attempts all the time (on all sorts of e-mail addresses, most of which having no connection to any video game).
I also get Facebook, E-Bay, and PayPal phishing attempts for e-mails that have never been associated with any of those products.

 

[Beer_Cayse]

HAH! This may be it. I just checked and a Stratics account I have not used in over a year has that email on it!

PETRA - If ye be reading this, could you kindly put in a request to allow us (the denizens) a delete option for accounts we no longer need/use/want? Suggest requiring a login to that account and specific User CP toggle "DELETE ME!!" which when saved will actually delete the account within 24 hours.

Thanks Cear and y'all that replied. I thought I was going nutz.

 

[DevilsOwn]

I do not have a WoW account, and never have, yet I get WoW phishing attempts all the time (on all sorts of e-mail addresses, most of which having no connection to any video game).
I also get Facebook, E-Bay, and PayPal phishing attempts for e-mails that have never been associated with any of those products.

^ this... I get all of those and more, lately a lot from WoW and NCSoft, to emails that I don't use for anything at all, they're just different login names, and those are the only emails I get for them...

 

[GarthGrey]

I would give my personal opinion, because it happened to me too, with a very unique email addy that's only used for Stratics, but I don't need or want another warning for anything....so...nevermind.

 

[MalagAste]

I'm always getting Facebook crap though I've never had nor will I ever have a Facebook account.

I also get the same crap for WoW... which I played ages ago for a whole 2 hours, before removing it from my pc.

 

[GarthGrey]

I"ve never played WoW or any NCsoft thing that I know of. Yet I received phishing emails on my Stratics Only email account. I'm open to suggestions on how my email address was miraculously "phished".

 

[Petra Fyde]

I have no idea how they get email addresses, and as has been said here, they manage to send them to addresses that have never been used in any games related context whatsoever.
But lets just ignore that and blame Stratics for everyone's ills. It's easier.
Chuckoatl - thank you for being the voice of reason.
Beer Cayse, pm me the user name and email you want removed and I'll do it. It will be a lot quicker than waiting for someone to have time to change the board design settings. If, indeed, they can actually be changed in such a way.
FYI: I don't do 'lies' and 'coverups' I have no knowledge on this subject to share.

 

[olduofan]

I have no idea how they get email addresses, and as has been said here, they manage to send them to addresses that have never been used in any games related context whatsoever.
But lets just ignore that and blame Stratics for everyone's ills. It's easier.
Chuckoatl - thank you for being the voice of reason.
Beer Cayse, pm me the user name and email you want removed and I'll do it. It will be a lot quicker than waiting for someone to have time to change the board design settings. If, indeed, they can actually be changed in such a way.
FYI: I don't do 'lies' and 'coverups' I have no knowledge on this subject to share.

I dont believe ANY of the mods here know about it I FEEL its the highers-ups or who ever is running the show not the the hard working folks here

 

[Jhym]

Everyone is aware that email addresses can be pulled from:
email
board posts
spammers making temporary accounts to gather board emails
internet traffic scanners
spam lists
those cards you fill out to win a free car
hacked company servers
hacked gaming servers
your mom

Honestly, is anyone really REALLY that naive after 15 years of this?

Oy.