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Lille7 Advanced Member Joined: 12/08/08 Posts: 285	4/08/10 5:49:27 AM#1 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) So for the last few months i've been getting alot of scam mails that try to get my inactive wow account and some that try to get my Aion account (i dont even have an Aion account). I've been getting a couple of these everyday and just delete them straight away, but today i saw something i thought was hilarious. The sender was the usual "noreply@blizzard.com" but the title for this one was "Aion account change notice". So, what exactly are they after here? My wow account or my Aion account? :P
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Toquio3 Novice Member Joined: 7/02/09 Posts: 1105 "Excellent breeze... Great day for cards."	4/08/10 5:52:12 AM#2 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) I never got phishing emails. To tell you the truth, Im kinda insulted. I mean, what do you have that I dont? :,-( If you stand VERY still, and close your eyes, after a minute you can actually FEEL the universe revolving around PvP.
Firebrawn Novice Member Joined: 8/20/07 Posts: 251	4/08/10 5:52:28 AM#3 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) Lol i get exactly the same... except I do, in fact, have both an aion and WoW account However, my WoW account is tied to my battle.net account and I don't even play Aion anymore (so couldn't give two shites), so all is good lol!
brostyn Novice Member Joined: 1/29/04 Posts: 3120 Cynical? Me? Never.	4/08/10 6:23:38 AM#4 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) Originally posted by Toquio3 I never got phishing emails. To tell you the truth, Im kinda insulted. I mean, what do you have that I dont? :,-( Same here. I guess we don't go out giving out our email address to every single website that ask for it.
nyxium Advanced Member Joined: 3/15/09 Posts: 1103 Tumbling down the rabbit hole?	4/08/10 6:31:02 AM#5 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) How do they get the addresses? Who passes them on? I'd love to catch one, typing away at his skanky keyboard, me standing behind him with a flame thrower, tapping the scammer on the shoulder, grinning 'hi' and letting rip with the flames. Ah, happy times. Would almost make it worth getting spammed.
User Deleted	4/08/10 7:20:46 AM#6 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) Originally posted by nyxium How do they get the addresses? Who passes them on? Anybody that's willing to sell them, which could be...a lot of folks. Some commercial operations have policies against it, some don't. Even those that do could have an unscrupulous employee. Not to mention places like Usenet, like forums that list e-mails...and then there's your actual username and your domain. Something easily generated by a form like super wow gamer @ hot mail dot com would be very guessable in comparison to 33erfqd1dsaf @ nfliber dot not dot exist dot com. Sending e-mail to non-existent addresses doesn't cost them anything, not like they read the bounceback messages. If you want to search google and bing and every other search engine for your e-mail address, you can find pages it might be listed and try to take it down, that might help. Or it might not.