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I don't play Guild Wars 2...

lonnehartlonnehart Member Posts: 846 Arc User
edited February 2014 in Ten Forward
I don't even have the game. However, I get an email saying that my account in the game will be closed if I don't respond. Good thing Google caught this bad phish, though. Also checked to see if anyone else has accessed my email. Thankfully that hasn't happened... I use a 20+ character password whenever possible (I think the maximum limit PWE uses is too low) and for a moment I thought scammers were trying to use the phishing mail to gain access to legitamate email addresses to use in their scams.


Are these "phishermen" are getting desperate or something?
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  • daan2006daan2006 Member Posts: 5,346 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    they are bots noting more or less get them all the time saying my wow account about to be banned i just move it to spam and move on and i even get them on some of my email that dont even have wow
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  • dracounguisdracounguis Member Posts: 5,358 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    Yeah, I get emails about accounts for games I've never played being cancelled. Silly bots!:D
  • hevachhevach Member Posts: 2,777 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    Phishing has a really low success rate. One per million emails sent is supposed to be a great haul. When emails are free* it doesn't make sense to even try to filter your email list for viable targets, which is difficult and time/labor intensive. Your recipients will basically filter them for you.


    *-even bandwidth costs are zero, because they're usually generated by botnet zombies anyway. Once properly set up, the entire process is pretty much automated: computers infected by the botnet collect everything that looks like an email address, send them all emails, sometimes even host the fake login pages. They usually will also immediately log in to an account when they get a bite and run a script designed to change the password and rebind it to a controlled email account, so the account is locked down within seconds and it usually buys at least a few hours before the owner can reclaim it through support. There's a couple ones targeting WoW accounts that can do this so fast that the authenticator keytag's code will still be good.
  • mirrorchaosmirrorchaos Member Posts: 9,844 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    a long time ago i got an email from bilzzard about having a WoW account and how it will be shut down, but since i never played WoW in my life or even registered any details about it, i wasnt concerned. all that magic, swords and mayhem stuff i never liked, for that same reason i never watched harry potter or whatever. although for some reason LOTR is the exception to that. anyways..

    i occasionally get email messages from "myself" which i delete instantly. some of these phishing attempted are really lame.
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