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Urgent Message from 7 of 9 ...

maobemaobe Member Posts: 86 Arc User
edited October 2014 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
Just got an Email from PWE which starts with "greetings captain siska" ... whos that? i dont have any captain with that name. and i dont have a RRW V´rela in my dock either. has PWE something borked up here, or did i miss a detail?

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    seriousdaveseriousdave Member Posts: 2,777 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    I just checked after I saw this and mine is adressed to a "captain Jack" from the "USS xEnterprisex" and his first officer "Sukono". Never heard of any of them. :confused:

    Sooo WTF? :confused:
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    chiyoumikuchiyoumiku Member Posts: 1,028 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    Make sure it's actually from perfect world and not someone cloning their address or doing sublte changes to it. I get that TRIBBLE from battle.net all the time and I am not a member of it.
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    mustrumridcully0mustrumridcully0 Member Posts: 12,963 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    Interesting. I didn't even check the name, but yes, it's definitely not any of my characters or BOs.

    I strongly recommend not to click any links in the e-mail. It may just be a TRIBBLE-up. (the whole message text would have worked a lot better if it had been released at the start of the XP Event, or if the XP Event had happened immediately after the Risa event). It could be an elaborate phishing attempt. (But I honestly think TRIBBLE-up is more likely here. Or could I be wrong? Reading the poster on WoW/Battle.net's problem....)
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    chiyoumikuchiyoumiku Member Posts: 1,028 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    It smells like a phishing scam to me. I've seen it way too many times.
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    seriousdaveseriousdave Member Posts: 2,777 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    Yeah not using one of those links is a no-brainer but the adress says email@email.perfectworld.com so that seems legit. Looks like one giant **** up on their side.:confused:
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    adorenkoadorenko Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    Nothing has been sent to my email from PWE. I would suggest changing your passwords ASAP.
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    darthraiderxxxdarthraiderxxx Member Posts: 200 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    Got one as well. I guess 7of9 messed up something in the database they used to send out these mails. The mail seems to be aimed at inactive captains to make them aware of the upcoming expansion.

    The mail looks official and the links/mail all point to PWE even though i didn't click on anything. If that is a scam, PWE has a big security problem.
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    angrytargangrytarg Member Posts: 11,001 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    I got the email as well, even in a localized (German) version, so I guess it is official, yet of course I was adressed with some random name and ship. I still wouldn't click anything in the email as there is absolutely no need to do that, though.
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    sunfranckssunfrancks Member Posts: 3,925 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    100% phishing scam. Just don't click on any link within it!
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    knockyknocky Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    Any mention of Ambassador Nigerian Prince and his mission for large sums of EC?
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    rodentmasterrodentmaster Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    Shhh!! That's DR spoilers!
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    castsbugccastsbugc Member Posts: 830 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    if you know where the option is, I would do a 'show original' of the email and look really closely, just because the return address says that its email.perfectworld, I can tell you that field is easy enough to fake. Like everyone else is saying, dont use any of the links in the email, if you feel that you have a need to change anything about your account, go into the web interface itself and do it.
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    anazondaanazonda Member Posts: 8,399 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    seriousdave wrote: »
    Yeah not using one of those links is a no-brainer but the adress says email@email.perfectworld.com so that seems legit. Looks like one giant **** up on their side.:confused:

    If you give me your email, I can send you a email from yourself, confirming that you owe me 1,000,000 USD... I don't even need your login... heck, I don't even need a email account... Just the []name@domain.tld[]

    What's important is the header information... not
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    astro2244astro2244 Member Posts: 623 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    maobe wrote: »
    Just got an Email from PWE which starts with "greetings captain siska" ... whos that? i dont have any captain with that name. and i dont have a RRW V´rela in my dock either. has PWE something borked up here, or did i miss a detail?

    :rolleyes:




    It's a Trap!




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    lebtronlebtron Member Posts: 296 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    No phising. No link at the mail refers to any other server than to perfectworld.com. No hidden images or links.

    Somebody simply messed up some data.
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    vetteguy904vetteguy904 Member Posts: 3,857 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    adorenko wrote: »
    Nothing has been sent to my email from PWE. I would suggest changing your passwords ASAP.

    neither of us got one either, I agree change yer passwords
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    anazondaanazonda Member Posts: 8,399 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    vetteguy904 wrote: »
    neither of us got one either, I agree change yer passwords

    Sounds like it's a newsletter... I blocked them when PWE took over, and they started spamming, so I havn't seen it myself...
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    mirrorchaosmirrorchaos Member Posts: 9,844 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    only time i get an email from the game is a new machine access code to verify and its always donotreply at crypticstudios.com. i would imagine the newsletter is from @crypticstudios.com as well.

    i would of reported the email if i had ever gotten one straight away based on that logic.
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    neoakiraiineoakiraii Member Posts: 7,468 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    Seven of Nine is hanging out with her friend Prince, from the Nigerian colony ;)
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    smeeinn1tsmeeinn1t Member Posts: 618 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    Question to all those that received one of these mails: Did you recently post on any media site connected to PWE/ARC?

    It has been known that some 'unscrupulous' individuals look for media triggers (multi posts with common tag.) and attempt to fish the posters.

    A long shot, but one that has borne fruit in the past.
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    mirrorchaosmirrorchaos Member Posts: 9,844 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    smeeinn1t wrote: »
    Question to all those that received one of these mails: Did you recently post on any media site connected to PWE/ARC?

    It has been known that some 'unscrupulous' individuals look for media triggers (multi posts with common tag.) and attempt to fish the posters.

    A long shot, but one that has borne fruit in the past.

    and you wonder why i call em social trollworking sites! i never use em and dont see the point, if its the case these indiviuals go through the trollworking sites exclusively, the rest of us who just use the forum should be safe from it.
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    darthraiderxxxdarthraiderxxx Member Posts: 200 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    smeeinn1t wrote: »
    Question to all those that received one of these mails: Did you recently post on any media site connected to PWE/ARC?

    It has been known that some 'unscrupulous' individuals look for media triggers (multi posts with common tag.) and attempt to fish the posters.

    A long shot, but one that has borne fruit in the past.

    Nope didn't post on any media site. The only time i used that mail with anything PWE related was when i signed up years ago.

    I just checked the entire header and the mail is from email@email.perfectworld.com, all pictures of the mail are hosted on perfectworld.com and my mail adress gives no hint that i am German yet i received the mail in German.

    Like i said earlier, this seems like the typical reminder MMO's send out to inactive players before they release big updates and whoever was responsible for the mailing simply messed up the list that contained the e-mail and captain names.
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    longasclongasc Member Posts: 490
    edited October 2014
    This was no scam, just poorly executed.

    It was damn late and not telling news and it obviously messed up database queries.

    My first officer was wrong, for a buddy the Captain's name was totally wrong, not even one of his alt chars or officers, it was quite a mess.
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    crypticarmsmancrypticarmsman Member Posts: 4,113 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    neoakiraii wrote: »
    Seven of Nine is hanging out with her friend Prince, from the Nigerian colony ;)

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