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^_^ It starts...*Yodas voice* A con it is...mmm..yes!
aeoleon
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Just got this one in my spam inbox (funny it ended up there directly 
love Gmail):
"Thank you for joining the Star Wars™: The Old Republic™ community! Celebration of The Star Wars: The Old Republic Team over 1 million paying players, we will surprise some of the players sent gifts, please reply directly to the following information and we will send you as soon as possible.
* Account Name:
* Account Password:
* Country and City:
* Your Phone:
* Display Name:
* 5 Security Questions:
* 5 Security Answers:
Note that you can choose to ignore this message if you ignore this message, you will not get to our surprise gift for you. All of the above issues is required, and please you to confirm your answer is correct, we will can not correct mail gifts to you.
May the Force be with you,
The Star Wars: The Old Republic Team"
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Yikes. The problem is that there are a lot of people who've never played mmo's before who might fall prey to this. Hopefully they don't catch too many people in this scam.
Please tell me you signed up for the free gifts!!! Add me to the list!
I usually fill in the blanks with fun stuff like GO F*** YOURSELF.
what's not so funny, is that some people actually falls for phishing like this.
Yes, hopefully they will see it in SWTOR's forums I will post this one there. The more people are aware that these emails have started the better it is.
Some people there might not visit MMORPG forums.
edit: (once the servers are up of course)
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"All of the above issues is required, and please you to confirm your answer is correct, we will can not correct mail gifts to you."
What I wonder is, don't they have ANYONE who speaks some english??
That is not smart either because that would confirm that e-mail is active and used and beside that I would have to do that about 10 times a day. Few times for a bank I am not even members, few times for WoW I am not even playing and now I am getting 'mails' from my ISP as well...they do not even end up in my spam box. I think they need to work on there filter :P
>_< another edit...damn pics and links that don't stick >_<
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Sorry to say that but whoever is that stupid ... its their own fault. Use some comon sense wtf, if you have created an account at Bioware they will have all your infos /uhhhhh.
I laugh at ppls who really send in all informations to these scammers, sorry but its really hmm yea dumb. And this has nothing to do that someone never has played a MMO before.
"May the phish be with you!"
My brand new bloggity blog.
Isn't it weird that somewhere out there there's a person who actually sat at a PC and wrote that out and sent it off. What kind of digusting human being do you have to be to try to get away with something like that.
Its really pretty crazy that people can exist who're that awful.
No more wierd than someone actually believing it and handing all their account details over.
The worlds full of opportunists and people just lining up to **** other people over for whatever they can get out of them.
Jeez, if you got a letter from your bank manager , written with the grammar skills of a drunk retarded monkey in the finest 'Engrish' in the land, asking for all your account details would you hand them over?
I just laugh at this stuff when I see it, reply to the cnuts ingame who send you whispers requesting they die painfully in some random disaster or similar and also laugh at the people that are stupid enough to believe this crap and then moan they got hacked or duped.
Lets hope they aren't old enough to have bank accounts
I've sadly fallen for one or two scams in RL but those were done face-to-face with people who knew how to manipulate my feelings. These email scams are so pathetic in comparison. They don't even bother to have someone with real knowledge of English proof read this.
Funny enough from time to time I get really well done scam emails that I could actually fall for if I was not so paranoid. I am actually pleasantly suprised when I get those since at least they respect me enough to put real effort into the scam.
Make sure you foward it to:
bwacommunitysupport@bioware.com
Lol, "we will surprise some of the players sent gifts" by stealing their accounts to punish them for their overly-gullible natures.
Does anyone fall for this, really?
I guess logic would dictate with swtor bringing in players that haven't touched an MMO before they'd have enough takers for it to be worth the 4 seconds it took to compose the phishing mail (and the zero proofreading time).
Pretty pathetic attempt.
When they send the email and don't receive a bounce-back, they'll know the account is active anyways. So if you think by not responding that they're not going to continue to spam you, you are oblivious.
I have always held the mindset that, if you are that stupid then you deserve to be robbed to the bone, if for no other reason to gain some form of awareness of your surroundings
I put stupidity like this along side of sending a stranger to the ATM with your creditcard to do a withdrawel for you
gmail, and everything will be on spam, I never got a spam message from wow or any other mmo in my inbox, however when i check the spam there are always a few there
"I am not a robot. I am a unicorn."
Done ! ^_^
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People can do some pretty simple things to avoid even getting these emails in the first place, and help with account security etc.
I've got a hotmail account for my general day to day stuff such as forums and so on that you sign up for. I look forward to getting in from work and seeing that the 43 banks I apparently have an account with are all sending me messages to update my security settings. Also unknowingly I have problems getting a chubby on and thus need various medication to rectify this problem. Various Nigerian generals all have multi million dollar staches in a secret location in the desert with my name on it. The FBI have been in touch as apparently I have a long lost relative half way around the world who has left me half a million as well.
I get weekly emails from Blizzard wanting me to update this and that. Funnily enough, my old Blizzard account isn't even linked to that Hotmail address. Spooky.
I do have another email address that is used purely for MMO game accounts. Nothing else. Not a thing. I get no spam, dodgy emails or anything else. It's also got a password that is that random I can't remember it letter for letter off the top of my head.
If people took just a few minutes to educate themselves then half the problems people get wouldn't materialise and they wouldn't get done. But alas, you can lead a horse to water..................................
I hate it when subject lines give no real indication of what a thread is about.
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Wai so bah humbug?
Seriously now...You do know what a con is no? Even though I tried (say tried due to bah humbugs around), to be funny with the thread subject, I do think it is very self explanatory.
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Would anyone really fall for something so obvious? I meant, look at the grmamar:
"Note that you can choose to ignore this message if you ignore this message, you will not get to our surprise gift for you."
I mean, it seems so professional. Just remember guys: You can choose to ignore this message if you ignore this message, but you will not get to their surprise gift.
You do as I do, only have an email thats directly linked to any accounts I dont want compromised, other email I use just for forums or other websites that I dont need to access freuqently, most phishing emails are derived from the gold sellers looking at user data from these type of websites, so be warned people, and dont reply as that also confirms that the email is active and they will then attempt to hack your email account.
Even if I didn't know better in the first place, poor grammar should be a huge clue.
A sure sign that you are in an old, dying paradigm/mindset, is when you are scared of new ideas and new technology. Don't feel bad. The world is moving on without you, and you are welcome to yell "Get Off My Lawn!" all you want while it happens. You cannot, however, stop an idea whose time has come.