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Pony Slaystation · Mar 29, 2010, 07:04 PM // 19:04

I received an email this afternoon from a company posing as NCSoft... thought it was pretty funny.
When you receive this message at the same time means that you have a routine account of our recent examination, was cecking your account we have the evidence to prove that involved in the controversial game currency transaction so we had to take the necessary measures Please visit our web site uk.ncsoft.com/ as soon as possible to activate your account Aion or we will suspend your account
The NCsoft Team.

1. I live in America, not the UK.
2. This is Guild Wars, not Aion....
3. I have to activate my account so they don't suspend it... yet it's accused of currency transaction... so wouldn't I have had to activate my account in order to do the transaction?

If you get an email like this, don't go and prentend to activate your imaginary Aion account.

GODh · Mar 29, 2010, 07:12 PM // 19:12

For the last 6 months (apx) i get a LOT of these kind of phisingmails... mostly for WoW and some for Aion, but i only play GW

Sadly there are always people who click before they think... and afterwards they are surprised why they cant access GW anymore

Bob Slydell · Mar 29, 2010, 07:25 PM // 19:25

Lmao, I love the ones like that.

MisterB · Mar 29, 2010, 07:29 PM // 19:29

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/g...t10422006.html

Orange Milk · Mar 29, 2010, 07:29 PM // 19:29

I keep getting those for face book, wanting me to go to s asupport site and reenter my password and such.

I don't use face book, I like to socialize with real people at the bar down the street instead of whatever the hell facebook does.

Stolen Souls · Mar 29, 2010, 07:52 PM // 19:52

Yeah, I've been getting a LOT of phishing emails, too....for my WoW and Aion accounts. Apparently I play those games but don't realize it.

End · Mar 29, 2010, 08:18 PM // 20:18

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Originally Posted by Stolen Souls

Yeah, I've been getting a LOT of phishing emails, too....for my WoW and Aion accounts. Apparently I play those games but don't realize it.

Funny thing is...I (up until a little while back) played aion...and gave wow a try for a month...and have never gotten any emails like this...funny funny...

Pony Slaystation · Mar 29, 2010, 08:34 PM // 20:34

In the last hour, I've gotten the exact same email three more times lol.

Bob Slydell · Mar 29, 2010, 09:02 PM // 21:02

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Originally Posted by Pony Slaystation

In the last hour, I've gotten the exact same email three more times lol.

For epic lulz, You should screw with the guy, try and pretend to be someone he knows, or just give him long lists of fake account credentials.

Wyndy · Mar 29, 2010, 09:31 PM // 21:31

and why do they have such atrocious spelling and grammar? It seems like some sort of hacker code that there must be at least one misspelled word in their text.

End · Mar 29, 2010, 09:34 PM // 21:34

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Originally Posted by Wyndy

and why do they have such atrocious spelling and grammar? It seems like some sort of hacker code that there must be at least one misspelled word in their text.

More like...it's written by non english speakers and they are idiots and use online translators

Rushin Roulette · Mar 29, 2010, 10:06 PM // 22:06

Thats what you get from using Chinese conders and distributors from Korea... The Chineese cant understand teh Koreans and decide to use a Romanian transloator who can only work if the text is written in Hebrew to translate it as follows: Chineese-> Hebrew-> Romanian-> Korean-> English(ish).

Seeing like that, its a pretty amazing feat that the letters are even the right way up in the end.

Warvic · Mar 29, 2010, 10:59 PM // 22:59

I played WoW and Aion

I never get these emails. Maybe they only target rich players? So my question is.. Are the targets of those emails rich? please answer

Rocky Raccoon · Mar 29, 2010, 11:07 PM // 23:07

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Originally Posted by Warvic

I played WoW and Aion

I never get these emails. Maybe they only target rich players? So my question is.. Are the targets of those emails rich? please answer

Real Life rich or In-game rich?

Neo Atomisk · Mar 29, 2010, 11:18 PM // 23:18

every time I get an email saying that my nonexistant WoW account will be deleted I scream "YES!"

Bristlebane · Mar 29, 2010, 11:50 PM // 23:50

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Originally Posted by Bob Slydell

For epic lulz, You should screw with the guy, try and pretend to be someone he knows, or just give him long lists of fake account credentials.

On a serious note, this is exactly what we should do. If most people receiving theese emails enter 1-4 fake information, it will result in thousands of fake data that they have to try go through.

In fact, Anet/NCsoft should have bots for this for everytime a phishing attempt is reported to spam it with fake data. It should be recorded so if someone later tries to enter any of this fake data, it will make ALL further attempts to login to fail from that particular IP. Even a genuine account will then look like it was fake data.

Stolen Souls · Mar 30, 2010, 12:40 AM // 00:40

Quote:

Originally Posted by Warvic

I played WoW and Aion

I never get these emails. Maybe they only target rich players? So my question is.. Are the targets of those emails rich? please answer

Well, I am SUPER rich on my imagionary WoW account. So yeah, that could be it. =) But then again, my imagionary Aion account isn't all that impressive, yet they still try to phish me for it's info. -pondering-