Account Hackers LOL

[Kuhan]

Got this email today on my MSN which i have no DAOC linked to

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From : Dark Age of Camelot Europe <support@goa.com>
Reply-To : Dark Age of Camelot Europe <support@goa.com>
Sent : 19 April 2006 18:15:05
To : Dear Dark Age of Camelot Customer <My Email address>
Subject : Your Dark Age of Camelot Account


Dear Customer

We have detected that there have been a thief logged on in your account
You will have to run the GOA Anti-Hack Tool that we sent you with this email.

Sincerly, GOA Europe staff.

DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL SINCE IT IS ONE WAY SENT


Attachment : GOA_Anti-Hack_Tool.rar (0.17 MB)

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rofl.

 

[Cemeterygates]

lol considering its broken english its obvious its a scam....."there have been a thief logged on in your account".....wouldnt it be there has been??? an logged in ON your account?? an more to the point goa wouldnt be monitering what IP adress you play from anyway...or ur account....unless it was for suspicion of radar ect...

 

[Azathrim]

Well, most the replies you get from RightNow is broken english anyways.

It's obvious though, that GoA never would ask you to run a program like that.

 

[old.Whoodoo]

It must be from a call center in Dubai, perfect call center English.

 

[IainC]

Obviously it's a scam. Don't reply to the emails or open any attachments in them. I'll try and get another warning put in the news about this, in the meantime make sure that your friends, guildies and alliance members know that this is a rather weak attempt at a scam.

If someone who recieved this email could forward it to me (complete with attachment) to requiel(at)goa(dot)com I'd be obliged.

 

[Kuhan]

Obviously it's a scam. Don't reply to the emails or open any attachments in them. I'll try and get another warning put in the news about this, in the meantime make sure that your friends, guildies and alliance members know that this is a rather weak attempt at a scam.

If someone who recieved this email could forward it to me (complete with attachment) to requiel(at)goa(dot)com I'd be obliged.

i sent with the attachment

 

[necromania]

rofl & that mail.

if i ever saw the person who made it irl, i wouldnt beat him, i would simply laugh him in the face lol =P

as been said alot times, GOA will NEVER send you such a email =P

Good you didnt open it ?

 

[Haggus]

*requiel opens the attachment*
*virus searches comp for pw's*
*virus finds GM login acc*
Requiel: Oops...

 

[old.windforce]

Really Kuhan, you should try to install it. It doens't hurt to try, trust me

 

[Fana]

if i ever saw the person who made it irl, i wouldnt beat him, i would simply laugh him in the face lol =P

I would, without hesitation, hit anyone using spyware/trojans/hacks etc to compromise other peoples computers in the face. The way we use computers today, as an extension of ourselves almost, its the same thing as trying to invade someones mind. I see any attack upon my computer as an attack upon myself and would defend myself accordingly.

 

[Alan]

awwwwwww i never get any fun programs to pull apart and see what they do

 

[Dorimor1]

As Requiel has said previously, GoA would never ask for your details and never send you any files.

 

[DocWolfe]

their first mistake was sending a rar file. The majority of general users prolly dont even use/know what one is.

 

[Chimaira]

Dorimdor is your sig towards Jjuraa?

 

[Bhalage]

*requiel opens the attachment*
*virus searches comp for pw's*
*virus finds GM login acc*
Requiel: Oops...

hihi that actually made me laugh : )

 

[Dorimor1]

Dorimdor is your sig towards Jjuraa?

Not specifically just everyone who has this 'x,xxx,xxx rps pre-patch'.

But it was inspired by his avatar ofc!

 

[raid]

Not specifically just everyone who has this 'x,xxx,xxx rps pre-patch'.

But it was inspired by his avatar ofc!

Hope you don't mind me listing rps post-patch :/

 

[Vladamir]

Hope you don't mind me listing rps post-patch :/

Gj, wd, etc!

 

[Marc]

Not specifically just everyone who has this 'x,xxx,xxx rps pre-patch'.

But it was inspired by his avatar ofc!

I cringe with embarassment every time I see duacts sig. Fckin nerd needs to get a life

 

[cazno]

from: <mythic@runbox.com>
sent: 26. februar 2006 15:48:16
too: (my email address)
subject: Thief





We need evidence for a guy that is hacking accounts at the moment.
We won't get that if u don't co-operate with us.
The account will be terminated within 12hours, You can still give us your
information.

Best regards, GOA europe.

I got that email a while ago too;o

Ignored it and hours later I got this.


" We are afraid that we might have to terminate your account within the next
24hours.

The evidence that we've got from you is not good enough.

Best regards , Brian Johnston. Mythic Entertainment"

Nothing happened;>
... that fake?

 

[Bracken]

Brian Johnston

I miss Johnners

http://www.johnners.com

 

[Melachi]

Id say it is fake Cazno, considering it came from @runhost. And even still, Mythic/Goa wont ever email you asking for your password or asking you to run some .exe

 

[Bhalage]

Hope you don't mind me listing rps post-patch :/

Raid everyone knows you are a roxstar player (at least i do) but i really dont undestand why ppl bother writeign how much rps they got before this patch (or after ;op) etc.

is this rp gain so much higher now that you need to show the difference or what? (ill reopen acc and ninja einherjar too its so damn sexy title, but o well i wont ;f )

 

[Corran]

Raid everyone knows you are a roxstar player (at least i do) but i really dont undestand why ppl bother writeign how much rps they got before this patch (or after ;op) etc.

is this rp gain so much higher now that you need to show the difference or what? (ill reopen acc and ninja einherjar too its so damn sexy title, but o well i wont ;f )

upto 600rp per FG kill (as opposed to 250 or so), 2k rp for solo kills etc etc. So yes alot of difference

 

[necromania]

Got this email today on my MSN which i have no DAOC linked to

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From : Dark Age of Camelot Europe <support@goa.com>
Reply-To : Dark Age of Camelot Europe <support@goa.com>
Sent : 19 April 2006 18:15:05
To : Dear Dark Age of Camelot Customer <My Email address>
Subject : Your Dark Age of Camelot Account


Dear Customer

We have detected that there have been a thief logged on in your account
You will have to run the GOA Anti-Hack Tool that we sent you with this email.

Sincerly, GOA Europe staff.

DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL SINCE IT IS ONE WAY SENT


Attachment : GOA_Anti-Hack_Tool.rar (0.17 MB)

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rofl.

lol this is still making me laugh =P good stuff for ppl if they wanna laugh of ameteurs(sp?)

 

[Tualatin]

Actually, these scams seem to hit quite often.. Maybe GOA has a security flaw? Which in this case, results in emails from users?

I know emails can be found out from/by stuff like Freddyshouse, but still >)

 

[raid]

Raid everyone knows you are a roxstar player (at least i do) but i really dont undestand why ppl bother writeign how much rps they got before this patch (or after ;op) etc.

is this rp gain so much higher now that you need to show the difference or what? (ill reopen acc and ninja einherjar too its so damn sexy title, but o well i wont ;f )

Nah my sig is just an (maybe failed) attempt to funny and nowhere close to real amount anyway... Just found it silly when ppl listed their rp's prepatch, so I thought I'll do the opposite

 

[chretien]

Actually, these scams seem to hit quite often.. Maybe GOA has a security flaw? Which in this case, results in emails from users?

I know emails can be found out from/by stuff like Freddyshouse, but still >)

Well if you read the original post he says it was sent to an email that's not registered to any of his accounts so most likely it's been skimmed from a forum or an MSN list or something rather than Goa's database (otherwise it would have been sent to an email address that was associated with one of his accounts).

 

[Tesla Monkor]

Actually, these scams seem to hit quite often.. Maybe GOA has a security flaw? Which in this case, results in emails from users?

I know emails can be found out from/by stuff like Freddyshouse, but still >)

The only security flaw that GOA has to deal with are the users themselves.

Most people are naive when it comes down to preventing others from obtaining their email adresses. Just because you don't have it entered in MSN doesn't mean you're not an easy target.

Example: Most people ingame have a guild website. Most of those websites have a forum - and most of that is a buggy version of PHP that can be farmed for the emails it has recorded. Voila, all the emails you need of people in that guild.

Yes, it is that easy.

Still, this latest attempt is a little smarter than the previous ones.. 'Please send your account details to UG0tPwnd@hotmail.com, thank you'. I'm not going to point the obvious mistakes, and would recommend that everyone else refrains from it as well - the last thing we want to do is tell these little fucks how to improve their nefarious activities.

 

[Jjuraa]

Not specifically just everyone who has this 'x,xxx,xxx rps pre-patch'.

But it was inspired by his avatar ofc!

shoulda copywrited it. ive updated my sig now anyway, specially for you \o>



OT: Why is it that every scam seems to be done by some half-wit 15 year old with english as a second language (or more likely third or fourth). Is it just that you have to be a complete moron to try and scam people? or is it that the clever scammers get away cleanly and so we're not even aware of being scammed