Scam emails, be warned!

[Alan]

Hello, this is GOA Europe technical support contacting you regarding an account theft. It has come to our knowledge that you are not the rightfull owner of this account, and we will shut it down for further investigation if you don't prove us wrong.

If GoA expect an accounts owner to be inquestion they will shut down the account, its up for hte owner to contact them through Rightnow.

To prove yourself innocent, send an email back to Mythic@runbox.com (Due to this is a one way email, and cannot take replies)

Any contact with GoA would go through Rightnow each support issue gets its own reference number matters wouldnt be handled through emails, even if they were the reply domain would be an official GoA one not some free mail providor, additionaly GoA run the game in Europe not Mythic - why the hell would Mythic be involved in potential account theft for a game they dont host.

Containing your email registered to the account and the answer on your secret question to it.
We need this information to contact your email provider and see if there has been any inconvinience regarding your account.

Best regards , Brian Johnston. Mythic Entertainment

GoA dont use "secret words" just a subscription name and password

So.... looks geniune to me

 

[cHodAX]

i remember finding a site some years ago, that all u had to do was write the email of the victim you wanted into it, and it would sign that account up to about 9k known email spammers, who in turn would pass that on etc, and the victim would get some thousands of spam emails every day (insta filling inbox as soon as u deleted them ) oh how i had some fun with taht.

Yep, I used a mailbomber program with that feature about 6 years ago. I signed Slainyou (real life mate of mine and DAoC player) up to every sick, dirty and perverted site on the list which was over 3000 iirc, had a good chuckle when he phoned me asking me for help to stop all these porn emails he was getting

 

[xxManiacxx]

You can type in any sender e-mail you like.

It´s very easy

 

[mikke]

and (!) goa/mythic would never ask for your account information they have said somewhere..

 

[GoldenThong]

anyway...................as you boys repeat yourselves over and over


I got this email just now :worthy:


Hello,

Thank you for bringing this matter to our attention. The account in question has now been closed.


Best regards,

Geir Thomas Andersen
Webmaster
Runbox

 

[GoldenThong]

its just me and my suspicious nature i suppose as the email accounts we (both me and my husband) used are the ones we used for one particular forum and no i wont name it so plesae dont ask just wondered if you click dont show my email address how secure that really is

 

[Gibbo]

We all enter an email address into anything and everything, including forums, newsgroups etc. The important thing to note is that no organisation you have signed to will ever send you an email asking you to verify your details.

A bit like this one I got today, which is odd coz I have never banked with Barclays

Dear ***** (email address was here)
,

We recently noticed one or more attempts to log in to your Barclays IBank account

from a different IP address.

If you recently accessed your account while traveling, the unusual log in

attempts may have been initiated by you. However, if you did not initiate

the log ins, please visit Barclays IBank as soon as possible to check-up your

account information:

** Link removed, it was here..

Thanks for your patience.

Sincerely,

Barclays Centre

 

[Pirkel]

its just me and my suspicious nature i suppose as the email accounts we (both me and my husband) used are the ones we used for one particular forum and no i wont name it so plesae dont ask just wondered if you click dont show my email address how secure that really is

I always wondered that about forums ... a lot of people use their primary email adress to sign up for forums AAAAND they'll use a "standard" password... so the one they use for that forum is often the same for all forums .. and for things like msn and stuff...

So basicly anyone who sets up a forum could be potentially using the information he gets from this to hax

I do think you should send this information to GOA GoldenThong. The name of that forum. They should look into this.

 

[GoldenThong]

I do think you should send this information to GOA GoldenThong. The name of that forum. They should look into this.

Ive already done this too...................lets see wat happens

 

[censi]

reply back stating username and password are in attachment.

attach trojan, or bat file that formats system disk

 

[Morchaoron]

accountinfo.txt.exe as attachment, with a little luck the poor sob has 'hide extensions of known files' on and he'll be in for one hell of a suprise

 

[brad]

Yes i got the same email, i was about to come on here and make a post, as i knew they said GoA would never ask for your passwords.

But as i came on to make the post, i saw there was already one.

 

[Flimgoblin]

I guess they're playing on the whole confusion people have of GOA/Mythic as well..

it's spoofed as from: noreply@goa.com but it's signed by Brian Johnstone, Mythic Entertainment

 

[Methos]

In these cases there's only 1 thing to do.... here's what i did:

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Greetings!

I would like to inform you that one of the users of your email service is using
the email for scamming purposes.

There is an online multiplayer game called Dark Age of Camelot, which is
subscriber based. Every subscriber has his own login name / password. All the
accounts are secured like that.

People spend a lot of time and effort in that game, which is why security of their
account is important. There are several scammers active trying to get hold of
account information by pretending to be the host of the game (Mythic
Entertainment).

One of these scammers is sending out bogus emails using a Runbox account. I'll
include the email here so you can see the exact scam:

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Hello, this is GOA Europe technical support contacting you regarding an account
theft. It has come to our knowledge that you are not the rightfull owner of this
account, and we will shut it down for further investigation if you don't prove us
wrong.
To prove yourself innocent, send an email back to Mythic@runbox.com (Due to this
is a one way email, and cannot take replies)
Containing your email registered to the account and the answer on your secret
question to it.
We need this information to contact your email provider and see if there has been
any inconvinience regarding your account.

Best regards , Brian Johnston. Mythic Entertainment

-----------------

Now, most people recognise this email as a scam. However, the game is
international, and not everyone has the same knowledge and understanding , and
some people will mistakenly give out their account info.

I hope you can verify this and take the appropriate measures, i can't imagine
Runbox would appreciate their customers using your service for scamming purposes.

Best regards.


And Runbox' quick response:


Hello,

Thank you for bringing this matter to our attention. The account in question has now
been closed.


Best regards,

Geir Thomas Andersen
Webmaster
Runbox

 

[Sparx]

good job methos i'm checking my inbox atm to see if i have said email.

Good to see they have taken action. I trust the GMs will see this post and put something on official site about this too?

 

[DavidH]

Some norwegian guy must be behind this scam. Cos Runbox is a norwegian system. I actually know a guy that works with them Don't make this into a "Omg, norwegian boi witchhunt"

 

[Jai13]

Geir Thomas Andersen

hmm wonder if he could give me the blue pill?

 

[Downanael]

I never get funny scam emails

 

[GoldenThong]

have now had a reply from chello.se and they are in process of dealing with this scammer...............will keep you posted when I get some news.

 

[Fana]

The exact same email has gone out to WoW users as well, only with Blizzard as sender etc. Cant find the thread about it on blizzards craptastic forum now, but was a runbox account used there as well, only with blizzardsupport@runbox or some such instead. Same name used etc, and exact same wording, just substituted daoc for wow and mythic for blizzard.

 

[GoldenThong]

got an email back from chello any people able to translate it for me please i got as far as hi and thanks for the email

 

[Eeben]

Some norwegian guy must be behind this scam. Cos Runbox is a norwegian system. I actually know a guy that works with them Don't make this into a "Omg, norwegian boi witchhunt"

lets burn all those bloody norwegian ppl!!!!








i preclaim all the oil

 

[GoldenThong]

its in swedish i believe


Hej !
Tack för ditt mail.

Er anmälan har registrerats.
Vi har tyvärr inte möjlighet att kontakta alla efter handlagt ärende,
men alla ärenden handläggs i turordning.

UPC/Chello tar alla rapporterade anmälningar på allvar och kommer att vidta
åtgärder enligt vår policy. http://www.upc.se/upc/avtalsvillkor_almanna.html
Notera att UPC Sveriges ambitioner är att alla våra kunder följer
internet netiquette och svensk lag.

Du är alltid välkommen att höra av dig till oss igen.
mailto:abuse@chello.se

Med vänlig hälsning,
Abusehanteringen

/Systemteknik UPC Sverige AB

 

[Eeben]

its in swedish i believe


Sveriges
svensk
Sverige

think you are right

 

[GoldenThong]

think you are right

It's very rare I am............and I don't speak anything but english and when I do thats a pile of crap so yay go me!

 

[Ovron]

its in swedish i believe


Hej !
Tack för ditt mail.

Er anmälan har registrerats.
Vi har tyvärr inte möjlighet att kontakta alla efter handlagt ärende,
men alla ärenden handläggs i turordning.

UPC/Chello tar alla rapporterade anmälningar på allvar och kommer att vidta
åtgärder enligt vår policy. http://www.upc.se/upc/avtalsvillkor_almanna.html
Notera att UPC Sveriges ambitioner är att alla våra kunder följer
internet netiquette och svensk lag.

Du är alltid välkommen att höra av dig till oss igen.
mailto:abuse@chello.se

Med vänlig hälsning,
Abusehanteringen

/Systemteknik UPC Sverige AB

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Greetings!
Thank you for your email.

Your report has been registered.
Unfortunately we are not able to contact the initiator of every report after a concluded errand-process, however all errands are handled in an appropriate order.

UPC/Chello takes all filed reports seriously and will take meassures according to our policy [ze url here!].
Please note that "UPC Sveriges" "policy" is that all our customers follow the internet netiquette and the Swedish law.

You are always welcome to contact us again
[ze email here!]

Kind regards,
"Abuse management"

/Systemteknik UPC Sverige AB

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meep,

/Ovron

 

[GoldenThong]

Thanks Ovron much appreciated...............and damn wanted to hear that the scammer had been given the hammzor of doomzor!!!!

 

[scorge]

Is this a genuine email...............it's come from noreply@goa.com


Hello, this is GOA Europe technical support contacting you regarding an account theft. It has come to our knowledge that you are not the rightfull owner of this account, and we will shut it down for further investigation if you don't prove us wrong.
To prove yourself innocent, send an email back to Mythic@runbox.com (Due to this is a one way email, and cannot take replies)
Containing your email registered to the account and the answer on your secret question to it.
We need this information to contact your email provider and see if there has been any inconvinience regarding your account.

Best regards , Brian Johnston. Mythic Entertainment

on the scale of things pretty thick scammer, as we dont use the secret word ( not question) and why would we reply to mythic when GoA look after the servers.

its not even a good attempt at a scam any how, if they set up a bogus web page with flash then i might be impressed..

 

[GoldenThong]

on the scale of things pretty thick scammer, as we dont use the secret word ( not question) and why would we reply to mythic when GoA look after the servers.

its not even a good attempt at a scam any how, if they set up a bogus web page with flash then i might be impressed..

My Gawd you are slow...............go to the norty corner and write 20 times "I must wash thongs for Goldie"

 

[Alan]

Well looks like Mythic have posted a nice note to confirm for anyone with any shadow of doubt that this is a scam.

http://www.camelotherald.com/more/2351.shtml

Shame that some players here in europe dont even view that site.

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