Re: Oddness on an old email address

[Nathan Sweaney <nathan () sweaney com>]

Are you sure the emails are coming from the places they say? Do the links
actually go back to those sites?


On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 4:02 AM, Robin Wood <robin () digininja org> wrote:

> I've got an old Gmail account that I've set up just to forward to my
> current account. I've not used it anywhere for years.
>
> In the last couple of months it has been used to sign up for a number of
> accounts on RPG sites. I know this because I've been getting emails telling
> me the address needs confirming before the account is fully opened. I
> assumed this was being done because the sites offer free gold to new sign
> ups and so the attacker was hoping I'd complete the process so they could
> then grab the gold.
>
> I can understand the logic there so I just ignore it but in the last
> couple of days I've also had mails from Lego and the NBA. Could these be
> trying to score referrer points? Lego just seems a bit of an odd target.
>
> They've also set up a match.com account which is active as that didn't
> appear to require address confirmation.
>
> Am I right in thinking gold stealing and referrer points? Could it be
> anything else?
>
> The account itself doesn't appear to be compromised. I've reset the
> password and checked for forwarders and things like that.
>
> Robin
>
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