Re: Oddness on an old email address

[allison nixon <elsakoo () gmail com>]

This is an interesting new scam.  Thanks for bringing this up.  Your theory
sounds plausible, if that theme is common to all your emails.  You're sure
the sender is the true sender?

If you care, it might be worth reporting to the service.  They can ban the
guy and take away incentive to do this to you.

On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 5:02 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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