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Re: Oddness on an old email address


From: James Costello <genesiswave () gmail com>
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2013 08:15:15 -0600

I had this happen on one of my gmail accounts. Is the address exactly yours
or does it have the google qualifiers (.+). When someone who was using
firstpart.secondpart () mac com thought they could switch a bunch of their
site accounts to the same address at gmail
I received all of their emails for those
On Saturday, February 16, 2013, allison nixon wrote:

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<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', '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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