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Tommy's

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Dec 2006

[Bone]

Mo/

12 Jan 2010 at 07:51 - 1

Hey, please if this already exist or in the wrong place move

Yesterday I got this email from NCsoft. Or at least it makes me think it's NCsoft but I'm not sure, cause its kind of a weird email. This is the email:

When you receive this message at the same time means that you have a routine account of our recent examination, was checking your account we have the evidence to prove that involved in the controversial game currency transaction so we had to take the necessary measures.
Please visit our web site LINK as soon as possible to activate your account or we will suspend your account.

The NCsoft Team

The email adress that send it was [email protected]. Normally I wouldnt give a shit about my NCsoft account, but I figured I would need it from GW2, so actually I do now

So I was wondering if this was a real email or a fake one with keyloggers and mean hackers involved. I haven't opened the link yet, because I don't know what bad/good will bring me. Anyone knows?

xron

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Feb 2008

Denbigh, Wales

Zero Zero

R/

12 Jan 2010 at 08:52 - 2

Just the fact that the English is atrocious means that it's fake.

killerbot3009

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Oct 2007

the beaster

the Gold Fish [GOLD]

W/

12 Jan 2010 at 09:28 - 3

It is using a virus which makes it look like it is from NCsoft, but they send it through them to mask the true identity, almost all viruses/scams do this to not arrouse suspision. If you click on the link in the email it will take you to a site which looks like the NC soft site, but look at the adress bar and it isnt a secure website, or the official one.

also yes the grammer is very bad lol, i got a similar email to this and i just laughed.

Hyperventilate

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2007

Somewhere in California

I Gots A Crayon [Blue]

Me/Mo

12 Jan 2010 at 09:34 - 4

It's fake.

"When you receive this message at the same time"?

Yeah, I have to give NC something: At least they can type proper English.

I wouldn't worry about it. They're not going to tell you to visit xyz site. They don't even tell you when your account has been compromised.
--

Now that I think about it, sounds like a bad babel fish translation.

Chinese to English, maybe?

ashes

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Oct 2007

Beertown ;P

RoP

E/Mo

12 Jan 2010 at 10:35 - 5

If you hover ur cursor over the link, and you look in the lower left corner, ull see what website it links to... Its fake, i got it today aswell, and the link links to another website, do not enter

Tommy's

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Dec 2006

[Bone]

Mo/

12 Jan 2010 at 10:52 - 6

Ok thanks

Glad I didn't open it then ^^ I already was thinking the english was bad, but as mine isnt that well either I thought I might have been wrong :P

Any idea how they got to my email adress? I never fill in this email at sites I don't know. They sneaked it out of NCsofts database?

End

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jan 2008

Rubbing Potassium on water fountains.

LF guild that teaches MTSC (did it long ago before gw2 came out and I quit...but I barely remember)

N/A

12 Jan 2010 at 11:17 - 7

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hyperventilate

Yeah, I have to give NC something: At least they can type proper English

Inde says otherwise

but yeah the link doesn't direct where it says it does just like plaync.com links to guildwarsguru (thought about putting a different site in...but I don't wanna get banned tonight

) rather then plaync...done differently but same concept

Hyperventilate

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2007

Somewhere in California

I Gots A Crayon [Blue]

Me/Mo

12 Jan 2010 at 11:23 - 8

Quote:

Originally Posted by End

Inde says otherwise

but yeah the link doesn't direct where it says it does just like plaync.com links to guildwarsguru (thought about putting a different site in...but I don't wanna get banned tonight

) rather then plaync...done differently but same concept

Perhaps. Still seems incredibly suspcious to me. Better be safe than sorry.

Either way, someone typing with their elbows would make a more convincing e-mail.

Hengis

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Apr 2006

London

Better Than Life (BTL)

R/

12 Jan 2010 at 11:35 - 9

It's usually very easy to tell that this type of email is a fake.

The layout, grammar, spelling and such like are often of a low standard.

If you examined the email headers, you would find that the real origin of the email is not who it says it is. Often these emails are sent by unsuspecting people whose PC or Hotmail/GMail account has been compromised.

More often than not there is a link to a fake website.

If you examine the link closely, it will usually be similar to the real website but have one or more deliberate spelling errors or the substitution of a number for a letter of similar shape.

The spammer/scammer/phisher hopes that you won't notice this difference and will happily part input your login details on his fake website.

gremlin

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Oct 2006

GWAR

Me/Mo

12 Jan 2010 at 12:48 - 10

I never ever respond to such emails esp if they have a link to click on.

Instead I go to the real comapany address and enclosing a copy of the email so they can act if its a scam.

Kumu Honua

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Feb 2008

12 Jan 2010 at 13:34 - 11

A scam email? You don't say!

b-r-k

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Sep 2006

GSTA

R/

12 Jan 2010 at 15:08 - 12

Mail says:

When you receive this message when your NCsoft Account means that there are serious security risks.
We have evidence to prove your account has been in different countries and regions, several attempts to login.
So we have to remind you to enter our web site as soon as possible https://secure.ncsoft.com/login to account verification, otherwise, we will be lock your account.
In order to protect your interests.

The NCsoft Team

It looks as if it was sent by NCSoft but when look up the Return-Path you find its just anoter hotmail account and if you examine the link in the mail you find its actually a simple http connect to secuer-ncsoft.com instead of the https-link... so you better dont click it

AngelWJedi

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Sep 2008

orlando,florida

Society of Souls [Argh]

Rt/E

12 Jan 2010 at 15:33 - 13

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hyperventilate

It's fake.

"When you receive this message at the same time"?

Yeah, I have to give NC something: At least they can type proper English.

I wouldn't worry about it. They're not going to tell you to visit xyz site. They don't even tell you when your account has been compromised.
--

Now that I think about it, sounds like a bad babel fish translation.

Chinese to English, maybe?

yeah if it was real they would have banned you right then and they wouldnt send anything. they are kinda trigger happy. it seems a lot of these emails are being sent left and right now adays. i wonder if their was a sticky or something that lists all the "fake" types so a person can check if a email they get is one of them?

Earth

Always Outnumbered

Join Date: Jul 2006

12 Jan 2010 at 19:50 - 14

That's actually a pretty good idea, Angel. There are an awful lot of these emails being send around these days. I have also heard various reports of WoW account emails being send, to people who don't even have a WoW account....

A sticky like that would require the help of every one who has had a fake email, to PM us the email and the link that they were send. I'll make a suggestion for this, see what the others think.