I'm not sure where to post this so I'll try here , I've tried emailing but I have not had a responce.
I have for many many years used a simple but fool proof system using my own custom domains for providing any online vendor with a unique email address.
That way if I start to receive unwanted email I can simply turn it off, or in this case if I recieve an undesirable email from an unknown source, the address the culprit sent it too will tell me where is orginated from.
On the 15/03/2011 I received a very well done but fake email from blizzard with one of the usual scams. in this case telling me it had come to there attention I was trying to sell my WoW account and surprise surprise - i would need to follow the link and log into my account ASAP.
Needless to say I was not taken in and quick poke around the underlying html code showed where the link was really trying to take me - battlecatatest dot net.
The sender was "benjamin-gerber dot web dot de; on behalf of; Blizzard Entertainment <noreply dot blizzard dot com>" (spoofed I assume, and sloppy)
All of that was easy to spot and avoid but the really worrying thing was this was mailed to my zygor@mycustomdomain so it can only of originated for here or citybank as they are the only places this email address has ever been used...
So either Zygor are passing there mailing list to less than desirable people, or somewhere it has been compromised, at least thats how it looks like to me.
Can anyone shed any light on this?
I have for many many years used a simple but fool proof system using my own custom domains for providing any online vendor with a unique email address.
That way if I start to receive unwanted email I can simply turn it off, or in this case if I recieve an undesirable email from an unknown source, the address the culprit sent it too will tell me where is orginated from.
On the 15/03/2011 I received a very well done but fake email from blizzard with one of the usual scams. in this case telling me it had come to there attention I was trying to sell my WoW account and surprise surprise - i would need to follow the link and log into my account ASAP.
Needless to say I was not taken in and quick poke around the underlying html code showed where the link was really trying to take me - battlecatatest dot net.
The sender was "benjamin-gerber dot web dot de; on behalf of; Blizzard Entertainment <noreply dot blizzard dot com>" (spoofed I assume, and sloppy)
All of that was easy to spot and avoid but the really worrying thing was this was mailed to my zygor@mycustomdomain so it can only of originated for here or citybank as they are the only places this email address has ever been used...
So either Zygor are passing there mailing list to less than desirable people, or somewhere it has been compromised, at least thats how it looks like to me.
Can anyone shed any light on this?
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