Robin, They could be testing the authentication of those sites and trying to point the blame at your email address.
Bart On Feb 16, 2013 6:59 AM, "Robin Wood" <[email protected]> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Pauldotcom mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com >
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