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 [email protected] 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 > <[email protected]<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', '[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] <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', >> '[email protected]');> >> http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom >> Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com >> > > > > -- > _________________________________ > Note to self: Pillage BEFORE burning. >
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