Please update us if you discover what they are doing. Bart On Mar 9, 2013 4:20 PM, "Robin Wood" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Feb 16, 2013 3:30 PM, "Robin Wood" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > On Feb 16, 2013 2:56 PM, "James Costello" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > 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 > > > > I did consider that but the name is only 5 characters and there are no > symbols in it. > > > > I've been getting these on and off for about a year but till the last > few months it was only one every few months so unlikely a new account. > > > > Robin > > > > > 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]> > 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 > > >>> > > >>> > > Quick update, over 2 hours overnight I was signed up for 6 tumble > accounts.Randomly spaced intervals, links in the emails were going to legit > Tumblr URLs. I can't see any referral program for Tumblr sign ups so guess > as they would have known the passwords for the sites they were trying to > create blogs for some nefarious purpose. > > > 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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