The obvious question that comes to mind here is this:
You have a separate email that you only use for this site.
You receive a phising email for some game.
Why do you care? Are you receiving hundreds of spam emails a day? A week?
I can understand being upset to an extent, with the crap that happened recently with Codemasters (received emails from people that hacked them) - but receiving a phishing email to an email account not associated with your game account...well, you know?
I have to laugh at all the WoW email scams that come to one of my more public addresses, when that email has never been associated with any of my WoW accounts (nor is that email address the one I have here)...
Spam is annoying. Scams are annoying. You can report them to your email provider. You can report them to the FCC.
On my gmail accounts, I get next to no spam. Even on my hotmail accounts, I get little spam that I do not want (yes, there are certain things that I sign up for that I want to see which some would call spam). My one remaining yahoo account, lol - that is a lost cause. I have several others here and there, and on those I receive little to no spam as well.
One would think that if it was a wide-spread issue here, we would have seen an uproar from the community over it.
Ockham's Razor and all that...
I miss the MMORPG genre. Will a developer ever make one again?
I care because I report spammers to wherever runs the email I receive it at. On mmorpg.com I can't see full headers so there's nothing I can do about the spam myself on the message system.
And I have gotten as many as 3 phishing emails a day on my mmorpg.com account. I *was* getting them on another (internet mail) account also (one that was listed on this website) until I informed that provider. So, to me there is a correlation: I started receiving wowspam here at mmorpg.com at the same time that other account (listed in my "hidden" profile) started receiving duplicate wowspam.
Sorry about digging out this antic topic, but I am unable to create the new one. I registered on the site on 19th October and since 20th I got 2-3 spam-scam e-mails about bitcoin. I didn't registered to any site using this e-mail in the past few month. Nice job mmorpg.com with selling (or leak) e-mail addresses!
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The obvious question that comes to mind here is this:
You have a separate email that you only use for this site.
You receive a phising email for some game.
Why do you care? Are you receiving hundreds of spam emails a day? A week?
I can understand being upset to an extent, with the crap that happened recently with Codemasters (received emails from people that hacked them) - but receiving a phishing email to an email account not associated with your game account...well, you know?
I have to laugh at all the WoW email scams that come to one of my more public addresses, when that email has never been associated with any of my WoW accounts (nor is that email address the one I have here)...
Spam is annoying. Scams are annoying. You can report them to your email provider. You can report them to the FCC.
On my gmail accounts, I get next to no spam. Even on my hotmail accounts, I get little spam that I do not want (yes, there are certain things that I sign up for that I want to see which some would call spam). My one remaining yahoo account, lol - that is a lost cause. I have several others here and there, and on those I receive little to no spam as well.
One would think that if it was a wide-spread issue here, we would have seen an uproar from the community over it.
Ockham's Razor and all that...
I miss the MMORPG genre. Will a developer ever make one again?
Explorer: 87%, Killer: 67%, Achiever: 27%, Socializer: 20%
I care because I report spammers to wherever runs the email I receive it at. On mmorpg.com I can't see full headers so there's nothing I can do about the spam myself on the message system.
And I have gotten as many as 3 phishing emails a day on my mmorpg.com account. I *was* getting them on another (internet mail) account also (one that was listed on this website) until I informed that provider. So, to me there is a correlation: I started receiving wowspam here at mmorpg.com at the same time that other account (listed in my "hidden" profile) started receiving duplicate wowspam.
I registered on the site on 19th October and since 20th I got 2-3 spam-scam e-mails about bitcoin. I didn't registered to any site using this e-mail in the past few month.
Nice job mmorpg.com with selling (or leak) e-mail addresses!