SCAM ALERT

Alienoutlaw

victims are being told that they have 15 minutes to fill in their email address, password and date of birth on the account, or else they will be blocked from the game:
Under the current circumstances, you have 15 minutes from opening this alert to respond with the required information. Failure to do so will result in an immediate Account Ban, permanently losing online access to our servers on all platforms, along with all characters associated with the account in question. Please be sure to double check your information spelling before sending

ZOS WILL NEVER ASK FOR THIS INFO

Turelus

Good to have passed this on. If you're using a Microsoft email you can also flag emails phishing to them which helps them stop them coming through.

ChunkyCat

Oh no! Do they need my credit card info, too?!

It’s in my wallet, which is by the front door. Be right back...

Elsonso

Sigh. If this is legit, this is one of the places where future bot accounts come from.

1. Asks for private account information
2. No personal information given, like your name, in the body of the message
3. Creates sense of urgency, often with a time limit

I am sure that the reply address is not valid, either.

JanTanhide

Thanks! I haven't seen this scam yet. Watch out folks.

Alienoutlaw

it defo legit i would not have posted otherwise, i would suggest making your email private on your forum profile and any suspect email screen shot send send to Support, unlink any credit or debit card details you have for the time being also

jircris11

Alienoutlaw wrote: »

victims are being told that they have 15 minutes to fill in their email address, password and date of birth on the account, or else they will be blocked from the game:
Under the current circumstances, you have 15 minutes from opening this alert to respond with the required information. Failure to do so will result in an immediate Account Ban, permanently losing online access to our servers on all platforms, along with all characters associated with the account in question. Please be sure to double check your information spelling before sending

ZOS WILL NEVER ASK FOR THIS INFO

I was about to post this, good job!

Danikat

Thanks for letting us know this is going around.

I hope no one falls for it. Hopefully most players should be aware that ZOS has absolutely no need to ask for your email address (especially in an email) or password. They should be able to get the email address associated with your account from their database if they need it, and will never need to know your password.

They also wouldn't demand a response within 15 minutes. The closest I've seen to that is some support tickets which say if you don't respond within 24 or 48 hours (I can't remember which) they'll assume the issue is resolved. But even then you can start it up again after that time, it just puts you to the back of the queue.

RavenSworn

This needs to be up there. Zos needs to see into this since 1) it will affect their reputation 2) it means that someone has been using their copyright property.

Vanos444

RavenSworn wrote: »

This needs to be up there. Zos needs to see into this since 1) it will affect their reputation 2) it means that someone has been using their copyright property.

It's Bethesda afterall...
Everything is in alpha and beta stages. xD