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Out of game Email Gold Spam
amysue23_ESO
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I have received a gold spam email to my personal account. I have checked my forum preferences and it is NOT checked to show my email, so how did this spammer get my email? This is very upsetting.
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Tarwin✭✭✭Have you ever played any other MMO's? Could be a residual from any other gaming forum or game. I get them for lots of games I have never played. It is probably just a shot in the dark spam0 -
amysue23_ESO✭✭No I have never received an gold spam email from any other game. It's coming from here somehow.0
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Anex✭✭✭Nah what you got is what I got, a forum private message that SENT a COPY to your email.
Or I'm almost certain of that anyway because I said "WTF" too when I first saw it in my email and then noticed it was a PM here
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/89978/gold-sellers-via-this-forum-how-to-report
There were 20 people the message was sent to, all starting with A names.. we got hit first. It will only continue as there is no way to report.Edited by Anex on April 29, 2014 4:51PM1 -
amysue23_ESO✭✭Ah, that's what it is then. I got the PM here as well. Thanks! That helps my nerves.2
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Tarwin✭✭✭From here?
I guess if gold spammers were smart they could also randomize account name from the game and add @gmail.com, yahoo.com etc. I wouldn't be surprised if Account names are the the first part of the email address for many people, which is yet another reason why I hate using account names for player reference (thanks battle net?!). We won't go into the lack of immersion because of this (for another badly beaten to death topic)0 -
Bazzakrak✭✭✭Yeah you get them here, they have most likely been in and gotten a nice long list of the people who have made posts on the forum, and then set up a system to mail them all.We're born, we live, we die. And along the way, you do the best with whatever crap you step in
I'm stranded all alone in the gas station of love, And I have to use the self-service pumps
Post Hoc Ergo Proptor Hoc
Motivation alone is not enough. If i had an idiot with me and i motivated him, then i will have a motivated idiot to do stuff
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Anex✭✭✭@amysue23_ESO & @AeliaVicusPlave : Yeah it sucks the A's are getting hit first as I said. If you guys would post in the thread I linked that will keep it stuck up top and hopefully they can do something about it because they pretty much got free-range in the forum with no report/block option from PMs. (that I have seen)1
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Bazzakrak✭✭✭I was kind of a bad bad boy...
I added a forum mod to the conversation, thought that would be the easiest way for me to report it
Hope that this is something that @ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_JessicaFolsom will look into and perhaps get a way to report them in the forum as well.We're born, we live, we die. And along the way, you do the best with whatever crap you step in
I'm stranded all alone in the gas station of love, And I have to use the self-service pumps
Post Hoc Ergo Proptor Hoc
Motivation alone is not enough. If i had an idiot with me and i motivated him, then i will have a motivated idiot to do stuff2 -
Tarwin✭✭✭Ya know if these gold sellers could be as creative with solving world hunger as they are with being a pain in our behinds, this planet would be in much better shape7
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Aithny✭I got one as well. Very, very annoying. Actually i got 2 of them including the copy to my personal email.
I hope Zos will do something about that. It's bad enough we get pestered in game. I am not really waiting for more pestering in RL.
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Anex✭✭✭@Bazzakrak : They got to the B's then I see XD
I took your idea and added the admin who invited that person to the forum to the convo
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Bazzakrak✭✭✭@Anex yeah, severel people in the coversation I got it in also had names beginning with O
On a personal note, I wish that we as users of the forums could / would be better to keep all these discussions in 1 thread, we are pretty good at opening up new threads about many issues that are already on the front page of the CS part.We're born, we live, we die. And along the way, you do the best with whatever crap you step in
I'm stranded all alone in the gas station of love, And I have to use the self-service pumps
Post Hoc Ergo Proptor Hoc
Motivation alone is not enough. If i had an idiot with me and i motivated him, then i will have a motivated idiot to do stuff0 -
So either an admin is very very stupid, or an admin account got hacked.This is my Signature, but not really because I didn't sign it with a pen and its not my name.0 -
ZOS_AmeliaR✭✭✭✭✭We're looking into this now. Thanks for reporting this. On a side note, we can confirm that these accounts were not manually invited by any specific forum administrator or moderator. Currently, all forum accounts are created through our invitation system.1 -
Bazzakrak✭✭✭@ZOS_AmeliaR
Thanks for the note/reply about it.
Can you give us any hints as to how to effectivly report the accounts to you ?
And would it be possible to get a sticky on top, so we might not see 4-5 or more threads about it.
Perhaps we could even be allowed to post the usernames of the goldsellers in that sticky ?We're born, we live, we die. And along the way, you do the best with whatever crap you step in
I'm stranded all alone in the gas station of love, And I have to use the self-service pumps
Post Hoc Ergo Proptor Hoc
Motivation alone is not enough. If i had an idiot with me and i motivated him, then i will have a motivated idiot to do stuff0 -
Malediktus✭✭✭✭@ZOS_AmeliaR So why did my thread about this 2 days ago got deleted for name calling, but now there are a dozen of threads about this they dont get removed? Seems unfair.@Malediktus --- Ebonheart Pact, EU-Megaserver0 -
ZOS_AmeliaR✭✭✭✭✭We've started a sticky to consolidate reports of gold spammers on the forums: http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/90030. We'll update that thread as soon as we have more information on the issue.1
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✭how did he get your email? it is part of the forum display name. Blame zenimax for this idiocy. Every forum name with _ESO at the end contains the email of the user0 -
Vlas✭✭✭clocksstoppe wrote: »how did he get your email? it is part of the forum display name. Blame zenimax for this idiocy. Every forum name with _ESO at the end contains the email of the user
Settle down. People using systems for something other than intended is pretty par for the course in the world of the interwebs. Not everyone can predict what will happen, unless you are a hindsight predictor... and we all know what types those are.0 -
clocksstoppe✭✭✭✭✭
✭clocksstoppe wrote: »how did he get your email? it is part of the forum display name. Blame zenimax for this idiocy. Every forum name with _ESO at the end contains the email of the user
Settle down. People using systems for something other than intended is pretty par for the course in the world of the interwebs. Not everyone can predict what will happen, unless you are a hindsight predictor... and we all know what types those are.
what do you predict will happen if i gave your email to a bunch of mail spammers?0 -
Vlas✭✭✭clocksstoppe wrote: »clocksstoppe wrote: »how did he get your email? it is part of the forum display name. Blame zenimax for this idiocy. Every forum name with _ESO at the end contains the email of the user
Settle down. People using systems for something other than intended is pretty par for the course in the world of the interwebs. Not everyone can predict what will happen, unless you are a hindsight predictor... and we all know what types those are.
what do you predict will happen if i gave your email to a bunch of mail spammers?
I predict my anti-spam will catch it and if it doesnt, Ill report it as spam and let the automatic detection system figure it out.
I dont care.
Also your email isnt apart of any display on these forums. I dont know where you get your info from but it is pretty wrong.0 -
Bazzakrak✭✭✭You most likely got en e-mail due to you having the forum set up to give you a notification when you get a message on it.We're born, we live, we die. And along the way, you do the best with whatever crap you step in
I'm stranded all alone in the gas station of love, And I have to use the self-service pumps
Post Hoc Ergo Proptor Hoc
Motivation alone is not enough. If i had an idiot with me and i motivated him, then i will have a motivated idiot to do stuff0 -
Squishy✭✭✭Guess whatever you do ingame pissed them off So well done Zeni 
"In 2014, a possible bot was sent to coldharbour by a military GM for a crime she didn't commit. This argonian promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Ebonheart underground. Today, still wanted by the developers she survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a bot problem, if no one else can bite you, and if you can find her....maybe you can hire The SQUISHY."2 -
ZOS_AmeliaR✭✭✭✭✭Just to clarify, you should have only received an e-mail from community@elderscrollsonline.com, which would have been an automated notification that you've received a private message on the forums. If you did receive an e-mail from an e-mail address other than this, please contact our Support Team so they can investigate further.0
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clocksstoppe✭✭✭✭✭
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If you are so convinced it is not contained in the default username then go ahead and change it back, and watch your inboxclocksstoppe wrote: »clocksstoppe wrote: »how did he get your email? it is part of the forum display name. Blame zenimax for this idiocy. Every forum name with _ESO at the end contains the email of the user
Settle down. People using systems for something other than intended is pretty par for the course in the world of the interwebs. Not everyone can predict what will happen, unless you are a hindsight predictor... and we all know what types those are.
what do you predict will happen if i gave your email to a bunch of mail spammers?
I predict my anti-spam will catch it and if it doesnt, Ill report it as spam and let the automatic detection system figure it out.
I dont care.
Also your email isnt apart of any display on these forums. I dont know where you get your info from but it is pretty wrong.0 -
Calaban✭✭✭clocksstoppe wrote: »how did he get your email? it is part of the forum display name. Blame zenimax for this idiocy. Every forum name with _ESO at the end contains the email of the user
Not true. My email has nothing to do with my forum name.
The gold spammers did not get anyone's email addresses...they are simply spamming private messages on the forum and people are getting emails because of their notification settings.
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Deluged✭✭Daily get gold spamming junk e-mails. I'm was really taken by surprise when it first happened a few days ago. Persistent buggers aren't they?Truth? It's a person..
Truth? It will set you free.
Truth? only trumped by Love.0