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Today, I received a scam email to the account I created solely to join XDA developers, eg [email protected]
My privacy settings do not allow other users to send me email., Are there any other users who have recently received a similar email (see below)? Has the email database of xda been compromised?
Greetings
It has come to our attention that your account is involved in illegal transactions. As you may not be aware of, this conflicts with the EULA and Terms of Agreement.
Terms of Use: (http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/legal/termsofuse.html).
It will be ongoing for further investigation by Blizzard Entertainment's employees.
If you wish to not get your account suspended you should immediately verify your account ownership.
You must complete the steps below to secure the account and your computer.
STEP 1: ACCOUNT INVESTIGATION
We now provide a secure website for you to verify that you have taken the appropriate steps to secure the account, your computer, and your email address.
Click on the link below to verify your e-mail address of the Battle.net account:
https://www.battle.net/account/d3/login-support.html (this link is falsified in the email)
If you can’t click the link above, copy and paste the entire URL into your browser.
STEP 2: VERIFY YOUR SUBMISSION WAS RECEIVED
We will contact you with further instructions once we have received and processed your submission. If you do not receive a reply within 48 hours of submitting this form, please resend it from the address listed above.
Please be aware that if unauthorized access to this account, it may lead to further action against the account.
We understand that these policies may seem harsh, but they are in place to ensure that every player is able to enjoy their time in game. Thank you for respecting our position.
Please do not reply to this email as you will receive an automated response.
Regards,
Thary
Account Administration Team
Blizzard Entertainment 2012
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gnac said:
Today, I received a scam email to the account I created solely to join XDA developers, eg [email protected]
My privacy settings do not allow other users to send me email., Are there any other users who have recently received a similar email (see below)? Has the email database of xda been compromised?
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Yes, I received the exact same email
Title of email was Diablo 3 but email is about WoW? These scammers are getting more stupid
I haven't got the email
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2
I've had this before and suffered no ill effects because of it. It's a very common one.
Someone brought this up before and our server guy assures us that our database has not been compromised. If it's a Gmail account then set up the extra security features and view the log in info for peace of mind.
Obviously you shouldn't reply or anything but you already knew that...
Sent From My Fingers To Your Face.....
Is it by any chance hotmail?
They had an issue not long ago when loads of people got spammed with these, reporting them to blizzard themselves can help them bring them down
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2
I received the Diablo III email today to my customised account as well. It is using my own email server, not hotmail, gmail or any of the other online free ones and the format is [email protected] I don't use this email address anywhere else and I've never written it in a publicly viewable area. I've checked my XDA account and as far as I can see the email address is not publicly visible. I use customised addresses like this for each site I register with so I can tell where spam email is coming from, so exactly this kind of situation.
Just got my first email spam (also a diablo III phish) to my specific xda email address. The only other gaming related phishing emails I get is to a email address that was forum compromised several years ago. This is also not generated from a dictionary attack to my server.
Your email address database may not have been compromised, but I would not be surprised if one of your moderators / admins or such that has visible access to visible email addresses on the forums is being screen scraped by a virus.
Could be although the last time I posted here (besides in this thread) was months ago, in March.
othermark said:
Just got my first email spam (also a diablo III phish) to my specific xda email address. The only other gaming related phishing emails I get is to a email address that was forum compromised several years ago. This is also not generated from a dictionary attack to my server.
Your email address database may not have been compromised, but I would not be surprised if one of your moderators / admins or such that has visible access to visible email addresses on the forums is being screen scraped by a virus.
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We have checked our own logs to look for any kind of suspicious activity like scraping, and I believe none was found. The list of privileged accounts is checked regularly, along with removal from anyone no longer requiring it, to prevent this.
We continue to investigate. I've got a number of accounts on XDA registered with different email addresses though, and haven't seen anything like this. I'll continue to look into this.
Thanks for your diligence. As we all know the email account listing swipe/accrual/etc didn't have to be anything recent. This could be from anytime between 2010 and now, somebody has just managed to monetize/find usefulness in the data currently.
There's another thread about this with more replies over here.
Same here
Got the same email today.
I'll flag the server admin, though I'm not sure it's on our end as our database is secure and we don't share any contact details.
Also, another thread exists on this so let's just use one: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1835116
I only use the email registered on XDA for XDA forums. Received a Spam email to that email about 12 minutes ago.
I'd like to help make sure this doesn't continue to happen as I don't appreciate receiving spam.
Greetings
It has come to our attention that your account is involved in illegal transactions. As you may not be aware of, this conflicts with the EULA and Terms of Agreement.
Terms of Use: (http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/legal/termsofuse.html).
It will be ongoing for further investigation by Blizzard Entertainment's employees.
If you wish to not get your account suspended you should immediately verify your account ownership.
You must complete the steps below to secure the account and your computer.
STEP 1: ACCOUNT INVESTIGATION
We now provide a secure website for you to verify that you have taken the appropriate steps to secure the account, your computer, and your email address.
Click on the link below to verify your e-mail address of the Battle.net account:
https://www.battle.net/account/d3/login-support.html
If you can’t click the link above, copy and paste the entire URL into your browser.
STEP 2: VERIFY YOUR SUBMISSION WAS RECEIVED
We will contact you with further instructions once we have received and processed your submission. If you do not receive a reply within 48 hours of submitting this form, please resend it from the address listed above.
Please be aware that if unauthorized access to this account, it may lead to further action against the account.
We understand that these policies may seem harsh, but they are in place to ensure that every player is able to enjoy their time in game. Thank you for respecting our position.
Please do not reply to this email as you will receive an automated response.
Regards,
Thary
Account Administration Team
Blizzard Entertainment 2012
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I got the same one a few days ago.
There was a topic on this before recently too.
If Pulser or any of the Admins want, I can forward the email on to them.
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Just another guy from Potato Land™...
I also use an email address here that is used nowhere else, and got the same fake Blizzard account spam. The email came from an IP in China. I would have to assume the forum's email addresses have been compromised.
Anything?
One of the admins mentioned in a previous thread about this that they're trying to find the source of the problem, but they're confident that there's been no breach of personal data or that the system has been comprised at any point.
''Evil corrupts the mind of the weak but fails to feed off the mind of the strong''
Here is the "official" thread on the subject:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1835116
An administrator there says, "We feel that there are enough of these to indicate that at some point in the past there was some sort of information disclosure which exposed these email accounts."
Hi,
I've noticed an issue with sending from different email accounts using the 'Email' app (not Gmail).
I have two Exchange accounts set up on my Gnex, however if I used the combined view and start composing an email I am unable to change which account the email will be sent from. Likewise if I am in the inbox for 'Account 1' then I am not able to choose 'Account 2' as the from account without coming out of the mail, switching inbox and starting a new email.
This is also a problem when using the 'share via email' capability of some apps, as I can't choose which account will do the sending.
Does anyone else have this issue?
This is also the same on my Nexus 7, so it's not specific to the device. Both are running stock unrooted 4.2.1
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I had just registered, so first I wish to say HELLO to all.
While registering I saw that the activation email was send into my SPAM section, and NOT into the Inbox on my email account (gmail).
I am just posting this matter because maybe it can be resolved somehow, or some admin/moderator will notice google that is wrong to deliver the activation email in spam and not into the inbox, maybe they have some algorithms messed up.
(I checked the "Not spam button" maybe will help somehow).
isabelamoisin said:
I had just registered, so first I wish to say HELLO to all.
While registering I saw that the activation email was send into my SPAM section, and NOT into the Inbox on my email account (gmail).
I am just posting this matter because maybe it can be resolved somehow, or some admin/moderator will notice google that is wrong to deliver the activation email in spam and not into the inbox, maybe they have some algorithms messed up.
(I checked the "Not spam button" maybe will help somehow).
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Thanks for the heads up - we will take a look on our end as far as mail server config and DNS config to see if we can tweak anything.
I created this account through direct signing in with Google, now I am starting to make frameworks and mods, I want to make my username more consistent across my accounts.
Upon visiting the contact page, I filled out the form and it won't submit, I have tried many times.
Upon trying to create a new account, it blocks me for spam and tells me to contact XDA, but I run in to the same issue.
I am not sure where to post this but all I want is to change my username or make a new account, but I cannot do so.
Thanks,
Joe.
SOLVED: it seems like XDA is blocking my .xyz email as span, I used a backup email and created a new account. I recommend fixing this bug as it causes a lot of issues for me and others with .xyz emails
Hello and welcome on XDA,
you can send a private message to @MikeChannon, if you want to have your username changed.
But if he reads this here, he will send contact you
Kind regards
Trafalgar Square
JoeHannon said:
I created this account through direct signing in with Google, now I am starting to make frameworks and mods, I want to make my username more consistent across my accounts.
Upon visiting the contact page, I filled out the form and it won't submit, I have tried many times.
Upon trying to create a new account, it blocks me for spam and tells me to contact XDA, but I run in to the same issue.
I am not sure where to post this but all I want is to change my username or make a new account, but I cannot do so.
Thanks,
Joe.
SOLVED: it seems like XDA is blocking my .xyz email as span, I used a backup email and created a new account. I recommend fixing this bug as it causes a lot of issues for me and others with .xyz emails
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Are you saying you currently have 2 accounts then? I understand why if so, but you may only have one.
You can pm me the details, and we can sort it out. :good: