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Article #349690Re: New spam wave warning
From: Peter T.
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2013 14:17
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2013 14:17
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Den 05-12-2013 14:49, Urbin skrev: > On Thu, 05 Dec 2013 12:24:54 +0000, Catriona R wrote: >> Also if you have the option, set your Battle.net account to a different >> email address to anything else; then you can easily see if it's real by >> where it was sent to > > Seconded. I've had it set up like that for years (and not just WoW, but any > site where I need to register a domain). > > I've been getting waves of spam/phishing mails to various addresses. First > to the one registered at wowif, then at wowguru, lately to the one I had > registered at warcraftpets. I don't know if all those sites get hacked or if > they work together with the spammers... My best guess; they work together with spammers. Or maybe even worse; thay *ARE* the spammers! Seriously. Youre running a site like wowhead and you have to pay the bills (bandwidth, storage, backups, power etc.). How many peeps clicks the ads today? I have no clue about wowhead. This is a hypothetical scenario. Imagine wowhead is maintained by goldsellers. -- Peter T. <https://elite.frontier.co.uk/>
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