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E_SWAMP

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Hello everyone i just got my first phishing mail to SWtor today. For you who dont know how to spot them, heres a little help.

 

I got a mail named Star Wars Account-Notice ( Just like the ones from WOW )

The pic im linking is on D-Notice.dk ( a Danish gaming community )

 

Windows live Mail.

 

Right click the mail, and Press the buttom one ( properties ) ( sorry mine is on danish )

Livemail1.jpg

 

Here u select the 2nd tab ( Details ) Here u got a list, look for Received:, Message-Id: and Return-Path: The Return-Path is what it look good enough, on till u think about it. why wouldl support send a mail form a non support mail?

[ As you can seen on the one i got, it was sent from China ( Surprise ) ]

Livemail2.jpg

 

 

Hotmail.

Find the mail a Right click it. and click the buttom one ( View Mail Source )

Hotmail1.jpg

 

Here you will see a wall of text. Locate Received:, Message-Id: and Return-Path:

The Return-Path is what it look good enough, on till u think about it. why would support send a mail form a non support mail?

Again you will se that mine is sent from china

Hotmail2.jpg

 

Thats about it. hope it helps some of you not to end up in a support nightmare

 

Sorry about any misspells. English is not my native tongue

 

Best Regards

E_Swamp Aka chain

 

May the force be with you

 

Reply from one of the bots here

Hello E_SWAMP,

 

Any email sent to you from Star Wars™: The Old Republic™ will originate from the mail domain ‘@email.swtor.com’.

 

This domain should be the only one you see in the ‘sender’ and ‘reply-to’ headers in an email that is genuinely from us.

 

Please also be aware that we will never request your password details or the answers to your Security questions via email.

 

If you receive an email claiming to be from Star Wars: The Old Republic that asks you to provide this kind of information (either replying to the mail or by clicking on a link), please do not reply to the mail and do not follow any hyperlinks in the message.

 

We would ask you to please forward any suspect mails to support@swtor.com so that we can investigate them.

 

Thank you for your help.

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I got something better.

 

1. Create gmail account

2. Use aliases like:

 

myEmail+swtorcom@gmail.com

 

myEmail+torhead@gmail.com

 

myEmail+reddit@gmail.com

 

myEmail+myWebsite@gmail.com

 

myEmail+work@gmail.com

 

myEmail+youtube@gmail.com

 

etc...

 

3. Use emails with aliases to register on websites. All your emails will be received by myEmail@gmail.com but all of the will have aliases.

 

4. Move ALL EMAILS that have no alias to spam by default (gmail filter).

 

5. If there will be email like described above - check alias to see who sold database with emails.

 

6. If you have proper goverment, make a complain. In my country spamer must pay 1200 euro for EVERY spam he send. He must pay that sum on charity or orphant house or something.

 

7. I do this stuff for 2 years and right now there is 14 orphant houses that got some money thanks to me while I didn't spend even a cent on them. Its around 15000 euro :-)

 

Simple ? Simple! Email with no alias means that someone filter them so you can just delete them by default.

Everything else is labeled.

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