Suggestion: Stop leaking email addresses to spammers

[Pendulous]

unique non-guessable email address used ONLY for this forum.
join date: 2011-03-24

just checked my spam folder and I have 4 phishing emails to this unique email.
12 MAY 2011
18 MAY 2011
19 MAY 2011
04 JUN 2011

Check your computer for a keylogger.

[potatoe]

I have Symantec Endpoint protection as antivirus.
I browse with Google Chrome (built-in sanbdox), Flash Block, and Java disabled.
I stay patched using Microsoft Update and Filehippo on Windows 7.

However, even if I did have keylogger, your reply defies logic.

Please explain how a keylogger would cause me to get blizzard phishing emails to the email address I created for and gave only to the mmo champion forum.

[Nyne]

rofl , i just starting get a spam of fake emails , and i just my acc for this and wow =S im 100% sure mi pc dont have a keylogger or smth :S

[Oneirophobia]

This.

I have never had a spam email on that address, not one. So, it's obviously not mmoc.

Thats odd. Do you just have a really great junkmail filter? It would then appear as if you didn't.

The email I used for MMOC has never been used anywhere before, nobody has it but this site, and I get "GIVE US YOUR RIFT ACCOUNT" (never played) and "GIVE US YOUR WOW ACCOUNT" about 3 or 4 daily.

---------- Post added 2011-06-08 at 05:38 AM ----------

I have Symantec Endpoint protection as antivirus.
I browse with Google Chrome (built-in sanbdox), Flash Block, and Java disabled.
I stay patched using Microsoft Update and Filehippo on Windows 7.

However, even if I did have keylogger, your reply defies logic.

Please explain how a keylogger would cause me to get blizzard phishing emails to the email address I created for and gave only to the mmo champion forum.

If they keylogged you why wouldn't they just take passwords directly instead of just taking one random barely used email address...
Or, at the very least, spam ALL your emails they find you using.

[Pendulous]

I have Symantec Endpoint protection as antivirus.
I browse with Google Chrome (built-in sanbdox), Flash Block, and Java disabled.
I stay patched using Microsoft Update and Filehippo on Windows 7.

However, even if I did have keylogger, your reply defies logic.

Please explain how a keylogger would cause me to get blizzard phishing emails to the email address I created for and gave only to the mmo champion forum.

Quoted straight from Boub himself(on this very thread):

I don't have a good explanation for that, every time someone complains I forward to my lovely developers who poke some more at stuff and come back to me saying that it's clean. My guess is most likely random tracking cookies and stuff, which still doesn't make sense because I'm pretty sure we don't store email adresses in cookies either.

So basically, if someone can prove me wrong and finds a way to get the emails of our users we'll be very happy to fix it. It would be stupid to pretend that we can't be hacked especially with all the happy hacking funtimes in the news lately but as far as we know, there isn't any vulnerability to grab the emails of users on the site.

And no, we don't sell your emails either, people would notice it easily and even if we were pure evil, it just wouldn't be worth the money. Spammers already have billions of mails they can play with, and we don't have that many users registered on the forums. I'm pretty sure it wouldn't even pay our bandwidth costs just for a day.

And I'll say it again:

I use the SAME email address for EVERYTHING. I use Yahoo (which I don't really know much about their ability to kill off spam emails). I even use the email address as a user ID elsewhere. I frequent porn sites. And while it doesn't matter(non-WoW players claiming to have received keylogging mail), I played WoW for over three years.

And yet, I have NEVER received any fake Blizzard email. Sooo...it's not a matter of using a different address for every single site. It seems to either be a lack of security, or a random issue that hasn't been found.

[Myrrar]

Thats odd. Do you just have a really great junkmail filter? It would then appear as if you didn't.

The email I used for MMOC has never been used anywhere before, nobody has it but this site, and I get "GIVE US YOUR RIFT ACCOUNT" (never played) and "GIVE US YOUR WOW ACCOUNT" about 3 or 4 daily.[COLOR="red"]

It's just reg gmail. I switched to a clean new email because we get masses of reports in our email so I made it around December when I became a mod. It hasn't have one email, in my spam or reg folder, ever that wasn't a report.

1/2 the time people get emails by other ways. Knowing some other email and people use the same name, or around the same name and they can guess it. My roommates just had their gmails hacked that way. My mmoc gmail account is just nothing I have anywhere else.