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Might joe
Galactic Express
#1 - 2012-02-03 17:55:04 UTC  |  Edited by: Might joe
We transferred in your PLEX account on: 03 Feb 2012 14:29:26 GMT, the
amount of 12 PLEX.
Payment ID: 14130162 (Please include with any correspondence.)
Description:
1 x 12 PLEX
TOTAL = 12 PLEX
Please go to Account Management
to claim it.
To contact Customer Support and Services, please send an Email
to:support@eveonline.com

I get this every month for some reason!!!!
ElQuirko
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2012-02-03 17:58:18 UTC
Not sure if trolling or just lucky.

Try going to account management and redeeming it

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Jarnis McPieksu
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2012-02-03 18:13:36 UTC
Most likely the email has a link to account management that actually goes to a fake site - if you try to log in there with your real credentials, you just gave them away to a third party and unsurprisingly your account will be "hacked" very soon after and stripped of anything valuable.

Since someone is still spamming such emails around, some people must be falling for them. Naturally this is due to the fact that "there are two things in the universe that have infinite supply - Hydrogen and Stupidity - and I'm not entirely sure about the former."
Micheal Dietrich
Kings Gambit Black
#4 - 2012-02-03 18:32:17 UTC
Jarnis McPieksu wrote:
Most likely the email has a link to account management that actually goes to a fake site - if you try to log in there with your real credentials, you just gave them away to a third party and unsurprisingly your account will be "hacked" very soon after and stripped of anything valuable.

Since someone is still spamming such emails around, some people must be falling for them. Naturally this is due to the fact that "there are two things in the universe that have infinite supply - Hydrogen and Stupidity - and I'm not entirely sure about the former."



There needs to be a website addy listed for it to be even possible for him to go to a shady site. I'm guessing email bug.

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Serge Bastana
GWA Corp
#5 - 2012-02-03 18:36:44 UTC
It's phishing, I get them all the time on the gmail address I set up for this character which isn't the one I use for my EVE accounts so I know for certain which are fake.

I just forward them to support@eveonline.com so that they can deal with them

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Mag's
Azn Empire
#6 - 2012-02-03 18:43:46 UTC
Serge Bastana wrote:
It's phishing, I get them all the time on the gmail address I set up for this character which isn't the one I use for my EVE accounts so I know for certain which are fake.

I just forward them to support@eveonline.com so that they can deal with them
This.

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Petrus Blackshell
Rifterlings
#7 - 2012-02-03 18:56:35 UTC
Mag's wrote:
Serge Bastana wrote:
It's phishing, I get them all the time on the gmail address I set up for this character which isn't the one I use for my EVE accounts so I know for certain which are fake.

I just forward them to support@eveonline.com so that they can deal with them
This.


Also, if you are using an email provider like GMail, report the phishing there too, as various email providers try to run phishing filters and something like this would help them do so.

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