Rift Scam Email (was forum=222)Follow

About one week ago I registered at this website.
A few hours after registering at this website, I started getting Scam mails / Phishing mails; see below.
These mails are sent on a daily basis.

There isn't a single other website, company or person that knows I have purchased this game or has my email address, except Trion and ZAM. So either the ZAM database has a serious security issue / leak, or ZAM is selling email addresses to third parties (for advertising purposes).

PS. In my profile my address is hidden and I unticked the advertisement options.

Seriously dissapointed in ZAM for causing this.


Phishing mail below the line
************************************
Greetings Ascended!



We have already noted that you are trying to sell your personal RIFT account (s).

Terms of Use (http://www.trionworlds.com/en/legal/terms-of-use.php).



It will be ongoing for further investigation by Trion Worlds, Inc'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: SECURE THE ACCOUNT, YOUR COMPUTER AND YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS

Account compromises most often occur when a player shares login information with an unauthorized

third party or plays on a computer that has a virus, Trojan, or key-logger. We recommend you read and

apply the following tips to protect yourself and the account.





STEP 2: 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. Please go to this site and follow the instructions:

https://session.trionworlds.com/login?service=http%3A%2F%2Frift.trionworlds.com%2Fj_spring_cas_security_check&locale=en





STEP 3: 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.




The RIFT Team



Trion Worlds, Inc.

www.RIFTgame.com



To ensure our emails are not filtered into your junk folder, use your email program to set trionworlds.com as a safe sender.

Edited, Apr 7th 2011 2:25pm by DaniWes

Is there something missing from your cut and paste? Those URLs are safe. That is Trion's website.

session.trionworlds.com is the domain that is used to log in for riftgame.com.

The actual URL you go to when you click the link is <url of obvious phishing domain removed to prevent users from clicking it>.

My webmail mentions it's unsafe to click the link and it marks the email as fraude, when I try to open it in Google Chrome it warns me it is a phishing website and I have to click the warning to allow the site to open, but then McAfee shuts down the browser to protect me from evil.

I'm not accusing ZAM to directly cause this, or be behind this, however since this is the only Rift related website I signed on thus far, and the same day I signed on here I get this phishing scam, there is definitely a relation and I would like ZAM to do an investigation into this matter.

PS. The email address I used for this website is different than my private email address I used to activate Rift, so that's why I knew 100% it wasn't coming from Trion.

Edited, Apr 8th 2011 1:02am by Nizdaar

True I've had this account for a long time to access wowhead.

However what I meant was, only just signed in, after a long time of absense if you will, not registered.
I more or less reactivated my account, hence the password reset cause I forgot it.

Once again, I'm not accusing you guys or anything, it's just the sheer coincidence of signing on here and the same day getting scam, on the email address I registered with at this website.

/confirm. Some Trion employee is definately leaking our emails to the phish.