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PostPosted: Sun, 31st Jul 2011 03:33    Post subject: WTF some chinese guy is using my email
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Hello zhang,

Welcome to Battle.net!

You have successfully created the following Battle.net account:

myemailwhichismyfirstnameandsurnameanditobviouslyisntzhang@hotmail.com

The Battle.net account is a centralized account system that will let you manage all of the Blizzard Entertainment games you play, including World of Warcraft and future games, in one place without having to remember multiple sets of login information.

We highly recommend that you take this opportunity to verify your e-mail address. Verifying your e-mail address will unlock extra Battle.net account features, including the ability to register Blizzard games you own so that you can download them, free of charge, any time you want. To do so, simply click here:


It cant just be a coincidence, my email isn't some generic common crap! It must be teh virtual war they talked about on fox news. And I cant even email this zhang guy cuz obviously he's using my email.

Good thing im drinking a very fine white wine and eating an alfajor to cope with all this.
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PostPosted: Sun, 31st Jul 2011 03:42    Post subject:
Change all your passwords, make sure your battle.net-account/s haven't been hacked etc.

Or it's simply a chinese phishing-attempt.

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PostPosted: Sun, 31st Jul 2011 03:44    Post subject:
I dont have a battle net account. And the links in the email seem legit (I didnt click the verify email obviously).

But the alfajor is great.
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PostPosted: Sun, 31st Jul 2011 03:46    Post subject:
And yeah, I havent changed my passwords in years, but they are all different (one for each site) and crazy safe.

like my date of birth. And my name. And password.
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PostPosted: Sun, 31st Jul 2011 03:47    Post subject:
Seriously how did this china guy find out my name and surname?
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PostPosted: Sun, 31st Jul 2011 04:47    Post subject:
It's hotmail. They've been farming hotmail addresses for years.

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PostPosted: Sun, 31st Jul 2011 05:18    Post subject:
Oh yeah, once upon a time the east

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PostPosted: Sun, 31st Jul 2011 09:46    Post subject:
Scam/phishing attempt. I've been getting these e-mails since forever and all I have is a trial account which I haven't used since TBC.



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PostPosted: Sun, 31st Jul 2011 16:11    Post subject: Re: WTF some chinese guy is using my email
Invasor wrote:
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Hello zhang,

Welcome to Battle.net!

You have successfully created the following Battle.net account:

myemailwhichismyfirstnameandsurnameanditobviouslyisntzhang@hotmail.com

The Battle.net account is a centralized account system that will let you manage all of the Blizzard Entertainment games you play, including World of Warcraft and future games, in one place without having to remember multiple sets of login information.

We highly recommend that you take this opportunity to verify your e-mail address. Verifying your e-mail address will unlock extra Battle.net account features, including the ability to register Blizzard games you own so that you can download them, free of charge, any time you want. To do so, simply click here:


It cant just be a coincidence, my email isn't some generic common crap! It must be teh virtual war they talked about on fox news. And I cant even email this zhang guy cuz obviously he's using my email.

Good thing im drinking a very fine white wine and eating an alfajor to cope with all this.

thats fucked up, i got the same exact one. zhang in lower-case. o_O
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PostPosted: Sun, 31st Jul 2011 17:26    Post subject:
That Zhang guy sure does get around.
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PostPosted: Sun, 31st Jul 2011 17:52    Post subject:
Time to start using LastPass and generate secure 16-32 character unique passwords for each domain or even sub-domain.
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PostPosted: Sun, 31st Jul 2011 18:11    Post subject:
iNatan wrote:
Time to start using LastPass and generate secure 16-32 character unique passwords for each domain or even sub-domain.


What do you do if you generated such passwords and now need to access the sites from a public computer without LastPass? Obviously, you won't remember it by heart...that's why I generate one or two strong passwords and use it everywhere. At least that way I can be sure I'll be able to access my sites from anywhere.

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PostPosted: Sun, 31st Jul 2011 18:21    Post subject:
I get a number of weird e-mails and similar attempts, usually scams or your generic advertisement stuff so I tend to just delete it, as said above though e-mail addresses are cheap and often sold/traded around so it's not surprising they have mine, or yours and so on. Smile

Can't see much from what you quoted though unless some crap was attached in the mail itself, normally there's either a fake link (If they're trying for passwords or accounts or similar.) or a real link but via a sub-link (Or what they're called, redirects there.) that's somewhat hidden.

Most of these attempts are pretty pathetic and very easy to recognize but deleting these 10 or so spam mails I get daily sure gets boring.
(I've even started getting Chinese spam now.)

EDIT: Unless they used your e-mail for something with Blizzard's network which would be odd and I doubt it would also be effective.
(You could always go to Blizzard's official website and reclaim your "lost" account and see what info is sent.)

EDIT: Ah so it was something like that.


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PostPosted: Sun, 31st Jul 2011 18:24    Post subject:
hes not using ur email invasor.. (well not inside the mailbox itself)

I had one and dealt with it via blizzard.. they said the email was just used to see if you had already had an account active with it with them... its another way of finding targets apparently.. anyhow if you send a ticket they will remove that account/email from the db..

oh btw, same name from same guy for me also Smile
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PostPosted: Sun, 31st Jul 2011 20:09    Post subject:
itzhjsut a scmkam, i woujoldn woulrry about it
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PostPosted: Sun, 31st Jul 2011 20:11    Post subject:
Had a couple of drinks?
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PostPosted: Sun, 31st Jul 2011 20:27    Post subject:
KGen wrote:
iNatan wrote:
Time to start using LastPass and generate secure 16-32 character unique passwords for each domain or even sub-domain.


What do you do if you generated such passwords and now need to access the sites from a public computer without LastPass? Obviously, you won't remember it by heart...that's why I generate one or two strong passwords and use it everywhere. At least that way I can be sure I'll be able to access my sites from anywhere.

Do a two factor authentication?
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PostPosted: Sun, 31st Jul 2011 20:45    Post subject:
JBeckman wrote:
EDIT: Unless they used your e-mail for something with Blizzard's network which would be odd and I doubt it would also be effective.
(You could always go to Blizzard's official website and reclaim your "lost" account and see what info is sent.)

EDIT: Ah so it was something like that.


Yeah, it was. The links were legit, and when I tried to create a new account on blizzard (I dont have one) it said my email is already in use. So I tried to reset the password but it asks for the name and surname (plain zhang didnt work). I guess he wont be able to use it since I didn't click the validate account link.

moosenoodles wrote:
hes not using ur email invasor.. (well not inside the mailbox itself)

I had one and dealt with it via blizzard.. they said the email was just used to see if you had already had an account active with it with them... its another way of finding targets apparently.. anyhow if you send a ticket they will remove that account/email from the db..

oh btw, same name from same guy for me also Smile

Yeah he just used my email to register an account on battle.net. I wont do anything about it though, never used battle.net and probably never will.

dsergei wrote:
Had a couple of drinks?

Maybe more Laughing
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PostPosted: Sun, 31st Jul 2011 21:05    Post subject:
iNatan wrote:
Do a two factor authentication?


What do you mean?

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PostPosted: Sun, 31st Jul 2011 21:12    Post subject:
KGen wrote:
iNatan wrote:
Do a two factor authentication?


What do you mean?


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16 chars.. that's the first part of your password.

then you xor it with another 16 char password.

you have to do this on a paper every time, but you'll get used to it.


















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PostPosted: Sun, 31st Jul 2011 21:50    Post subject:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-factor_authentication

It's a great concept, and can practically not be guessed by someone eavesdropping. So even if they knew my password, they would not be able to ever login.

That is what I did with my Google account as well - I have a nice iPhone app which offers me Open-Authentication based psuedo-random generator which I use to login to Google. So my password is now 6 characters long, as required by Google, and one could guess it in minutes if you knew anything about me. Won't help you much. Wink
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PostPosted: Sun, 31st Jul 2011 23:08    Post subject:
iNatan wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-factor_authentication

It's a great concept, and can practically not be guessed by someone eavesdropping. So even if they knew my password, they would not be able to ever login.

That is what I did with my Google account as well - I have a nice iPhone app which offers me Open-Authentication based psuedo-random generator which I use to login to Google. So my password is now 6 characters long, as required by Google, and one could guess it in minutes if you knew anything about me. Won't help you much. Wink


Brute-forcing 6-character passwords doesn't take that long with octo-core CPU's and GPGPU-systems. Wink

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PostPosted: Sun, 31st Jul 2011 23:09    Post subject:
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PostPosted: Sun, 31st Jul 2011 23:14    Post subject:
iNatan wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-factor_authentication

It's a great concept, and can practically not be guessed by someone eavesdropping. So even if they knew my password, they would not be able to ever login.

That is what I did with my Google account as well - I have a nice iPhone app which offers me Open-Authentication based psuedo-random generator which I use to login to Google. So my password is now 6 characters long, as required by Google, and one could guess it in minutes if you knew anything about me. Won't help you much. Wink


but google (i.e. the FBI, CIA, NSA etc.) can still read all your stuff anyways Laughing
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PostPosted: Sun, 31st Jul 2011 23:17    Post subject:
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