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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
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 Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 2:57 pm Post subject: EB games; international orders put on hold. |
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I have been getting my PC games from EB games.com for the past few years. Usually I have no difficulties. I pay the large shipping cost and they send the game my way.
Now I have an order on hold because they "have had a surge in overseas orders" and they want me to confirm my identity by sending them an e-mail from a "paid account". That is to say hotmail or yahoo are not good enough, it must be from a work, uni, paid e-mail account.
grrrrrrrrrrrr |
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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 7:00 pm Post subject: Re: EB games; international orders put on hold. |
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| Captain Corea wrote: |
I have been getting my PC games from EB games.com for the past few years. Usually I have no difficulties. I pay the large shipping cost and they send the game my way.
Now I have an order on hold because they "have had a surge in overseas orders" and they want me to confirm my identity by sending them an e-mail from a "paid account". That is to say hotmail or yahoo are not good enough, it must be from a work, uni, paid e-mail account.
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"it must be from a work, uni, paid e-mail account."
Is it some kind of scam or phishing?
What is Phishing and Pharming?
Phishing attacks use both social engineering and technical subterfuge to steal consumers' personal identity data and financial account credentials. Social-engineering schemes use 'spoofed' e-mails to lead consumers to counterfeit websites designed to trick recipients into divulging financial data such as credit card numbers, account usernames, passwords and social security numbers. Hijacking brand names of banks, e-retailers and credit card companies, phishers often convince recipients to respond. Technical subterfuge schemes plant crimeware onto PCs to steal credentials directly, often using Trojan keylogger spyware. Pharming crimeware misdirects users to fraudulent sites or proxy servers, typically through DNS hijacking or poisoning.
http://www.antiphishing.org/index.html
Phishing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing
http://www.antiphishing.org/phishing_archive.html |
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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 3:30 am Post subject: |
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While i appretiate the post RR, I don't think that is what EB is up to.
I have a feeling they're having copy-right problems over here as well as distribution tiffs.
I think they are trying to ensure i am who I say I am.
That being said, it is annoying. |
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dogbert
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: Killbox 90210
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 4:58 pm Post subject: |
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| EB just got bought by GameStop. Maybe that's why your order is on hold. |
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buildbyflying
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Location: To your right. No, your other right.
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 5:07 pm Post subject: |
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NEVER. NEVER reply to emails requesting any personal information over the internet. I lost 1500 dollars last month through amazon for that same reason.
PLEASE contacy EBgames directly and do NOT use the email address that linked you the message. Fraud is never covered in any companies guarantees... |
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dreamscape
Joined: 05 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 9:18 pm Post subject: Off topic but.... |
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nice exploding dog buildbyflying  |
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