Scam e-mail, FAKE LOGIN. Users Beware!

Selunca · **Posts:** 241 **Joined:** Fri Jun 18, 2004 8:11 pm

I received an e-mail today from a "Neopets Security Team" from mailto:NeopetsSecurityteam@neopets.com. (I don't know how they got that .com bit on their e-mail, but it scares me.

Anyway, The message was basically this:

Quote:

Dear Neopets member,
It has come to our attention that your account may be going unused.
To keep your account from being frozen and/or deleted simply verify that
you would like your account to remain open by clicking here. (LINK REMOVED)
Please verify your account now.
Once you have verified your accout your Neopets gaming won't
be interrupted and will continue as normal.

Sincerely,
The Neopets Security Team
----------------------------------------------------------------
PROTECT YOUR PASSWORD
NEVER give your password to anyone and ONLY log in at
http://www.neopets.com/. Protect yourself against fraudulent websites by
logging through this link:
Click here (LINK REMOVED)
----------------------------------------------------------------

Please do not reply to this e-mail. Mail sent to this address
cannot be answered.
Neopets Email ID NP342399821

The link was a link to a website not based in neopets, but based in CETL.org/uploads and then a fake login.

BEWARE. How should I warn neopets about this??

LupetyLupe · **Posted:** Wed Feb 02, 2005 4:00 pm

This looks just like the scam from supposed Paypal and Citibank emails. Wonder if it's the same person?

Gemhustler · **Posted:** Wed Feb 02, 2005 4:02 pm

Wow the scammers are running amuck today .. 3 new forms of email scams today!

The best thing is just send the whole thing to Neo, hopefully they can track these peeps down.

Selunca · **Posts:** 241 **Joined:** Fri Jun 18, 2004 8:11 pm

LupetyLupe wrote:

This looks just like the scam from supposed Paypal and Citibank emails. Wonder if it's the same person?

I got one of those too. o.x It was the same day, too!

stampsyne · **Posted:** Wed Feb 02, 2005 6:24 pm

I saw a similar one for ebay. Really authentic looking. When you look at the url, it says ebay, but whne you click it takes you elsewhere and asks for credit card info.

I just reminded myself that both places woudl NEVER ask for your password or other personal info in an email. ALWAYS type int he address directly yourself. Scammers can make e-mail look like it is FROM an official server, but they cannot make the web url look like it!

sirclucky · **Posted:** Wed Feb 02, 2005 6:35 pm

Im not enterily sure how but I know its possible to send emails from and email without having that email. You know on like greeting cards, you stick in your email adress in name, but could stick in mailto:bob@microsoft.com and nothing would stop you. They probably did something like that to send the message

vinylraven · **Posted:** Wed Feb 02, 2005 6:40 pm

sirclucky wrote:

Im not enterily sure how but I know its possible to send emails from and email without having that email. You know on like greeting cards, you stick in your email adress in name, but could stick in mailto:bob@microsoft.com and nothing would stop you. They probably did something like that to send the message

yeah, spoofing email addresses is a common spammer tactic these days, it seems. just the other day i got an email from myself claiming if i clicked on some link i could refinance my morgage or somesuch. :lol:

Twizzler0171 · **Posted:** Wed Feb 02, 2005 6:47 pm

Boy, Scammers are on a roll lately. REally desperate people, aren't they? :roll:

Don't Neopets Premium users have the email address @neopets.com, or is it different? If it is that, they really need to change it because its making it too easy for scammers.

EDIT: Nope, its @neomail.com.

Xerophyte · **Posts:** 5410 **Joined:** Sun Dec 05, 2004 2:20 pm

I got the exact same e-mail only from someone with verify.neopets.com for the second part of their e-mail. It was odd, but since I've been on my account every day and it said I wasn't being active on it, I knew it must've been a scam so I didn't bother going to the links.

It's sort of freaky though ...

smudgeoffudge · **Posted:** Wed Feb 02, 2005 8:07 pm

How are they getting the email addresses of people who play neopets?

cpvr · **Posts:** 196 **Joined:** Fri Jun 18, 2004 1:22 am

Heh. Scammers arent getting smarter. They`re just using stupid New Member tactics to cheat there way through an virtual site.

Alex · **Posted:** Wed Feb 02, 2005 8:27 pm

smudgeoffudge wrote:

How are they getting the email addresses of people who play neopets?

Fansites, no doubt.

Kuri · **Posted:** Wed Feb 02, 2005 8:44 pm

Twizzler0171 wrote:

Boy, Scammers are on a roll lately. REally desperate people, aren't they? :roll:

Don't Neopets Premium users have the email address @neopets.com, or is it different? If it is that, they really need to change it because its making it too easy for scammers.

EDIT: Nope, its @neomail.com.

I was going to say the same thing. It seems like there has been a lot more scams floating around lately... Luckily I haven't gotten any funny emails lately.

-Ducky- · **Posted:** Thu Feb 03, 2005 2:54 am

yeah, either scammers are running out of ideas or people are getting dumber and dumber

Selunca · **Posts:** 241 **Joined:** Fri Jun 18, 2004 8:11 pm

Neopets has posted on the news about this now.

Quote:

Important Newsflash - There are two new scams going around where people are sending emails that appear to be from mailto:donations@neopets.com and mailto:verify@security.neopets.com. These are frauds.
We will never ask for donations from our players, nor will we ever ask our users for their passwords. If you receive any such emails, please report them here including the header information of the sender where possible.

*Crosses fingers* Lets hope it does some good.

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