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Wow, phishers really do send out e-mails!

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Well, I just got an two days ago, but I only read it today. I really can't believe that these phishing letters really exist, all this time I just thought it was just some far-fetched story. When I received the e-mail I had no clue at all how my E-mail even got there. So I obviously did not click on the link, but I did however click on to see who this was sent to, and to my surprise it was sent to exactly 16,449 people. Just goes to show you how much some people want your account to sell xD. Can anyone else believe it was sent to 16K people?!

 

 

 

On a side note, does anyone know how to report phishing through gmail?

 

 

 

Image below.

 

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That's obviously spam mail...nothing really RuneScape related...

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No but thanks for pointing this out :thumbup:

Don't you know the first rule of MMO's? Anyone higher level than you has no life, and anyone lower than you is a noob.

People in OT eat glass when they are bored.

That's obviously spam mail...nothing really RuneScape related...

 

 

 

one out of two...

 

 

 

 

 

just tag it as spam so that any future emails that look like that will be handled by the gmail filter better.

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16,000 people is nothing. Over 100,000,000,000 (yes, that's 100 billion) spam messages are sent per day.

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Drops: 1x Draconic Visage, 56x Abyssal Whip, 5x Demon Head, D Drops: 37, Barrows Drops: 43, DK Drops: 29

GWD drops: 14,000x Bars, 1x Armadyl Hilt, 2x Armadyl Skirt, 4x Sara Sword, 1x Saradomin Hilt, 8x Bandos Hilt, 8x Bandos Platebody, 9x Bandos Tassets, 4x Bandos Boots, 43x Godsword Shard, 82x Dragon Boots

Dry streak records: Saradomin 412 kills Bandos 988 kills Spirit Mages 633 kills - Slayer Sucks

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Spammers can obtain your email address by simply looking through a chain letter contact list. that could be the way they obtained your address. as for reporting phishing read this http://txpress.blogspot.com/2007/03/how ... il-in.html

 

 

 

 

 

That helps :).

Spammers can obtain your email address by simply looking through a chain letter contact list. that could be the way they obtained your address. as for reporting phishing read this http://txpress.blogspot.com/2007/03/how ... il-in.html

 

 

 

 

 

That helps :).

 

 

 

And this is why I never forward chainmail.

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16,000 people is nothing. Over 100,000,000,000 (yes, that's 100 billion) spam messages are sent per day.

 

 

 

Hmm so everyone on earth has 16 email accounts? Or multiple per account.. Wow that's hard to believe.

 

 

 

On topic though thanks for giving us a heads up, it's good to be reminded to be vigilant once in a while. For me at least :P

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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

16,000 people is nothing. Over 100,000,000,000 (yes, that's 100 billion) spam messages are sent per day.

 

 

 

Hmm so everyone on earth has 16 email accounts? Or multiple per account.. Wow that's hard to believe.

 

 

 

On topic though thanks for giving us a heads up, it's good to be reminded to be vigilant once in a while. For me at least :P

 

I myself have 4-5 e-mail accounts so it could be possible >.<

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16,000 people is nothing. Over 100,000,000,000 (yes, that's 100 billion) spam messages are sent per day.

 

Well, imagine if at least 200 of those 16,000 people fell for it. That's quite a bit of accounts lost.

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You would have to be pretty stupid to fall for these.

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16,000 people is nothing. Over 100,000,000,000 (yes, that's 100 billion) spam messages are sent per day.

 

 

 

Hmm so everyone on earth has 16 email accounts? Or multiple per account.. Wow that's hard to believe.

 

 

 

On topic though thanks for giving us a heads up, it's good to be reminded to be vigilant once in a while. For me at least :P

 

I have 14 email accounts with a combined total of over 300 spam messages per day. And I'm EXTREMELY cautious about letting anything get my email address; my friend posted his on a small website as a test and is averaging over 600 spam messages per day (rapidly increasing) on that account. Bill gates receives over 4,000,000 (4 million) spam messages per day. Over 95% of all email messages sent are spam, though the vast majority are filtered out at ISP level and never hit your inbox. It's an indisputable fact.

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Drops: 1x Draconic Visage, 56x Abyssal Whip, 5x Demon Head, D Drops: 37, Barrows Drops: 43, DK Drops: 29

GWD drops: 14,000x Bars, 1x Armadyl Hilt, 2x Armadyl Skirt, 4x Sara Sword, 1x Saradomin Hilt, 8x Bandos Hilt, 8x Bandos Platebody, 9x Bandos Tassets, 4x Bandos Boots, 43x Godsword Shard, 82x Dragon Boots

Dry streak records: Saradomin 412 kills Bandos 988 kills Spirit Mages 633 kills - Slayer Sucks

Bill gates receives over 4,000,000 (4 million) spam messages per day.

 

Rofl. :lol:

 

 

 

Obviously, we all know he has other private accounts that he uses, but that's just funny to read.

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^ Blog.

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16,000 people is nothing. Over 100,000,000,000 (yes, that's 100 billion) spam messages are sent per day.

 

 

 

 

 

In soviet russia spam gets you.

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16,000 people is nothing. Over 100,000,000,000 (yes, that's 100 billion) spam messages are sent per day.

 

 

 

Hmm so everyone on earth has 16 email accounts? Or multiple per account.. Wow that's hard to believe.

 

:P

 

Not quite, since many many MANY people easily recieve over 100 spam mails per account per day.

16,000 people is nothing. Over 100,000,000,000 (yes, that's 100 billion) spam messages are sent per day.

 

 

 

Hmm so everyone on earth has 16 email accounts? Or multiple per account.. Wow that's hard to believe.

 

 

 

On topic though thanks for giving us a heads up, it's good to be reminded to be vigilant once in a while. For me at least :P

 

I have 14 email accounts with a combined total of over 300 spam messages per day. And I'm EXTREMELY cautious about letting anything get my email address; my friend posted his on a small website as a test and is averaging over 600 spam messages per day (rapidly increasing) on that account. Bill gates receives over 4,000,000 (4 million) spam messages per day. Over 95% of all email messages sent are spam, though the vast majority are filtered out at ISP level and never hit your inbox. It's an indisputable fact.

 

 

 

 

 

Care to back up these "indisputable facts"?

"The greatest joy a man can know is to conquer his enemies and drive them before him. To ride their horses and take away their possessions. To see the faces of those who were dear to them bedewed with tears, and to clasp their wives and daughters in his arms."

 

-Genghis Khan

16,000 people is nothing. Over 100,000,000,000 (yes, that's 100 billion) spam messages are sent per day.

 

 

 

Hmm so everyone on earth has 16 email accounts? Or multiple per account.. Wow that's hard to believe.

 

:P

 

Not quite, since many many MANY people easily recieve over 100 spam mails per account per day.

 

I myself get around twenty a day, and i know my mom gets well over a hundred a day. And i also have various other emails i rarely use except on rare occasions and those get plenty of junk mail too.

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Usually you can find at least one obvious spelling/grammar mistake in the message, which jagex would never do (they use a spell checker every time, and I'm sure read over and revise all their messages/update announcements).

 

 

 

This message fails to contain an error but it is still very suspicious. Just the way it is worded... I have never heard any Jagex mod talk like that. All the update announcements have a certain wording to them, and that message just doesn't fit.

 

 

 

Oh and also I don't think a Runescape high definition 2 beta exists yet. ;)

 

 

 

I know it's obvious this is a scam, but for all those newbies out there: JAGEX WILL NEVER EMAIL YOU, ONLY CONTACT YOU INGAME VIA THE RUNESCAPE WEBSITE MESSAGING SYSTEM.

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By popular demand, this signature is back- however I currently do not have a blog up at the moment and if I did I wouldn't update it. Sorry, the sig links to nowhere :( .

16,000 people is nothing. Over 100,000,000,000 (yes, that's 100 billion) spam messages are sent per day.

 

 

 

Hmm so everyone on earth has 16 email accounts? Or multiple per account.. Wow that's hard to believe.

 

 

 

On topic though thanks for giving us a heads up, it's good to be reminded to be vigilant once in a while. For me at least :P

 

I have 14 email accounts with a combined total of over 300 spam messages per day. And I'm EXTREMELY cautious about letting anything get my email address; my friend posted his on a small website as a test and is averaging over 600 spam messages per day (rapidly increasing) on that account. Bill gates receives over 4,000,000 (4 million) spam messages per day. Over 95% of all email messages sent are spam, though the vast majority are filtered out at ISP level and never hit your inbox. It's an indisputable fact.

 

 

 

 

 

Care to back up these "indisputable facts"?

 

Be glad to. Obviously I can't offer any sort of proof about my personal accounts (photoshop is too common nowdays :P ) but I was expecting people to ask for sources.

 

 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_spam

 

A very complete article on spam, best I've found on teh internetz. A few quotes:

 

The total volume of spam (over 100 billion emails per day as of April 2008) has leveled off slightly in recent years, and is no longer growing exponentially

 

By June 2008 96.5% of e-mail received by businesses was spam.[19]

 

Further investigation reveals that that statement comes from http://www.sophos.com/pressoffice/news/articles/2008/07/dirtydozjul08.html

 

 

 

The 'Bill Gates' fact came from

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4023667.stm

 

However, I have heard that BBC messed up and it was supposed to be 'per year', not 'per day'. Not positive on that one.

 

 

 

Any other sources you want to know?

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Drops: 1x Draconic Visage, 56x Abyssal Whip, 5x Demon Head, D Drops: 37, Barrows Drops: 43, DK Drops: 29

GWD drops: 14,000x Bars, 1x Armadyl Hilt, 2x Armadyl Skirt, 4x Sara Sword, 1x Saradomin Hilt, 8x Bandos Hilt, 8x Bandos Platebody, 9x Bandos Tassets, 4x Bandos Boots, 43x Godsword Shard, 82x Dragon Boots

Dry streak records: Saradomin 412 kills Bandos 988 kills Spirit Mages 633 kills - Slayer Sucks

At the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos in January, Mr Gates predicted that technology would make spam "a thing of the past" within two years.

 

 

 

Wow, no span in 2 years? cool!

 

 

 

Although.... what's the date of this article?

 

 

 

Thursday, 18 November, 2004
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Another one of Mr Gates statements on par with his declaration "256k of RAM should be enough for anyone!" :roll:

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