107624-recent-phishing-emails-they-look-almost-legit

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It's nice to hear that it's legit so that no one is endangering their account by clicking the links, but you guys should really take to heart that the emails gets attention as phishing attempts. If "many" people get a red flag warning (I don't know how many people have actually tagged the emails as scam, but there are other posts on the subject that I missed before creating my post) from the email format, then you need to talk to the ad firm and make them come up with a better solution. I'd personally prefer it if you didn't use a third party email address with tracker links since that is really screaming "I want to steal your data", but in the end it's really up to Carbine to decide. I'll personally keep having my email settings to deliver anything but the three legit addresses (@ncsoft.com, @arena.net and @carbinestudios.com) to my junk box; simply because sooner or later an actual scammer will notice that it's an easy way to get players to click links pointing to malicious sites, all they need to do is to copy the format of the ad firm. Imho, do not make it easy for the scammers!

It's also basic email scamming 101. Plus, many of the internet users are nowadays doing all they can to block trackers and redirects for safety reasons so legit ad firms really need to change the way they work if they want to continue. I'm by no means an expert on the subject, but it should be fully possible to get the same info that the ad firm wants without making the emails look like phishing emails; wouldn't a link to the actual website with a referral tag at the end suffice (e.g. link to "www.wildstar-online.com/newcontent&referral=email" instead of "www.malicious-looking-addres.com/tracker-inject")?


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wildstar-online.com wildstar-online.com/en/drops/2/sabotage/   (thats the link in the button, but i had to take out the http) bottom of the page add in a "you are visitor #100" for tracking purposes. That right there tells you that i skipped school the day they taught "basic email marketing 101". But that's because i had gone to the bookstore that day to pick up my copy of "how to avoid phishing scams for dummies" and so that i could buy a roll of tin foil and an instruction manual on how to fold hats.


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