[GM]Pizza Joymax (joymax.gmpizza@gmail.com) Email SCAM

slimshady · **Posted:** Fri Apr 11, 2008 3:21 am

This was just sent to me.

Hi this is the Joymax Moderation Team.
Recently we have been running through the logs in order to see how many logins, d/c.etc of follow silkroad players.
We came across your account and found that there was some type of glitch that deleted your personal info, secret question, login name, and password from are databse.
In order to re-claim your account you MUST send all your info listed above, WE WILL NOT login to your account nor delete it restoring this info back into the database will help you by not loosing info and so we can re-send your password to you.
We want to make sure you enjoy Silkroad Online to the fullest, and want you to have a great expierence with us.
REPLY to this email with your info which was stated in line #2
We are sorry for the inconvenience this may have caused.

Burningwolf · **Joined:** Jun 2007 **Posts:** 2583 **Location:** :|

ahhh shit
thats a scam =[
fck im screwed :banghead:

ineedhelp · **Joined:** Mar 2007 **Posts:** 1137 **Location:**

lol damn ppl are still making those scam emails

StealMySoda · **Joined:** Sep 2006 **Posts:** 5245 **Location:**

Wait, that wasn't a GM?

RiceFarmer · **Joined:** Dec 2007 **Posts:** 342 **Location:**

Tsk Tsk

Snoopy · **Posted:** Fri Apr 11, 2008 5:20 am

Well, why do people still do these. It may work on a game where GM's/JM's care about you, however trying to scam people on a game where GM don't even give a rats behind, really isn't well... all that smart. People who fall for it are ever dumber than first expected.

buster5995 · **Joined:** Jun 2007 **Posts:** 444 **Location:**

Burningwolf wrote:

ahhh shit
thats a scam =[
fck im screwed :banghead:

i hope to god thats sarcasum.

Elise · **Posted:** Fri Apr 11, 2008 6:09 am

Snoopy wrote:

Well, why do people still do these. It may work on a game where GM's/JM's care about you, however trying to scam people on a game where GM don't even give a rats behind, really isn't well... all that smart. People who fall for it are ever dumber than first expected.

Its true that most players know that, but scammers rely on the fact that a minority of players will fall for the scam, so they keep doing it. Players that fall for this are not dumb, just gullible and are not well informed. Would be nice to think that everyone always reads the regular pink notices from [GM]'s on every server once in a while.

ShadowReaver · **Joined:** Jan 2008 **Posts:** 335 **Location:**

slimshady wrote:

This was just sent to me.

Hi this is the Joymax Moderation Team.
Recently we have been running through the logs in order to see how many logins, d/c.etc(since when a formal letter contains etc ?:P) of follow silkroad players.
We came across your account and found that there was some type of glitch that deleted your personal info, secret question, login name, and password from are databse.
In order to re-claim your account you MUST send all your info listed above, WE WILL NOT login to your account nor delete it restoring this info back into the database will help you by not loosing info and so we can re-send your password to you.
We want to make sure you enjoy Silkroad Online to the fullest, and want you to have a great expierence with us.
REPLY to this email with your info which was stated in line #2
We are sorry for the inconvenience this may have caused.

LOL
Even Joymax doesnt have so many spelling mistakes. This scammer must be 12 years old. Moreover, GM's always spam us ingame that they will never ask for our login information etc.. this is just stupid. I wouldnt have fallen for that.
Saddens me to think though, that some people may have fallen for this already. *sigh* the scum in the world.

Astra · **Joined:** Dec 2007 **Posts:** 535 **Location:**

oh yeah, and they picked up [GM]ail too! roflmao

RuYi · **Joined:** Apr 2006 **Posts:** 7145 **Location:** Done.

slimshady wrote:

Hi this is the Joymax Moderation Team.
Recently we have been running through the logs in order to see how many logins, d/c.etc of follow silkroad players.

If it sounds too good to be true, it is too good to be true.

+1 to Snoopy: It might have a bigger chance of working if it was a game where the company cared. And even then, a company who does care will keep on telling its players they won't ever ask for information like that.

iGod · **Joined:** Oct 2006 **Posts:** 3728 **Location:**

RuYi wrote:

slimshady wrote:

Hi this is the Joymax Moderation Team.
Recently we have been running through the logs in order to see how many logins, d/c.etc of follow silkroad players.

If it sounds too good to be true, it is too good to be true.

+1 to Snoopy: It might have a bigger chance of working if it was a game where the company cared. And even then, a company who does care will keep on telling its players they won't ever ask for information like that.

And they did countless times in notices / scripted messages.

mmellu · **Joined:** May 2007 **Posts:** 837 **Location:**

I had kinda those to ;<

LillDev!l · **Joined:** Aug 2007 **Posts:** 2587 **Location:** OTL&OG

i love those, they always make me laugh.
a GM telling me i must send him my info, only he wont log into my acount ? >.< come on ...
o well, atleast they are funny, and they eliminate the reallly really dumb ppl from sro

tedtwilliger · **Posted:** Fri Apr 11, 2008 11:30 am

yes lets all ignore those pink messages in game telling us to never give out our account info

ShadowReaver · **Joined:** Jan 2008 **Posts:** 335 **Location:**

LillDev!l wrote:

i love those, they always make me laugh.
a GM telling me i must send him my info, only he wont log into my acount ? >.< come on ...
o well, atleast they are funny, and they eliminate the reallly really dumb ppl from sro

That's some kind of a way of thinking.

Calico · **Joined:** Jan 2008 **Posts:** 244 **Location:**

tedtwilliger wrote:

yes lets all ignore those pink messages in game telling us to never give out our account info

Speaks the truth really. Anyone who falls for this.. deserves it IMHO. Doesn't take a genius to realize that the company will never need to ask for your account information, especially in an email.

Pink-Pantha · **Joined:** Aug 2007 **Posts:** 168 **Location:**

Well.. its just like ______'s Law (i cant remember his name

) Sooner or later all the stupid people will be wiped out from doing.... you guessed it.. stupid stuff. Leaving the Smarter more knowledgeable people to prosper.

Simple.

Godzilla666 · **Joined:** Mar 2008 **Posts:** 70 **Location:**

I was GM on a game myself and it is very difficult to prevent this kind of stuff. It isn't difficult to create a hotmail or other address that looks like something official of the site and after creation the scammer goes to the official forum and other big forums related to the game to pick up all the email addresses showed in the forum profile of the players and sends his mail. I'm sure that players that don't show their email address somewhere on forums didn't receive that mail. I'm just afraid that younger players and players that aren't used to all the scam, phishing, hacking and less beautifull aspects of these games will be victim of this. And the GM's of JM will not help them out.
Perhaps the scammer picked up a couple of email addresses here, who knows.

Glavie's Girl · **Joined:** Jun 2007 **Posts:** 1464 **Location:**

wow people still use emails to scam oO surprised that they didnt ask for you to list your server as well. lol

Qosta420 · **Joined:** Feb 2008 **Posts:** 434 **Location:**

StealMySoda wrote:

Wait, that wasn't a GM?

lol Joymax always says that gm's will NEVER ask you for your name and password in those globalish thingies they do periodicly... dont you even play this game?

Qosta420 · **Joined:** Feb 2008 **Posts:** 434 **Location:**

StealMySoda wrote:

Wait, that wasn't a GM?

lol Joymax always says that gm's will NEVER ask you for your name and password in those globalish thingies they do periodicly... dont you even play this game?

WakingLife · **Posted:** Fri Apr 11, 2008 7:00 pm

Double post ftl? And btw its easy to understand that, that was sarcasm.

Burningwolf · **Joined:** Jun 2007 **Posts:** 2583 **Location:** :|

buster5995 wrote:

Burningwolf wrote:

ahhh shit
thats a scam =[
fck im screwed :banghead:

i hope to god thats sarcasum.

WakingLife wrote:

Double post ftl? And btw its easy to understand that, that was sarcasm.

+1

MrBow · **Posted:** Fri Apr 11, 2008 9:22 pm

People who are that dumb to believe this actually deserve to get scammed, lol

Casey613 · **Posted:** Fri Apr 11, 2008 9:36 pm

People who are that dumb to believe this only have very low lvl characters

BotBuster · **Joined:** Apr 2008 **Posts:** 57 **Location:** my house

/epic fail for the person who made the email
and the people who fell for it

dizzie38 · **Joined:** Aug 2007 **Posts:** 127 **Location:** london

he/she emailed you asking for your email? and personal info? what a spastic whoever wrote this email

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