Dont Get Scammed, Read This!!!!

Argue · **Joined:** Jun 2007 **Posts:** 26 **Location:** United

I got an email from SRO_Joymax@yahoo.com saying that 5 people reported me using a bot client (which I didnt do) The person said they are [GM] Tarkey and that they need my ID and PW to do a account inspection. Is this real or is this a scammer trying to steal my account? If it really was a SRO GM wouldnt they be able to get my ID/PW without asking me for it?

Cin said:

DONT give it
sro would be able to get it. this is a scam

post this in General Discussion too. ppl might want to know this.

Argue responded:

Thank you cin. I figured that much. Right when I had received it I sent them an email letting them know im not falling for that. And then mentionted that if they are really a [GM] to contact me inside of the game through pm or message. I also guessed that SRO would already have that info or could retrieve it without asking me. The part that got me is that I dont understand how someone in game got my email address to begin with. I will go post this in general forums. If you know anything about how they might have gotten my email, pls let me know.

Update: Ive reported the email address to joymax also, Im not sure that they will or can do anything, or if they even care. Hopefully though this post will help other people not to get tricked.

One question: How did these scammers get my email????

Roweena · **Joined:** Feb 2007 **Posts:** 120 **Location:**

Argue wrote:

One question: How did these scammers get my email????

you have your e-mail address on your srf profile...

MrFudge · **Joined:** Jan 2007 **Posts:** 5731 **Location:** None

lol @ yahoo.com

Argue · **Joined:** Jun 2007 **Posts:** 26 **Location:** United

ooopsy!

cin · **Posted:** Wed Jun 13, 2007 9:53 am

MrFudge wrote:

lol @ yahoo.com

whats with it. i use yahoo too

its niceh

Arshalo · **Joined:** Apr 2007 **Posts:** 89 **Location:**

ROFL silkroad has everyones account id and password on their database these will be not need for them to ask it, well your stupid if you tell them you info lol.

cin · **Posted:** Wed Jun 13, 2007 9:59 am

Arshalo wrote:

ROFL silkroad has everyones account id and password on their database these will be not need for them to ask it, well your stupid if you tell them you info lol.

well some players are 10 years old and freak out when "the gaming company"
tells them they bot and need their info.

mushrooms · **Joined:** Dec 2006 **Posts:** 675 **Location:**

Anyone stupid enough to believe that should deserver. And I hope they learn a lesson if they do. lol

Argue · **Joined:** Jun 2007 **Posts:** 26 **Location:** United

<------ And some of us, Are not 10 yrs. old. Some of us are 22 yrs. old and just new to all of this stuff. (you dont get scammed like that playing a p2p game like eq or eq2) Anyway about the yahoo thing.....

Ive got a yahoo email that i use for signing up to game etc. but I alo have a hotmail.com address. Hotmail is much better and you dont get spam etc. I use my yahoo for things I dont trust and my hotmail for my close friends/family.

I suggest you get a hotmail.com address, its better.

Argue · **Joined:** Jun 2007 **Posts:** 26 **Location:** United

Quote:

If it really was a SRO GM wouldnt they be able to get my ID/PW without asking me for it?

Also didnt I state that in my very first question to let on that im not that ignorant? I just hadnt experienced and email like that before?

BrokenSaint · **Posted:** Wed Jun 13, 2007 10:07 am

Yeah, don't trust anyone. If they needed some info they can always access they're own data.

Roweena · **Joined:** Feb 2007 **Posts:** 120 **Location:**

with all the posts regarding hacking ways, every1 should know that JM would never send e-mails asking for account info. I'm not a very active srf member, but i think i've read at least 10 topics untill now about this problem. And still... can't understand why some "freak out" when they get PMs or e-mails from fake GMs...

TwelveEleven · **Joined:** Mar 2007 **Posts:** 3806 **Location:** Heaven

Roweena wrote:

with all the posts regarding hacking ways, every1 should know that JM would never send e-mails asking for account info. I'm not a very active srf member, but i think i've read at least 10 topics untill now about this problem. And still... can't understand why some "freak out" when they get PMs or e-mails from fake GMs...

+1

Argue · **Joined:** Jun 2007 **Posts:** 26 **Location:** United

All right people you can stop trying to make me look stupid now.

Argue · **Joined:** Jun 2007 **Posts:** 26 **Location:** United

everyone go pick on desolator.

TwelveEleven · **Joined:** Mar 2007 **Posts:** 3806 **Location:** Heaven

Argue wrote:

everyone go pick on desolator.

And add the sig i made about deso to your own!

Roweena · **Joined:** Feb 2007 **Posts:** 120 **Location:**

lol... i wasn't talking about you... all you did was ask, that's a good thing to do when your not sure about something.

My last post was a reply to Cin's post about the 10 year old kids...

achmalach · **Joined:** Sep 2006 **Posts:** 986 **Location:**

Argue wrote:

<------ And some of us, Are not 10 yrs. old. Some of us are 22 yrs. old and just new to all of this stuff. (you dont get scammed like that playing a p2p game like eq or eq2) Anyway about the yahoo thing.....

Ive got a yahoo email that i use for signing up to game etc. but I alo have a hotmail.com address. Hotmail is much better and you dont get spam etc. I use my yahoo for things I dont trust and my hotmail for my close friends/family.

I suggest you get a hotmail.com address, its better.

take a gmail adress

outrocks both hotmail and yahoo

Argue · **Joined:** Jun 2007 **Posts:** 26 **Location:** United

Here is the original email I got btw. Just for laughs.

Quote:

Hello, This is [GM] Tarky from the Joymax Technical Support.
We get a report from five players saying that you have used a bot client, it's why we absolutely need you're ID and PW as soon as possible to do an inspection to you're account, this inspection will take 12 hours as maximum, and it will permit to us to know if you really used a bot client or not.
If you don't send you’re ID and PW to that address SRO_Joymax@yahoo.com you're account will be banned from all the servers.
Thank you.

Note: This person phrases like the SRO [Guide] tips that pop up on the screen.

[Guide] If you get off on the transport, it will disappear.

Argue · **Joined:** Jun 2007 **Posts:** 26 **Location:** United

Oh and one last thing, please spam that email if you get the chance. It will help me feel better for all of my lost time.

Roweena · **Joined:** Feb 2007 **Posts:** 120 **Location:**

ok that's a stupid way to figure out if someone is using a bot program... i think that was a really stupid hacker

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

As suggest in many other posts by me and others. Make a gmail account with a random 16 char string, hell you can even stick a few dots in there I think. Then use that as your account email, it will make your account a lot more secure.

BrokenSaint · **Posted:** Wed Jun 13, 2007 11:51 am

Pretty much takes common sense to know who's a fake and who's not.

_Shinigami_ · **Joined:** May 2007 **Posts:** 2191 **Location:**

some1 already posted this thing XD

Acronikosz · **Joined:** Jun 2007 **Posts:** 95

happened to me also, its quite sad actually, I think they must be chavs, they have nothing better to do

HakubiNi · **Joined:** Mar 2007 **Posts:** 843 **Location:**

I remember when I quit MU. More than an year later I get an e-mail asking my account/password. I found that awfully amusing.

skandal · **Joined:** Mar 2007 **Posts:** 174 **Location:**

Arshalo wrote:

ROFL silkroad has everyones account id and password on their database these will be not need for them to ask it, well your stupid if you tell them you info lol.

Your id = in their hands...
Your password = not.

So even JoyMax does NOT know your password.

As for the second part, i agree.Never tell someody@yahoo.com your password...if JM wants to go on an account inspection, they will simply change yer pass and inform you of it after it is done.

ResTnPieces · **Joined:** Jan 2007 **Posts:** 541 **Location:**

there goes another mode of scamming. hope everyone is careful with their accounts.

Cerus · **Joined:** Nov 2006 **Posts:** 1002 **Location:**

Imo, its best to have an email account solely for your game use. Another for your day to day and forum use.

Do not publish your SRO email account. This way its safer.

Wu · **Joined:** Apr 2007 **Posts:** 2521 **Location:** Around.

Argue wrote:

Ive reported the email address to joymax also, Im not sure that they will or can do anything, or if they even care. Hopefully though this post will help other people not to get tricked.

Maybe you can report it at Yahoo

Argue wrote:

One question: How did these scammers get my email????

Maybe they did 'research' on your username(s), your profiles (on any website), any account or profile with your email could be found by him/her/them...

Like the other guys say best to have and use an email adress strictly for Silkroad.

Scammers FTL!

Good job on nòt getting scammed and asking before sending

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