Saturday, February 16, 2008

Scammers be silly.

Upon checking my email this morning I find an email from the team at Xbox, or so it would seem. After more of an inspection, I can see that the tail end of the email is not from Xbox.com, but from another source; email.xbox.com, that's xbox@email.xbox.com who sent me the mail

And the reply-to address is support-b09dqseb3v36h6acbmtmjarmb9kajs@email.xbox.com

No, I did not just violently face mash my keyboard for about 10 seconds. That's just their email.

If that wasn't enough, they often leave links that point to a very long address starting at email.xbox.com, so if you know anything about some things, then it's easy to see that this is not the official Xbox.com we all know and (not really) love. But that's not all.

The final thing I've noticed in the email is the misspelling of the term TrueSkill (a term made up by Microsoft) as TruSkill. There is meant to be an e in there, fools.

I have no idea what they'd be trying to scam off people. Nor am I willing to go to that website. Things like this are ridiculous, and I'll be happy in another 10-20 years when the only people using the internet actually know what they're doing. Also, to illustrate why you can't just omit a letter and expect everyone to be fooled...

It'd be like sending an email to the UN, asking for World Pace. Noobs.

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