Now spamly annoyed at the perfect world merger.

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While of course there is no way to trace it back to them, I've been flooded with spam email on the address I used for Champions since right after the final merger and started getting Perfect World emails. I didn't even think I should have changed my email address here to the one I was already using for PW so I wouldn't have to worry about that.

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While I don't doubt your word, I received nothing on my email box from PWE...
Is it happening to anyone else? Didn't you, per chance, register to a newsletter on PWE's site?
Or on another game?

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I don't have anything from Perfect World either.

I don't have any mails from anyone I haven't already registered as a newsletter recently.

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Have nada from PW!

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No spam here....

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While of course there is no way to trace it back to them, I've been flooded with spam email on the address I used for Champions since right after the final merger and started getting Perfect World emails. I didn't even think I should have changed my email address here to the one I was already using for PW so I wouldn't have to worry about that.

Have you ever subscribed to one of their titles?
Diddly-squat™ from PWE here.

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Ok I dont think its Cryptic but a lot of game websites sell info ( and shockingly thats legal) to other companies have you signed up with IGN cause we all know you cant spell ignorant without IGN.

They do that.

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I have PW Spam .. but i use the same email also for my PWI-Account :D

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Reubens tastes great when made with spam.

Anyways. Sadly no spam here.
I have PW Spam .. but i use the same email also for my PWI-Account :D
That didn't earn me any spam either. Only the occasional update once in a while.

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While I don't doubt your word, I received nothing on my email box from PWE...
Is it happening to anyone else? Didn't you, per chance, register to a newsletter on PWE's site?
Or on another game?
Nope PW didn't have this email address at all (I used a totally unrelated hotmail junk address for PW) and it is the only "new" company to have gotten the email in the last year and a half. Only 5 companies have this email address. It could be a coincidence, but it is stretching the probability a bit. Email is only checked on secure computers with no viruses and it is the only address to get flooded with spam. My other specific address have not been hit. If even one of the others had this problem I might not have even thought PW.

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It is looking like another source gave them the info thats why I never sign up to these game websites like gamespot or ign they sell your email on.

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The best thing about spam is the gellantinous goo on top.

No PWI spam for me either.

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It is looking like another source gave them the info thats why I never sign up to these game websites like gamespot or ign they sell your email on.IGN got my Yahoo account when they bought GameSpy years ago and that is the only address I let them have.

Edit: I guess I'll give them a break if it isn't happening to anyone else. Heck of a timing though.

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IGN got my Yahoo account when they bought GameSpy years ago and that is the only address I let them have.

Odd sounds like thats not the account getting spamed then. Cryptic (and im usually the last one to defend them) cant give out your details due to the fact that credits cards and what not are involved even to a parent company theres a whole lotta legal jargon and stuff.

But obviously they got it from some where any company that has your emails can in theory sell the email address on.

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I'd have to check my spam folder... something I haven't done in over a year and a half... because there's been maybe one or two items from PW in my inbox at most.

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I've received exactly 1 email from PW, and that was only because I actually had an account over there.

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I've received exactly 1 email from PW, and that was only because I actually had an account over there.

hardly what I'd call being "flooded with spam", wouldn't you say?

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I've received exactly 1 email from PW, and that was only because I actually had an account over there.
Actually from PW email address has been 3. One merger final(I got a Cryptic version and a PW version), one welcome, and one hideouts 50% off.

As others have notice the spam is as if the email address was sold off.

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Actually from PW email address has been 3. One merger final(I got a Cryptic version and a PW version), one welcome, and one hideouts 50% off.
O-o woah they better not start spamming.

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O-o woah they better not start spamming.
As others have notice the spam is as if the email address was sold off.I'll quote again if needed.

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I've just taken another look through my emails... I have recieved more emails from Atari in the time since the merger than I have from PW.

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I'll quote again if needed.

Then you need to adjust your spam filter settings.

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Guys I don't think he's saying he's getting tons of emails from PW, but just more spam in general since the merger. So you know, lots of viagra emails and Nigerian princes and such.

Correct me if I'm wrong.

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Guys I don't think he's saying he's getting tons of emails from PW, but just more spam in general since the merger. So you know, lots of viagra emails and Nigerian princes and such.

Correct me if I'm wrong.

Yeah, I figured that out... that's why I suggested...

Then you need to adjust your spam filter settings.

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I have PW Spam .. but i use the same email also for my PWI-Account :D

That didn't earn me any spam either. Only the occasional update once in a while.

This^

I only get occasional updates from them. They may have become a little bit more prevalent these past few months (not sure), but I still wouldn't call it spam. Maybe they just have been having more stuff to say lately.

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I have to clean out a couple of hundred emails a day from my work account that are spam. A few here and there don't even register for me.

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I have been getting more Nigerian prices, and X bank clearing deposit spam lately too.

Not enough info to tie to to PW though.

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I've had a PWI account for a couple of years prior to the merger.

The only stuff they spam me with is game updates they think I might be interested in, because I told them they could (I always do - I'm weird like that).

I'm thinking the correlation drawn here is purely coincedental. :U

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Well n that case, no my spam hasn't increased at all. In fact I've gotten less of it lately. Not saying people aren't getting more, but I doubt it has to do with the PW merger.

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I don't know if it's PW-related but I got an exciting email from some dude in Nigeria recently. He needs me to pay for bank charges so that he can claim his inheritance. Apparently he's willing to give some of this money to me! I figured that this could pay for my LTS and that I can FINALLy get that Art Deco Helmet!!

I'll keep you all updated. From my beach house!

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Guys I don't think he's saying he's getting tons of emails from PW, but just more spam in general since the merger. So you know, lots of viagra emails and Nigerian princes and such.

Correct me if I'm wrong.
Your right except it is Casino emails though and all through Yahoo (email address and route). I keep sending them spam reports (http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/spam.html). I figure if I'm going to be annoyed because of them so are they. I'm about ready to just to just block all yahoo to that address except it is a little hard because the way it is all setup. What really ticks me off about it is the email address was compromised in the first place and the timing was just too coincidental. There is enough doubt it could have happened another way and nothing I can really do about it if it was the case except warn others if it is ture.

It just seriously gets on my nerves.

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I have gotten only one email from them, announcing the merger was complete with a promise to preserve my lifetime subscription the way it is. Well not quite those words exactly but that's what it amounted to for me... That was a while back and I haven't received anything else.

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I keep sending them spam reports (http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/spam.html). I figure if I'm going to be annoyed because of them so are they.

Trust me, automated systems cannot not become annoyed.

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I've clinically gotten only 1 thing so far and that was on the sale by cryptic.

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Every time you type your e-mail address into a field and submit it, you dramatically increase your likelihood of getting spam. Every. Time.

Every time you have to tell someone to remove you from a mailing list, there is a chance that they have already shared it with someone else. Every. Time.

Every time you use the internet, there is a chance that your contact information has been mined. Every. Time.

Every time you send an e-mail to someone, remember that there is a chance that THEIR e-mail contact list has been compromised by data-miners or the like. Every. Time.

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I just got my second email from perfect world advertising champions online stuff. Who is perfect world and why are they sending me champions online '20% off' sales notices? A search on yahoo didn't bring up anything obvious. A search here brought me to this thread.

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The answer is that the chinamen bought Cryptic.....

:D

You could G00GLE Perfect World....

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10 Chars...

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I finally got my first email from PWI...and it was about the current C-store sale. I wonder if other "related" emails will follow.

And so it begins ......o.0

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FWIW, I haven't noticed any spam increase since the PW thing.

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>.> I gots one now . ERM..what....yeah nice one Cryptic give me something else to rage about @__@.....................kittens think kittens.

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I really don't get what/why everyone is calling PWI e-mails being spam or anything else.

All I've seen in my mailboxes is PWI telling me about upcoming things (like the merger), current happenings (like the current C-Store sale), and other things completely and totally related to CO.

Both of my main e-mail accounts were put onto spammer lists ages ago via who knows how. All I know is that @gmail and @hotmail have pretty good spam filters, keeping 99% of it from ever appearing in my main box.

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I really don't get what/why everyone is calling PWI e-mails being spam or anything else.

All I've seen in my mailboxes is PWI telling me about upcoming things (like the merger), current happenings (like the current C-Store sale), and other things completely and totally related to CO.

Both of my main e-mail accounts were put onto spammer lists ages ago via who knows how. All I know is that @gmail and @hotmail have pretty good spam filters, keeping 99% of it from ever appearing in my main box.

Good Sir I think you will find anything that doesnt involve a link to some chimps in you tube in most peoples email is instantly flagged as spam.

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You've entirely lost me, Nepht...

How are emails from PWI regarding CO, a game they now own and that you play, some sort of dire threat?

:confused:

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While of course there is no way to trace it back to them, I've been flooded with spam email on the address I used for Champions since right after the final merger and started getting Perfect World emails. I didn't even think I should have changed my email address here to the one I was already using for PW so I wouldn't have to worry about that.

Same here. :(

I've been getting PW emails ever since the merger but that was to be expected since I was a newsletter subscriber for both CO and STO. The content in the emails havn't changed. Edit: I only get emails from PW concerning CO and STO, nothing else.

Now, I find this bit a bit funny, and a little frustrating. I don't know if it is coincidence or what but I've been getting *real* email spam ever since that merger went through. In the 6+ years that I've had my email address I have never, ever, not once, gotten any bit of email spam that I didn't sign up for. I don't pass out my email address like it's candy and I havn't signed up for anything new in a long, long time. This just happen to start around the same time of the PW takeover? Hmmm. :rolleyes:

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I don't remember signing up for newsletters about any other Perfect World games other than CO and STO. Sure the emails about C-Store sales are a given as I've received those for a while now but announcements about giveaways and contests in their other games? I don't think so.

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All I've seen in my mailboxes is PWI telling me about upcoming things (like the merger), current happenings (like the current C-Store sale), and other things completely and totally related to CO.
Same here, I think I've gotten a total of three e-mails from PWI, the latest was about the current sale.

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You've entirely lost me, Nepht...



My confusion ray works! MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! :D

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I don't remember signing up for newsletters about any other Perfect World games other than CO and STO. Sure the emails about C-Store sales are a given as I've received those for a while now but announcements about giveaways and contests in their other games? I don't think so.

^ Theres your dire threat there . I didnt sign up to get emails from PWE and dont give a rats arse about Battle of the Immortals >:C

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I haven't gotten any from PW yet.

Granted my spam filter is aggressive. I get some 2-3k emails a day that get tossed out.

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I've had this account for the past 2 years, only use the email address for CO, and since the merger I'm getting 3-4 spam e-mails a week. Not a single one before then.

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Nope, no spam in my inbox either!

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I've been getting a few casino emails also as a recent addition. My gaming address is at yahoo.com. I use it for both CO and PWI. Given several posts claiming no such spam in this thread, and the OP's reference to yahoo, I have to wonder if it's a yahoo thing and not a PWI thing.

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I've been getting a few casino emails also as a recent addition. My gaming address is at yahoo.com. I use it for both CO and PWI. Given several posts claiming no such spam in this thread, and the OP's reference to yahoo, I have to wonder if it's a yahoo thing and not a PWI thing.

Funny that you say that... I wasn't getting casino emails until I read this post. :p

The casino emails are being sent from a yahoo account. I, myself, don't use Yahoo so I don't think it's just a yahoo thing.

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Like some others here, i allocate a unique email address for each company i have dealings with (I was a bit surprised to find that out, i thought i was a rarity). Since the merger i am recieving scam emails of one sort or another addressed to that email address. This did not happen prior to the merger.

Something has gone wrong.

To those who state "Nope, no emails from PWE, nothing wrong here", you are totally missing the point. Think about it. The scam emails people are complaining about are not FROM PWE, but from the people who have recieved your email addresses (without your permission), and they recieved your email addresses from someone at PWE/Cryptic Studios.

Think about it this way... If your mobile phone provider passed/sold your telephone number to sales and marketing cold callers in other companies would you expect annoying calls to come from your mobile phone provider? No. So checking your emails for spam from PWE is a bit dumb.

Also, if you use the same email address for every company you have dealings with, you will struggle to know who is being responsible with your information, and who isn't. Those who use a seperate and unique address for each company, wont struggle in that regard.

PWE/Cryptic have slacked in their responsibility to protect user info, our email details specifically. If that doesn't bother you, fine. It does me.

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The scam emails people are complaining about are not FROM PWE, but from the people who have recieved your email addresses (without your permission), and they recieved your email addresses from someone at PWE/Cryptic Studios.
This does not follow (and is a rather serious allegation that really shouldn't be made without proof).

It could just as easily be
* intercepted email
* faked email headers
* email exposed on e.g. yahoo groups or in mass-mail.

There are a number of other plausible explanations that doesn't involve malice on the part of Cryptic/PWE.

As a side note, I use the same email address for most of my online dealings, and have been doing so for almost a decade. I've not seen any rise in spam to that address since the PWE acquisition. And I would notice, since I do not get more than one or two spam mails per month, if that.

Are you sure you haven't exposed your address in some way?

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This does not follow (and is a rather serious allegation that really shouldn't be made without proof).

It could just as easily be
* intercepted email
* faked email headers
* email exposed on e.g. yahoo groups or in mass-mail.

There are a number of other plausible explanations that doesn't involve malice on the part of Cryptic/PWE.

As a side note, I use the same email address for most of my online dealings, and have been doing so for almost a decade. I've not seen any rise in spam to that address since the PWE acquisition. And I would notice, since I do not get more than one or two spam mails per month, if that.

Are you sure you haven't exposed your address in some way?

Its not a serious allegation as such (in the legal sense), and conclusive proof is not possible without an extensive and unlikely investigation on my part. You are quite right about the other possible causes. It is extremely unlikely though and would most likely still imply a lack of security on the senders side (not me). The email addresses i use for each company are not used for anything else, and seeing as i have never emailed Cryptic or PWE (only recieve) its unlikely its any of my "intercepted" emails.

That leaves Cryptic and PWE as the senders to be intercepted. What you seem to miss is the likelyhood of us all suffering the same issue at the same time. If you use specific email addresses for each company you notice very specifically which addresses you get spam to/from, it does not all blur into one big generalisation. This system allows me to tell the diffrerence between a friends machine having been hacked or infected and a company sending me spam because each person i deal with has a different email address for me.

Now, i'm no expert, but i have supported email infrastructures, on both desktop and server side, and i build and configure all my own pc's. I'm an old fashioned advocate of paying for software, not freeware (though i fully approve of the freeware ethos for original software), for things like operating system and anti-virus/security software. I never let my av binaries get out of date and i use the current email system precisely because i am not lazy and do care what happens to my information.

None of the above makes me infallible, granted. But it does mean that there is an issue of legitimate concern, and a forum is the proper way to raise it, as others have. It could be that there are some here jumping on the bandwagon and claiming victim status and want nothing more than to see "the corp" suffer an avalanche of user flames, but i am not one of them. And i suspect that most of those who use the same system i do are not either. People who want to complain for complainings sake do not care enough about legitimate concerns to go to the trouble of using an email system that requires a bit of thought and effort.

Re your comment/question as to whether my email address has been exposed in some way.... Yes, it is possible. I've already said what i suspect has happened. The email address for Cryptic is not static information in my email profile (its not there at all) and i have never used that address to send an email. So the exposure is not on my side.

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PWE dont mass spam their user base they use a rotation system to spam their players those who havent yet got spam dont feel left out your spams coming.

They dont need to over advertise, their games as a whole are rather good I like Rusty Hearts reminds me of Final Fight :3