A very long time ago, when I was still playing World of Warcraft, I tried to order a key for World of Warcraft through Gamersloot.net. You can read about why that was a bad idea over here: Never order from Gamersloot.net. They took my money but never sent me the key.

A few weeks ago, I decided to check out where all the World of Warcraft Phishing attempts came from. I quit WoW quite a while ago, but I keep getting "notification" messages. I did a quick check of the headers and found out that the mails are being sent to the exact same mail address I used to register with Gamersloot.net.

I have a long standing policy to create specific mail addresses for every site I register on. This allows me to track back spam to the originating site and it worked well for Gamersloot.net.

So, besides the Goldselling activities and the "take-the-money-and-run" activities, they also do Phishing - trying to steal passwords from the people they rip off.

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