I got a very fishy email

[Rob At Work]

I've got 14 of them Uh, I was on the Planet Coaster livestream for 0.5 of a second a few days ago when I handed Ed a glass of water, and I call Sir. Tj Triss Merigold?

13 of them are of no interest you know the one we want to see

 

[Crank Larson]

Except on the Forums for some reason. Just forgot about us, eh? :<

You mean like the stickied post in DD that appeared before the email was sent? It was present before this thread too, which just shows the depths to which the OP didn't actually investigate at all.

 

[S3B4ST13N]

You mean like the stickied post in DD that appeared before the email was sent? It was present before this thread too, which just shows the depths to which the OP didn't actually investigate at all.

[video=youtube;YIj0qhYzqCU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIj0qhYzqCU[/video]

 

[Sir.Tj]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIj0qhYzqCU

Good lad.. fess up when ya mess up..

 

[Ambroza]

You should post on the sites you actually own first.

There's been a stickied thread about it for quite a few hours now

 

[SciTrekker]

Is it safe to assume one must register (sign up) with Ebay to bid on this? [knocked out]

 

[Crank Larson]

Is it safe to assume one must register (sign up) with Ebay to bid on this? [knocked out]

Unless you can persuade a friend to bid on your behalf. To bid, you do need access to an Ebay account, yes.

 

[RexKraemer]

I have to admit that after looking up a few things I am completely unsure whether or not this email is legitimately sent by FDev.
What I want to say with this thread is

• If this is a scam attempt, please be warned
• If this is legitimate, FDev, please put a little more effort into not creating mails that look like scam

Very well spotted and good investigation, OP!
I want to support this:

FDev, please put a little more effort into not creating mails that look like scam

!

And yes, this is very important these days!

And it is definitely not paranoia, but finding it not suspicious is at least naive.

 

[gooddoc]

I got the same email. Insta-deleted.

Yep! it went straight in the delete folder, along with 99.9% of emails I receive these days

 

[Chris Simon]

There's been a stickied thread about it for quite a few hours now

..which wasn't even made by FD employee. And it even wasn't a thread - just a post T.j. pulled out of somewhere.

 

[Alec Turner]

Well at least you guys didn't have to eat your own hair!

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...se-Anybody-could-verify?p=6431862#post6431862

 

[Riverside]

Hey guys!

Just wanted to put your minds at ease and assure you this isn't a spam or hoax email! Jagex is the creator of Runescape and operates within Cambridge, same as us, so we've teamed up for Gameblast to help out Special Effect.

I can also confirm that the eBay auction is legitimate, and this has been mentioned on all our social channels as well.

Do let me know if there's anything further I can help you with

This has happened before, you (as a company) have learned nothing from last time.
I have not received the newsletter from Friday which I am subscribed to (I'm not overly concerned about this), but have received this spam that I have opted out of. Clearly something isn't right.

 

[Chris Simon]

This has happened before, you (as a company) have learned nothing from last time.
I have not received the newsletter from Friday which I am subscribed to (I'm not overly concerned about this), but have received this spam that I have opted out of. Clearly something isn't right.

Agreed, although it may be legitimate and directly from FD, it's still fishy. :|

 

[IndigoWyrd]

Well at least you guys didn't have to eat your own hair!

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...se-Anybody-could-verify?p=6431862#post6431862

I recommend baking it into a pie....

...I'll get my coat...

 

[Leadfoot]

FYI, if anyone was interested, email-elitedangerous.com does belong to FD.

You can look these up on
https://www.networksolutions.com/whois/index.jsp?bookmarked=9f17045ef36d02a7eefa612a94fe.026

Hope that helps in the future.

 

[MottiKhan]

It's a trap!

 

[V'larr]

In case nobody is aware, Jagex is another British game developer with several titles, the most well-known of which is Runescape.

edit: Only just now saw that Normandy mentioned this already, oops! Delete this post I guess? :V

 

[Sysmon]

I've got 14 of them Uh, I was on the Planet Coaster livestream for 0.5 of a second a few days ago when I handed Ed a glass of water, and I call Sir. Tj Triss Merigold?

This is turning into a real Paige turner...

S

 

[Crank Larson]

Agreed, although it may be legitimate and directly from FD, it's still fishy. :|

Not half as fishy as the some of the analyses of it in this thread...

 

[Chris Simon]

Not half as fishy as the some of the analyses of it in this thread...

This whole topic is very fish-inducing.