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Kagetachi
01-11-2013, 04:36 AM
I'd just like to let you know I have received 20 emails, so far, Since 9:57 am UTC-7

The address is listed as FFXI but shows as various email from yahoo.com (from all over the world)

Title is: FFXI Account Notice
Here is a what they say:


Greetings!

It has come to our attention that you are trying to sell your personal FFXI account(s).
As you may not be aware of, this conflicts with the EULA and Terms of Agreement.
If this proves to be true, your account can and will be disabled.
It will be ongoing for further investigation by Square Enix ent 's employees.
If you wish to not get your account suspended you should immediately verify your account ownership.

You can confirm that you are the original owner of the account to this secure website with:

Login to your account, In accordance following template to verify your account.


If you ignore this mail your account can and will be closed permanently.
Once we verify your account, we will reply to your e-mail informing you that we have dropped the investigation.

Regards,

Account Administration Team
Square Enix 2013

The link leads to this site:

Jhanaka
01-11-2013, 11:02 AM
Hello Kagetachi!

Thank you very much for taking time to report this email concern to us. This matter was brought to our attention early this afternoon and we are currently in the process of reviewing and escalating the issue.

To note, I have removed the URLs from the post as we do not wish anyone to go to those sites as we have not confirmed the source of the emails.

If you, or any of our customers, are ever in doubt about the safety of a site, hover over the URL Links and the true address should appear at the bottom of your screen; some people may have their systems set up differently so the information may be listed elsewhere.

If any of our customers have visited the site, please take the precautionary means and run a thorough virus/malware scan and then take the steps to securely change your passwords.

Thank you, again, for being proactive and alerting us to these possible email phishing attempts

-Senior Game Master Jhanaka