SE wants to hear from you email

[Antipika]

Off course that's a common phishing technique. But if you are able to read properly and if you take your time before clicking, there is just no risk at all.

I've seen enough RMT tells in XI with square-enix being written sqare-enix, square-eenix etc. Or square-enix.[random domain].com. I perfectly know how the system works.

This. AFAIK every suspicious e-mail is scam until proved wrong.

The email header proves you wrong. That's the only accessible way for the average user to confirm that an email is coming from a trusted source. The sender email address means nothing however. (Any 13 y/o kid can spoof a sender address and start sending emails ending @square-enix.com if he wants to).

Now there is always one risk, if the source has been compromised and cannot be trusted anymore (i.e. someone's got control of SE's servers) but if we start thinking that way, absolutely nothing can be trusted...

So rather than spreading misinformation and claiming that something is a scam, try to educate users on how to distinguish a scam from a legitimate email. That can also be useful for more important things in your life than the MMORPG you are playing.