Email Spoofing Scams

Attention,

There are phishing emails going around masking themselves as official *@nexon.net email addresses. You may have received an email that looks like this:

Quote :

Dear Subscriber,

This is to inform all nexon account holders that upgrading/maintenance of our server has been schedule for August 13, 2009 to help serve you better. You may experience login problems during this period. We are also having congestion due to the anonymous registration of accounts and on this note, we are deactivating some accounts that are no longer active and your account may be deactivated if no response to this e-mail within 1 week.

To confirm and keep your nexon account active during and after this upgrade and maintenance, you are advice to e-mail your account information as below.

* E-mail:
* User ID:
* Password:
* Home/Office Address:
* Date of Birth:

Your nexon account shall remain active after we have successfully confirmed and upgrade our server.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

Thank you for your swift response to this notification.

Nexon Technical Support Team

Nexon Asia Pacific 2008

All rights reserved.

If you have received the email mentioned above or anything that looks similar please do not respond to it and delete the email immediately.

Nexon Representatives will never ask for your account and personal information (unless you’ve won an event but you can check the official website to verify that you actually won an event).

Please keep your account and personal information safe. Be sure to check the forums regularly for phishing scam updates. In the meantime, be wary of emails asking for your information. If you are unsure whether an email is legitimate or not, you can submit a ticket and a CS/GM Agent will be glad to help you.

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who answers those kind of emails anyways?

ikr, they spam these [MapleTip]: No one, not even GMs will ask for your personal information. Please keep it secure and do not give it to anyone
messages.