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Of Battlefield 3, Origin and strange emails.

DibbitDibbit Registered User, Transition Team regular
edited October 2011 in Help / Advice Forum
Today I received a strange email (that might be) from EA.

It basically said: "Hey! Download Origin, our game-client! this is a system requirement for Battlefield 3"

That wouldn't in itself be so strange, if not for the following:
1) I don't have an EA origin account, so how / why are they sending this to me?
2) I don't have Battlefield 3 (yet)
3) the return address is support-bwtru8dbgwmbfsau7yqmyqy2fd<More stuff removed for safety>@em.ea.com,
and that doesn't look like a real email address.

On the one hand it does end with ea.com
on the other, if you surf to em.ea.com you get a nice cryptic message:
"redt4 OK" which sounds like some kind of bot-net code.

I've looked at the ea support site, and there is no way to contact them to clear up this matter.
Did anyone else get this? Is (some subnet) of EA compromised?

Dibbit on

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  • schattenjaegerschattenjaeger Registered User regular
    I got that e-mail. I have an EA account and I had forgotten I made it. That's the same as an Origin account now, I think. I think I needed to make one to play Dead Space 2, or Dragon Age Origins, or both

  • GaslightGaslight Registered User regular
    edited October 2011
    I got that e-mail today. I have an Origin/EA account which I never use. Are you sure you didn't register one at some point to, as schattenjaeger says, play Dragon Age or Need For Speed Hot Pursuit or something?

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  • Lord_SnotLord_Snot Живу за выходные American ValhallaRegistered User regular
    1: Have you ever registered for EA Downloader?
    3: I've had emails like that, not from EA, but from other people.

    I could well be wrong, but if the address contains ea.com, wouldn't that make it a sub-domain?

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  • AriviaArivia I Like A Challenge Earth-1Registered User regular
    I got one and I have never done anything for Battlefield 3 - but I do have an EA account for Dead Space 2, the Sims 3, and maybe some Bioware stuff.

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  • ZxerolZxerol for the smaller pieces, my shovel wouldn't do so i took off my boot and used my shoeRegistered User regular
    edited October 2011
    Yeah, EA accounts and Origin accounts are one in the same. If you have a game that uses an EA account (which is pretty much everything they publish), you would have received that email.

    It serves a double purpose of pimping both BF3 and Origin like mad.

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  • DibbitDibbit Registered User, Transition Team regular
    Well, I DO have an old bioware account, I guess that has been merged with EA while I wasn't paying attention.
    Thanks for all the replies, this means I can upgrade the email from "annoying spam with possible spyware" to just "annoying spam, from EA"
    I have to say that this doesn't endear me to EA, but an email like this is a minor thing.

  • AwkAwk Registered User regular
    They didn't send you the email to make friends.

  • ArbitraryDescriptorArbitraryDescriptor Registered User regular
    I forgot I had made an EA account for Spore, so I thought this was a very well targeted phish.

    Still not clicking anything in it, since I still don't care, and seriously: fuck EA for thinking that sending out unsolicited emails telling you to download mysterious programs is an OK thing to do.

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