EA Free game phising

megatron · 25 Dec 2010 at 19:42

b.em.ea.com

Received an email where I "definitely" have a free game all I have to do is play it, although all the urls start em.ea. When I googled a url - nothing came up where as I'm certain a genuine EA url will be indexed by google.

from EA <[email protected]>
reply-to EA <[email protected]>
to [email protected]
date 25 December 2010 09:13
subject A Christmas gift for you from EA
mailed-by b.em.ea.com
Signed by em.ea.com

All looks wrong.

RavenXXX2 · 25 Dec 2010 at 19:46

Scam.

mythicdawn07 · 25 Dec 2010 at 19:48

got a legit email from ea and it says ill definately win one of these items (Has pictures) but when i click it just takes me to EA store

damn them damn them all

ak22 · 25 Dec 2010 at 19:57

I got the email to just deleted takes me no where lol

arknor · 25 Dec 2010 at 20:06

if it looks legit it probably is not!

richb93 · 25 Dec 2010 at 20:11

Only free game that EA have given away recently is Burnout Paradise. (and I bought it the day before on Steam during the sales /facepalm)

Dave85 · 25 Dec 2010 at 20:43

Got the same email looks legit aswell.

mithrandir · 25 Dec 2010 at 20:48

I had this earlier today and questioned it.
Having looked around on EA Forums, they did this last year but the link was broken or page incomplete. An admin staff said this year's one is legit but will inform tech about the broken link issue.

iamtheoneneo · 25 Dec 2010 at 20:58

we going to have a separate thread for every scam email someone gets today or something?

Gimpymoo · 25 Dec 2010 at 22:37

I got it yesterday.

Seems legit to me.

The domain is ea.com which in my mind is safe

I know it can be spoofed but it all seems fine.

The site is now down anyway.

TNA · 26 Dec 2010 at 01:21

I got this also. Seems legit, but yeah, broken link. Let's see how it turns out tomorrow.

BigBoy · 26 Dec 2010 at 14:15

Its Legit but the link it broken

I wan tMy free GAME!!!!

n111ck · 26 Dec 2010 at 14:27

If you look closely it actually says free 'gift' and some of the 'gifts' are just 10% off at the EA store...........

Kenai · 26 Dec 2010 at 14:41

I never got one and i've actually bought stuff from the store before

mithrandir · 26 Dec 2010 at 16:28

This was the email I got:

WingZero30 · 26 Dec 2010 at 16:29

mithrandir said:
This was the email I got:

That's the exact email I got.

mithrandir · 26 Dec 2010 at 16:35

Just tried the link again and seems to be working.

mythicdawn07 · 26 Dec 2010 at 16:35

EA are useless, they probably did it on purpose for publicity.

mithrandir · 26 Dec 2010 at 16:38

Got 20% off and a free desktop wallpaper

mythicdawn07 · 26 Dec 2010 at 16:39

Nah its fixed just tried it again, i got a %20 off voucher which i'm sure everyone gets. but since the games on EA website are usually %40 more expensive than every where else its pointless lol.