King.com?

raptorman

My daughter has clicked an email from what looks like a gambling site. The email was from info@King.com.

Does anyone know about this? It came through to my email address and I am interested to know more as I'm worried there may be something more sinister about it.

I'm just going to run my antispyware and see if anything comes up.

gizmoleeds

The company seems to be legitimate, but it may not be from them - emails can disguise their origin.

What email program are you using?

tigermatt

gizmoleeds wrote:

emails can disguise their origin

As mentioned [post=1271395]here[/post] in a more serious case.

Quote from post mentioned above.

newfoundglory wrote:

...when an email has said it has come from a particular "address", that address should not be trusted - because if you know what you are doing you can change many things and make it appear to have come from virtually anywhere. It may have appeared to originate from ... [King.com], but in fact ... [they] may not have even sent it.

I just thought I would show you it can happen on a much wider scale in more serious circumstances. tigermatt

tigermatt

gizmoleeds wrote:

The company seems to be legitimate, but it may not be from them

Could be that another company have got hold of the email address (that King.com sent the email to), perhaps by signing up for an account (not with King.com but with someone else), the annoying box in very small print that says "Please tick if you don't want your details passed onto a third party" :mad: wasn't ticked. King.com could then have either had the details passed on to them, or they purchased it among with dozens of others from a company to try and get more customers and earn more money :rolleyes:.

raptorman, is the email a marketing email trying to get you to subscribe to King.com or is it related to something else regarding King.com. If it is trying to get you to subscribe, then it could be that King.com have had details of the email address passed onto them as mentioned above.

tigermatt

:xmassign:

raptorman

Thanx for the replies guys.

My OH said it originally appeared on AOL's homepage today so I think it's genuine, but I think I will delete all traces of it from the PC.

Thanx again for your replies.