Scam warning.

[HSilk]

Before I start off I want to make clear I know this is my own doing and out of my own stupidity however I just wanted to warn others of the method.

Yesterday I had somebody reach out to me wanting to buy my Fortnite account and at which he was willing to use and pay for the middleman.
I'm new to this website so I wasn't 100% how the MM service worked.
The buyer told me to add a buy now option with the agreed price to my post (as you can see thus far it seem pretty legit)
He told me to expect a notification or an email from EPICNPC informing me he began a transaction (again I didn't know how the system works)
I soon received the following email:

Now, upon close inspection I realise the email looks dodgy however what made me so sure this was infact from the website was because of 2 reasons.
1. The email '[email protected]' seemed pretty legit seeing as it's not some random gmail acc.
2. I never gave my NPC registered email to the scammer so I had assumed this had to be the website because how else would he of gained my email?
(this part I'm still confused over)

I proceeded to email my information, assuming this is how the MM service works, and yep I got scammed out of £250.
However, luckily I managed to regain full control of both the email and epicgames account.


This is just a warning to anyone as naive as me.
I now realise how the MM service works.

EDIT: He also gave me a EpicNPC acc he claimed was his however I doubt he was stupid enough to do so and just pulled up a random one.
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[doomedtofail]

Please inspect the email and find the actual email it was sent from.
Curious to what he used, will also help them try to find a way to prevent this

Then contact then recall you account, via the game conpang

 

[ARMIK]

Try to click that arrow button, it should show you detailed info regarding the sender. Like the example above.

 

[EpicNPC]

To clarify, that is not an email sent by Epicnpc and we do no conduct Trade Guardian transaction via email. All communication is on-site via our Trade Guardian system.

As @Rmik said you can check the email headers and you'll see that the email was spoofed.

There is also a difference between the "From" email and the "Reply to" email.

The user might have put our email as the "Reply to" email to make it look more official, however the "From" email will not be ours. This would make it harder for someone to spot the fake email. The scammer would hope the victim uses the MM email to make contact instead of replying to the email. This would make it a little harder to scam, but if the scammer sends out 1000 emails, I'm sure a few people might take the bait.

 

[HSilk]

To clarify, that is not an email sent by Epicnpc and we do no conduct Trade Guardian transaction via email. All communication is on-site via our Trade Guardian system.

As @Rmik said you can check the email headers and you'll see that the email was spoofed.

There is also a difference between the "From" email and the "Reply to" email.

The user might have put our email as the "Reply to" email to make it look more official, however the "From" email will not be ours. This would make it harder for someone to spot the fake email. The scammer would hope the victim uses the MM email to make contact instead of replying to the email. This would make it a little harder to scam, but if the scammer sends out 1000 emails, I'm sure a few people might take the bait.

As suggested above I click the drop down and all I get is where the email was sent to (mine).
Click on the email itself and this comes up:

All I can see is the email shown and other emails I've previously received which are reply notifications.

 

[EpicNPC]

That's not it. You have to view the email source code to see the spoofed info. Click Reply > View Original

 

[ITALY]

How did he know your email???

 

[ARMIK]

That's not it. You have to view the email source code to see the spoofed info. Click Reply > View Original

He has outlook account it's different for him, but it has similar button saying "show contact details" and it will reveal the real email.

 

[EpicNPC]

How did he know your email???

He could have guessed. Admin is a very common email for websites, but we also use that email for many site emails, like registration and various notifications. So if he ever used our site, which many scammers have, he would have know that we use that email.

 

[CrucialOdin]

Before I start off I want to make clear I know this is my own doing and out of my own stupidity however I just wanted to warn others of the method.

Yesterday I had somebody reach out to me wanting to buy my Fortnite account and at which he was willing to use and pay for the middleman.
I'm new to this website so I wasn't 100% how the MM service worked.
The buyer told me to add a buy now option with the agreed price to my post (as you can see thus far it seem pretty legit)
He told me to expect a notification or an email from EPICNPC informing me he began a transaction (again I didn't know how the system works)
I soon received the following email:

Now, upon close inspection I realise the email looks dodgy however what made me so sure this was infact from the website was because of 2 reasons.
1. The email '[email protected]' seemed pretty legit seeing as it's not some random gmail acc.
2. I never gave my NPC registered email to the scammer so I had assumed this had to be the website because how else would he of gained my email?
(this part I'm still confused over)

I proceeded to email my information, assuming this is how the MM service works, and yep I got scammed out of £250.
However, luckily I managed to regain full control of both the email and epicgames account.


This is just a warning to anyone as naive as me.
I now realise how the MM service works.

EDIT: He also gave me a EpicNPC acc he claimed was his however I doubt he was stupid enough to do so and just pulled up a random one.
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You're account has been purchased on EpicNPC!

An additional You're vs your is on there as well.

Spelling error = first clue.

I highly recommend if you ever receive an e-mail directly to you even if it is from legitimate EpicNPC moderators, that you type out epicnpc.com in your browser and log in properly and see if there is any messages on the site.

Checking in with moderators/admins will never be a problem from what I have experienced here - they're all VERY good at making sure to try and have the most safe buying experience.