Guild Wars 2

I log in this morning to see many many gold spammers in Lions Arch, however, the thing that really got to me is when I checked my in game mail, I had a gold seller spam mail…..sent to me by myself?

It seems the gold sellers can manipulate the mail system now to display the persons name instead of their own so you can’t report them.

[Edited by CC: Call-out removed]

I only noticed one that was particularly addressed to me, but you are not reporting yourself Maybe that’s what threw you off.

No, the mail recipient was me, as in From Kyosji.8961

Is it possible that your account has been hacked and been used to mail out some gold spam mail? You should consider changing your game password, changing your e-mail password and scanning your system for malware/viruses, just to be safe.

EDIT:
Additionally, if you suspect you’ve been hacked, you might want to contact support as well. You might be flagged as a gold seller and will eventually get banned over it, and you don’t want that to happen.

Kyosji.8961:

No, the mail recipient was me, as in From Kyosji.8961

The recipient should always be you as you are the person who recieved it.
Look closely at message, all the at the very top, is ther a different name or anything else listed over your name?

Kyosji.8961:

No, the mail recipient was me, as in From Kyosji.8961

Recipient means you were the one that received it, not the one that sent it.

Are you sure your name wasn’t just the subject line as a few other threads have come to realise (in which case it doesn’t indicate a hacked account at all).

Wild stab in the dark: If the sender is deleted before you read it, it may show up as you due to no other sender existing.

This is not official nor necessarily true, but it does make sense.

You cannot send mail to your own account (I know, I tried when I wanted to send low level weapons between characters and found I just had to use the bank instead). They probably have a special character that you might have missed, or just a hack to have it show up as your name.