Posted April 08, 2015
I just got an email about my origin account being changed. My first reaction was, I had an origin account? I've been avoiding EA like a plague, when did I create the account?. Second reaction was, I certainly didn't change the password of whatever account that was! I don't care about any alleged EA accounts of mine, as I don't use their service at all. But it ticked my curiosity.
So I went to orign website, login, used the "forget password" link and reset the password, then logged into the account to see what was up with that. Annoyingly enough it was in Flemish, which is not a language I'm very fluent in, but I can make do. I looked at my settings, apparently my username was "Masstupid". Yeah, that's not me. Real name in Russian, too. I tried to modify it but I couldn't, a security question popped up... in Russian. Google said, "what is my favorite cartoon". However, date of birth was mine, and country was set to Ireland (which could be legit, as I did live there for a while). Weird.
I contacted EA support next, on that chat of theirs. Yay. I told them my account had been taken over, and the guy went all "your account's security is extremely important to us" and whatnot. So he asked me "my" secret question, which I couldn't answer. Next he sent a confirmation mail, which I could read and respond. Next, he asked for my country, which I could see after checking "my" account earlier. With just that, the support guy was satisfied; luckily they didn't ask me something as basic as "tell me one game on your account" or "when did you log in last".
So yeah, the guy reset my password (again), manually reset my secret question, and bam! I'm now the not-so-proud owner of an origin account. Worst case scenario, EA managed to trick me with an elaborate trick to make me check their service out. Best case scenario, I've gotten an account with a bunch of games from some random Russian. The excitement is killing me. Plus, I got a 15% discount voucher.
Now, how do I check if there are games in the account?
So I went to orign website, login, used the "forget password" link and reset the password, then logged into the account to see what was up with that. Annoyingly enough it was in Flemish, which is not a language I'm very fluent in, but I can make do. I looked at my settings, apparently my username was "Masstupid". Yeah, that's not me. Real name in Russian, too. I tried to modify it but I couldn't, a security question popped up... in Russian. Google said, "what is my favorite cartoon". However, date of birth was mine, and country was set to Ireland (which could be legit, as I did live there for a while). Weird.
I contacted EA support next, on that chat of theirs. Yay. I told them my account had been taken over, and the guy went all "your account's security is extremely important to us" and whatnot. So he asked me "my" secret question, which I couldn't answer. Next he sent a confirmation mail, which I could read and respond. Next, he asked for my country, which I could see after checking "my" account earlier. With just that, the support guy was satisfied; luckily they didn't ask me something as basic as "tell me one game on your account" or "when did you log in last".
So yeah, the guy reset my password (again), manually reset my secret question, and bam! I'm now the not-so-proud owner of an origin account. Worst case scenario, EA managed to trick me with an elaborate trick to make me check their service out. Best case scenario, I've gotten an account with a bunch of games from some random Russian. The excitement is killing me. Plus, I got a 15% discount voucher.
Now, how do I check if there are games in the account?