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57 Corvette
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Canada5941 Posts
January 04 2011 03:02 GMT
#1
I have been recieving TONS of Bnet phishing e-mails in the past few months. Near thte start of December, they actually looked somewhat legit (even though i already know Bnet won't e-mail me unless i tell them to). Recently though, they have become incredibly bad grammared / plain stupid.

Here is one that I got in December:
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Now, compare that to the one I got today:
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Is it just me, or are they getting more and more retarded?

***
Survival is winning, everything else is bullshit.
FreezingAssassin
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States455 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-01-04 03:08:29
January 04 2011 03:08 GMT
#2
lol this is quite humerous actually and i know what you mean, ive seen some myself whether just looking through the webs and people talking about it or myself. Hackers/Phisers or w/e they want to be called just dont have common sense lol
"I love when stupid stuff happens, it makes me look smart" - IdrA
Zim23
Profile Joined August 2010
United States1681 Posts
January 04 2011 03:10 GMT
#3
Haha it says "Bnlizzard". Do you play WoW? I know this is a widespread problem for people who play that game.
Do an arranged marriage if she's not completely minging, and don't worry about dancing, get a go-kart, cheers.
57 Corvette
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Canada5941 Posts
January 04 2011 03:11 GMT
#4
Thats the thing, i don't play WoW. I may have made a trial account when they had that 14 day free thing, but i never got it to work on my (at the time) Windows ME computer.
Survival is winning, everything else is bullshit.
Juxx
Profile Joined April 2010
325 Posts
January 04 2011 04:00 GMT
#5
i get these all the time, thank god gmail automatically puts them in the spam folder.
Grubby Fighting!
eXigent.
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
Canada2419 Posts
January 04 2011 04:08 GMT
#6
I got tons of these as well, and I dont play WoW either. Pretty stupid
Ethelis
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
United States2397 Posts
January 04 2011 04:38 GMT
#7
On January 04 2011 13:08 eXigent. wrote:
I got tons of these as well, and I dont play WoW either. Pretty stupid


Weird, quite the opposite for me.
Disabled gamer - Diamond 3 (LoL) D+ Rank scrublord on BW. Bisu doesnt need DTs, He uses probes. just ask Flash.
Raeleigh
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Canada902 Posts
January 04 2011 04:56 GMT
#8
Lol, good to know i'm not the only one who gets them.

noreply@blizzard.com to me
show details 12/24/10 (10 days ago)
Hello,

Blizzard Entertainment recently received a request to change the e-mail address used to log in to the Battle.net account with the username klissaye@gmail.com. The e-mail address k***@hotmail.com has been specified as the new username for this Battle.net account. An email has been sent to this new address containing a verification link to complete the change.

Once the new address has been verified, the e-mail address klissaye@gmail.com can no longer be used to log in to this Battle.net account or any World of Warcraft accounts merged with this Battle.net account.

If you did not initiate this request, please click here to contact the Blizzard Billing & Account Services team immediately.

Sincerely,
The Battle.net Account Team
Online Privacy Policy

MessageID avxkobydnkdibryiosjjvj3a



Funny thing is, I don't have ANY battle.net account signed up with this email. xD
you are perfect porcelain.
Kenpachi
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States9908 Posts
January 04 2011 05:07 GMT
#9
Scammers/Hackers figured many many people play WoW so they try to trick you by saying your WoW acc got accessed. but haha they used an IP from china
Nada's body is South Korea's greatest weapon.
Go0g3n
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Russian Federation410 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-01-04 05:25:16
January 04 2011 05:12 GMT
#10
I'm getting at least 3-4 of these a week, Outlook doesn't display hotlinks, but the hotlink and then the actual link.

I still don't get what they want with this, one can always retrieve the password or retrieve the whole account (WoW Characters, game subscriptions) via Blizzard support.
Scarecrow
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Korea (South)9172 Posts
January 04 2011 05:41 GMT
#11
My housemate got caught by one of these early on but his common sense is underpowered, I get 3-4 a day
Yhamm is the god of predictions
RyuChus
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Canada442 Posts
January 04 2011 05:46 GMT
#12
That's so funny. I don't get any surprisingly.
I have an announcement to make, "Moo!" That is all.
57 Corvette
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Canada5941 Posts
February 03 2011 16:15 GMT
#13
Ok, i am bumping this back up, ONLY because i got this gem of a phishing attempt on my Bnet account. Here is what the e-mail said, with my adress blocked out.

Hello email,
Congratulations! Your world of Warcraft account (email)to receive compensation.This is Blizzard Entertainment's apology, We acknowledge a mistake, for you to lose the World of Warcraft account in order to recover our losses, We will give you 50000 gold coins free of charge and rare mounts (Dark Phoenix), I hope you can restart the game

Login here to authentication, 48 hours you will receive compensation

Description: test account and permanently disabled can not compensation

Survival is winning, everything else is bullshit.
SpiritoftheTunA
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
United States20903 Posts
February 03 2011 16:17 GMT
#14
im in tianjin right now, gimme that ass's address and ill beat the shit outta him
posting on liquid sites in current year
yesplz
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States295 Posts
February 03 2011 19:45 GMT
#15
I haven't played WoW in ~2 years and I just recently started getting these emails about my wow account...
Fumi
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
529 Posts
February 03 2011 19:58 GMT
#16
Greetings!

Recently, the problem of account invasion is getting worse and worse which cause enormous player's equipments and virtual currency stolen. This severely damages the benefits of mass players, also causes our company lose a lot of customers.

Our company has to adopt some measures to safeguard our common benefits in order to strengthen the safety of mass players'accounts, and firmly resist the account to be stolen again.Through our company's research and investigation to xxx customers,we will make the following decisions: we launch a package of updated Battle.net Mobile Authenticator and dynamic code protection card which can effectively prevent the accounts invaded. We will send this package of code protection system to players free of charge.

Please open this connection: http://itunes.apple.com/app/battle-net-mobile-authenticator/id306862897?mt=8 (do not click this for the love of god)

If your account passes the check successfully, we will send this package of dynamic Battle.net Mobile Authenticator to you in the form of e-mail.

In 3 days after you receiving the e-mail, if you don't submit your information, we have right to freeze your account, every player is obligated to protect the safety of the account. You must work together with us to be determined to crack down all the behaviors of destroying games.

If you had already authenticator your account, please disregard this automatic notification.

Regards,

The World of Warcraft Support Team
Blizzard Entertainment


This was the last one I received, like 5 days ago. The thought of people falling for this is....disturbing to me.
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Sufficiency
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Canada23833 Posts
February 03 2011 20:16 GMT
#17
Just make sure your spam filter checks for words such as "battle.net", "Blizzard Entertainment", "world of warcraft", and you will be instantly spam free.
https://twitter.com/SufficientStats
57 Corvette
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Canada5941 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-02-04 00:49:44
February 03 2011 22:03 GMT
#18
I just sent a contact e-mail to blizzard explaining my distaste for their ability to prevent phishing, as well as reporting several e-mail adresses. It won't do much itself, but hopfully they will get rid of the e-mails i sent in.

Edit: I got a message back from them pretty quickly, which is good. This was the message:

Greetings (my name),

Thanks for bringing these to our attention. We very much are engaged in what can at times seem like a never-ending battle against these scammers. What makes it all the more difficult is that they will not only copy the format of Blizzard emails, but they can and oftentimes do mask an email address, making it seem like a message is being sent from a legitimate Blizzard address when in fact, it has not been. You can forward such emails to us at hacks@blizzard.com if you continue to receive them, that would be greatly appreciated. We have recently seen an increase in phishing attempts which pose a real threat for account security. As a friendly reminder, many scams will ask you for your password, which is something Blizzard Entertainment will *NEVER* do.


So, you guys thing this is the truth or they are just bullshitting to stop my whining?
Survival is winning, everything else is bullshit.
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