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I just got this email from "noreply@blizzard.com"
Greetings,
An investigation of your World of Warcraft account has found strong evidence that the account in question is being sold or traded. As you may not be aware of, this conflicts with Blizzard's EULA under section 4 Paragraph B which can be found here:
WoW -> Legal -> End User License Agreement
and Section 8 of the Terms of Use found here:
WoW -> Legal -> Terms of Use
The investigation will be continued by Blizzard administration to determine the action to be taken against your account. If your account is found violating the EULA and Terms of Use, your account can, and will be suspended/closed/or terminated.
In order to keep this from occurring, you should immediately verify that you are the original owner of the account.
To verify your identity please visit the following webpage:
http://www.battle.net/account/support/login-support.xml
When I hover my mouse over this link it actually leads to a different site with a super scammy URL
Only Account Administration will be able to assist with account retrieval issues. Thank you for your time and attention to this matter, and your continued interest in World of Warcraft.
Sincerely,
Account Administration
Blizzard Entertainment
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I don't own a WoW account.. and I probably would have checked the real URL after clicking anyways but just wanted to help anyone else who's going to get this stuff not get scammed out of their beta and/or WoW account.
Not sure how they got the sending email to be @blizzard.com :/
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It's called phishing it's not really new. I imagine since you're kind of famous now, you might have put your email out there a lot, making you a target.
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Mmm sad part is so many people will be scammed by it and lose their accounts.
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its gotten really sick tho atm.
i got like 6 of those within a week. even clicked on a link on the first one (u know, beta madness and a blizzard email... ) but firefox instablocked it so yah fukk them idiots.
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Yeah I'm aware it's nothing new but this one is better than a lot of the other phishing emails so still wanted to post it.
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Wow, that looks like it was done by someone who actually knows what they're doing. Have the right return email, the right link appearance, pretty much spot-on letter formatting, grammar, and style. Impressive scam.
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Phishing is very common with WoW accounts. This is a SC-site so, GTFO =)
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Yeah this is why you have 2 emails 1 for serious shit like bills and your b.net account and the second one for crappy shit that you juts enter like contest that will likely send you spam instead
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Anyone can send an e-mail coming from any email address you want. Even you can do it in Outlook.
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OverSky you're Canadian? Whereabouts?
I'm in Waterloo xD
Also it's possible to get the @blizzard.com e-mail sending address through an e-mail spoofer. You send your own if you google how.
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The best you can do is report the destination site using the Firefox "Help / Report Web Forgery" and http://www.phishtank.com/
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On March 07 2010 10:22 Azide wrote:
OverSky you're Canadian? Whereabouts?
I'm in Waterloo xD
Also it's possible to get the @blizzard.com e-mail sending address through an e-mail spoofer. You send your own if you google how.
Vancouver!
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I get over 10 emails like this a day.
Welcome to world of warcraft
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Firefox
NoScript
no worries
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Just the other day someone tried to use a phishing site to steal my steam account. Like SidX said, its so sad that so many people would fall for this kind of thing.
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I get those like once every 3 days lol.
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This actually got me once. I was worried because I actually DID share my account on occasion so it seemed like a reasonable thing to email me about. I hit the link, entered my password (somehow already had my account name filled in, so i figured that it was legit website and I already had a cookie for it). I immediately realized my mistake. My password was changed in literally 20 seconds, and they were on my account in about a minute. I called blizzard that minute as well, and evidently they put a hold on the account at that very moment and were able to get everything back just fine (I lost about 700g, not that much by WoW standards).
I felt incredibly stupid, but just goes to show these things are incredibly realistic. I would expect myself to be the LAST one to fall for any sort of scam/phishing site, but I did. So as the title says, be careful.
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i get those a lot as well, none of the email addresses i get them in have a WoW account/B-net account attached to them so i lol
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ya i got one, wanted to reply and call him/them a dick but it wouldn't let me 
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I get atleast 3-4 of those per day, it's really getting irritating. I haven't played WoW in years, and my account is deactivated, but no! It's being comprimised! ;p
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maybe the L in blizzard is a capital i? o.o
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I don't own a WoW account.. and I probably would have checked the real URL after clicking anyways but just wanted to help anyone else who's going to get this stuff not get scammed out of their beta and/or WoW account.
Not sure how they got the sending email to be @blizzard.com :/
Man, thx for the warning, i had a bunch of those emails in junk mail and i have been wondering what it was. Fortunately for those who dont own a wow account is easily detectable, poor wow ppl getting his accs stolen hehe. Again, ty inReach
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someone probably hacked into the blizzard noreply bot and has been sending this out with that other link to a rigged page.
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On March 07 2010 14:29 CharlieMurphy wrote:
someone probably hacked into the blizzard noreply bot and has been sending this out with that other link to a rigged page.
naw they can just smurf the address i've had emails sent by my own email to myself which i obv never did
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I've gotten this email as well.
This is what is look like:
Not gonna lie, I clicked on it, but Mozilla or Google warned me that it was an unsafe site. So that was pretty cool of them.
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Meh...I've been getting several of these every day for the past 1-2 years. Fortunately they go directly to my spam box now.
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I've been getting 3 of these a day for the past year.
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hmm u hiding porn links! jk
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Valhalla18444 Posts
can someone fill me in on what this "oversky" business is
you don't mean former cj captain and all-around badass oversky do you
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On March 07 2010 16:08 StarMasterX wrote:
Meh...I've been getting several of these every day for the past 1-2 years. Fortunately they go directly to my spam box now.
I have been getting them as well unfortunately despite reporting all of them as phishing scams and moving to junk box hotmail and gmail refuse to send them directly to spam box -.-
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That e-mail looks really legit, with the exception of not mentioning the account name that's causing the violation.
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I've received similar e-mails and I don't play WOW.
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On March 07 2010 11:07 -orb- wrote:
I get over 10 emails like this a day.
Welcome to world of warcraft
hint stop crack
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On March 07 2010 13:44 Nal_rAwr wrote:
maybe the L in blizzard is a capital i? o.o
if you have a mail server, you can put anything in the from field
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got a few of these since beta started, always get my hopes up when I see the @blizzard email address thinking it's a beta key then I get sad because it's a fail scam attempt
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On March 07 2010 17:18 Irrelevant wrote:
got a few of these since beta started, always get my hopes up when I see the @blizzard email address thinking it's a beta key then I get sad because it's a fail scam attempt
on this note if they faked a beta email to attempt to phish accounts...
edit: phish not fish what was i thinking
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On March 07 2010 17:02 Cambium wrote:Show nested quote +On March 07 2010 13:44 Nal_rAwr wrote:
maybe the L in blizzard is a capital i? o.o if you have a mail server, you can put anything in the from field
I wish this knowledge was more widespread. Too many people will see where an email purports to be from and take it at face value
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On March 07 2010 11:07 -orb- wrote:
I get over 10 emails like this a day.
Welcome to world of warcraft
ye me too... kinda irritating
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On March 07 2010 16:23 FakeSteve[TPR] wrote:
can someone fill me in on what this "oversky" business is
you don't mean former cj captain and all-around badass oversky do you
This is oversky who is canadian I think. TL nick : inReach. He used to be good in warcraft 3 making youtube videos. Then he changed his keyboard config and a lot of stuff that he posted and promised he'd become the best SC2 gamer. Everyone laughed. But now he's rank 1 platinum and doing very well.
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I get like ten of these a day, goes right to my spam-inbox.
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do you guys fill your email adress in all over the internet or something ? i've never gottan any of these
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I don't know about your mails, but the link in my mail REALLY leads to the official battle.net site. There is no FAKE URL .
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On March 07 2010 09:53 inReacH wrote:
Not sure how they got the sending email to be @blizzard.com :/
An Email is pretty much like a postcard, in the sense that the person who sends that stuff, can insert any name/address he likes (either by using his own mail server, or by "tricking" a third party mail server) and in the sense that every server which forwards the mail can read its content. No hacking required.
More information on the actual way the Email took, can be viewed in the header of any mail.
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