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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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