Hey all just wanted to make an unofficial announcement about some fake blizzard emails going out about how you may be trying to sell your WoW account. I just got this email this morning and almost fell for it until I saw that the web address wasn't an official blizzard website.
"Greetings!
It has come to our attention that you are trying to sell or trade your personal World of Warcraft account.
As you may or may not be aware of, these actions conflict with the EULA and Terms of Service (TOS) of Blizzard Entertainment and World of Warcraft.
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.
If you wish to not get your account suspended you should immediately verify your account. We need to confirm you are the original owner of the account. This is easiest done by confirming your personal information along with concealed information about your account.
We now provide a secure website for you to verify that you have taken the appropriate steps to secure the account, your computer, and your email address. Please go to this site and follow the instructions:
http://FAKEBLIZZARDLINK.ORLY
Battle.net account name
Battle.net account password
Secret Question and Answer and Tel
Only Account Administration will be able to assist with account retrieval issues.
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.
Thank you for your patience and anticipated cooperation in this matter.
I also get tons of those everyday. My old email is definitly up on those fraud/spam/phishing/whatever mailing lists.
If you want them to disappear, either get a new email or don't even open the mails. There are mailing features that lets the sender know if you opened the email, thus they still know the address is active. Other than that we all are pretty much f'cked by those. But most of the times your web browser will also report the site being a fraud and block you unless you explicitly want to enter.
I once checked my e-mail and saw that there were like 10 or 20 mails in my outbox, all of them were these kind of mails. I immediatly did a virus scan...
yeeee soooo lame when i use to play wow kept opening hotmail and like WOOO i'm popular and have a email...bam...fake blizzard notice x 9000(exagerated a little)
even got them after quitting till i changed the email address for the account
strange how they are managing to get the emails of people that play wow
The most convincing fake blizzard email was a scam warning about scams. And you should click on their link right away and log in to make sure everything is a-okay.
I get like 5+ fake blizz emails a day now. Some get through spam filter too.
This.
my mail provider still declares them as unsafe and the official ones as safe, but I never click on links... I type their web address in manually. I often ready them but don't click on links... some of the crackpot ideas they come up with is just silly.
"warning number 54..."
"we noticed you have sold your account and we are banning it"
Hey all just wanted to make an unofficial announcement about some fake blizzard emails going out about how you may be trying to sell your WoW account. I just got this email this morning and almost fell for it until I saw that the web address wasn't an official blizzard website.
"Greetings!
It has come to our attention that you are trying to sell or trade your personal World of Warcraft account.
As you may or may not be aware of, these actions conflict with the EULA and Terms of Service (TOS) of Blizzard Entertainment and World of Warcraft.
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.
If you wish to not get your account suspended you should immediately verify your account. We need to confirm you are the original owner of the account. This is easiest done by confirming your personal information along with concealed information about your account.
We now provide a secure website for you to verify that you have taken the appropriate steps to secure the account, your computer, and your email address. Please go to this site and follow the instructions: http://FAKEBLIZZARDLINK.ORLY
Only Account Administration will be able to assist with account retrieval issues.
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.
Thank you for your patience and anticipated cooperation in this matter.
Regards,
Account Administration Blizzard Entertainment www.blizzard.com"
My favorite is when I get an e-mail warning me about a password change for my Trion Worlds account...sent from a fake Blizzard account.
I don't even have a Trion Worlds account!
delete the link please, some people are stupid and actually click on it XD
Ya meant to do that, forgot to, but I changed it.
Funny, I get at least 5 of these mails every day.
@Zantai: Go
Well you should! Rift is pwnsome :P
I also get tons of those everyday. My old email is definitly up on those fraud/spam/phishing/whatever mailing lists.
If you want them to disappear, either get a new email or don't even open the mails. There are mailing features that lets the sender know if you opened the email, thus they still know the address is active. Other than that we all are pretty much f'cked by those. But most of the times your web browser will also report the site being a fraud and block you unless you explicitly want to enter.
I get like 1-5 of such emails a day and it's annoying but I just keep marking them as phising mails every time .. one day they might disappear.
I once checked my e-mail and saw that there were like 10 or 20 mails in my outbox, all of them were these kind of mails. I immediatly did a virus scan...
Yeah, I got one saying that my map was banned.
I get like 5+ fake blizz emails a day now. Some get through spam filter too.
yeeee soooo lame when i use to play wow kept opening hotmail and like WOOO i'm popular and have a email...bam...fake blizzard notice x 9000(exagerated a little)
even got them after quitting till i changed the email address for the account
strange how they are managing to get the emails of people that play wow
The most convincing fake blizzard email was a scam warning about scams. And you should click on their link right away and log in to make sure everything is a-okay.
This.
my mail provider still declares them as unsafe and the official ones as safe, but I never click on links... I type their web address in manually. I often ready them but don't click on links... some of the crackpot ideas they come up with is just silly.
"warning number 54..." "we noticed you have sold your account and we are banning it"
really?