Dodgy 'Blizzard' emails.

[Tiswas]

Got an email today with this:



"Greetings,

It has come to our attention that you are trying to sell your personal World of Warcraft account(s). As you may not be aware of, this conflicts with the EULA and Terms of Agreement. If this proves to be true, your account can and will be disabled. It will be ongoing for further investigation by Blizzard Entertainment's employees. If you wish to not get your account suspended you should immediately verify your account ownership.

You can confirm that you are the original owner of the account to this secure website with:
(Not posting link)

Only Account following template to verify your account.


If you ignore this mail your account can and will be closed permanently.

Once we verify your account, we will reply to your e-mail informing you that we have dropped the investigation.


Blizzard Entertainment Inc
Account Administration Team
P.O. Box 27086, Irvine, CA 17690"


After clicking on the link it was immediately blocked saying it was unsafe. Personally I don't play World of Warcraft so it was surprising I actually got this email. But I'm sure a lot of people here do. Just wanted people to be aware that what looks to be a scam.

 

[James Raynor]

Got an email today with this:



"Greetings,

It has come to our attention that you are trying to sell your personal World of Warcraft account(s). As you may not be aware of, this conflicts with the EULA and Terms of Agreement. If this proves to be true, your account can and will be disabled. It will be ongoing for further investigation by Blizzard Entertainment's employees. If you wish to not get your account suspended you should immediately verify your account ownership.

You can confirm that you are the original owner of the account to this secure website with:
(Not posting link)

Only Account following template to verify your account.


If you ignore this mail your account can and will be closed permanently.

Once we verify your account, we will reply to your e-mail informing you that we have dropped the investigation.


Blizzard Entertainment Inc
Account Administration Team
P.O. Box 27086, Irvine, CA 17690"


After clicking on the link it was immediately blocked saying it was unsafe. Personally I don't play World of Warcraft so it was surprising I actually got this email. But I'm sure a lot of people here do. Just wanted people to be aware that what looks to be a scam.

It's either a scam, or someone's got access to your account.

 

[Vault boy Eddie]

I get emails all the time saying someone hacked my account, since I don't play WoW i'm not stupid enough to open what is obviously a trap.

 

[Sassafrass]

Yeah, I've been getting those weekly and I don't even play WoW.
It's probably just a scam or something to get details from you or infect your computer with viruses.

 

[TheSuperiorXemnas]

Huh, I actually DO play the game but have not recieved any E-Mails like this.

 

[Hisshiss]

Got an email today with this:



"Greetings,

It has come to our attention that you are trying to sell your personal World of Warcraft account(s). As you may not be aware of, this conflicts with the EULA and Terms of Agreement. If this proves to be true, your account can and will be disabled. It will be ongoing for further investigation by Blizzard Entertainment's employees. If you wish to not get your account suspended you should immediately verify your account ownership.

You can confirm that you are the original owner of the account to this secure website with:
(Not posting link)

Only Account following template to verify your account.


If you ignore this mail your account can and will be closed permanently.

Once we verify your account, we will reply to your e-mail informing you that we have dropped the investigation.


Blizzard Entertainment Inc
Account Administration Team
P.O. Box 27086, Irvine, CA 17690"


After clicking on the link it was immediately blocked saying it was unsafe. Personally I don't play World of Warcraft so it was surprising I actually got this email. But I'm sure a lot of people here do. Just wanted people to be aware that what looks to be a scam.

Ive been getting like 2 of those a week for the past 2 years, and just recently started getting ones with the same title, but for rift.

As in a world of warcraft title, and then a rift account warning, of course I don't even own a rift account xD.

As you said, their best just ignored entirely.

 

[Gralian]

Got an email today with this:



"Greetings,

It has come to our attention that you are trying to sell your personal World of Warcraft account(s). As you may not be aware of, this conflicts with the EULA and Terms of Agreement. If this proves to be true, your account can and will be disabled. It will be ongoing for further investigation by Blizzard Entertainment's employees. If you wish to not get your account suspended you should immediately verify your account ownership.

You can confirm that you are the original owner of the account to this secure website with:
(Not posting link)

Only Account following template to verify your account.


If you ignore this mail your account can and will be closed permanently.

Once we verify your account, we will reply to your e-mail informing you that we have dropped the investigation.


Blizzard Entertainment Inc
Account Administration Team
P.O. Box 27086, Irvine, CA 17690"


After clicking on the link it was immediately blocked saying it was unsafe. Personally I don't play World of Warcraft so it was surprising I actually got this email. But I'm sure a lot of people here do. Just wanted people to be aware that what looks to be a scam.

This is a type of phishing commonly known as 'spoofing', which can cause the sender's email address to show up as @blizzard.com or @battle.net, even when viewing the properties of the email. Please ignore it and delete it. Do not click on any links. I've been sent countless emails saying "you've received a request to change your WoW account password, please click on this link to verify", but i have an authenticator, so even if my account was comprimised they'd need access to my authenticator to make that kind of request, and even then when someone does hack an authenticator code via keylogging they have about 30 seconds before they're locked out of the system again. I've ignored tonnes of these types of emails in the past and my account hasn't suffered for it. Just ignore it, no matter how official it looks, and don't ever click on any of the links in the email. If you're really concerned about it, forward the email to Blizzard customer support and have them look into it.

 

[Wolfram23]

I get them every god damn day. So annoying. One time I replied with something like "fuck off you idiots I'm not falling for this shit and I don't even have a wow account". They replied with the same mail, but it showed it came from *my* own email. I don't know how they do that, but yeah they can show it comes from whatever email they want... Anyway it's all just a phishing scam. They have fake links to their fake sites and just want to get your info to jack your shit.

 

[Woodsey]

You clicked on it even though you don't have an account?

 

[Ranorak]

Rule of Thumb, log in.
If you can, then it's a fake.

Blizzard bans first, then sends e-mails.
If you don't play, ignore.

 

[Continuity]

I get stuff like this from paypal all the time. The rule with any emails like this is whether its fake or not never follow the links. If you want to login to your account do so as you normally would, no legit companies send out emails with links asking you to login for any reason - thats simply scumbags phishing for your account details.

 

[Harbinger_]

Hope you didn't click the link, thats how they get keyloggers on your computer usually. I get tons of e-mails like this or claiming someone has altered my battle.net contact information, etc.

 

[FISHFINGERS]

Yeah, I get those once or twice a month. I haven't played WOW for about 2 years, so I just bin them.

 

[Lyri]

Got an email today with this:



"Greetings,

It has come to our attention that you are trying to sell your personal World of Warcraft account(s). As you may not be aware of, this conflicts with the EULA and Terms of Agreement. If this proves to be true, your account can and will be disabled. It will be ongoing for further investigation by Blizzard Entertainment's employees. If you wish to not get your account suspended you should immediately verify your account ownership.

You can confirm that you are the original owner of the account to this secure website with:
(Not posting link)

Only Account following template to verify your account.


If you ignore this mail your account can and will be closed permanently.

Once we verify your account, we will reply to your e-mail informing you that we have dropped the investigation.


Blizzard Entertainment Inc
Account Administration Team
P.O. Box 27086, Irvine, CA 17690"


After clicking on the link it was immediately blocked saying it was unsafe. Personally I don't play World of Warcraft so it was surprising I actually got this email. But I'm sure a lot of people here do. Just wanted people to be aware that what looks to be a scam.

It's a scam.
I get that exact same email to my email account that isn't signed up for WoW. One of my others is however.

 

[Gigano]

I've gotten several e-mails with that exact wording, and I don't have a WoW account.

So scam it is.

 

[se7ensenses]

You are a victim of idenity theft.

 

[Hybridwolf]

I get that email all the time. I even get varations, the most funny being when they where offering me a place in the catalsym beta, when the actual expansion was out. It's pointless anyway, I don't even have WoW. So don't worry about it, it's just a pathetic attempt to scam you.

 

[Turing]

Got an email today with this:



"Greetings,

It has come to our attention that you are trying to sell your personal World of Warcraft account(s). As you may not be aware of, this conflicts with the EULA and Terms of Agreement. If this proves to be true, your account can and will be disabled. It will be ongoing for further investigation by Blizzard Entertainment's employees. If you wish to not get your account suspended you should immediately verify your account ownership.

You can confirm that you are the original owner of the account to this secure website with:
(Not posting link)

Only Account following template to verify your account.


If you ignore this mail your account can and will be closed permanently.

Once we verify your account, we will reply to your e-mail informing you that we have dropped the investigation.


Blizzard Entertainment Inc
Account Administration Team
P.O. Box 27086, Irvine, CA 17690"


After clicking on the link it was immediately blocked saying it was unsafe. Personally I don't play World of Warcraft so it was surprising I actually got this email. But I'm sure a lot of people here do. Just wanted people to be aware that what looks to be a scam.

I get one of these, or similiar once a week and I don't even play World Of Warcraft

 

[Kuckles]

this is spam, ignore it.

Im out!

 

[Azure Sky]

If I had a dollar for every one of those I have received... Fun times.

Ignore it, they are getting better at making the links believable as well, which is scary.
Also, for what it's worth, for the love of god get an authenticator!

Fake emails are the least of your problems these days.