Watch Out For StarCraft II Email Scam

[Tom Phoenix]

Hi! I am Nigerian roylty and I need you to give me your Battl.net account so I can make money. Please ignore the fact that I can't spell Battle.net.....or royalty.

On a serious note, most of these fortuntely already land in the Junk section of my Inbox. Still, it's amazing what people will do to try and scam others.

 

[imnot]

Or the foreign national that says he's going to give you $100,000 if you give him $5,000 to release the funds, right? Right? I hope you just said no, twice.

They said it was from the Nigerian President himself, dammit! I can't just ignore him!

i hear yo're talking about me, if you send me £5000, i can use my presidental magic to turn it into £1000,000,000!

 

[imnot]

I can't believe people fall for this shit.

didnt you realise , people are all pant's on head retarded!

 

[TheArma]

If an email doesn't come from "@blizzard.com" or "@battle.net," it's not from Blizzard.

Not necessarily good advice kids! E-mail addresses are very easy to spoof. As others have mentioned check the links very carefully if you plan to click them from the e-mail, an even better idea is - as others have said - to type the address yourself.

 

[Theissen]

Once, there was a lady on the gas station I work on. She had no money on her and her credit card was locked.
The thing is that the pumps are locked unless you pay first. You can't just put fuel on and pay later

As the kind person I am, I bought her gas for like 7 ? out of my own pocket. She promised she would pay me back...
And she did! And she even thanked me by giving me an extra 14 ?.

That's the closest thing I've come to being scammed recently, which isn't even close.

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

I recently got a email from Blizzard saying my WoW account's security was compromised and that I should log on and change my details. If my account hadn't been deactivated several months ago.... I still wouldn't have fallen for it.

Dumbass spammers.

 

[Eviljesse]

I get WoW scams all the time that say my account has been involved in spamming, gold selling, and other illegal activities. I find this very odd since I deactivated it over 6 months ago and when I log into it at the real WoW site it is still deactivated.

These spam mails are easy to spot. Most of them are full of bad spelling. You do have to be careful though because some of them will say "click this link" and it does say @blizzard or @battle.net, but if you mouse over it to see where the link is directing you, it isn't blizzard or it will be something like blizard or bl1zzard.

Seeing as how I don't play WoW anymore, I could care less, but for those of you that do, NEVER click any link in an email for WoW. Just manually type in the real site and log in from there to see if whatever the mail is saying is true or not.

Is there anywhere where you can forward these things to Blizzard? I'm not sure what, if anything, they can do about it, but it might be useful information to them.

Oh, also, if it is asking for your account info, you know it is fake, because Blizzard manages the game....don't you think they know all that already?

 

[ucciolord1]

You mean I didn't win an e-mail lottery...?

 

[Antari]

Unfortunately I have to say people who fall for this ... kinda deserve it. Some people only learn the hard way.

 

[solidstatemind]

If an email doesn't come from "@blizzard.com" or "@battle.net," it's not from Blizzard.

Not necessarily good advice kids! E-mail addresses are very easy to spoof. As others have mentioned check the links very carefully if you plan to click them from the e-mail, an even better idea is - as others have said - to type the address yourself.

You can do it without even spoofing per se, if you use the right email program. Many let you put in whatever return email address you want. It's how people- like, say, customer service reps- can send personal emails and still not reveal their email addresses: they set it to [email protected]

So, yeah, email address is a very poor way to determine the identity of the sender.

 

[DVS Storm]

I myself have got like 6 emails from @blizzard.com address considering my battle.net account which is pretty funny because I don't have one. I'm happy that hotmail marked them as spam right away. The message looked really legit. Still kinda fail.