Another Account Phishing Email Scam ;)

[Gorny]

I was going through my inbox this morning when I saw the following email and figured I'd post for the sake of warning those that might now know not to click strange links.

The first two links are legit, but the third that you are asked to click on is not a Blizzard owned link, and will result in your account being stolen.

http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/6746/mailiy5.jpg

The sender is "noreply@blizzard.com", which is a fake.

Whenever you get a genuine email from Blizzard, like from a GM in response to an ingame ticket or something, the sender is "donotreply@blizzard.com" <donotreply@blizzard.com> and the email title will also have Blizzard Entertainment - World of Warcraft in it.

Also Blizzard or a GM will usually address you by first name in an email.

Don't click on any strange links!

[wingzro]

When I changed my login password I got an auto message from "noreply@blizzard.com" just telling me of the password change. So it is a legit address. Sender was probably hiding behind it.

Regards is also spelled incorrectly in that email.

[Gorny]

When I changed my login password I got an auto message from "noreply@blizzard.com" just telling me of the password change. So it is a legit address. Sender was probably hiding behind it.

Regards is also spelled incorrectly in that email.

This is true about changing your password, I even changed mine just to verify it.

Indeed the sender is hiding behind the "noreply" part ... always best not to just go and click links. Hover first and if you're not sure contact a GM ingame or Blizzard through an offical channel.

-Better than ending up with a keylogger.

Edit: Another thing to point out, when I changed my password the genuine email from noreply@blizzard addressed me by first name, scam mail did not.

[mmorpg man]

I've never seen blizzard give an address in any email to me. is the address in the email above real?

[Gorny]

I've never seen blizzard give an address in any email to me. is the address in the email above real?

They won't (usually?) give an address that you can just click and reply to, for GM related matters you're instructed to open another ticket ingame and for other stuff it's usually billing@blizzard.com. Or in the case of a password change issue it's http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/loginsupport.

Also the link given for the support team is http://www.blizzard.com/support/wowindex/ which anyone can verify just be hovering over the link


Also if someon'e account is banned or locked for any reason, the solution to that is this: http://us.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?articleId=20483&categoryId=

And the official email link for account support and banned/ lock related issues is this: WoWAccountAdmin@blizzard.com

[Valas Azuviir]

Might as well have this cautionary tale stick around for a while. :wink2:

[shinetanny]

I would never click any of the links, I cared for my character so much!

[Smithla]

I was going through my inbox this morning when I saw the following email and figured I'd post for the sake of warning those that might now know not to click strange links.

The first two links are legit, but the third that you are asked to click on is not a Blizzard owned link, and will result in your account being stolen.

http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/6746/mailiy5.jpg

The sender is "noreply@blizzard.com", which is a fake.

Whenever you get a genuine email from Blizzard, like from a GM in response to an ingame ticket or something, the sender is "donotreply@blizzard.com" <donotreply@blizzard.com> and the email title will also have Blizzard Entertainment - World of Warcraft in it.

Also Blizzard or a GM will usually address you by first name in an email.

Don't click on any strange links!

Thanks for sharing. I had this kind of emails from ebay account phishing mails as well.

[kazeen]

those usually take u to a site that looks like the real blizzard account site and u put in all ur info but when u submit it, it all gets sent back to the person email address with u knowing and then they have all the info to steal ur account i had to research it to help my friend get his account back its not a fun process at all
its way to easy to setup a site that will actually send u to the blizzard account recovery site and have all the person info sent to u