@blizzard.com - Not official?

Q u o t e:
Hey Blizzard.

In your post you write that official emails from Blizzard ends with ex. @blizzard.com.

However, I have recently recieved a lot of scam mails from [email protected] and when I check where the email originates from it says ex. [email protected].

This would mean that the (as you say) official email @blizzard.com has been compromized? and the only way to actually check if it is from you is to see where the email originates from?

My guess is that even if the mail is from [email protected] which is supposed to be official but originates from [email protected] it's not really from you which makes @blizzard.com unofficial and not official.

Just a heads up!

Regards

What you are describing is known as spoofing:
http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=12947236083&sid=1

So, this email comes from someone showing as @blizzard.com or @battle.net. That means it’s real, right?

Unfortunately, no. The appearance of an official email address as the sender is not enough to guarantee an email’s veracity, and you should still remain cautious. This is due to the fact that it is possible to alter the appearance of a sender address in the “From” field of an email, and this process (known as ‘spoofing’) may cause a malicious email to seem as if sent from Blizzard.

In order to verify the actual sender address of any email you receive, you will need to check the email header information.