Another scam attempt

#0 - June 22, 2010, 5:47 a.m.
Blizzard Post
recieved this email (supposedly from blizzard)


World of Warcraft Verification - Account Issue NO.132168‏
From: accountadmin@email.blizzard.com (joangla8@aol.com)
Medium riskYou may not know this sender.Mark as safe|Mark as junk
Sent: 21 June 2010 21:26:15
To: *************@hotmail.co.uk

Greetings!

We are very sorry to inform you that your account occurred in the number of illegal transactions in a very long period of time. We have not received any complaints about your transactions. But if other players send complaints about your account to us, we will permanently ban your account.

So we have issued this warning letters to you. You should go to the account management website to check your account status as soon as possible(http://us.battle.net/account), you can also find them here.

Sincerely,

Bill Mushkin
Blizzard Entertainment
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just a warning for you guys to keep an eye out for.
the funny thing is, the email address that they sent it to has nothing to do with WOW. no idea how they manage to get my 2nd email address :O
#4 - June 22, 2010, 9:02 a.m.
Blizzard Post
Q u o t e:
They sent an blanket email to many people at the same time, hoping that someone will bite.


It is indeed possible that these scammers will sometimes just make a shot in the dark and hope that it will pay off.

http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=12947236083&sid=1