Account Hack!!!!! Watch out

#0 - March 30, 2009, 11:49 p.m.

Well I hope you all are smarter than the average moron trying to hack our accounts. I got this E-mail that shocked me till I read the entire thing. The e-mail was sent from [email protected] [[email protected]] in a [email protected] format.

Greetings!
It has come to our attention that you are trying to sell/trade your personal World of Warcraft account(s).
As you may or 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. If the information is deemed accurate, the

investigation will be dropped.
This action is taken because we at Blizzard Entertainment take these sales
quite seriously. We need to confirm you are the original owner of the account.
This is easiest done by confirming your personal information along with concealed information about your account.
You can confirm that you are the original owner of the account by replying to this email with:
Use the following template below to verify your account and information via email.
* First and Surname
* Date of birth
* Address
* Zip code
* Phone number
* Country
* Account e-mail
* Account name
* Account password
* Secret Question and Answer or Cd-Key
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.
We ask you to NOT change password until the investigation is fully completed.
Blizzard Entertainment Inc
Account Administration Team
P.O. Box 18979, Irvine, CA 92623
Regards,
Account Administration Team
Blizzard Entertainment

Orlyia

#8 - March 31, 2009, 5:36 a.m.

They are getting a bit sneaky with these.

Now instead of coming straight out and asking for everything but your blood-type, they are trying to send you to a false login screen.

We don't DO that folks.

We also don't threaten, if something has happened, we lock things down first to prevent further damages.

Any email can also have the header examined. Some are pretty obvious, with URLs that just look like ours at first glance, others are spoofed.

You can always look at the header of an email to see the route and real sender information.

Orlyia

#10 - March 31, 2009, 6:39 a.m.

Q u o t e:
Fill it out but give it fake info. Like address area 52 lol

I actually don't recommend responding to these - as tempting as it might be.

That just let's them know they've hit a real email address.

You'll never get rid of'em then :)