WOW Scams

#0 - April 23, 2009, 3:21 p.m.
Blizzard Post
I'm not sure where to post this so I'm posting it here. I've been getting more and more spam lately regarding my email account. I'm really hoping someone hasn't gotten into Blizzards data base full of emails.

Actual email from blizzard -

From wowaccountadmin@blizzard.com Fri Feb 20 12:48:23 2009 Return-Path: <wowaccountadmin@blizzard.com> Authentication-Results: mta170.mail.re1.yahoo.com from=blizzard.com; domainkeys=neutral (no sig); from=blizzard.com; dkim=neutral (no sig) Received: from 216.148.0.66 (EHLO NAMX01.blizzard.com) (216.148.0.66) by mta170.mail.re1.yahoo.com with SMTP; Fri, 20 Feb 2009 04:51:03 -0800 Received: from ob4.blizzard.com ([192.168.69.10]) by NAMX01.blizzard.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Fri, 20 Feb 2009 04:49:55 -0800


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Email I got yesterday.


From wowaccountadmin@blizzard.com Wed Apr 22 14:02:29 2009 Return-Path: <wowaccountadmin@blizzacd.com> Authentication-Results: mta220.mail.mud.yahoo.com from=blizzacd.com; domainkeys=neutral (no sig) Received: from 209.85.217.162 (EHLO mail-gx0-f162.google.com) (209.85.217.162) by mta220.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; Wed, 22 Apr 2009 07:02:30 -0700 Received: by mail-gx0-f162.google.com with SMTP id 6so1092402gxk.10 for <noname@yahoo.com>; Wed, 22 Apr 2009 07:02:30 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0



----- Forwarded Message ----
From: "wowaccountadmin@blizzard.com" <wowaccountadmin@blizzacd.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 9:02:29 AM
Subject: donotreply@blizzard.com

From wowaccountadmin@blizzard.com Wed Apr 22 14:02:29 2009 Return-Path: <wowaccountadmin@blizzacd.com> Authentication-Results: mta220.mail.mud.yahoo.com from=blizzacd.com; domainkeys=neutral (no sig) Received: from 209.85.217.162 (EHLO mail-gx0-f162.google.com) (209.85.217.162) by mta220.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; Wed, 22 Apr 2009 07:02:30 -0700 Received: by mail-gx0-f162.google.com with SMTP id 6so1092402gxk.10 for <Scotxy@yahoo.com>; Wed, 22 Apr 2009 07:02:30 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.100.151.8 with SMTP id y8mt17609495and.147.1240408950165; Wed, 22 Apr 2009 07:02:30 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:02:29 +0800 Message-ID: <1c247ad50904220702r72eb3702u27b88430c8877aa8@mail.gmail.com> Subject: donotreply@blizzard.com From: "wowaccountadmin@blizzard.com" <wowaccountadmin@blizzacd.com> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001485f94562da30640468253680 Content-Length: 3741


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


Of course I knew it was a scam right away due to Blizzard stating they would never ever ask for our passwords. However some people might over look that. Just a heads up to Blizzard and their subscribers! :)
#1 - April 23, 2009, 3:28 p.m.
Blizzard Post
Thanks for the heads up, Kiki!

I went through and underlined the actual source of this e-mail -- take another look.

No, we have not changed our name to "Blizzacd Entertainment" nor will we.

Fake E-mails from "Blizzard Entertainment"
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=965511383&sid=1

Let me know if you have any questions!