#0 - June 1, 2009, 12:52 p.m.
Q u o t e:
Greetings and Congratulations!
Behind the scenes, Blizzard's marketing gnomes and business development goblins are working tirelessly to make sure that all your desires for Warcraft-related merchandise are met and no opportunity for promoting World of Warcraft is missed. How better to promote World of Warcraft than to give away free stuff!
Today is your lucky day! Every once in a while, you will have the chance to receive a promotion code from one of our World of Warcraft promos. Today, we have selected your account from our random raffle across the US servers to win one of these Promotion Codes!
The Promotional Code you have won today is redeemable for "Reins of the Spectral Tiger".
Your 25 Digit Promotional Code for this item is:
(there was a code here, though if it's actually real, uh, yeah...)
Promotion Codes can be redeemed at this page to generate an in-game code that will allow you to retrieve your reward. http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/misc/promotion.html
The World of Warcraft Trading Card Game from Upper Deck includes rare loot cards that will provide you with similar promotion codes for some cool looking or just plain funny items for your World of Warcraft characters. The BlizzCon and Random Raffle promotion codes are another example of this type of promo.
Congratulations and thank you for your on-going interest in the World of Warcraft!
Abbix
Blizzard Promotion Center
Blizzard Entertainment Inc.
There's MANY reasons I think this is a fake scam to get your info.
First one being in the email, it says donotreply@blizzard.com to ebryan19, the latter most certainly not being my email address.
Second being I've never ever heard of anything Blizzard does like this, as I'm sure a free Spectral Tiger would be pretty big news.
Third, the link to WoW.com/misc/promotion.html is simply a wrong link. It actually redirects to a website that is, again, most certainly not Blizzard's website. It even ends in a .tk. Not even a .com.
Another one would be the fact that upon clicking through the link it asks for your account info. Put together that, with a shady .tk redirected website, and I call hoax.
So if you get an email like this, don't believe it.
Unless it's actually real. Which I severely doubt.
Answers perhaps? D:
