Fake Email Offering Cataclysm Alpha Invite!

#0 - July 5, 2009, 7:41 a.m.
Blizzard Post
Recieved this fake email today to the email address that I have only ever used for wowinterface, curse, varthara photobucket acct, cdm forums & arena junkies. I have never used this email address for either one of my wow accounts.

The links redirect to a bogus site

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from Blizzard Entertainment <[email protected]>
date Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 10:03 PM
subject Blizzard Cataclysm Alpha


Greetings, and thank you for being a subscriber of World Of Warcraft.

As you may have heard, we are planning to release a new expansion sometime in 2009, We plan to call it World of Warcraft: Cataclysm.
We are planning on making alot of changes to the game and already our developers have started working on the new expansion.
Cataclysm will be announced at Blizzcon '09, until then we cannot release much more information.
However, we are opening up an alpha test realm and while we cannot tell you much more, we can say we would like to invite you to alpha test World of Warcraft: Cataclysm.
Obviously we can't let you on until after we've finished making the alpha version, and announced it at blizzcon.

We are opening up 500 slots for the alpha test of World of Warcraft: Cataclysm.
250 of those slots will be rewarded on a "first-come first-served" basis.
The other 250 will be randomly decided, and rewarded.

You can register at the following link; --<link removed>--
As we only have 500 slots available, if you are chosen, we will contact you with further information.
You can apply with either your world of warcraft account or your --<link removed>-- account.

Thank you for your time and attention to this matter, and your continued interest in World of Warcraft.


Sincerely,

Account Administration
Blizzard Entertainment
#11 - July 5, 2009, 5:44 p.m.
Blizzard Post
Thank you for the report, Varthara.

We've added this e-mail to the list of phishing e-mails found within the following thread:

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

Should you have any questions, please feel free to let us know.

Thanks!