A Disturbing wow admin email

#0 - Aug. 24, 2009, 8:10 p.m.

I opened my E-mail after coming home from work to see two different letters from wowadmin@blizzard and I belive my account might be getting hacked..this is whats said in the e-mail

"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-
WoW CD-Key
Show * Please enter the correct information
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 Teamaa
P.O. Box 18979, Irvine, CA 92623
Regards,
Account Administration Team
Blizzard Entertainment
2009-08-24"

I am telling the GOD HONEST truth I have NO CLUE whats going on and I'd Rather not get banned for doing NOTHING

Orlyia

#1 - Aug. 24, 2009, 8:13 p.m.

What is going on is someone is trying to trick you out of your account information.

That is NOT from Blizzard.

Open the header of that email up in your email program, you'll see it didn't come from us.

Internal emails are incredibly easy to spoof and should never be trusted.

We will never ask for your password, nor 'threaten' any kind of account action.

Please feel free to forward that, headers intact, to [email protected].

Orlyia

#3 - Aug. 24, 2009, 8:19 p.m.

Q u o t e:
Ah ok thanks I was really worried and freaking out cause I never would sell my account >_>

This is commonly known as a phish.

Phishes are fake emails from thieves that try to entice or scare people into divulging valuable personal and account information.

I get these saying they are my bank, my credit cards. WoW accounts aren't the only targets. It pays to be suspicious of all emails, most especially ones that are asking questions they should not be.