Possible scam email? - Blue Tracker

#0 - Oct. 1, 2009, 4:33 a.m.

Just received this today. The email I use for wow account is used for nothing else. But I am still skeptical if this is a legitimate email. Any help would be appreciated.

Q u o t e:
We would like to get your feedback as someone who purchased the BlizzConÂ® 2009 Live Stream. We invite you to participate in an online survey where your responses will help us determine offerings for future BlizzCon live streams. You must be 13 years of age or older to fill out the questionnaire. The entire survey is expected to take about 5 minutes to complete.

If you would like to participate, click on the following link:

http://survey.otxresearch.com/SurveyEntry.aspx?e=e1391fdd-a187-48ef-a0bc-aff7e506377e

We value your opinions highly and hope you'll make the time to participate. If you have any questions, you may contact us at blizsurvey@blizzard.com.

We look forward to your response.

Sincerely,

Blizzard Entertainment Research

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If you no longer wish to receive promotional emails from Blizzard, visit this link: http://email.blizzard.com/opt-out/survey.html/Key-2935.Llc.z.C.n6Gt4N

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Message-Id: <20090930115618.3868318312.0.21982-2935@email.blizzard.com>

Orlyia

#3 - Oct. 1, 2009, 8:16 p.m.

This one is fine, Carolly.

It doesn't ask for any identifying information at all. Also, if you ordered the stream that's a second check.

Orlyia

#5 - Oct. 1, 2009, 1:38 p.m.

Q u o t e:
Whenever I try to take the survey, allt that comes up is:

Thank you for your time.

Thank you for your willingness to share your opinion with us.

We hope you'll continue to participate in future surveys, as we value your opinions.

But I haven't even entered anything yet, nor am I given the opportunity too, which is what made me suspicious.

I was hoping to be able to let someone know how horribly slow and choppy the stream was as well as some other issues I had.

Hmmm, that almost sounds like it had already been filled out.

You could also write the provider on that service and copy us on it.

Orlyia

#9 - Oct. 8, 2009, 8:08 p.m.

Q u o t e:
Hum... would love to trust the Blue post up there, but three things are really bothering me.
My wife got the same thing in her Gmail.

1) My wife never signed up for blizzcon stream.
2) The Gmail account is unrelated to her Wow account.
3) Shortly after she unsuccessfully tried to complete the survey, my Comodo antivirus died horribly. I had to uninstall it in safe mode, and reinstall it and reupdate it.

Now, using Hijackthis, I can't see any instance of a running trojan (and I can pretty much list every running process on my computer at any given time, or at the very least recognize anything that isn't supposed to be there), and my virus scanner isn't finding anything... But I would recommend that blizz take a closer look at this. Seriously. It's got your name on it.

If you have that specific email, first crack the header and make sure it isn't a look-a-like. That's entirely possible.

Next, you can forward that, headers intact - to hacks@blizzard.com for our folks to have a closer look as well.

There is nothing stopping someone from taking a legitimate email and manipulating it. If she didn't order the stream, that's a huge red flag. If they ask you to 'log in', that's another. If they ask for any kind of password info - that's absolutely a marker of a scam.