Patheticattempts at account theft!

#0 - Jan. 11, 2010, 6:12 p.m.

Is anyone getting really crappy attempts at stealing your account information?
Such as the following?

Blizzard Notification About World of Warcraft Account‏
From: Blizzard Entertainment (wowaccountadmin@blizzard.com)
You may not know this sender.Mark as safe|Mark as junk
Sent: Thu 1/07/10 12:20 PM
To: xxxxx@xxxx.com

Greetings!
It was reported that you are trying to sell your personal World of Warcraft account(s).
As you 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.
We will gather more information through further investigation.
If you wish to not get your account suspended you should immediately verify your account ownership.
You can confirm that you are the original owner of the account by providing the following information:
* 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 be closed permanently.
Once we verify your account, we will reply to your e-mail informing you that we have dropped the investigation.

Regards,

Account Administration Team
Blizzard Entertainment

Or this gem?

Greetings!This is an automated notification regarding the recentchange(s) made to your World of Warcraft account. Your password has recentlybeen modified through the Password Recovery website. *** If you made thispassword change, please disregard this notification.However, if you did NOTmake changes to your password we recommend you Login verify your password: MALICIOUS URL REMOVED Account security issolely the responsibility of the account holder. Please be advised that inthe event of a compromised account, Blizzard representatives typically must lockthe account. In these cases the Account Administration team will requirefaxed receipt of ID materials before releasing the account for play.Regards, The World of Warcraft Support Team BlizzardEntertainment

or

Greetings,

After a thorough investigation, we have found that your account participated in activities designed to gain an unfair advantage in World of Warcraft.

As you may or may not be aware of, these actions conflict with the EULA and Terms of Service (TOS) of Blizzard Entertainment and World of Warcraft.

The investigation will be continued by Blizzard administration to determine the action to be taken against your account. If your account is found violating the EULA and Terms of Use, your account can, and will be suspended/closed/or terminated.

If you hope to avoid account suspension you should verify your personal possession of the account in question. We at Blizzard Entertainment take infractions of the TOS quite seriously and we must confirm the original ownership of the account. This is easily done by supplying your account information below.

You can confirm that you are the original owner of the account by replying to this email with:

* First and Last name
* Address
* Zip code
* Phone number Daytime
* Country
* Account e-mail
* CD-key
* Account name
* Account password
* Secret Question and Answer

Any disputes or questions concerning this account action can only be addressed by Account Administration.

Thank you for respecting our position on this matter.

Blizzard Entertainment Inc
Account Administration Team
P.O. Box 18979, Irvine, CA 92623

Regards,

Account Administration
Blizzard Entertainment
http://www.blizzard.com/support/wowaa/
World of Warcraft , Blizzard Entertainment 2009

Malkorix

#20 - Jan. 11, 2010, 8:08 p.m.

Q u o t e:
Better yet, as I'm fond of imagining, try the police version.

"Dear Citizen-

It has come to our attention that you may be selling illicit substances out of your residence at 42 Evergreen Terrace. If this is the case, please vacate your residence this coming Friday no later than 8:00 am. We will be investigating your house thoroughly. Please be sure to leave the door unlocked and any alarm system deactivated. To prove your identity, we will require your wallet and ATM PIN to be left on the kitchen counter, along with a list of what electronics and valuables are located in the home and where.

Our investigation will take most of the day. Please do not return to your house until at least five pm that day. Disregard any telephone calls from your neighbors or financial institutions during this time. Failure to comply with this direction could result in your arrest and incarceration.

Sincerely,
The Real No Fooling Police, Honest"

I award you One(1) Internet.

This is a remarkably apt description of how many of these phishing emails work, though obviously some are more subtle or crafty. You can find other examples of such emails here:

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

Malkorix

#21 - Jan. 11, 2010, 8:11 p.m.

Q u o t e:
I am trying to find a nice DOS / spam bot (not easy, as you might imagine, who would want to advertise their illegal wares?) to spam the crap out of them clogging up their databases with logins like "screwyou" with password "andthehorseyourodeinon" as often as possible. Ideally, the spam bot would need to randomly generate logins and passwords to force their minimum wage workers to try each one (until Blizzard realizes they are hackers and locks their IP address?)... But I haven't found one yet.

If you want to join me in spamming the current phisherman, here is the address:

<removed ~ Let's not even inadvertently lead others to a malicious site, please>

Kinda (but not really) subtle.

Clog them up.

While I appreciate your civic-minded intent, it's better to simply report malicious links directly to hacks@blizzard.com via email and our staff will investigate and deal with them appropriately =).