Real blizzard email or is it a fake?

#0 - April 9, 2010, 2:51 a.m.

So just a few minutes ago, I was checking my email and saw I had a spam message, but it was from [email protected].

It said

Blizzard Account Monitoring Notification(no reply)

Dear customer, in our system recent monitoring accounts of all Blizzard . Your Account Login Successful tonight at 9:30pm form the 125.2.102 .* IP range
, but our system shows the 125.2.102 .* IP range exists in a large number of hackers, as too many customer complaints, the
125.2.102 .* IP range has been blacklisted. We are concerned about whether your account has been stolen, so, for the purpose of ensure your legal interests,
We will be 24 hours after, suspended your account. If you have any questions please visit <removed>

Blizzard account monitoring system
2010 Blizzard Entertainment. All rights reserved.

The grammar is awful, but when I went to http://us.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?locale=en_US&articleId=30821 it said that it was infact, a legit email.

What should I do? Ive opened an ingame ticket, but "we are experiencing a high volume of petitions"

Malkorix

#4 - April 9, 2010, 2:59 a.m.

Q u o t e:
So just a few minutes ago, I was checking my email and saw I had a spam message, but it was from [email protected].

It said

Blizzard Account Monitoring Notification(no reply)

Dear customer, in our system recent monitoring accounts of all Blizzard . Your Account Login Successful tonight at 9:30pm form the 125.2.102 .* IP range
, but our system shows the 125.2.102 .* IP range exists in a large number of hackers, as too many customer complaints, the
125.2.102 .* IP range has been blacklisted. We are concerned about whether your account has been stolen, so, for the purpose of ensure your legal interests,
We will be 24 hours after, suspended your account. If you have any questions please visit <removed>

Blizzard account monitoring system
2010 Blizzard Entertainment. All rights reserved.

The grammar is awful, but when I went to http://us.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?locale=en_US&articleId=30821 it said that it was infact, a legit email.

What should I do? Ive opened an ingame ticket, but "we are experiencing a high volume of petitions"

That appears to be a fake email, and is likely either a phishing attempt or an attempt to infect your system with a keylogger. Please note that the link I've removed is not actually our community site, but contains a slight mispelling. That email address can be reported directly to our investigators via [email protected]. Also, take care even if an email appears legitimate - sometimes the perfectly valid looking links within a message like this are hyperlinks which lead to very different destinations. The seemingly legitimate source address has also been spoofed - the first link in our sticky can help teach you how to identify the real source of such a message:

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