Battle.net-Account investigation!

#0 - May 18, 2010, 9:38 a.m.

Hello.
Yesterday i got an email from: [email protected] ([email protected]), I'm gonna copypaste it here, because it's total absurdity, unless it's another hacker's try, which if it is, they reached mastery, since I got it on my WoW account email.
Quote:
Battle.net-Account investigation!

This is an automated notification regarding your Battle.net account.We have the evidence to prove that your account involved in the controversial game currency transaction

Our company has to adopt some measures to safeguard our common benefits in order to strengthen the safety of mass players'accounts,so you should immediately verify that you are the original owner of the account.We highly recommend that you take this opportunity to verify your account information.To do so, simply click here:

https://www.battle.net/account/support/login-support.xml

Blizzard staff will verify your account information submitted in two days, please do not modify your account information and password during this time . It will not affect your game uptime.

For more information, click here for answers to Frequently Asked Questions or to contact the Blizzard Billing & Account Services team.

Sincerely,
Account Administration
Blizzard Entertainment
Online Privacy Policy

Just to complete my topic: i never bought any gold from gold sellers, this account is created 3 years ago, I'm the only owner, I'm the only that know account info, and I'm the one that reporting every whispers and goldsellers i see on trade.
Please reply if anyone have this kind of experience.
Regards

Orlyia

#1 - May 18, 2010, 9:40 a.m.

This is what is commonly referred to as a phish. That quite literally means someone is ‘fishing’ for information and hoping they get a bite :)

If you look at the top of this forum you’ll see a library of ones that are commonly used (or close variants thereof) under “Fake Emails from Blizzard”

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=965511383&sid=1

The proper email to report these is [email protected] – you can forward the email, headers intact to that address.

Phishes rely on two primal human emotions and hope they get you to react before you think through what is being asked, greed and fear. They’ll either try to entice with an offer or intimidate with a threat.

We never ‘threaten’ an account action. If we have sufficient cause to think an account has been tampered with or needs locked down, we do it first – we don’t threaten with an ‘or else’ email.

WoW accounts are certainly not the only target of phishers. They send them out purporting to be banks, credit card companies, shipping companies – all aimed at obtaining information the thief can use to your detriment.

We will also NEVER ask for your password, or ask you to sign into some website somewhere not under our domain to login.

One way to check any email is to open up the header in your email program and check to see the actual route and sender. This is done in various ways, depending on your email program, but all can do it. Internal email addresses (what you see at the top of an email) can be spoofed very easily. Where it says it came from under sender is not necessarily true. The header of that email will show the true sender. Many spam programs actually use a comparison of these to flag suspicious emails.

Links in an email are also incredibly easy to spoof and/or redirect. Just because the URL looks legit doesn’t necessarily mean that’s where it really goes. Before clicking ANY link, in ANY email, mouse over the link and look at your bottom browser bar to see where it is reported to actually be destined.