Phish? - Blue Tracker

#0 - June 4, 2010, 9:29 p.m.

I just got this e-mail:

"world of warcraft: Cataclysm Beta Test Invitation!

Get those opt-ins ready for the World of Warcraft: Cataclysm closed beta! The sundering of Azeroth is nigh, and you don’t want to be left out in the cold of Northrend when you could be enjoying the sun-drenched beaches on the goblin isle of Kezan. To ensure you’re opted-in and eligible as a potential candidate, you’ll need a World of Warcraft license attached to your Battle.net account, have your current system specifications uploaded to the Battle.net Beta Profile Settings page, and have expressed interest through the franchise-specific check boxes.

Get the Installer - Log in to your Battle.net account:

[bad link]

** IMPORTANT ** To avoid graphical bugs and other technical issues, please ensure your video card drivers are up-to-date.

Enjoy the game!

?2010 Blizzard Entertainment, Inc."

It has good grammar and it looks authentic. Phish? The ? before 2010 and world of warcraft lowercase leaves me to believe so.

Syndri

#3 - June 4, 2010, 10:47 p.m.

Eilethalua and Pailamaha gave you some excellent advice, Catclawz. The email you received was most definitely malicious and pointed you to a website that was not run by Blizzard Entertainment. I'm guessing the website itself would probably have prompted you to "log in" and, as a result, encouraged you give out your account name and password. Your caution was well served, sir. :)

If you're interested, you can learn more about how to identify, report, and possibly even phishing emails here:

How to Identify Fake or Phishing Emails

http://us.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?articleId=25133

Battle.net Account Security Awareness - Phishing Emails

http://us.battle.net/security/types.html#phishing

In the meantime, if you're willing to forward on that email to [email protected] that would be greatly appreciated.

Orlyia

#19 - Nov. 2, 2010, 1:28 p.m.

Please do not necro posts, Eesh.

The only real way to tell a phish is to pop open the internal routing headers of an email and determine the true sender.

Even otherwise 'real' emails can be co-opted by a phisher, links doctored and redirected.

It may be a challenge to find, but every email program should be able to show you the routing information.