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#0 - June 1, 2010, 1:35 p.m.

The following email came to my old email address .

WoW Account Security Warning
From: Blizzard Entertainment <[email protected]>Add to Contacts
To:

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hello :karorfa

Taking Action: investigation
Reason for Action: Payment Exception

After a recent survey, we found that the mode of payment of your account has violated the interests of third

This global activity using violent Warcraft. We ask that you take some time to review your payment history, account management account (<malicious URL NOT Blizzard>), or you can click here to review it.

This World of Warcraft account could be closed by the Account Administration staff if the situation becomes more serious.

This action has been taken in accordance with our Terms of Use and rules of the game (us.blizzard.com/support/article/20309).

Only the Account Administration department can settle disputes or questions you may have about this action counts. To learn more about how we can help you, please visit us at us.blizzard.com/support/article/21505.

Sincerely,

Account Administration
Blizzard

#1 - June 1, 2010, 1:39 p.m.

Can you even make sense of that the English is so broken?

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.