#0 - June 15, 2010, 5:19 a.m.
On June 4th, 2010 I received the following email claiming to be from blizzard regarding an account Authenticator. This email was sent to the address formerly associated with my WoW account and was received on or around the day that I attached an Authenticator to my account. The English alone is enough to send up red flags to anyone paying attention but I wasn't sure if this sort had already been reported or not. When hovering over the link provided in the email, it appears to be legitimate (no I did not click it nor will I). I'm not sure if, when reporting these things, we're supposed to leave the links intact or remove them so i'm erring on the side of caution and removing them. If the links are required, please have a blue respond to this and i'll forward the email to your customer service department.
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 10:29:13 +0800 [06/03/2010 08:29:13 PM CST]
From: "address removed" <address removed>
To: address removed
Subject: World of Warcraft - Account Authenticator
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Greetings!
Recently, the problem of account invasion is getting worse and worse which cause enormous players?equipments and virtual currency stolen. This severely damages the benefits of mass players, also causes our company lose a lot of customers.
Our company has to adopt some measures to safeguard our common benefits in order to strengthen the safety of mass players'accounts, and firmly resist the account to be stolen again.Through our company's research and investigation to xxx customers,we will make the following decisions: we launch a package of updated code strengthen system and dynamic code protection card which can effectively prevent the accounts invaded. We will send this package of code protection system to players free of charge.
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If your account passes the check successfully, we will send this package of dynamic code protection card to you in the form of e-mail.
In 3 days after you receiving the e-mail, if you don't submit your information, we have right to freeze your account, every player is obligated to protect the safety of the account. You must work together with us to be determined to crack down all the behaviors of destroying games.
If you had already authenticator your account, please disregard this automatic notification.
Regards,
The World of Warcraft Support Team
Blizzard Entertainment
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