Getting phishing emails?

#0 - June 18, 2010, 12:10 a.m.

I recently checked my inbox, and have a few phishing emails. One is sent by someone pretending to be a blizzard employee, trying to get me to sign up for some fake cataclysm beta in the hopes of gaining my password. Another is lying and saying that I have a 3-hour suspension, which is impossible because I haven't played in 2-3 months, and of course, links to a malicious website pretending to be battle.net, and another is a gold advertising website, shamelessly titled "gold promotion". Now how am I getting these emails if I have never bought gold, been tricked into signing up to one of these websites, or gave my email address to any wow-related website other than the official website itself? How did they get a hold of my email, and how do they know that I even play this game?

Orlyia

#2 - June 18, 2010, 6:40 a.m.

Q u o t e:
Need answers.

They don't know you play necessarily, that's why these are called phishes.

I have no uncles in Nigeria - yet I get emails quite often telling me he's left me an inheritance but I need to send so-and-so a 'processing fee'.

We have a whole library in a sticky at the top of this forum with various examples.

Some are very poorly done and easy to spot - some are quite good, in fact, they use copies of our own REAL emails and doctor the links to go to fake sites.