Fake Email? - Blue Tracker

#0 - June 25, 2010, 6:07 a.m.

This was in my inbox this morning but it doesn't specify any changes. I havn't even made any changes in about a month or more. I've been hacked before, mind you.

*edit*

The raw file says it was sent tomorrow.... Something tells me it was sent from the other side of the world.

Q u o t e:
Dear Customer,

This is an automated notification regarding your recent change(s).

As you may or may not be aware of, this conflicts with the EULA and Terms of Agreement.
If this proves to be true, your account can and will be disabled. It will be ongoing for further investigation by Blizzard Entertainment's employees.

If you don't wish to get your account suspended, you should immediately verify your account ownership. If the information is deemed accurate, the investigation will be dropped.

This is easiest way to confirm your personal information along with concealed information about your account. We recommend you login to verify information of your account:
https://www.battle.net/account/support/login-support.xml

If you ignore this mail, your account can and will be closed permanently.

Once we verify your account, we will reply to your e-mail informing you that we have dropped the investigation. Thank you for your time and attention to this matter, and your continued interest in World of Warcraft.
Regards,

Account Administration Team
P.O. Box 18979, Irvine, CA 92623
Blizzard Entertainmen INC.

#1 - June 25, 2010, 6:15 a.m.

Q u o t e:
This was in my inbox this morning but it doesn't specify any changes. I havn't even made any changes in about a month or more. I've been hacked before, mind you.

It does, however, contain a 'threat'. We don't threaten :)

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.