Random Blizz Email sent to me.

#0 - July 8, 2010, 9:12 a.m.

Alright so I went and checked my old email that I used to use for battle.net. I do not log into battle.net with this email anymore since I have changed it.

The email says

From: wowaccountadmin ([email protected])
Sent: July 7, 2010 10:05:46 AM
To: ------------------- (My old email address and not my current battle.net)

Greetings,
An investigation of your World of Warcraft account has found strong evidence that the
account in question is being sold or traded.
As you may not be aware of, this conflicts with Blizzard's EULA under section 4 Paragraph B which can be found here:
WoW -> Legal -> End User License Agreement
and Section 8 of the Terms of Use found here:
WoW -> Legal -> Terms of Use
The investigation will be continued by Blizzard administration to determine the
action to be taken against your account.
If your account is found violating the EULA and Terms of Use, your account can,
and will be suspended/closed/or terminated. In order to keep this from occurring,
you should immediately verify that you are the account.
To verify your identity please visit the following webpage:
<removed> Only Account Administration will be able to assist with account retrieval issues.
Thank you for your time and attention to this matter,
and your continued interest in World of Warcraft.
Blizzard Entertainment Inc Account Administration Team
P.O. Box 18979, Irvine, CA 92623
Blizzard Entertainmen (you forgot the t)

Copy and pasted word for word.

I also checked the sections which it mentioned and they seemed to be completely irrelevant to the initial matter mentioned

Is this email legit or is it an attempt to gain access to my account by a hacker? My biggest concern is that is blizzards email address. I am the only person who plays my account and I do not account share. Nor did i trade my account or purchase this account off someone else I created the account in my name. Anyone have any suggestions on this and can a GM perhaps verify it's authenticity?

Orlyia

#12 - July 8, 2010, 9:33 a.m.

That one isn't even necessary to mouseover, hyphens do NOT function the same way as periods do in a URL. Just because someone strings together some blizzard sounding words by hyphens and registers a domain does NOT make it Blizzard.

You can also do a whois on a domain.

In this particular case, whois shows this domain was registered on 7/6

Admin Address........ china

Not Blizzard :)

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.