Phishing

#0 - July 16, 2010, 5:36 p.m.
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Hey Guys and Girls.




This is my first ever post but i recently got an " Email " related from blizzard saying that " Congratulations you are apart of the Cataclysm Beta".

This caught my attention as beta was released just over a week ago and clearly the email was not from blizzard as one stupid person forgot to cover up their email, herp derp. Obviously this brang to my attention that the person who sent this email has a battlenet account, or is linked with other phishing groups in order to scam you're account and all your hardwork.

Frankley i don't know whether this is allowed but if GM's have an intrest in catching who ever trys to minipulate others his/hers email is [removed]

If i have posted against forum rules please let me know asap

For those that want to know if the email i have recieved is similar to those or the one you have recieved here is what it looks like "well what it said"

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Hi "[email protected]"

This is Blizzard Entertainment's apology, we acknowledge a mistake, for you to lose the World of Warcraft account in order to recover our losses, we will give you 10000 gold coins free of charge and rare mounts a (celestial steed), I hope you can restart

the game. Login website authentication, 48 hours you will receive compensation
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That was the first email i had recieved.
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This is the Second i had recieved the following day about the so called " Beta"
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This is an automated notification sent from our account security system. You logined your account successfully at 2:41 on Jun. 30th form the *********** IP range. According to the report of many players, we found that the account published spam information in the game which harassed other users seriously. This action has violated the EULA.

As too many customers' complaints, the IP range above has been blacklisted. We are concerned about whether your account has been stolen. In order to guarantee the legitimacy of your account, we need you check your account status as soon as possible.

To do so, simply click here:
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Thanks Disseverment.
#1 - July 16, 2010, 5:42 p.m.
Blizzard Post
Thanks for bringing this to our attention, Disseverment. I encourage you to forward any fake emails to [email protected] so that we may analyze them further. For more information how to identify and prevent these scams, please visit:

How to Identify Fake or Phishing Emails:
http://us.blizzard.com/support/article/25133

Fake E-mails from "Blizzard Entertainment":
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=965511383&sid=1