Email Scam Warning

#0 - Aug. 15, 2010, 11:07 p.m.
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From:
"Blizzard Entertainment" <[email protected]>
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To:
[email protected]

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 most of us 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.

Please open this connection:https://www.battle.net/account/support/login-support.xml

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
http://www.blizzard.com/support/wowindex/


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all links and everything are intact, DO NOT FOLLOW THEM ANYONE.

Posting this here because if I weren't an English speaking American type, I wouldn't notice the broken language and syntax used above.

I know there is nothing Blizzard can do exactly to stop this crap from happening, but I figured I'd give a heads up as soon as I got it.
#8 - Aug. 16, 2010, 7:33 a.m.
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Yup, this is a case of redirected links.

ANY email can be verified by looking at the internal routing headers. Never EVER trust a FROM address.