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Scammer

#0 - Aug. 24, 2010, 5:59 a.m.

I just wanted to let people know that the thieves that are scamming are becoming ever more believable....I recently received this email from what seems to be Blizzard......

From: Blizzard Entertainment <[email protected]>
Subject: World of Warcraft: Cataclysm closed beta!
Date: August 20, 2010 4:16:26 AM PDT
To: <removed>

Deathwing the Destroyer returns to Azeroth, leaving chaos and destruction in his wake. Unlikely heroes will rise up to protect their scarred and broken world from utter devastation.

To ensure you're opted-in and eligible as a potential candidate, you'll need a World of Warcraft license attached to your Battle.net account, have your current system specifications uploaded to the Battle.net Beta Profile Settings page, and have expressed interest through the franchise-specific check boxes.

In order to opt in for this beta test, you must create a beta profile containing your system specifications. To create one, please download and run the beta opt-in application:

Blizzard Entertainment Inc

Account Administration Team P.O. Box 27086, Irvine, CA 17690

Anyhow it looks legit until you mouse over the final link in the email, the first two links are legit battle.net links...........the last one though if you read the address or click it it goes to<removed>t which as we know is not a blizzard site, but looks IDENTICAL to the battle.net login page so please be aware, luckily I clicked on one of the first two links but for some reason wanted to look at it again and lo and behold seems like a scam. Thank you and be careful......

Edited post to remove link.....

Orlyia

#3 - Aug. 24, 2010, 6:13 a.m.

Indeed,they are getting craftier.

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.