Fake Emails - Ughh Now What

#0 - Sept. 21, 2010, 1:27 p.m.
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This is What I Got - How am I to figure that this is Real or fake?

I have had several of my accounts spammed or taken over ones that I havent used in awhile and because of Not remembering my Serial Number or other items I have lost over hundreds of dollars cause some moron stole it... How do i fix the ones that were stolen? I never gave them away or sold them and now i am getting emails like these.?

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Battle.net Account - System notice‏

4:48 AM

noreply@bl​izzard.com

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[email protected]
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From: [email protected] <removed>
Sent: Tue 9/21/10 4:48 AM
To: tinychic94 )

Hello,

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.

click here Login website authentication, 48 hours you will receive compensation.


Description: test account and permanently disabled can not compensation

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#3 - Sept. 21, 2010, 2:32 p.m.
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The email you received here, Andrommida, is definitely fake.

As Shadowzs mentioned, there are several grammatical errors and the sentence structure is atrocious. :/

If you would like to know if an email is actually from Blizzard or is a phishing email, please check the email headers:

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

Thank you for the report!