Phishing E-mail?

#0 - Oct. 6, 2010, 8:01 p.m.
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As of late im recieving a few e-mails requesting that I log in and check my account status, but these e-mails are from "worldofwarcraft Support" <[email protected]> and another from and besides the lowercases in worldofwaracft, I have tons of e-mails from [email protected] that are truely from Blizzard. But never have they asked for me to verify my account. And it wants me to verify my account at "www." not "us" battle.net.

Should I copy paste this e-mail? And is it truely a phishing e-mail from what I have described?
#1 - Oct. 6, 2010, 8:12 p.m.
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Q u o t e:
As of late im recieving a few e-mails requesting that I log in and check my account status, but these e-mails are from "worldofwarcraft Support" <[email protected]> and another from and besides the lowercases in worldofwaracft, I have tons of e-mails from [email protected] that are truely from Blizzard. But never have they asked for me to verify my account. And it wants me to verify my account at "www." not "us" battle.net.

Should I copy paste this e-mail? And is it truely a phishing e-mail from what I have described?

Emails that come from "[email protected]" does not mean they necessarily do, Blum.

Based on your description it sounds as though you may have received a phishing attempt. You may wish to check the email headers as they provide information as to where the email is actually coming from. Information on how to check the email headers can be found here:

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

Alternatively, you may also wish to check out the following sticky post, which provides quite a few examples of phishing emails we have received over the years:

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

If you decide to paste the email you received here, be sure to edit out any links that may be malicious.