Hack Attempt?!?!?!!?

#0 - Oct. 28, 2010, 10:53 a.m.

Hello -

Not sure which forum to put this in, so sorry if I am at the wrong one.

I got an email last night, that stated the following:
"...Hello,

Blizzard Entertainment recently received a request to change the e-mail address used to log in to the Battle.net account with the username <My email address is here> The e-mail address k***@hotmail.com has been specified as the new username for this Battle.net account. An email has been sent to this new address containing a verification link to complete the change.

Once the new address has been verified, the e-mail address [email protected] can no longer be used to log in to this Battle.net account or any World of Warcraft accounts merged with this Battle.net account.

If you did not initiate this request, please click here to contact the Blizzard Billing & Account Services team immediately.

Sincerely,
The Battle.net Account Team
Online Privacy Policy

When I click on the link the email provides (I have no intention of doing this, I just wanted to see where I would be taken) I get an "Unsafe" Website warning from MSN & McAfee...the URL it takes me to is this:
<removing malicious URL>

The original email came from the URL: [email protected] ([email protected])

So....is this legit? Is someone actively trying? How do I know if this is a Blizzard email?

Orlyia

#1 - Oct. 28, 2010, 10:56 a.m.

No, that didn't come from Blizzard, nor is that a Blizzard domain.

You need to open the internal routing header of that email to see the true sender.

Also, no matter how many Blizzardish-sounding-buzzwords-are-strung-together-by-hyphens, that does not make it a Blizzard domain, that's not the way URLs work.

That's a phish, and even if you were blocked, I'd still recommend a full and complete system scan just to be certain something nasty wasn't put onto your system.