... Is this real?

#0 - Oct. 26, 2010, 11:51 a.m.
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I got an e-mail that looked like this from "From: "Blizzard Entertainment" <noreply@blizzard.com>" subject line "World of Warcraft: Cataclysm closed beta!":
Q u o t e:
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: https://us.battle.net/login/en/

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


The "Battle.net" and "https://us.battle.net/login/en/" were links. The first one directed me to the real battle.net. However, the second one sent me to a site that was not battle.net(don't go to the site), but instead was some horrible mash-up of "battle" (I'll not post it). My security caught this and redirected me to a "Warning: Suspected phishing site!" screen.

Normally, I wouldn't think twice about such a thing, and I'd just let it rot in my Spam folder. But this came from ""Blizzard Entertainment" <noreply@blizzard.com>." Is this real? If not, how did they manage to use Blizzard's e-mail address?

Red txt: FYI, I read the sticky, but didn't get a definite way how to tell the validity of the e-mail.
#1 - Oct. 26, 2010, 12:01 p.m.
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You have to find the internal routing headers on any email to determine the real sender, Privyet.

That's done in a variety of ways depending on your email program, but they can all do it.