Phishing/ fake emails

#0 - Nov. 2, 2010, 1:32 p.m.
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I just received the following email and really thought my account had been hacked until I hovered over the links to see that they were fake links. The only reason I thought it was real was the fact that the phisher had used my email address in the main content of the email. I was receiving about one fake phishing email a day, but more recently I have been getting more and more. This has coincided with the fact that I have been contacting customer services about products in the Blizzard Store. The more emails I send to @blizzard.com, the more phishing emails I receive. Today I woke up to 7.

Its getting a little annoying to say the least. What I am asking is, is there anything I can do to help stop this bombardment of phishing emails? For example, send them on to you guys at blizzard so you can sort the horrible phishing people out? If I can, where do I send it?

Here's the email I received this morning, It's a new one to me so thought I had better share. Obviously, you can't see how it looked but it matched the original Blizzard emails down to a T and got me worried. :

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). 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 (my email address) 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
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If there is anything I can do, please let me know. Thanks guys :)
#1 - Nov. 2, 2010, 1:36 p.m.
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Your two best defenses against this would be a good spam filter (preferably one that can sense if there is a difference between the real sender and the presented sender in the FROM line) and/or changing your email to another you use ONLY for the purpose of your Battle.net acct. Don't correspond with it, use it for websites - don't even give it out to anyone else. That also changes your account name as an added bonus, something we were never able to do prior to Battle.net.