Very realistic scam e-mail

#0 - Nov. 3, 2010, 7:25 p.m.
Blizzard Post
I just got this e-mail sent to me:

Greetings!

It has come to our attention that you are trying to sell your personal World of Warcraft account(s).As you may not be aware of, this conflicts with the EULA and Terms of Agreement.If this proves to be true, your account can and will be disabled. It will be ongoing for further investigation by Blizzard Entertainment's employees.If you wish to not get your account suspended you should immediately verify your account ownership.

You can confirm that you are the original owner of the account to this secure website with:http:/***/

Login to your account, In accordance following template to verify your account.
* First and Surname
* Secret Question and AnswerShow
* Please enter the correct information

If you ignore this mail your account can and will be closed permanently.

Once we verify your account, we will reply to your e-mail informing you that we have dropped the investigation.

Regards,

Account Administration TeamBlizzard Entertainment http://www.blizzard.com/support/World of Warcraft , Blizzard Entertainment 2010


I'm not selling my account or anything like that at all, but this e-mail scared me because it looks very real and the reture e-mail address is 'noreply@blizzard.com' which makes me think that this is a real e-mail.

Can anyone help me here? Is this thing legit?

#2 - Nov. 3, 2010, 7:46 p.m.
Blizzard Post
Q u o t e:
Can anyone help me here? Is this thing legit?
This is indeed a phishing attempt, Tryphania. Phishing e-mails will typically have a threatening tone, bad grammar, malicious links and request for your account information.

You can check out additional examples in the following thread and battle.net security page.

Fake E-mails from "Blizzard"
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=965511383&sid=1&pageNo=1#2

Phishing Emails
http://us.battle.net/en/security/theft#phishing