[email protected] ???

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Account Administration will never send you an e-mail along the lines of "we're going to ban your account if you don't give us all your personal information"; if Account Administration has an issue that would justify freezing your account, they'd just do it and send you an e-mail after the fact.

***Quoted for Turtle***

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Forward that email to [email protected]

^- also truth

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i got the same type of e-mail but when i copyed and pasted this wowaccountadmin ([email protected]) in my web browser it took me here to te forums. so my question is it real or a fake

The email you see at the top can be VERY easily spoofed to say anything an individual would like it to read.

To really see the source of any email, open the header up in your email program. How exactly that is done varies from email program to email program, but nearly all of them have an option to see the real route something took to get to you.

Indeed, one of the ways that many email programs will mark an email as spam or questionable is when those don't match.

Going to lock this due to it's age - but yes, it's a phish.

If you'll note the datestamp of 2007 in our Fake Email library, this is an oldie but a goodie.

This is what is commonly referred to as a phish. That quite literally means someone is ‘fishing’ for information and hoping they get a bite :)

If you look at the top of this forum you’ll see a library of ones that are commonly used (or close variants thereof) under “Fake Emails from Blizzard”

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=965511383&sid=1

The proper email to report these is [email protected] – you can forward the email, headers intact, to that address.

Phishes rely on two primal human emotions and hope they get you to react before you think through what is being asked, greed and fear. They’ll either try to entice with an offer or intimidate with a threat.

We never ‘threaten’ an account action. If we have sufficient cause to think an account has been tampered with or needs locked down, we do it first – we don’t threaten with an ‘or else’ email.

WoW accounts are certainly not the only target of phishers. They send them out purporting to be banks, credit card companies, shipping companies – all aimed at obtaining information the thief can use to your detriment.

We will also NEVER ask for your password, or ask you to sign into some website somewhere not under our domain to login.

One way to check any email is to open up the header in your email program and check to see the actual route and sender. This is done in various ways, depending on your email program, but all can do it. Internal email addresses (what you see at the top of an email) can be spoofed very easily. Where it says it came from under sender is not necessarily true. The header of that email will show the true sender. Many spam programs actually use a comparison of these to flag suspicious emails.

Links in an email are also incredibly easy to spoof and/or redirect. Just because the URL looks legit doesn’t necessarily mean that’s where it really goes. Before clicking ANY link, in ANY email, mouse over the link and look at your bottom browser bar to see where it is reported to actually be destined.