WoW scam emails

[Frodoe]

Hi all just bringing to your attention that there is a wow account scam about atm.
Eita received this email

from Blizzard Entertainment <donotreply.service@blizzard.com>
reply-to donotreply.service@blizzard.com
to eita@starpilot.co.uk
date 25 July 2010 00:32
subject World of Warcraft - Security Warning

hide details 25 Jul

Greetings,

We have determined that your World of Warcraft account has been accessed/compromised by someone not authorized to do so by the World of Warcraft Terms of Use (http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/legal/termsofuse.html).

To protect your privacy and security, we have temporarily disabled this account. Any recurring subscriptions have been suspended to prevent further monetary charges. In order to regain access to the account, you must complete the steps below to secure the account and your computer.

Please keep this email for your reference until the account recovery process has been completed.


STEP 1: SECURE THE ACCOUNT, YOUR COMPUTER AND YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS
Account compromises most often occur when a player shares login information with an unauthorized third party or plays on a computer that has a virus, Trojan, or key-logger. We recommend following the http://us.battle.net/security/checklist.html on our Account Security site at http://us.battle.net/security/index.html.


STEP 2: RECOVER THE ACCOUNT
We now provide a secure website for you to verify that you have taken the appropriate steps to secure the account, your computer, and your email address. Please go to this site and follow the instructions:
http://us.blizzard.accountconfirm.com/lo...bep8qci2y2


STEP 3: VERIFY YOUR SUBMISSION WAS RECEIVED
We will contact you with further instructions once we have received and processed your submission. If you do not receive a reply within 48 hours of submitting this form, please resend it from the address listed above.


Please be aware that if unauthorized access to this account continues after the recovery process is complete, it may lead to further action against the account.


Regards,

Neil G.
Game Master Bahrdrak
Customer Services
Blizzard Entertainment
Message ID naly0tihs61ntqevtqljqiqurkoxhmnktsngsb8hebbe
Identity ID 2kgjop0z0a2di3twohup8ajtkrtmw8ka3xobcvcujrqk
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If you receive an email like this 1 DO NOT click any of the links on it . IT IS A SCAM

[Stokk]

Sadly there is bunch of those running around. I used to receive those daily until I recently changed my email address...
Wonder how long that email address will last though...before those f...... emails start to pour in again

[Treyguard]

Yeah there are loads of such mails floating about unfortunately.

Key things are:

1) Get an authenticator. They're (depanding on offers and locality) either free or up to 6euros each, or free in app form if you've got a poncy phone. Good news is that it will make your wow account probably more secure than any online banking you do. Although thats probably bad news as well, as it suggests certain banks are dogshit but then we knew that already.

2) Never click on a link in a mail that claims to be from Blizzard. In the unlikely event it is actually from Blizzard (which will almost certainly mean you asked them to do something previously), still don't click on the link but go to battle.net directly (type it into your browser navigation bar) and do whatever you need to from there.

3) Get an authenticator.

4) Your browser should show where a link actually goes at the bottom of the page when you mouse over it. Quite a few mails will claim to go to battle.net or other real sounding places but actually go to http://www.notascam-honest.com/haxx.php or something - the actual real address will usually show up at the bottom of your browser when you mouse over the link. But you weren't going to click on the link anyway, right?

5) Really, get an authenticator.




Do you and eita still play wow?
I transferred to Earthen Ring around christmas for a bash and have been having a surprising amount of fun there since, even found a sane raiding group. :o


/edit Hakon!
It'll be as long as you resist posting your email address on anything even remotely game related that is public - even if the email itself isn't published. Includes review sites and guild forums, especially the ones which are "prepackaged" and hosted by one of those companies where guilds can rent the whole thing - forums, kill lists etc - as a done deal and not worry about support themselves. Not sure how, might just be the big games sites selling addresses, but it's amazing really - make a new address with something unlikely to be hit by a random generator, use it once to post a comment on wow.com and count how much spam you get in the next week.

[Stokk]

Know...Im just enjoying being "unknown" for a small period of time

Talking about email/battlenet.net addresses, any of you using the "add friend" by using those in WoW&SC2. Amazing really, can keep in touch with people playing WoW and SC2 regardless server, realm etc...

[Frodoe]

Hey Trey no we not playing WoW atm and tbh we haven't since november 08.
why they decided to try it after so long is silly and made us suspicious. I phoned Blizzard just to confirm nothing was wrong with both our accounts and they both ok.

We still playing Daoc atm on Hib and making lots of friends in DF (not) when we kill everything. There was a mexican group running around for a bit and apparently we now get called that lame mexican group even though we cant speak mexican

[Aereth]

Even I get these mails and I don't even have a World of Wankcraft account! >,<

[Lafettus]

They must know that deep inside you always wanted one

[Aereth]

I had one, just not tied to that mailacc. ^^

[Aereth]

Now I've got 2 NEW mails in my inbox dated 2003! oO

[Gigabow]

I'm currently back on wow too, had a few of these emails and also had morons in game whispering me with the same type of bullshit, your account is compromised and will be suspended until you go to this web address. or the latest scam is an in game whisper telling you that you have been picked by blizzard to own an exclusive in game companion, but you have to go to a website to get it...

I'm playing on moonglade alliance, got my own raiding guild, so far we have done 9/12 bosses on icc10 normal, 7/12 icc25 normal. Also loving it, as its an complete change to playing camelot.