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Bob Slydell · Feb 10, 2010, 06:03 PM // 18:03

Hey guys. I was surfing through my email SPAM inbox (I marked blizz as spam at one time) and got some laughs over these emails I got regarding my "World of Warcraft account"

Wanted to share this with ya.

Here they are in chronological order. ()

Quote:

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 1:31 PM, wowaccountadmin <[email protected]> wrote:

Greetings!
It was reported 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.
We will gather more information through further investigation.
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 by providing the following information:
* First and Surname
* Date of birth
* Address
* Zip code
* Phone number
* Country
* Account e-mail
* Account name
* Account password
* Secret Question and Answer Or WoW CD-Key
Show * Please enter the correct information

If you ignore this mail your account can 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 Team
Blizzard Entertainment

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On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 1:51 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:

Greetings!
This is an automated notification regarding the recent change(s)
made to your World of Warcraft account. Your password has recently been modified through the Password Recovery website.
*** If you made this password change, please disregard this notification. However, if you did NOT make changes to your password
we recommend you Login verify your password:
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com
If you are unable to successfully verify your password .
using the automated system, please contact Billing & Account Services at 1-800-59-BLIZZARD (1-800-592-5499) Mon-Fri, 8am-8pm Pacific Time or at [email protected]. Account security is solely the responsibility of the account holder. Please be advised that in the event of a compromised account, Blizzard representatives typically must lock the account. In these cases the Account Administration team will require faxed receipt of ID materials before releasing the account for play.
Regards,
The World of Warcraft Support Team Blizzard Entertainment

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On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 2:11 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:

Hello,

This is an automated notification regarding your World of Warcraft account. Your account options was recently modified through the Account Management website.

If you made this change to your subscription type, please disregard this automatic notification.

*** If you did NOT make any changes to your account or subscription, we recommend you login to Account Management at the following link to review your account settings:
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/account/billing/

If you cannot sign into Account Management using the link above, or if unauthorized changes continue to happen, please contact Blizzard Billing & Account Services for advanced assistance.

Billing & Account Services can be reached at 1-800-59-BLIZZARD (1-800-592-5499 Mon-Fri, 8Am-8PM Pacific Time) or at [email protected].

Account security is solely the responsibility of the accountholder. Please be advised that in the event of a compromised account, Blizzard representatives will typically lock the account. In these cases the Account Administration team will require faxed receipt of ID materials before releasing the account for play.

Regards,

The World of Warcraft Support Team
Blizzard Entertainment
http://www.blizzard.com/support/wowindex/

I'm not removing the links, because they are from blizzard.

"@blizzard.com" is Blizzard. These are real.

Why am I laughing this off you ask? I Don't play WoW, havent played it in 3 years, and those 3 years back it was a TRIAL ACCOUNT made in mid-2007 that I owned for less than one week and never played the game again, never logged on it again.

The account has never been logged on by me for at least 3 solid years. And at that, it would have been on Mac OS X, the (theoretically) "malware-less OS"

No one stole my password.

Just some info I wanted to share. Got some good laughs out of it. Would have been a different story if they were from NCSoft.

Gift3d · Feb 10, 2010, 06:42 PM // 18:42

a number of people are getting these. go to the original email and look at the ACTUAL url for the links, they lead to phishing sites. guru doesn't copy html imbedded in plaintext so the disguised links just show up on guru being real. the address is also spoofed. try to reply to one, it says the email doesn't exist. it's spoofed. that's also the reason why they're getting to your spam inbox, all spoofed emails go to spam cause email software programmers just aren't as dumb as spammers. well, most of them.

it's just spam and as long as you dont go clicking the links and filling out all the information and entering it, not a damn thing will happen to your accounts.

Not Listing it Here · Feb 10, 2010, 07:22 PM // 19:22

I don't normally check my spam folder, I just delete them. But New Years Eve I found amusement at reading to my wife all the random crap I got. From making my body parts bigger or smaller, the 20 or so internet lotteries I won and numerous emails from Blizzard. My situation was the same as yours, 1 week trial, that I played about an hour on.
I have started getting them for Aion now as well, and I've never even played it (although I am a little paranoid now since that's NCSoft as well). I am really thankful that they made it so that you need to know the current password to reset passwords on the NCSoft account site.
I read a post (can't remember where) regarding the clicking of links. It's not a good idea for certain, but I wouldn't even open the emails for a laugh. There are ways to embed things in emails that require nothing more than opening to 'get' you.
Thanks for the laugh though. Funny how many people are getting these nowadays.

Quaker · Feb 10, 2010, 08:16 PM // 20:16

I'm surprised that people actually have a "spam" folder. I just set my spam filter to send things to the "deleted" or "trash" folder, which is emptied when I exit. Why save them, they are just using up hard drive space.
(I know there is the obscure possibility that something you actually want ends up in the spam folder, but how often does that ever happen (and you recover it).

)

It's also scary to think that the OP considers them to be legitimate e-mails - no wonder people get hacked.

Bob Slydell · Feb 10, 2010, 08:58 PM // 20:58

Quote:

Originally Posted by Quaker

I'm surprised that people actually have a "spam" folder. I just set my spam filter to send things to the "deleted" or "trash" folder, which is emptied when I exit. Why save them, they are just using up hard drive space.
(I know there is the obscure possibility that something you actually want ends up in the spam folder, but how often does that ever happen (and you recover it).

)

It's also scary to think that the OP considers them to be legitimate e-mails - no wonder people get hacked.

I'm not that stupid. I'll admit I didn't consider what Gift3d said..changing the real URL code, but I don't care about WoW as I don't play it, plus if it's in my spam, all I'm going to do is read it and laugh just like the other emails about various drugs and body part enlarger emails, lol.

Trust me, If I were to recieve an email from NC and it looked 100% legit, the first thing I'm doing is logging into my account from the REAL site the manual way or logging onto GW in the first place to confirm that my account really is still there.

karlik · Feb 10, 2010, 09:00 PM // 21:00

I also got 2 of those emails since guru was compromised (I do not have a WOW account)
Here is some of the header info from both emails. If they had actually come from Blizzard the info would be the same for both - they actually came from two different sources (as expected).

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From [email protected] Mon Feb 8 21:49:05 2010

Return-Path: <[email protected]>

X-Originating-IP: [65.55.111.141]

X-Originating-Email: [[email protected]]

Return-Path: [email protected]

From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>

Subject: World of Warcraft Account Management
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 15:49:05 -0600

Quote:

From [email protected] Sat Feb 6 03:20:15 2010

Return-Path: <[email protected]>

X-Originating-IP: [65.55.111.165]

X-Originating-Email: [[email protected]]

From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>

Return-Path: [email protected]

Subject: World of Warcraft Account Management
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2010 11:20:15 +0800

This is the link they give to enter my account info and fix it ( I added a space and removed a dot to break the link):
http://www worldofwarcraft. com

The properties of the shortcut shows it will actually take you here:
http://www wor1dcfwarcraft. com/

Notice that the "L" has become a "1" and the "O" turned into a "c"

I'm pretty sure your emails are phishing attempts too. If you have any doubt, contact blizzard through the normal support methods, not through any links you get in an unsolicted email.

aeligos · Feb 10, 2010, 09:54 PM // 21:54

i've been told that i have a huge head (more noticable with a side-view).

o.o

i also never use the same password/id combo on any site i'm registered at...quite a few, yes indeed, many, yes. oh, and i do not write these down ever cuz then they would not remain secret.

a logical association there perhaps???

perhaps.

-.-

Elephantaliste · Feb 10, 2010, 09:58 PM // 21:58

Phishing emails are so funny right...

Tresa · Feb 10, 2010, 11:27 PM // 23:27

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Originally Posted by Bob Slydell

Trust me, If I were to recieve an email from NC and it looked 100% legit, the first thing I'm doing is logging into my account from the REAL site the manual way or logging onto GW in the first place to confirm that my account really is still there.

That's not necessarily the smartest thing to do, either. If you were to have picked up a keylogger, what better way to speed delivery of your account information?
I would suggest the very first step upon receipt of one of these emails would be to run your virus scan (up-to-date, one would hope), especially before entering information specifically being "phished" for.

Eluvatar · Feb 11, 2010, 04:04 AM // 04:04

what they dont want your social security number? or your credit card number?

lol

Reborn007 · Feb 11, 2010, 08:40 AM // 08:40

How safe.... also depends on who is holding your account information and what information it contains.
I get these phishing emails asking for WoW account info even though I have never played the game let alone set up an account lol and I have also had phishing emails for Aion account information. but my concern is this.... the email address that they are sending the phishing emails to, is the only address I have used solely for one of my guildwars accounts that is tied with Ncsoft. The email address has never been used to receive or send anything else and was only set up to create the GW account. So how secure is anyone's online gaming, is down to who holds the account information....Both game player and the gaming servers

Masmar · Feb 11, 2010, 10:09 AM // 10:09

I've had 9 of those emails, 6 say ive been banned.
It's funny cause for the month i did play, i was on an illegitimate server, and i actually questioned - could blizzard ban that account.
Haha