BEWARE of hacking WOW-mail

Yesterday I got a mail from "WoWaccountreviewEU@blizzard.com" with the subject "World of Warcraft - Account Confirmation‏". This got me suspicious, but I checked it nonetheless..

Quote :

Greetings,

An investigation of your World of Warcraft account has found strong evidence that the account in question is being sold or traded. As you may not be aware of, this conflicts with Blizzard's EULA under section 4 Paragraph B which can be found here:

WoW -> Legal -> End User License Agreement

and Section 8 of the Terms of Use found here:

WoW -> Legal -> Terms of Use

The investigation will be continued by Blizzard administration to determine the action to be taken against your account. If your account is found violating the EULA and Terms of Use, your account can, and will be suspended/closed/or terminated.
In order to keep this from occurring, you should immediately verify that you are the original owner of the account.

To verify your identity please visit the following webpage:

https://eu.battle.net/login/login.xml?ref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wow-europe.com%2Faccount%2F&app=wam

Only Account Administration will be able to assist with account retrieval issues. Thank you for your time and attention to this matter, and your continued interest in World of Warcraft.


Sincerely,

Account Administration
Blizzard Entertainment

So, tricky business is that the url is to an entire different site. Check it out, but don't give them your account information. Sneaky bastards, aren't they?

these e-mails do seem to be doing the rounds at the moment.

Please, everybody be extra careful. Remember that Bliz -never- asks you for your account details!

too many people have fallen foul of these buggers already

Everytime I see a "sex lege" or "ret pallies do 11k in 1 GCD" post spamming the forums, I know who has clicked one of these links ... ^^

I also recieved this mail... on a totally different e-mail adress than the one I gave to Blizzard when creating my account!
Fortunately, this made me suspicious about the whole thing. The only place they could recieve this e-mail adress is either the HoZ forums, or WeAreLegion.
Someone is searching the forums, most likely, hunting for e-mail adresses of WoW players, so watch out!

That's very clever. I just clicked the link to see what it shows and the only thing that shows it is not Blizz (apart from the actual address of the page) is that they use / instead of "or" in the text above where you're supposed to put your account name or e-mail address.

Anything asking for your user details = FAKE

If they ban you, they just do it ingame and you get notice when you try to log in.
It is then up to you to contact them and dispute it.

Shadow fell for it I think..

>_< I thought it was the real deal..
My brother's accounts have same details as mine, so I thought this was a message for my brother..
forwarded it to him, and he signed it..

If you are serious Drakonis then I advise you to use the password change function now.

It will send a new password to the email address registered with the account.

Siheld wrote:

Shadow fell for it I think..

OH FUCK

I FELL FOR IT CAUSE I REALLY SHARED ME ACCOUNT >..< (*&^&$%^$%$w#$%#^%*$%)

HAHA!
XD

Siheld wrote:

HAHA!
XD

stfu gnuuume!

Anyhow changed psw and later new e-mail as well, anyhow the account itself is frozen and still TBC only so...I should have waited a few days till they activate it

Vexacus wrote:

If you are serious Drakonis then I advise you to use the password change function now.

It will send a new password to the email address registered with the account.

Right, changed password.
didnt please my brother with it xD
he had already done it.
so, he came home and was "wth... again my password changed"
me: "nah, I did that"
bro: *sigh* *frown*

^_^

Haha, I would love to see his face!
I can see it infront of me now :p

I received another one last night..
would this one be for real or.....

Quote :

Dear Customer today we have announced that from today 28. May 2009 to 31. May 2009 our customer will be able to use one of our new GameTime expansion.

You will have to get double of the GameCard you bought if you visit this website today.
https://eu.battle.net/login/login.xml?ref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wow-europe.com%2Faccount%2F&app=wam

Sincerely,

Account Administration
Blizzard Entertainment

as I have my sincere doubts again.. even though it doesn't look fake at first..
what do you lot think?

Always fake. Always.

If there's anything they want us to know, they will put it on the website, or the news box in the login window.

Sigh. If ever you're unsure, simply ring Blizzard up. They have customer service people who will be able to confirm if you're about to be banned / have been accused of gold trading / need to change your password.

(SPOILER ALERT: You haven't / you haven't / you don't)

It really is that simple. Give them a ring. Talk to a real person. Happy days.

Adalan wrote:

Sigh. If ever you're unsure, simply ring Blizzard up. They have customer service people who will be able to confirm if you're about to be banned / have been accused of gold trading / need to change your password.

(SPOILER ALERT: You haven't / you haven't / you don't)

It really is that simple. Give them a ring. Talk to a real person. Happy days.

im not really swimming in time.. most of my time im underway to/from college.
next to that I wanted to warn you lot with/about this mail..
...

Well I'm assuming that anyone with time to play WoW has time to make a phone call.

Honestly, Rich, next you'll be telling us that people who play WoW actually have real lives and don't live in the basement...!

Me and my wacky ideas.

free gametime?

greedy blizzard wont offer that.

It's obviously fake again... I got it on my e-mail address that Blizzard has no access to.
And, it's in the terms of use: "A Blizzard employee will never ask your account name or password". So they don't.

yeah i saw that gamecard generator scam on youtube... apparently some people are dumb enough to send a Valid and unused gamecard code to some shady mail adress and actually expect a reply with more valid codes

though i've never received this kind of mails i do get somewhat paranoic about my account getting hacked/keylogged... recently i've installed all sorts of security and addblock plugins on firefox and renewed my antivirus and firewall settings...

i might get that blizz account authenticathor one of these days!

check this thread for account security, if you haven't already

Blizzard Support

Opathu wrote:

Everytime I see a "sex lege" or "ret pallies do 11k in 1 GCD" post spamming the forums, I know who has clicked one of these links ... ^^

OMG! Sex leg pl0x!

no but seriously?
did people think I had a hacked account all along?