Discussion:
Scam email?
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Shammy
2012-12-19 13:39:25 UTC
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Hello,


It has come to our attention that you are trying to sell/trade your personal
World of Warcraft account. This conflicts with the EULA and Terms of
Agreement. If this proves to be true, your account will be disabled. It will
be ongoing for further investigation by Blizzard employees. Thank you for
your understanding in this matter.

We recommend that you should verify your account ownership immediately.

Click on the link below to verify your Battle.net account e-mail address:

https://www.battle.net/account/support/password-verify.html

If you ignore this mail your account will be closed permanently. Once we
verify your account, we will mail you that we have dropped the
investigation.

Account security is solely the responsibility of the account holder. 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 Battle.net Support Team
Blizzard Entertainment
www.blizzard.com/support
Online Privacy Policy


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Just got this email.. it actually looks real. No wonder people fall for this
crap :(
Shammy
2012-12-19 13:42:19 UTC
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Post by Shammy
Hello,
It has come to our attention that you are trying to sell/trade your
personal World of Warcraft account. This conflicts with the EULA and Terms
of Agreement. If this proves to be true, your account will be disabled. It
will be ongoing for further investigation by Blizzard employees. Thank you
for your understanding in this matter.
We recommend that you should verify your account ownership immediately.
https://www.battle.net/account/support/password-verify.html
If you ignore this mail your account will be closed permanently. Once we
verify your account, we will mail you that we have dropped the
investigation.
Account security is solely the responsibility of the account holder.
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 Battle.net Support Team
Blizzard Entertainment
www.blizzard.com/support
Online Privacy Policy
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Just got this email.. it actually looks real. No wonder people fall for
this crap :(
Forgot to add that the email arrived from ***@battle.net
Urbin
2012-12-19 15:16:15 UTC
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Post by Shammy
It has come to our attention that you are trying to sell/trade your
personal World of Warcraft account. This conflicts with the EULA and Terms
of Agreement. If this proves to be true, your account will be disabled. It
will be ongoing for further investigation by Blizzard employees. Thank you
for your understanding in this matter.
[snip]
Post by Shammy
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Just got this email.. it actually looks real. No wonder people fall for
this crap :(
Did it really arrive from there or does it just pretend to arrive from
there? It is trivial to spoof a sender address.

More interesting would be what address this mail has been sent to. In my
case, this clearly identifies if a mail is legit because Blizzard are the
only ones that know this specific e-mail address (I use it nowhere else).

I do this with all companies/sites. I've been getting constant spam about my
trying to sell a Diablo III account to my addresses that I used at
wow-interface, wow-guru and wowpets (not sure about the name).

Either these sites have sold their addresses or were hacked...

Cheers
Urbin
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Peter T.
2012-12-19 15:22:50 UTC
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Post by Shammy
Hello,
It has come to our attention that you are trying to sell/trade your
personal World of Warcraft account. This conflicts with the EULA and
Terms of Agreement. If this proves to be true, your account will be
disabled. It will be ongoing for further investigation by Blizzard
employees. Thank you for your understanding in this matter.
We recommend that you should verify your account ownership immediately.
https://www.battle.net/account/support/password-verify.html
If you ignore this mail your account will be closed permanently. Once
we verify your account, we will mail you that we have dropped the
investigation.
Account security is solely the responsibility of the account holder.
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 Battle.net Support Team
Blizzard Entertainment
www.blizzard.com/support
Online Privacy Policy
--------------------
Just got this email.. it actually looks real. No wonder people fall
for this crap :(
Try to hover your mouse over the link in your email and see the real web
address.
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Peter T.
unknown
2012-12-19 17:09:49 UTC
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ToolPackinMama
2012-12-19 18:38:30 UTC
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I vote for SCAM
bradshaw mcbrawshaw
2023-11-22 17:36:07 UTC
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Post by Shammy
Hello,
It has come to our attention that you are trying to sell/trade your
personal World of Warcraft account. This conflicts with the EULA and Terms
of Agreement. If this proves to be true, your account will be disabled. It
will be ongoing for further investigation by Blizzard employees. Thank you
for your understanding in this matter.
We recommend that you should verify your account ownership immediately.
https://www.battle.net/account/support/password-verify.html
If you ignore this mail your account will be closed permanently. Once we
verify your account, we will mail you that we have dropped the
investigation.
Account security is solely the responsibility of the account holder.
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 Battle.net Support Team
Blizzard Entertainment
www.blizzard.com/support
Online Privacy Policy
--------------------
Just got this email.. it actually looks real. No wonder people fall for
this crap :(
you sure

IYM
2012-12-19 16:07:47 UTC
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Post by Shammy
Hello,
It has come to our attention that you are trying to sell/trade your
personal World of Warcraft account. This conflicts with the EULA and
Terms of Agreement. If this proves to be true, your account will be
disabled. It will be ongoing for further investigation by Blizzard
employees. Thank you for your understanding in this matter.
We recommend that you should verify your account ownership immediately.
https://www.battle.net/account/support/password-verify.html
If you ignore this mail your account will be closed permanently. Once we
verify your account, we will mail you that we have dropped the
investigation.
Account security is solely the responsibility of the account holder.
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 Battle.net Support Team
Blizzard Entertainment
www.blizzard.com/support
Online Privacy Policy
--------------------
Just got this email.. it actually looks real. No wonder people fall for
this crap :(
Yep...I just ignore them, but if one looks legit like this and one wants
to be sure all is well, just open your browser (NOT click any links) and
type www.battle.net and go through the process of logging into you
account the normal way. If there was indeed a problem, you should be
able to find out and take care of any issues there. 99.9% chance you'd
find everything in order and fine.
Neil Cerutti
2012-12-19 16:36:54 UTC
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Post by Shammy
It will be ongoing for further investigation by Blizzard
employees.
They were doing well until that sentence.
Post by Shammy
We recommend that you should verify your account ownership
immediately.
That's the other sentence that should tip you off. There's no
reason to verify your ownership until and unless you've been
locked out already.
Post by Shammy
Click on the link below to verify your Battle.net account
https://www.battle.net/account/support/password-verify.html
As other have said, hovering over that link with any decent email
client will show you that it isn't really a link to battle.net.
Post by Shammy
If you ignore this mail your account will be closed
permanently. Once we verify your account, we will mail you that
we have dropped the investigation.
Account security is solely the responsibility of the account
holder. 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.
The last paragraph, which they must have copied from a Blizzard
post, contradicts the paragraph above it.

They look superficially real at best. This example appears more
professional than most of the fishing attempts, but it's still
easy to spot.

If you ever get one you're sure is real, open a support ticket or
call Blizzard directly. Under no circumstances should you click
on any link in an unsolicited email. Go straight to the web site
yourself.
--
Neil Cerutti
twk
2012-12-19 21:52:07 UTC
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Post by Neil Cerutti
Post by Shammy
It will be ongoing for further investigation by Blizzard
employees.
They were doing well until that sentence.
Post by Shammy
We recommend that you should verify your account ownership
immediately.
That's the other sentence that should tip you off. There's no
reason to verify your ownership until and unless you've been
locked out already.
Post by Shammy
Click on the link below to verify your Battle.net account
https://www.battle.net/account/support/password-verify.html
As other have said, hovering over that link with any decent email
client will show you that it isn't really a link to battle.net.
Post by Shammy
If you ignore this mail your account will be closed
permanently. Once we verify your account, we will mail you that
we have dropped the investigation.
Account security is solely the responsibility of the account
holder. 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.
The last paragraph, which they must have copied from a Blizzard
post, contradicts the paragraph above it.
Yeah, what's up with that? I've noticed the contradictory paragraphs
too. Must be a chinese to english translation thing I'm guessing. I say
chinese because I check them out now and then just for fun. They are 99%
of the time, on a chinese server.

All you have to do is right-click and copy the url.
Then paste it into a text editor.

Like this from a D3 email: (It won't work, I took out the good stuff)
<http://www.ichingnet.com/Images/index.htm?http://us.battle.net/login/en/
?ref=http%3A%2F%2Bla_Bla_Bla.battle.net%2Fd3%2Fen%2Findex&app=com-d3>
You can see it's not going to Blizzard, it's going to some web site
called "ichingnet".

If you are curious...
Copy just the beginning of that long url and try it:
<http://www.ichingnet.com/>
Many times you end up at a chinese "Host your web site here"
advertisement or the top level of the phishing site. This one seems to
be inop at the moment, or smart enough not to load with an incomplete
url.

There are better ways to do this, but this method works and all you need
is a text editor. For you Windows users, use a TEXT EDITOR, not Word or
Word Pad. If you don't know the difference, don't try this.
Post by Neil Cerutti
They look superficially real at best. This example appears more
professional than most of the fishing attempts, but it's still
easy to spot.
If you ever get one you're sure is real, open a support ticket or
call Blizzard directly. Under no circumstances should you click
on any link in an unsolicited email. Go straight to the web site
yourself.
It seems I'm trying to sell/trade my WoW, D3, and RuneScape accounts.
I don't have a RuneScape account.
--
For all you know this message was...
Sent via an exclusive network, on a snobby portable computing device.
bradshaw mcbrawshaw
2023-11-22 17:35:23 UTC
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Post by twk
Post by Neil Cerutti
Post by Shammy
It will be ongoing for further investigation by Blizzard
employees.
They were doing well until that sentence.
Post by Shammy
We recommend that you should verify your account ownership
immediately.
That's the other sentence that should tip you off. There's no
reason to verify your ownership until and unless you've been
locked out already.
Post by Shammy
Click on the link below to verify your Battle.net account
https://www.battle.net/account/support/password-verify.html
As other have said, hovering over that link with any decent email
client will show you that it isn't really a link to battle.net.
Post by Shammy
If you ignore this mail your account will be closed
permanently. Once we verify your account, we will mail you that
we have dropped the investigation.
Account security is solely the responsibility of the account
holder. 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.
The last paragraph, which they must have copied from a Blizzard
post, contradicts the paragraph above it.
Yeah, what's up with that? I've noticed the contradictory paragraphs
too. Must be a chinese to english translation thing I'm guessing. I say
chinese because I check them out now and then just for fun. They are 99%
of the time, on a chinese server.
All you have to do is right-click and copy the url.
Then paste it into a text editor.
Like this from a D3 email: (It won't work, I took out the good stuff)
<http://www.ichingnet.com/Images/index.htm?http://us.battle.net/login/en/
?ref=http%3A%2F%2Bla_Bla_Bla.battle.net%2Fd3%2Fen%2Findex&app=com-d3>
You can see it's not going to Blizzard, it's going to some web site
called "ichingnet".
If you are curious...
<http://www.ichingnet.com/>
Many times you end up at a chinese "Host your web site here"
advertisement or the top level of the phishing site. This one seems to
be inop at the moment, or smart enough not to load with an incomplete
url.
There are better ways to do this, but this method works and all you need
is a text editor. For you Windows users, use a TEXT EDITOR, not Word or
Word Pad. If you don't know the difference, don't try this.
Post by Neil Cerutti
They look superficially real at best. This example appears more
professional than most of the fishing attempts, but it's still
easy to spot.
If you ever get one you're sure is real, open a support ticket or
call Blizzard directly. Under no circumstances should you click
on any link in an unsolicited email. Go straight to the web site
yourself.
It seems I'm trying to sell/trade my WoW, D3, and RuneScape accounts.
I don't have a RuneScape account.
--
For all you know this message was...
Sent via an exclusive network, on a snobby portable computing device.
i think youre wrong
Lewis
2012-12-19 22:31:27 UTC
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Post by Shammy
Hello,
It has come to our attention that you are trying to sell/trade your personal
World of Warcraft account. This conflicts with the EULA and Terms of
Agreement. If this proves to be true, your account will be disabled. It will
be ongoing for further investigation by Blizzard employees. Thank you for
your understanding in this matter.
I've been getting these for years, but they never come to the custom
email address I have setup for Blizzard. I send them all to
***@blizzard.com.
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