Originally posted by biplex

The best one i got was offering part in Cataclysm beta, but the email it was supposed to come from was, beware: soe@sony.com

Rofl!

They know who plays WoW by using your Facebook details and seeing what you like and take your email from there.

We all know that if you "like" something on facebook, or even put something in your "interests" it automatically links your account to another website in which they can access your information.

-and I could care less if I did not spell everything correctly nor if I was grammatically sound, you people who harp on those things really need lives, more so than us who play video games.

Here are mine:

Sorry, this one is in German. It was an ingame tell today from a guy called: Blizzacd

Hallo! Blizzard Entertainment Ihnen mitteilen, dass Sie berechtigt sind, im Beta-test telnehmen Katastrophe. Für weitere Informationen besuchen Sie bitte: <link>

Translation, trying to also translate the wrong grammar.

Hello! Blizzard Enteraintment you notifying, that your are entitled, to participate in the Beta-Test "Catastrophe". For further information please visit: <link>

And here is an email. Links are cut out to protect stupid forum readers with a trigger happy mouse.

Please open this connection <link>

The World of Warcraft Support Team
Blizzard Entertainment

These people really trying their best to get your details.

Cheers

my favorite one was the vista one that somoene also mentioned earlier.

I have a question............I havent played WoW in over a year. havent looked at any sites with the exception of the armory(after I got my first phising email, just to see if the characters were really xferred) and wow was never installed on my current machine.........I have only begun getting phishing emails in the last 2 months.

where oh where did they get my email from?

I can beat that. I got one saying my European Blizzard account was hacked. I live in the States and don't even HAVE a Euro account :P

I also got a "Your Account's Been Compromised" email on an email that is not even linked to an account :D

My favorite thought had the subject line "[spam] [scam] Account Compromise". Definitely my favorite. I have nothing that adds those tags by the way :P They were part of the subject line itself.

Sebali, someone in Blizz might be selling them off, a different site may have sold it off, there's a billion different ways. By which I mean like 5 :P

Originally posted by skeaser

Originally posted by Falcomith

Originally posted by VultureSkull

Best? lol I got this email myself and had a good laugh at it.

Give me "a new mounts",  if you are gonna scam at least get the grammar right.

 They are real good when it comes to grammer and spelling. I got one yesterday saying I purchased Starcraft 2. It gave the last four digits of a Vista card. I didnt know our cards were an operating system

It's "grammar"; pot, meet kettle.

Also, the sad part is, someone probably fell for that e-mail.

"I am the King of Rome, and above grammar."

- Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor

Maybe he wrote this email.

Received this mail 2 minutes ago

Greetings!
Recently, the problem of account invasion is getting worse and worse which cause enormous players’equipments and virtual currency stolen. This severely damages the benefits of mass players, also causes our company lose a lot of customers.
Our company has to adopt some measures to safeguard our common benefits in order to strengthen the safety of mass players'accounts, and firmly resist the account to be stolen again.Through our company's research and investigation to xxx customers,we will make the following decisions: we launch a package of updated code strengthen system and dynamic code protection card which can effectively prevent the accounts invaded. We will send this package of code protection system to players free of charge.
Please open this connection:******************************** your account passes the check successfully, we will send this package of dynamic code protection card to you in the form of e-mail.
In 3 days after you receiving the e-mail, if you don't submit your information, we have right to freeze your account, every player is obligated to protect the safety of the account. You must work together with us to be determined to crack down all the behaviors of destroying games.
If you had already authenticator your account, please disregard this automatic notification.
Regards,
The World of Warcraft Support Team
Blizzard Entertainment

lol I cannot phantom how many mistakes it has

I've been getting a ton of e-mails lately and I don't even have a WoW account. Here are a couple of them I got 3 and 4 days ago. I think they are just spamming everybody in the world. Look at the credit card type LOL

I have played WoW before, but I got this on my 2nd email that has never registered at Blizzard at all. It's a REALLY good one.

Hello,

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

If you made this change to your account, 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

<addressLOLscam>

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 billing@blizzard.com.

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/

Originally posted by sassoonss

Received this mail 2 minutes ago

 

 

Greetings!
Recently, the problem of account invasion is getting worse and worse which cause enormous players’equipments and virtual currency stolen. This severely damages the benefits of mass players, also causes our company lose a lot of customers.
Our company has to adopt some measures to safeguard our common benefits in order to strengthen the safety of mass players'accounts, and firmly resist the account to be stolen again.Through our company's research and investigation to xxx customers,we will make the following decisions: we launch a package of updated code strengthen system and dynamic code protection card which can effectively prevent the accounts invaded. We will send this package of code protection system to players free of charge.
Please open this connection:******************************** your account passes the check successfully, we will send this package of dynamic code protection card to you in the form of e-mail.
In 3 days after you receiving the e-mail, if you don't submit your information, we have right to freeze your account, every player is obligated to protect the safety of the account. You must work together with us to be determined to crack down all the behaviors of destroying games.
If you had already authenticator your account, please disregard this automatic notification.
Regards,
The World of Warcraft Support Team
Blizzard Entertainment

 

 

lol I cannot phantom how many mistakes it has

Am I the only one getting the faction change ones?  It is actually a good one.  All it says is that the faction change is in progress, how long it will take, that my character will not be playable in the meantime and that . . . if it was in error or there is something wrong please click here etc.

I also get the. . your battle.net account has had a request to change the e-mail associated with it. . please click here blah blah.

They all end up in my junk mail folder though.

Originally posted by Aethaeryn

Am I the only one getting the faction change ones?  It is actually a good one.  All it says is that the faction change is in progress, how long it will take, that my character will not be playable in the meantime and that . . . if it was in error or there is something wrong please click here etc.

 

I also get the. . your battle.net account has had a request to change the e-mail associated with it. . please click here blah blah.

 

They all end up in my junk mail folder though.

 

Most of the ones I get are the your email changed, password changed, your a hacker, or opt in for Cata Beta. Had one that made me really wonder as it hit right about the time that I was accessing my account to change the password on it. It was in my spam folder, and looked semi legit but erred on the side of caution and nuked it anyways. Even if it was legit I knew what was going on so decided to ignore it anyways.

Originally posted by Aethaeryn

Am I the only one getting the faction change ones?  It is actually a good one.  All it says is that the faction change is in progress, how long it will take, that my character will not be playable in the meantime and that . . . if it was in error or there is something wrong please click here etc.

I also get the. . your battle.net account has had a request to change the e-mail associated with it. . please click here blah blah.

They all end up in my junk mail folder though.

I get them too. And a lot of other ones for that matter. I wonder where they got my mail, I never had a Wow account? Maybe from some kind of competition or beta thing here... This is the only forum that have something with MMOs where I hang, I don't think they got it directly here but indirectly.

Originally posted by Asheram

Originally posted by jimmyman99

Originally posted by Asheram

Yea I dont think these phishers are very bright and I believe like another thread on the subject that they are getting email addresses from this site because at least once a week I get them on an email that was used to set up an account on mmorpg, one that is in no way associated with my warcraft account and yet they keep sending them its odd.

Is your email the same (or close) to your username? did you use that email for any other purpose , like signing up for other websites/forums?

 like I said the email i receive warcraft phishing emails on is in no way shape or form linked to or similar in any way to the name of my warcraft account email or account name and yes I signed up for an account here at mmorpg.com(on the email I get phished on) 

By username, i meant MMORPG username (Asheram)... my theory was that someone would scan usernames here at MMORPG and then would try to email phishing mail to mmorpg_username@hotmail.com, @yahoo.com, @yahoo.ca etc etc...was wondering if your emails did not have "asheram" in it.

Originally posted by Loke666

Originally posted by Aethaeryn

Am I the only one getting the faction change ones?  It is actually a good one.  All it says is that the faction change is in progress, how long it will take, that my character will not be playable in the meantime and that . . . if it was in error or there is something wrong please click here etc.

I also get the. . your battle.net account has had a request to change the e-mail associated with it. . please click here blah blah.

They all end up in my junk mail folder though.

I get them too. And a lot of other ones for that matter. I wonder where they got my mail, I never had a Wow account? Maybe from some kind of competition or beta thing here... This is the only forum that have something with MMOs where I hang, I don't think they got it directly here but indirectly.

They use E-mail phishing to feed their account-phishing.

First, they might buy/get a starter database of emails from somewhere (porn sites, free goodies sites, low-level-websites, etc)

Then they might get bots scanning social networks. profiles, forums for anyone posting their emails there. They might have some rudimentary script to decypher hidden emails such as this: my_email AT hotmail DOT com

And finally they would go with scanning usernames on various forums, websites then add @yahoo.com, @gmail.com etc...

I highly advise everyone to use recyclable emails. I use spamgourmet.com, its bit complex for a beginner, but is fairly powerfull and gets rid of spam effectively.