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DarkPony Steed of Tardcore Joined: 8/29/08 Posts: 5463 Confident, cocky, lazy, dead.	3/22/11 3:31:26 PM#21 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) Originally posted by Aglaranna Heh...this is one of my favorite phishing emails that I receive about 1/month. Title: Bizz GM free gift to you Hello Congratulations! Your world of Warcraft account to receive compensation.This is Blizzard Entertainment's apology We acknowledge a mistake, for you to lose the World of Warcraft account in order to recover our losses We will give you 50000 gold coins free of charge and rare mounts (Dark Phoenix), I hope you can restart the game Login here to authentication, 48 hours you will receive compensation Description: test account and permanently disabled can not compensation fist shaking of angry Study the English langwhich some more I will, and have to write you much better mail next time it around. Just weight and see my frend. One day you fall for trap and I laughed the last laugh. Hahahahaha!!1 edit: seriously, that was an awesome mail you've got. I'd embroider it and put it on the kitchen wall. My brand new bloggity blog.
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Herodes Apprentice Member Joined: 8/12/03 Posts: 1425 Consumer	5/14/11 11:40:16 AM#22 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) I found this one yesterday in my box - the fishermen become better: Hello, This is an automated notification regarding your Battle.net account. Some or all of your contact information was recently modified through the Account Management website. * If you made recent account changes, please disregard this automatic notification. * If you did NOT make any changes to your account, we recommend you log in to www.battle.net.wordofwarcraft-en-usxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx your account settings. 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 further 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 Battle.net Support Team Blizzard Entertainment www.blizzard.com/support Online Privacy Policy It looks quite legit. The only thing is the "word" instead of "world" in the link in the middle. I replaced the rest of the link with X, hope it is enough. This email is well made IMO. edit: or is it even legit? lol Gaudium
Deathofsage Novice Member Joined: 2/11/11 Posts: 833 Honestly: FFXI Fanboy RIFT hater. Stop rewarding wow-clones.	5/14/11 11:50:42 AM#23 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) OP: I'd also encourage everyone to use gmail. It does great at filtering spam and rarely ever captures a real email. I have several email address from a long internet career and my yahoo/hotmail boxes look as bad as they always did. My 4 gmails remain immaculate. Using a good email service is like using a good virus scanner. If you're careful with what you click and suspicious about links, you may never need it but it's a first line of defense. Encourage people to obtain an email address strictly for the purpose of their game account email addresses. Never use this address for forum registrations or anything else. This will slim down the number of spam you get. My first gmail address (since beta) gets about 200 spam a week from an address used everywhere. Google catches all but 2 or 3. My gaming address gets about 5 spam per week. Really, if you weren't expecting an email, never ever click a link in them. It's a nice principle even if you were expecting it but yeah.. if you get an email about your account being hacked, go manually (like the OP says) to the company's site. If you don't know the url by hand, google it. Google is reliable for weeding out phishing sites and for keeping the company's main page on top. rnrnorpg.com is my favorite website. It provides all the details about mmo's that you would never want to know. What you can't find here, you'll find at googIe.com btw, highlight the below text. I gave fake urls in the above message twice. I neither mentioned this site's url or google's. They say RNRNORPG.COM AND GOOGiE.COM. Spec'ing properly is a gateway drug. 12 Million People have been meter spammed in heroics. Placing bets Blizzard's "Titan" will be a wow-clone.
Isturi Apprentice Member Joined: 3/03/09 Posts: 699 Come on Kiba daddy got a nice juicy steak for you...	5/14/11 11:54:16 AM#24 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) Originally posted by Herodes I found this one yesterday in my box - the fishermen become better: Hello, This is an automated notification regarding your Battle.net account. Some or all of your contact information was recently modified through the Account Management website. * If you made recent account changes, please disregard this automatic notification. * If you did NOT make any changes to your account, we recommend you log in to www.battle.net.wordofwarcraft-en-usxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx your account settings. 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 further 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 Battle.net Support Team Blizzard Entertainment www.blizzard.com/support Online Privacy Policy It looks quite legit. The only thing is the "word" instead of "world" in the link in the middle. I replaced the rest of the link with X, hope it is enough. This email is well made IMO. edit: or is it even legit? lol People who play WoW for a length of time knows the basics by now yes these scum who phish are very cleaver very good advise on mousing over the link before you click to double chk the spelling on the link. Another trick is that they replace the letter L for a 1 in blizzard but as a rule of thumb Blizz will not send you a letter like this saying that your account is compromised. Now if it get hacked just complete the "Help I got hacked" response from the official site and with in a very short time you will get your account back. Rules I follow if i were to get hacked is that I will at that point format my drive completely by putting Windows back on my PC just to get rid of anything that would pose as a threat in the slightest. As soon as I get it reinstalled and my virus program updated I will do a complete scan before and after got done with everything else from WoW mods to whatever. Yes I know it is extreme and time consuming but my peace of mind. Even though I would have reinstall WoW it is still worth it.
eyelolled Novice Member Joined: 5/13/10 Posts: 1281 I am more than some of my parts	5/14/11 12:18:52 PM#25 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) I started getting emails about my blizzard account being comprimized, needing update, giving away prizes etc. after signing up for a beta on a game. I never did manage to play the game because the link to the client download failed so I just moved on. The emails started showing up within a day. I don't have a battle.net account, and don't play WoW or Starcraft. I don't download cheats, trainers, or game tools. The only MMO news/forum website I am signed up for is this one. I don't remember the name of the game which I think is to blame for leaking my email info, but I did post about it before. The red flags I should have listened to before trying to join the beta: I had never heard of the game before (I signed up because I just wanted to try something new) The game didn't have a listing on this site (the beta giveaway was here, but they still weren't on the games list) No images/ No screens/ nothing. I still can't guarantee that this game was the cause, but the coincidences were too great. I signed up, I got nowhere, and now I get a bunch of junk emails. Anyhow, play safe. All of my posts are either intelligent, thought provoking, funny, satirical, sarcastic or intentionally disrespectful. Take your pick.
mysticmouse Novice Member Joined: 4/05/11 Posts: 32	7/19/11 2:16:55 AM#26 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) I get one or two of these a week in my gmail junk folder and I have not played in over a 8 months now. I started getting them right after Blizz made us all switch over to the battle net thing. Most of them are pretty easy to spot as phishing. My Gmail always flags them as such. I enjoy reading them and laughing before deleteing. I used to forward them to Blizz but I hvaent seen any new variants in a while. A few of my friends get them as well and they hvae never played wow but do play Starcraft 2. ENTER][/CENTER]
blogking2012 Apprentice Member Joined: 4/29/12 Posts: 14	4/29/12 9:52:52 PM#27 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) one more suggestion, it is very important to apply an email box with powerful anti-spam system, get it bind with your battlenet account, coz you can't be careful all the time, i trust my email filter system, never open mails in spam, it is so easy Ross, the apple of my eye wow gold
ElderRat Elite Member Joined: 9/30/10 Posts: 670	4/29/12 9:57:27 PM#28 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) Yea, amazingly i get them for both WoW, played a free trial once, and for Runescape - never played. My attitude on both is go ahead and block my either cancelled or non-existent account. Currently playing Skyrim and Crusader Kings II.