First things first.. I DONT HAVE A WORLD OF WARCRAFT ACCOUNT! lol. Next, they start the letter with "Dear Customer", now if this was an actual email from a company they would refer to you as your login name. The "Thank you for contacting customer support", well, since I dont have an account with them, I never contacted them lol. (Unless i'm sleep emailing again, thats always embarrassing lol). The link they instruct me to click on looks legit at first glance, i'm assuming so because i've never been to their website but as i've mentioned in other posts, if you hover over the link, at the bottom left you will see this.
At first glance, looks ok, doesn't match the link on the email but looks legit.... Until you look very closely at the first bit of the link.. www.worldofWARCARFT.BRTTLE.net Just to glance at the picture, it looks ok until you look closely at the spelling and realize either they hired idiots at WoW that can't spell, or its a link to a fake information verification page which, if filled out, will give them all sorts of information. Information that will give someone access to your account. For the WoW players out there, you know what kind of damage that can do to your months or years of effort put into the game. And quite possibly, the biggest thing here... MY HOTMAIL FLAGGED IT AS SUSPICIOUS! I know sometimes things that aren't spam end up in your junk box but make sure to take a very close look at any email that your inbox flags as suspicious before you click on anything.
I dug further into my junk box and found a few more from them...
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Greetings
This is an automated notification regarding the recent change(s)As you may or 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. It will be ongoing for further investigation by Blizzard Entertainment's employees.If you wish to not get your account suspended you should immediately verify your account ownership.If the information is deemed accurate, the investigation will be dropped.
This action is taken because we at Blizzard Entertainment take these salesquite seriously. We need to confirm you are the original owner of the account.This is easiest done by confirming your personal information along with concealed information about your account.
we recommend you Login verify Information your account:
http://battle-account-confirm.net/account/login.html?app=wam&ref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldofwarcraft.com%2Faccount%2F&eor=0&app=bam
If you ignore this mail your account can and will be closed permanently. Once we verify your account,we will reply to your e-mail informing you that we have dropped the investigation.billing@blizzard.com. Account security is solely the responsibility of the accoun tholder. Please be advised that in the event of a compromised account, Blizzardrepresentatives 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,
Blizzard Entertainment Inc Account Administration Team
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Greetings!
It has come to our attention 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.
It will be ongoing for further investigation by Blizzard Entertainment's employees.
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 to this secure website with:
Login to your account, In accordance following template to verify your account.
* First and Surname
* Secret Question and Answer
Show * Please enter the correct information
If you ignore this mail your account can and will be closed permanently.
Regards,
Account Administration Team
Blizzard Entertainment
http://www.blizzard.com/support/
World of Warcraft , Blizzard Entertainment 2010
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By now, i'm sure you guys can tell how I know these are fakes. Feel free to leave your guesses in the comments box and let's see how much you've learned. The links in these emails have been reported as web forgery and most of them have been removed from the internet already, remember, if you get a mail like this, go to the companies ACTUAL website and find a way to forward scams to them so they can take immediate action to get them removed. You would be doing a very good deed to ensure that nobody falls for these scams. Thanks for reading!
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