Hi, I just want to give heads up to a new mail I received of attempt of theft.

I am at least 99% sure this is completely unofficial since there are various incoherences such as:

- No information whatsoever about the upcoming of this "scan"
- Unprecedented event, this has never happened before
- Blizzard does not contact you directly by e-mail, just like they didn't contact when it was mandatory to transform your account into a battle.net account.
- Incoherent / bad english grammar, phrasing, capital letters, paragraphs and formating.
- The site claimed in the e-mail for you to certify your account is NOT one of blizzard's official safe sites, just as stated in: http://eu.battle.net/security/checklist.html
- Sense of extreme urgency to verify your account
- Requesting the user not to change his/her account details during those 2 days, (so they have time to steal your account) Blizzard will NEVER ask you to not change your account details, in fact Blizzard supports otherwise. Changing your password frequently is a well know safety measure.
- In the e-mail they claim that you can contact support via the e-mail noreply@blizzard.com. This is a NO-REPLY e-mail as you can obviously see, this e-mail is not meant to be used to ask for any kind of support by blizzard. It is an outbound address only.
- In the end of the e-mail it's written: "For more information, click here". The "here" is not hyper-linked, it's just plain text in the original e-mail. This does not happen with Blizzard's official responses.

As a final note, be aware, stay sharp to fake e-mails like this, DO NOT get cheated like an internet newbie, remember, account thief's always try to make you feel like there's some sense of urgency to the matter in hand and have incoherent texts, they are dumb, you are NOT. Stay sharp.


Kallisto @ Grim Batol

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from: Blizzard Entertainment <noreply@blizzard.com>
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date: Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 11:50 AM
subject: World Of Warcraft-Account Instructions 19:50:45

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Hello unrealized,

This is an automated notification regarding the recent change(s)

made to your World of Warcraft account. Blizzard system scan to your account insecurity, in order not to affect the normal use of your account, please log Blizzard safety net to verify your account information, or else Blizzard will stop using your account's rights .
Certification of Warcraft account information site of Blizzard:

http://<removed by me for safety reasons>

Blizzard staff will verify your account information submitted in two days, please do not modify your account information during this time . It will not affect your game uptime.

using the automated system, please contact Billing & Account Services at 1-800-59-BLIZZARD (1-800-592-5499) Mon-Fri, 8am-8pm Pacific Time or at noreply@blizzard.com. Account security is solely the responsibility of the account holder. Please be advised that in the event of a compromised account, Blizzard representatives 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.

Please retain this e-mail for your reference.

For more information, click here for answers to Frequently Asked Questions or to contact the Blizzard Billing & Account Services team.

Sincerely,
The Blizzard Account Team
Online Privacy Policy

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[Edit]
Renamed thread title.

Hi,

Just adding a blue tag to this since this is a helpful post.