Phishers Going After WoW Subscribers
There's an email scam out in the wild that's targeting Blizzard customers... namely World of Warcraft subscribers.
Within the last week, hackers have seemingly beefed up their attempts to trick Blizzard customers into installing malware and/or stealing their personal information. Below is an actual email I've personally received twice within the last seven days, leading to an unsecure "secure" website where I can supposedly confirm I'm the owner of my World of Warcraft account.
Other than the fact that I don't have an active subscription to World of Warcraft (but an active Battle.net account), and the email itself was sent to another personal email address not associated with Battle.net, the link itself is a dead giveaway, taking users to an external "us.battle.woribofwarcraft.com" website (WHOIS) which in itself pulls up a "Bad Request" error. The actual email was also sent from "Blizzard Entertainment" aka kekhrwm@cap.jqbuk.net.
Here' the email:
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:
http://us.battle.woribofwarcraft.com/?ref=https://us.battle.net/account/management/index.xml&app=bam&t=1
Login to your account, In accordance following template to verify your account.
* Account name
* Account password
* 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.
Once we verify your account, we will reply to your e-mail informing you that we have dropped the investigation.
Regards,
Account Administration Team
Blizzard Entertainment
http://www.blizzard.com/support/
World of Warcraft , Blizzard Entertainment 2010
Please retain all history if you reply to this mail.
Thankfully this email ended up in my spam box. Still, there may be many Blizzard customers who may think this is a legit request. Just pay attention to the "secure" link. If you don't have an active World of Warcraft subscription (but currently play Diablo 2, StarCraft 2), there's nothing to worry about other than the fact that someone has figured out you have a Battle.net account and my be a possible WoW target.
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I get WoW-related spam every few weeks, even though I've never played that game.
Still, you must be utterly stupid to reply to such a mail. English isn't my first language, yet I see a few glaring grammatical errors in this mail. And the URL should really keep your from falling into that trap...
People still fall for it though Silmarunya
I too get them regularly. The best protection is for a wow player to get an authenticator ... a one-off minimal payment and they're account is secure no matter what. (unless someone steals the authenticator and their account un & pw)
The authenticator is still not 100% secure, just makes it more difficult:
http://www.incgamers.com/News/2124 [...] -confirmed
bah humbug, those pesky kids
after reading your link gregor I still think it's a lot safer with the authenticator
If you own an Android phone then you can download te Authenticator app for free. an app is avaliable for iphone aswell. Although i do not know if it is free.
I get these emails every few days, have done for a couple of years which is ironically how long ago I stopped playing.
I've been getting that email on my hotmail address for well over a year, the punchline? I've never had any activity involving world of warcraft on that email address, my gmail however is my WoW email and I've never had anything relating to wow on it -perhaps gmail filter, perhaps they just target random email addresses.