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Kurlz
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Joined: 07 Apr 2007
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 Posted: 04/07/07 - 19:22 Post subject: Email from 'Blizzard' is a scam!
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I recently recieved an email from someone pretending to be blizzard. It said that they knew i was selling/trading my account and it would be closed if i could not provide a long list of information, ie secret Q and A, account name, password, etc. I thought at first it was real, but i looked more closely noticing grammer/spelling errors and that it was sent to 3 or 4 other people. Blizzard doesnt send email this way, ever. The email address wasnt a blizzard email address either. Im just posting this to warn everyone, do not give your account information to these people! This IS a scam and i highly suggest you dont send information to anyone you are not 100% sure is blizzard. I just hope this guy doesnt scam too many people this way.
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Kurlz
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Joined: 07 Apr 2007
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Posted: 04/07/07 - 21:02 Post subject:
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hoping to get a few more people to read this, getting scammed is not fun and i want people to avoid this at all costs. A little more information for those wondering:
copy of email-
[quote]This is an email sent by Blizzard Entertainment © 2006
It has come to our attention that you are trying to sell/trade your personal World of Warcraft account.
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 the Account Administration Team
Blizzard© might consider taking legal actions against your crime, if it seems too be of an extreme nature.
If you do not wish to have your account suspended you should immediately verify your account.
This action must be taken seriously.We need to confirm you are the original owner of the account.
This is easily done by confirming your personal information along with concealed information about your account.
You can confirm that you are the original owner of the account by sending us an email at:
BlizzardTech@techemail.com
Use the following template below to verfiy your account and information via
email:
* First and Surname
* Address
* Zip code
* Phone number Daytime
* Country
* Alternate emails that you have been using for this specific account
* CD-key, alternative a photograph of your CD-key that is located on your manual for World of Warcraft.
* Account name
* Account Password
* Secret Question and Answer
* The last 4 digits of the credit card you used for the last payment
If this is not done within the 48 hours you recieve this E-mail, your World
of Warcraft® Account will be Frozen and no longer available
for further use.
As soon as we have this information we will be able to progress the
resolution of this matter for you.
If you wish to review our current Rules and Polices, they can be found at:
http://www.blizzard.com/support/wowgm/?id=agm01712p
Account Administration Team
TSA 60 001
78143 Vélizy Villacoublay Cedex France
Blizzard Entertainment © 2006[/quote]
Got to love something as convincing as that, seeing as how the year is wrong and some obvious typo's. However, still could be mistaken for an actual email from blizz. the email address-
[quote]blizztech@techemail.com[/quote]
well, i decided to look a little further into this. i went to techemail.com and what do you know? it offers free email service for simply filling out a few blanks.
[quote]TechEmail.com
Ad-Supported Email
A basic free email account:
• 25 MB Storage
• 10 MB File Attachments
• Web Mail
• SpamShield Lite
• Anti-Virus
• Inactive Account Expires[/quote]
Well well well. I'm not sure how many people he has fooled with this, but [b]PLEASE[/b] do [b][u]NOT[/u][/b] send this person your account information! It CAN and WILL make you lose your account. I don't like to see this happen to anybody, and would like to see this scam shut down once and for all. Feel free to bump this post.
<3 Kurlz
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