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Severance
Fresh Meat
Joined: 22 May 2007
Posts: 6
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 Posted: 05/23/07 - 03:26 Post subject: Someone's trying to scam WOW account traders!
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I recently posted my WOW account for sale here. I promptly received the following (clearly scam) email from "accountreview@yahoo.com". God, why they dont even take the two or three seconds to mask the true SMTP address to make it look more convincing is beyond me. Idiots and retards, the lot of them.
Greetings!
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 on-going for further investigation by Blizzard employees.
Blizzard might consider taking legal actions against your crime, if it seems to be of an extreme nature.
If you wish to not receive an account suspension, you must immediately verify your account.
This action is taken because we, at Blizzard Entertainment, take these sales matters quite serious. We need to confirm you are indeed the original owner of the account.
This is easiest 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 replying to this email with:
Use the following template below to verify your account and information via email.
* First and Last Name
* Address
* Zip code
* Phone number [Daytime]
* Country
* Account E-mail
* Account Name
* Account Password
* Secret Question and Answer
If you ignore this email, your account can and will be closed permanently.
We ask you to NOT change your password until the investigation is fully completed.
Blizzard Entertainment Inc
Account Administration Team
P.O. Box 18979, Irvine, CA 92623
Regards,
Account Administration Team
Blizzard Entertainment Incorporated
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Anyway needless to say... a) Blizz would simply ban you if you were caught, not send you an email of this nature. B) Blizzard would already be in posession of your account information and would not require you to provide them with it. C) Blizz would email from a f*****g @blizzard.com email address and not from a free-to-one-and-all yahoo.com address.
Honestly, I'm more insulted at the implications about my intelligance an email such as this makes. But in the meantime, if you get such an email., you'd be well advised to simply delete it (or do what I did and reply with a litany of abuse).
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sunnyko
Luke Warm
Joined: 14 Feb 2007
Posts: 114
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Posted: 05/23/07 - 04:02 Post subject:
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tried to get me to.....
I actually got two of em.. first one was from a @yahoo.com address second one was from blizzardadmin.com
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Trader1390
Fresh Meat
Joined: 02 May 2007
Posts: 6
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Posted: 05/30/07 - 13:02 Post subject:
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Actually, this same exact shit has been going down if you have a Steam account. Through the friends thing though.
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buckethead81
Rookie
Joined: 26 Apr 2007
Posts: 99
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Posted: 05/31/07 - 12:56 Post subject:
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i have gotten 5 of those e-mail scames in the past week or so and the thig that gets me is my accounts arent even under the e-mail address there sending the fake admin shit to lol ........and @gmail or @yahoo..i mean come on atleast make it more real yah noobs =P
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CompleteGibberish
Administrator
Joined: 09 Feb 2007
Posts: 6235
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Posted: 05/31/07 - 13:03 Post subject:
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You do know you can report the email address for phishing to the respective provider ?
They will ban their IP from their server and eventually they will have nowhere to email from 
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