I got an email from WoWAccountAdmin@blizzard.com , and I can't make out how to respond.
Mail content;
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Hello,
Blizzard Entertainment recently received a request to change the e-mail address used to log in to the Battle.net account with the username Censored by me @yahoo.com. The e-mail address Censored by me @hotmail.com has been specified as the new username for this Battle.net account. An email has been sent to this new address containing a verification link to complete the change.
Once the new address has been verified, the e-mail address censored by me @yahoo.com can no longer be used to log in to this Battle.net account or any World of Warcraft accounts merged with this Battle.net account.
If you did not initiate this request,please click here to contact the Billzzard Billing & Account Services team immediately.
sincerely,
The Battle.net Account Team
Online Privacy Policy
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Now the addresses and links in the email seems quite allright. But the email addresses are totally unfamiliar to me. (both old and new ones listed in the email)
This makes me wonder why this was even sent to me in the first place.
Any thoughts?
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First do you have an authenticator? If you do thats a pretty good sign its a fake. Check your account by typing the battle.net address into your address bar to check your account. DO NOT click any links. If you have access to your account still you can change your password if it makes you feel more secure. If you still have any trouble you can call Blizzard customer support.
Edited, Jul 8th 2011 6:14am by CaptinXeith
Edited, Jul 8th 2011 6:14am by CaptinXeith
bkhovde wrote:
I got an email from WoWAccountAdmin@blizzard.com , and I can't make out how to respond.
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You respond by manually going to battle.net and checking out your account status.
Probably a fake though.
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idiggory wrote:
Drinking at home. But I could probably stand to get laid.
The thing that bugs me is that the email came from a blizzard.com domain. I was under the impression that blizzard.com and battle.net domain sources were "safe"?
None the less, with the content listing accounts not relevant to me I never wanted to click on any links in the email. But if someone sent this to me, why didn't they include my actual account name/email address instead?
None the less, with the content listing accounts not relevant to me I never wanted to click on any links in the email. But if someone sent this to me, why didn't they include my actual account name/email address instead?
phisphers are pretty ingenious here. I don't know how they do it, but that's probably not where the email was actually generated.
IDrownFish wrote:
Anyways, you all are horrible, @#%^ed up people
lolgaxe wrote:
Never underestimate the healing power of a massive dong.
bkhovde wrote:
The thing that bugs me is that the email came from a blizzard.com domain. I was under the impression that blizzard.com and battle.net domain sources were "safe"?
None the less, with the content listing accounts not relevant to me I never wanted to click on any links in the email. But if someone sent this to me, why didn't they include my actual account name/email address instead?
None the less, with the content listing accounts not relevant to me I never wanted to click on any links in the email. But if someone sent this to me, why didn't they include my actual account name/email address instead?
I get spam email from myself.
Spoofing a sent address isn't to hard.
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idiggory wrote:
Drinking at home. But I could probably stand to get laid.
Also, the word 'sincerely' isn't capitalized and there's a missing space between the comma and the word "please" in the last line of the message body.
I get a lot of these. Even the ones "using" Blizz addresses get filtered into my spam folder. But actual emails from Blizz are left out (though I only get them very occasionally).
<3 gmail.
<3 gmail.
IDrownFish wrote:
Anyways, you all are horrible, @#%^ed up people
lolgaxe wrote:
Never underestimate the healing power of a massive dong.
What Horsemouth said. If someone successfully changed your password then you won't be able to log in. If you can, it's fake.
It's a very very very easy thing to do to change the "apparent" senders address, it's also very easy to spot if you view headers in your email the "sender" address and the one shown in headers won't match.
It's "a design feature" of email. Don't worry blizzard.com didn't get hacked, at least by the author of that email
It's "a design feature" of email. Don't worry blizzard.com didn't get hacked, at least by the author of that email
My foolproof method for these:
Hover your mouse over a link, and see where it goes (the links href appears in the bottom left of firefox when you hover over it).
If it's something like us.battlenet.warcraftadmin.ru then DO NOT CLICK IT.
Everything else in the email can be spoofed, but the links' hrefs cannot.
Hover your mouse over a link, and see where it goes (the links href appears in the bottom left of firefox when you hover over it).
If it's something like us.battlenet.warcraftadmin.ru then DO NOT CLICK IT.
Everything else in the email can be spoofed, but the links' hrefs cannot.
L2 gmail guys. Seriously. I hardly ever get any of the phishing emails sent to my inbox. Most of them go directly to spam. Although sometimes google is a bit too thorough and I have stuff winding up there that isn't supposed to be in spam.
I have hotmail, my g/f has g-mail, and I really don't see a difference in the amount of crap that gets through her spam filter vs mine.
AstarintheDruid wrote:
I have hotmail, my g/f has g-mail, and I really don't see a difference in the amount of crap that gets through her spam filter vs mine.
Gmail is awesomer, you should switch.
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idiggory wrote:
Drinking at home. But I could probably stand to get laid.
The amount of crap you get in your email... my gmail was great for staying clean but since both my parents decided they liked forwarding things I'm getting more and more spam since they haven't figured out how to send the email to multiple people at once without everyone seeing each others address so once they forward it and whoever they sent it to forwards it my address is out there more and more. Since they started that my spam filter has been picking up more and more mail, went from one or 2 spam messages every couple days to 10 and 20 junk messages a day. It's slacked off again though so maybe google tightened their filters again.
hotmail always gets tons of crap because I've had the address for years, but I've got dedicated emails one for my forum memberships at certain places, one just for those places that require you to register to see more features, it's a throwaway address that I know anything arriving there is junk, one for family one for friends...
I just prefer gmail, when you want to login that's all you see is the login, and when you log out you're taken back to the login screen.... with hotmail you log out and are pushed off to the "portal" where videos and headlines are loading.. I made the switch a while ago, hotmail is only used for a couple things these days because my connection (internet) when I'm out on the farm can't handle all the bandwidth they expect me to use just to log out.
hotmail always gets tons of crap because I've had the address for years, but I've got dedicated emails one for my forum memberships at certain places, one just for those places that require you to register to see more features, it's a throwaway address that I know anything arriving there is junk, one for family one for friends...
I just prefer gmail, when you want to login that's all you see is the login, and when you log out you're taken back to the login screen.... with hotmail you log out and are pushed off to the "portal" where videos and headlines are loading.. I made the switch a while ago, hotmail is only used for a couple things these days because my connection (internet) when I'm out on the farm can't handle all the bandwidth they expect me to use just to log out.
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