Phishing Scam - Beware!Oct 3rd, 2007 at 10:25 AM by Azuarc

I just received an e-mail from "WotLK Development Team" that looks very much like an official Blizzard e-mail. If you've ever gotten something from Blizzard beyond a bland "thanks for reporting this gold farmer" type message, you know the one I mean with the brown parchment background. It asks you to go to a link that appears as http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/wotlkbeta, but actually sends you to the URL http://wowtlk-beta.awardspace.co.uk/index.html, which promptly asks for your account name and password. It will thank you even for giving false info and then ask for your CD code for verification.

Remember, Blizzard will never ask you for your password to your account.

Click the link below to see the text of the e-mail.

 

 

Greetings,



You have been selected by Blizzard Entertainment to take part in our special World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King BETA testing. To participate simply log into your account at the special World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King site at LINKREMOVED After logging in and confirming your identity, you will be taken to a download page for the Worlf of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King BETA Client. We thank you for your help and participation in this process, as customer feedback is one of our most powerful tools in creating an outstanding game for all of our customers. If you do not wish to participate, simply take no action, and your account will remain as it is now.



Blizzard Entertainment Inc
Account Administration Team
P.O. Box 18979, Irvine, CA 92623



Regards,
Wrath of the Lich King Development Team
Blizzard Entertainment Inc.

Tags: News, WorldofWarcraft

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Orcs and Girls :-)))))
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# Oct 06 2007 at 3:18 AM Rating: Decent
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Horny orcs and other warcraft creatures **** real girls

A must see for every fan. True collectors items. Real movies with real actors like in LotR. No 3D animations and the real weird action. If you don´t see it with your eyes, you don´t believe it!

http://www.monstersexhouse. com
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spellin
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# Oct 04 2007 at 4:07 PM Rating: Decent
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"After logging in and confirming your identity, you will be taken to a download page for the Worlf of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King BETA Client."
heh heh way to spell it wrong nubs xD
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roflmao
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# Oct 04 2007 at 12:36 AM Rating: Decent
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"Take no action and ur account will remain as it is now"

i would have gone with that option xD
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Is that the exact text on the Email?
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# Oct 03 2007 at 8:50 PM Rating: Decent
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If it is they spelled World of Warcraft wrong

GG NUBS
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some tips
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# Oct 03 2007 at 7:17 PM Rating: Decent
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the link redirects to nothing now, at least nothing looking anything like a blizzard login screen..

Also, a really good way to see a scam in emails like this are to just look at where the link leads to (rightclick the link and click on properties, it will give you the url for the link) .. most scams like this don't even try to cover that info up with the exception of renaming the link from it's actual URL addy to an address that looks legit ..



ie. this link in the email posted above is named http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/wotlkbeta to make it look like it's the actual URL of the link, but actually its a link that was renamed (much like you see in emails that you can click on that read 'CLICK HERE!'), the actual URL the link above is http://wowtlk-beta.awardspace.co.uk/index.html4

obviously nothing blizzard would have
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YouTube
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# Oct 03 2007 at 11:52 AM Rating: Decent
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Beware of similar things like this on YouTube. I saw a text vid of a "commercial" for beta testing, and I think it took you to this or a similar website. They also have numerous videos giving instructions on how to "hack" other peoples accounts, but all it is a scam to send your info to Blizzards gmail or yahoo email accounts.

I have reported a few of these as inappropriate while looking through YouTube for various machinimas. I think the people who do them are scum, but at the same time, I question the intelligence of the person sending the account information to a gmail account thinking its a blizzard rep. And since that person is trying to hack an account, and thus gets hacked, they probably get what they deserve.
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Site down.
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# Oct 03 2007 at 11:02 AM Rating: Good
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I just went to that website, just to see what's going on. As of the date/time of this post the website has been taken down by AWARDSPACE. The page now shows up briefly as a 403 Unauthorized before you're re-directed to AWARSPACE's homepage. Just the same, keep your eyes open for BS e-mails like this one. Where there's one, there'll probably be more to follow.
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Weird.
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# Oct 03 2007 at 10:53 AM Rating: Decent
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How would they get the information in the first place to send you an email..?
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Weird.
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# Oct 04 2007 at 8:25 AM Rating: Excellent
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It's not terribly difficult to find "azuarc@allakhazam.com" =p
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nevah!
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# Oct 03 2007 at 10:53 AM Rating: Decent
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thank god im not the email owner of my account. ^^

(long story, but the account is not hacked, stolen or something like that.
a friend stopped playing and deleted all his chars and I bought the empty account for a low ammount of money. ;))

(sure, blizzard is against selling accounts and ****, but wtf.. ^^)
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wow
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# Oct 03 2007 at 10:10 AM Rating: Decent
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lol i was looking at this email as i read this, allakhazam ftw >.>
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tricked
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# Oct 03 2007 at 9:51 AM Rating: Decent
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They got me on this. The hacks wiped my account and thankfully I got everything back. I guess I shouldn't wow when I am mildly intoxicated.
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tricked
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# Oct 03 2007 at 11:53 AM Rating: Decent
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True, you should be heavily intoxicated.
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tricked
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# Oct 04 2007 at 4:05 PM Rating: Decent
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ROFL that was good...
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