Blizzard Entertainment World of Warcraft account, use of illegal procedures, the account has been permanently disabled, in detail: h
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World of Warcraft , Blizzard Entertainment 2011
I don’t play Wow so I really don’t care (unless it closes my Starcraft account)
I have contacted Blizzard directly several times asking if this was actual or phising? I’ve never heard back.
It’s phishing, that’s a bogus domain that tries to look like a legitimate one, but the top-level portion is ‘warcraft-forumv.com’, which is not a Blizzard domain.
Phishing for sure, I have a pile of the exact same email in my Gmail spam folder. My account has been inactive for months, the characters don’t even show on the Armory anymore, but I still get tons of phishing spam. Hell, I get phishing spam on email addresses that have never been associated with a Battle.net account at all.
My wife got one saying she had done illegal phishing with her account, which she hasn’t used in at least 2 years. It said that she needed to log in and change her password, if she thinks her account may have been hacked. I suppose it might have been legit, but it seemed really fishy to me.
I’ve been getting tons of these WoW phishing emails lately. They don’t even go to the right email address from which my WoW account was set up, and I’ve not played in over a year, but they keep emailing me about my mounts or my auction house items. It’s kinda funny.
They don’t target WoW players, what they do is send bots to actively mine the Internet for email addresses and then blindly alpha-strike the lists they obtain from the aforementioned.
Every one of my emails is being bombarded by these. Even though I’ve never played WoW nor even have a Blizzard account. They’re filtered 100% of the time to my spam folders.
If you do not know them, they are out to fuck you over
If you receive an unexpected email from a friend/relative - they probably didn’t send it
6b. Even if they sent it, do not open the greeting card or funny link they sent you
Do not use a email client (Outlook, Thunderbird, Other) - Browse through a web browser (Chrome/Mozilla)
7b. Never click links in email - Copy them and past them into the browser to see the url.
7c. When signing up for any EMAIL-Lists on web sites, always pick the “PLAIN TEXT” option. HTML Emails are a curse
In Mozilla use NoScript
In Chrome Disable Plugins/Script unless you explicitly specify to use it for the domain you are visiting
Use the Windows Firewall
Get a second firewall in addition to MS’ (Avast Internet Security 6.0 for example)
Do not trust automatic updates in Chrome or Firefox, Manually check once a day
