WARNING FAKE BLIZZARD PHISING MAIL!
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  • WARNING
    DEAR FRIENDS

    FOR THE PAST FEW DAYS A LOT OF USERS RECEIVED AN EMAIL CLAIMING TO BE FROM BLIZZARD ENTERTAINMENT, AND ITS TOPIC APPEARS TO BE SOMETHING ABOUT “ACCOUNT SECURITY ISSUES” OR “CHANGE IN BILLING POLICY” ETC.
    THESE EMAILS ARE A FAKE DANGEROUS PHISHING SPAM MAIL AND SHOULD BE DELETED.

    AVOID OPENING THEM AND DO NOT VISIT THE RECOMMENDED LINKS IN THEM!
    BLIZZARD NEVER SENDS EMAILS OF THIS KIND, AND PEOPLE SHOULD BE VERY CAREFUL AND NOT GIVE ANY PERSONAL INFO ON OTHER WEBSITES BESIDES THE OFFICIAL BLIZZARD WEBSITES!

    YOU ARE IN DANGER NOT ONLY WILL YOUR ACCOUNT BE STOLEN, BUT ALSO YOUR CREDIT CARD AND PERSONAL INFORMATION WILL BE EXPOSED AND YOUR SYSTEM WILL BE INFECTED BY A TROJAN OR KEYLOGGERS FROM THOSE WEBSITES!

    SO STAY AWAY FROM EMAILS FROM NONREPLAY@BLIZZARD.COM AND THE SITES THEY RECOMMEND TO VISIT!
    WHEN YOU BROWSING MAKE SURE YOUR ANTIVIRUS IS FULLY UPDATED AND WORKING.

    here is one example of the FAKE mail

    Dear customer,
    


    This is an automated notification sent from our account security system. You logined your account successfully at 4:27 on May 26th form the 125.87.108.* range, but our system shows the 125.10.151.* IP range exists a large number of hackers. As too many customer complaints, the 125.98.104.* IP range has been blacklisted. We are concerned about whether your account has been stolen. In order to guarantee the legitimacy of your account, we need you check your account status here as soon as possible. If you have any questions, please visit    http://wow-account-........net
    


    Account security is solely the responsibility of the accountholder. Please be advised that in the event of a compromised account, Blizzard representatives will typically lock the account. In these cases the Account Administration team will require faxed receipt of ID materials before releasing the account for play.
    


    Regards,
    


    Blizzard account system
    Blizzard Entertainment

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    mods plz stick this ;-)

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    Posted 2010-06-09
    SC2Allin1 Author Nibbits Staff
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  • I have the same on an account that is NOT my bnet account - it is on an email that I used in the past in google groups. Oh im never using my email in facebook, twitter, google groups or crap like that. Socialize my butt

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    Posted 2010-06-09
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  • me too, my true b.net acount is uniqe and private!
    and i also dont use facebook crap just to record my habits with other morons arround the glob and making comanies like google reacher by seling my personal data.

    anyway i thought this should be poste because lots of noobs are arround.

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    Posted 2010-06-09
    SC2Allin1 Author Nibbits Staff
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  • So many typos and grammar issues my head almost exploded.

    /Stickied

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    Posted 2010-06-09
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  • lol i think i improved it a little now

    tnx

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    Posted 2010-06-09
    SC2Allin1 Author Nibbits Staff
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  • oh you wrote this?

    I thought it was the actual email itself, which would have helped in spotting the format it's in, as well as it's contents.

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    Posted 2010-06-09
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  • Yucieoh you wrote this?

    I thought it was the actual email itself, which would have helped in spotting the format it's in, as well as it's contents.


    the warning is mine the email is the actual TRUE email i got in my 2nd inbox! and is indeed like google translated or something lol..

    i just re wrote thewarning messege in the top :) that had also some typos and i thought you were talking about that! :)

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    Posted 2010-06-09
    SC2Allin1 Author Nibbits Staff
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  • Is it me or is everything on this page, even the post timings in bold? Every other thread seems to be fine.

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    Posted 2010-06-09
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  • its a tag bug i have reported to admin dont worry.

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    Posted 2010-06-09
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  • Yes it's all in bold, although I don't see why that is.
    ---

    Anyhow made minor changes to the warning to make it easier to read with proper sentence structure and spelling.
    Changes are underlined, Hope you don't mind.

    Edit it in if you'd like.

    DEAR FRIENDS
    FOR THE PAST FEW DAYS A LOT OF USERS RECEIVED AN EMAIL CLAIMING TO BE FROM BLIZZARD ENTERTAINMENT, AND ITS TOPIC APPEARS TO BE SOMETHING ABOUT “ACCOUNT SECURITY ISSUES” OR “CHANGE IN BILLING POLICY” ETC.
    THESE EMAILS ARE A FAKE DANGEROUS PHISHING SPAM MAIL AND SHOULD BE DELETED.
    AVOID OPENING THEM AND DO NOT VISIT THE RECOMMENDED LINKS IN THEM!
    BLIZZARD NEVER SENDS EMAILS OF THIS KIND, AND PEOPLE SHOULD BE VERY CAREFUL AND NOT GIVE ANY PERSONAL INFO ON OTHER WEBSITES BESIDES THE OFFICIAL BLIZZARD WEBSITES!
    YOU ARE IN DANGER NOT ONLY WILL YOUR ACCOUNT STOLEN, BUT ALSO YOUR CREDIT CARD AND PERSONAL INFORMATION WILL BE EXPOSED AND BE INFECTED BY A TROJAN FROM THOSE WEBSITE AND KEYLOGGERS!
    SO STAY AWAY FROM EMAILS FROM NONREPLAY@BLIZZARD.COM AND THE SITES THEY RECOMMEND TO VISIT!

    WHEN YOU SURF MAKE SURE YOUR ANTIVIRUS IS FULLY UPDATED AND WORKING.

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    Posted 2010-06-09
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  • I thought it was something for emphasis, like saying THIS PAGE IS IMPORTANT! Read it or be haunted by bold letters!

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    Posted 2010-06-09
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  • why is everything in bold? XD ...thanks for the warning vernam7! :) <--- lol i'm in bold too..

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    Posted 2010-06-13
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  • OT: the forum crashes when this thread is viewed with IE...

    I wanna know how to track those f***ers. I get emails on an email that has nothing to do with my bnet account, I get some WoW crap and when I see the messenger of the email"

    blu0-dfd.dkjf.hotmail.com - something like that, and uses Microsoft outlook, I send such details to blizzard, hope they track those idiots and sue them. SOmeone just needs to kill those idiots.

    Netx time I will post details here so that their emails get spammed, only this blu0 email isnt detected as email cause it uses invalid charcters..

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    Posted 2010-06-13
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  • DrComethNetx time I will post details here so that their emails get spammed, only this blu0 email isnt detected as email cause it uses invalid charcters..

    Spam email is usually sent from automated one time use account, or can even be generated on the fly from a script with false headers. These "emails" aren't necessarily sent from an email acount, and most cerainly aren't going to be from any account that is monitored and read everyday.

    Spamming them as you stated, wouldn't do you any good, and if you do send them back at a popular email account such as hotmail etc, (even if that's not the real account) You risk getting your own email account blacklisted on email servers and being flagged as junk mail and spam, or in some cases just out right blocked... Not exactly smart retaliation.

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    Posted 2010-06-13
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  • I have got a few emails like this also. They were a bit differnt but I looked at the link it went to and right away knew it was not real. If the link is not www.blizzard.com or www.battle.net or there other official links dont go there..

    The email i got was a very close look alike so be carefull .. I wont say exactly but it was like www.sc2-blizzard.com .. something that looks like it could be real.

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    Posted 2010-06-13
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  • Keep in mind there have been mass floodbots with similiar WoW account phising (as well as LOTR:Online, and Warhammer) going around. Check your junk/spam areas of your inbox.

    www.clanorpg.tk http://www.nibbits.com/wc3/projects/sts-war-td/
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    Posted 2010-06-20
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  • How to avoid be a victim of Phishing email:
    1. never trust an email sender
    2. always check the content
    3. don’t open attachments
    4. update your computer security
    5. never give out your personal details
    6. visit sites directly

    I always got this emails since my personal email was broadcast don’t know who or by forum that I join in. I don’t want all my world of warcraft gold will be gone in instant I work hard for it and even my gears. Well hope this guide be a simple reminder to be victimized.

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    Posted 2010-07-30
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  • To avoid all blizzard spam using thunderbird make 2 filters using these rules.

    (Return-Path) is done by clicking custom and using this exact casing.

    - Match all of following
    - From contains: battle.net
    - Return-Path contains hotmail.com

    Perform actions
    - Move message to: Your trash etc

    The second filter should be made exactly the same but instead of battle.net you should use blizzard.com in the from field.

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    Posted 2010-08-01
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