New WOW Account Scam Making the Rounds

Remember that you should NEVER EVER UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES follow a link from an email to Blizzard's Account Services!!!! If you're not sure the email is legit and want to check on your account, go directly to worldofwarcraft.com and use those links to access Account Management type services.  Better yet, go once (like now) and save yourself a bookmark to Account Services and Battlenet directly, to avoid the painfully slow loading of the official WOW site.  I grit my teeth anytime I have to go there myself.

I received an email a couple of days ago supposedly from Blizzard but it contained so many spelling errors as to be laughable. I couldn't resist replying that they should first use a spell-checker and then drop dead.

Today I received the same email but it was immediately flagged as spam. I couldn't resist taking a peak.  The spelling mistakes had been corrected but like who are you idiots trying to fool??? The first email was so hilariously bad yet you corrected it and sent it back out to the same list??

I really hope people mature enough to be paying for a WOW account are wise enough by now, not to click links in an email that will send you somewhere asking for a log-in name and password. Consider yourself warned, that the destination URL looks pretty darn authentic but it ain't!

Comments

[Sente]

I have received probably 1-2 WoW scam mails per week lately and I have not even played the game since 2006.
They are different but yet quite similar. I wonder whoever is making those thinks that if people do not fall for one that they would do that for one that is very similar?

[Iggep]

I am always amazed when I hear about people getting taken by scams. I can not, for the life of me, understand how anyone can see through these things but then again I guess my skeptical nature and the fact that I've worked as an IT for more than 20 years just naturally insulates me.

[PeZzy]

All of the World of Warcraft account phishing spam are coming from Hotmail's servers - Gee thanks Microsoft!

[Alysianah aka Saylah]

I got a new version of a scam too which are also very similar. I don't guess they're thinking about it too much. Just hitting the same mail list over and over. Like you said, if I didn't fall for the first one, why would I fall for the other.

[Alysianah aka Saylah]

@PeZzy - Really??? Dang.

[Tesh]

"peak" != "peek"... ;)

Yeah, I recently got a scammer email for a WoW account I never actually activated. It was just a trial... three years ago. It made me wonder if they were just carpet bombing hotmail accounts instead of known Blizzard customers.

It really was laughably bad. The URL looked half decent (albeit with a 1 instead of an l... sneaky leetspeak), but the email itself was just... inept.