I was cleaning out my email & Spam folder and before I could delete the 7 emails in there I noticed one was titled 'World of Warcraft Account Notice' and appeared to come from wowaccountadmin@blizzard.com
At first glance, that's actually a rather impressive Phishing attempt, because I've only been resubscribed to WoW for literally 1 week. I figured it had to be Spam 1, because it's in my Spam folder, and 2, because it's an email claiming to be from a Blizzard Account Administrator.
I have HTML & images disabled so I had no qualms about clicking the email to preview it, and if the fact that it was in my Spam folder was not warning enough, the content of the email pretty much confirmed it, and I quote:
Greetings! dear players
Today, we are do all activities of the World of Warcraft accounts a routine check.
We have evidence to show that your account transactions involved in the disputed.
Please visit our web site as soon as possible to clarify http://www.worldofwarcraft.com otherwise we will lock your account.
Regards,
The World of Warcraft Support Team Blizzard Entertainment
Do people really fall for this?
I'm impressed that the Phishers are on top of their game and getting this to me so quickly after I resubbed, but Good Lord, people! At least learn to speak/write English if you're going Phishing.
You know, having just hit Submit on this, I recalled that just this very afternoon I logged into Allakhazam for the first time in months, if not a year & a half. I mean actually logged in, not just visited their site, and lo! I get a Phishing email. Coincidence? It's either Blizzard (which is possible) or Allakhazam which has been compromised. I'm inclined to think it's the latter.
Thursday, January 07, 2010
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2 comments:
lol I have often wondered about that myself. I think they must use Google translate and then accept whatever it churns out as perfect grammar. Beats me why the big ones don't hire a native English speaker though.
about 0.0001% people will fall for that, but WOW got 12,000,000 subs.
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