suspicoius emails

[Zangor]

lately i have been receiving email that dont look tigh i have copied one and pasted it below. i would like to know if i can stop these emails and if i should worry.

This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.

THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY.

YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE.

Delivery to the following recipients has been delayed.

nvboi@orangeday.net






--Forwarded Message Attachment--
From: noreply@blizzard.com
To: nvboi@orangeday.net
Subject: World of Warcraft Account Management
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 08:23:10 +0800








World of Warcraft -> Legal -> End User License Agreement

and Section 8 of the Terms of Use:

Blizzard Entertainment -> Legal -> Terms of Use A 3-hour
probationary
suspension is pending on this account, awaiting confirmation
from a
specialist. A final warning has been issued. The investigation will
be
continued by the Account Administration team to determine the any further
suspensions.
If the account in question is found in violation of the EULA
and Terms of Use,
further action will be taken. Be aware that any additional
inappropriate actions
may result in the permanent closure of the
account. Thank you for
respecting our position on this matter.
===============================================================================================
**
We request that you verify your legitimate ownership of the account here:

*removed URL*

Blizzard staff will verify your account information submitted in two days,
please do not modify
your account information during this time .It will not
affect your game uptime.If you are
unable to successfully verify your
password .using the automated system,please contact Billing &
Account
Services at 1-800-59-BLIZZARD (1-800-592-5499) Mon-Fri, 8am-8pm Pacific Time or
at
*removed URL*
Accountsecurity is solely the responsibility of the account holder. Please

be advised that in theevent of a compromised account, Blizzard
representatives typically must lock
the account. In these cases the Account
Administration team will require faxed receipt of ID materials
before
releasing the account for play. Regards,
The World of Warcraft Support Team
Blizzard Entertainment

[Vephriel]

That's a scam mail, just report it to blizzard then delete it.

There's not really much else you can do about it.

[Zangor]

yea i just disabled the URLs too so nobody can accidentally click on em

[Saturo]

This is a fake.

If it was real the address would begin with worldofwarcraft.com, wow-europe.com or battle.net.

DO. NOT. PRESS!

[Zangor]

already covered it and made it so you cant click the links

[Vephriel]

It's easy for scamming sites to get a hold of your email address if you use it regularly for anything even remotely WoW related. After that they'll just send masses of these sorts of messages out in hopes of catching someone who'll fall for one.

As for myself, I created a brand new email address to use with my Battle Net account. I don't use it for anything, I've never posted it anywhere, and that way I know nobody will ever get a hold of it.

[Zangor]

got any explanation for the warning about the message delay? thats new and i suspect its because i reported these as phishing scams

[Saturo]

Aye, good idea Veph.

Also, anyone from Blizzard would never need your username/password, so if you get a mail that says "go to this site and type in your wow username and password and you won't be banned", just delete it.

[Zangor]

really wish after you report it as phishing scams they block that user and dont tell you if they try to send you another message.....honestly i could care less and i feel like responding and telling them good luck because i have an authenticator

[Saturo]

There's actually an addon that doesn't show whispers coming from people under level 5. No gold seller I've met so far has ever been higher level than five, so it works out pretty good.

It screws up if the company whispers you using dks tough.

[Mania]

I get a lot of e-mails like that -- and beta invites and whatnot -- to mania@maniasarcania.com. Not surprising, since I display this e-mail everywhere. Unfortunately for the senders, this is not the e-mail associated with my account.

Drawing attention to e-mails like this can be useful, though. It always surprises me how many people haven't run into them yet and are fooled.

(I blush to remember how thrilled I was at the 'invite' I got to the WotLK F&F alpha. There was the tiniest chance I might have been invited, so I was so happy! And then I looked at the links are realized that my friend there would have let me know if she was having me invited ... and then I was very, very sad.)

[Suzi]

I've received two bogus emails saying they were from Blizzard recently. I also got one supposedly from NCSoft regarding Aion (a game I don't play). I reported the first immediately but I don't know if there's a quicker way than how I did it.

The problem with these emails is that they look very realistic, but luckily, like Mania, I use a separate email address so there was no question of falling for it and have an authenticator as added protection. Worryingly, the emails sent to me were to an address I use for a specific WoW fansite... Suffice to say I won't be going back there again if I can't trust them with my details.

I should note that the fansite might not be to blame, but I can't take that risk.

[Saturo]

Something else that I find common about this kind of scam is mispellings or wordsbeing stuck together.