My daily E-Mail inbox trawl revealed a couple of interesting catches this morning; two duplicate E-Mails from Blizzard Account Administration. I opened one to admire its contents and was addressed by the following:
From: Blizzard Account Administration (noreply@blizzard.com)
“Greetings,
An investigation of your World of Warcraft account has found strong evidence
that the account in question is being sold or traded. As you may not be aware
of, this conflicts with Blizzards EULA under section 4 Paragraph B which can be
found here: WoW -> Legal -> End User License Agreement and Section 8
of the Terms of Use found here: WoW -> Legal -> Terms of Use.The investigation will be continued by Blizzard administration to determine the action to be taken against your account. If your account is found violating the EULA and Terms of Use, your account can, and will be suspended/closed/or terminated. In order to keep this from occurring, you should immediately verify that you are the original owner of the account.
To verify your identity please visit the following webpage: http://mangogoldguide.com/loginbattle/index.htmlOnly Account Administration will be able to assist with account retrieval issues.
Thank you for your time and attention to this matter, and your continued
interest in World of Warcraft.Sincerely,
Account Administration
Apart from the minor grammatical errors, this E-Mail seems quite compelling (much more refined than previous, laughable efforts). A superficial reading might well sucker the naïve WoWer into popping their details into the login link, or even just visiting the site and receiving a key logger for their trouble. There are only a few small aspects which can tip-off the E-Cynic to the counterfeit nature of this particular attempt to grab your account details.
If you mouse-over the first link (EULA) your browser will reproduce the address that the link takes you too in the bottom left-hand corner of your browser window. Both the first and the second links (Terms of Use) take you to World of Warcraft.com sites, but the third link asking you to verify your login details is identified as leading to Mangogoldguide.com, which, as I’m sure you’ll agree, is not a very official Blizzard sounding address!
Secondly, if you receive a genuine Blizzard E-Mail, it will include your account name and probably the name of a character under investigation, with details of the alleged violations.
There are many similar scams floating around the internet, and unfortunately they will probably become more sophisticated with time, so if you are in any doubt about dubious E-Mails arriving in your inbox, simply type the content details into the Google search engine (adding ‘scam’ helps) and see if other surfers have encountered them too. Or, get in touch with Blizzard yourself.
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