Anyone getting fake WoW email?

[slo212]

So these scam artists keep bothering me about changing my password even though I don't play WoW. I used a trial maybe 4 years ago for about 2 weeks and that was it. Anyway, they keep sending me this:

Hi,

This is an automated notification regarding the recent change(s) made to your Battle.net account.

Your password has recently been modified through the Account Management website.

*** If you made this password change, please disregard this notification.

However, if you did NOT make any changes to your password,
we recommend you Login verify your password:

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com

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 billing@blizzard.com.

Account security is solely the responsibility of the accountholder. Please be advised that in the event 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.

Sincerely,
The Battle.net Account Team
Online Privacy Policy




So I decided to send this back to them:

This is an automated notification regarding the recent amount of ******ation you have gained.

Your stupidity has recently been modified tenfold.

*** If you made this mental change, please seek help.

However, if you did NOT go out and seek help, we recommend you go **** yourself:
www.yourlinkisfake.com

If you unable to successfully verify that your link is readable after putting the cursor over it, or reading the URL after you click it, please stab yourself and don't breed.

1-800-You're too stupid to realize how long that you fake number is.

******ation might be the responsibility of the parents. Please be advised that in the event of more breeding, you stop and get a vasectomy. In these cases you might want to consider suicide as an alternative before sending another stupid email.

Sincerely,
Someone who will always be better than you at everything.

[nawrasz]

It sends it to everyone as soon as it gets your email, just ignore it or add it to your spam folder (the e-mail.)

[hellzscream]

So these scam artists keep bothering me about changing my password even though I don't play WoW. I used a trial maybe 4 years ago for about 2 weeks and that was it. Anyway, they keep sending me this:

Hi,

This is an automated notification regarding the recent change(s) made to your Battle.net account.

Your password has recently been modified through the Account Management website.

*** If you made this password change, please disregard this notification.

However, if you did NOT make any changes to your password,
we recommend you Login verify your password:

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com

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 billing@blizzard.com.

Account security is solely the responsibility of the accountholder. Please be advised that in the event 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.

Sincerely,
The Battle.net Account Team
Online Privacy Policy




So I decided to send this back to them:

This is an automated notification regarding the recent amount of ******ation you have gained.

Your stupidity has recently been modified tenfold.

*** If you made this mental change, please seek help.

However, if you did NOT go out and seek help, we recommend you go **** yourself:
www.yourlinkisfake.com

If you unable to successfully verify that your link is readable after putting the cursor over it, or reading the URL after you click it, please stab yourself and don't breed.

1-800-You're too stupid to realize how long that you fake number is.

******ation might be the responsibility of the parents. Please be advised that in the event of more breeding, you stop and get a vasectomy. In these cases you might want to consider suicide as an alternative before sending another stupid email.

Sincerely,
Someone who will always be better than you at everything.

Mine are not exactly the same this is the first time i have ever gotten spam to this e-mail.

http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/8854/spamjan19010a.png
http://img188.imageshack.us/i/spamjan19010b.png/

http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/5831/failmail.png

I just added them to my blocked list and they stopped.

[SnOwBunZz]

They send those every 5 minutes. :/

Just ignore them.

[MageMoa]

I have had like... 15 of them. The funny thing is that they send it to the wrong mail :3 I didn't even have this mail when I played WoW.

[AioshiKoun]

Yeah i get a lot of those lol. Funny thing is i've never even signed up for WoW

[Pok]

I don't have a WoW account and I get those, same thing for Aion.

I'm not really against people who scam others in game, but try to be a bit more original.

[Bilo]

There's no point writing back really since there is no human behind that email adress who actually checks it. It's all done by some automated spam bot that probably also auto deletes all incoming emails to that address. It's actually a bad idea to send mails back since some bots are smart enough to take your email as a confirmation that your email adress exists and that it gets checked regularly. As a result it will probably send even more spam emails to you in the future.
Gotta admitt though, your email is pretty funny :P

What really confused me is that the link was to the actual WoW site...or am I missing something?

It's called a phising site pala. Usually the scammers only change one letter of the original address to something else, which is their domain. For example they could have changed the o in worldofwarcraft to some egyptian whatchmacallit which looks exactely like the standard o , with the difference that it has an entirely different ASCII code and thus it leads to another website.
The website itself is a 1:1 copy of the original site with the only difference, that the entered account information doesnt go to blizzard but to the scammers database.

[slo212]

What really confused me is that the link was to the actual WoW site...or am I missing something?

Oh yeah I didn't wanna post the real link. That's just whats typed into the email, but if you keep your cursor over the link you can see it's something else.


Yes everyone I blocked them and I do ignore them. I'm still sure I'll keep getting emails from them.

[XGrave]

never got this and i hopefully never will...

[nawrasz]

never got this and i hopefully never will...

Depends on where you post your e-mail.

[Testeagle]

I get tons of them lol, if I can be stuffed I send a copy to wowgm@blizzard.com (think that's it)