need email translation please:

[thefunk]

Deadly serious, just had this through on my spam (ok it's old but i haven't checked my spam in ages):





World of Warcraft account disable notification

Monday, 10 May, 2010 6:25


From:
"billing@blizzard.com" <billing@blizzard.com>
To:


*******@******.**



Dear World of Warcraft fans, because your server is there a large number of illegal transactions, and other server players were a large number complaints to your account. The
To World of Warcraft, we conducted a detailed analysis and review. After this analysis, we draw preliminary conclusions: Your account has been participating
too many the illegal transactions, we will permanently ban your account. At this moment we are to understand your feelings, if you have any questions please visit

Blizzard of fraud and abuse department

[Whitz]

fake, dont worry about it

[BrothelMeister]

Thats horrible, the person who sent that used a very very bad translation engine.

[Lax]

Yeah, looks a lot like the scam whispers in game. The English is so bad it can't possibly actually be from Blizzard, but it must work on some people or they'd try another tactic.

[Daeri]

Maybe you should remove the link to the fake website so that no one gets caught by mistake. Also, we don't need to help these thiefs to increase their google rank ;)

[Myc]

Blizzard of fraud and abuse department

i lol'd


spammers/scammers are getting crazy these days.

[thefunk]

Thanks Svper- was about to change it and was actioned already. I'll bear this in mind next time I get a email of abuse and notification and fraud hehe

[wyofiddler]

I just got one of these on May 13 as well.

I know it's fake, the spelling and grammer kind of give this away.

Is there a reporting website where I can forward this to Blizz and they can backtrack it and get these bastards the way Paypal does with their " spoof @ paypal .com " function? (spaces are only to avoid unneeded hyperlinks)

[kate]

You'd think they could pay some native English speaker a few thousand gold to create something that's at least grammatically correct.

[Ualaa]

You can forward to Hacks@Blizzard.com

[Ughmahedhurtz]

You'd think they could pay some native English speaker a few thousand gold to create something that's at least grammatically correct.

Or just go look on the blizzard US forums and find someone who posted a REAL blizzard email and just cut & paste that into an email.

The more this stuff happens, the more I'm reminded of our old saying when watching "Cops" here in the US: "Criminals is dumb." :p

[Qbox]

Or just go look on the blizzard US forums and find someone who posted a REAL blizzard email and just cut & paste that into an email.

The more this stuff happens, the more I'm reminded of our old saying when watching "Cops" here in the US: "Criminals is dumb." :p

There's a good chance people/organizations like this have received ban emails of their own that they can copy and paste from. :)

[Myc]

There's a good chance people/organizations like this have received ban emails of their own that they can copy and paste from. :)

lol wish they would read this in front of me..
then i would say....

BURRRNNNNN. :D

[Daeri]

There's a good chance people/organizations like this have received ban emails of their own that they can copy and paste from. :)

Well, to my knowledge there's no official mail that asks you to visit a website and enter credentials in order to stop an account from being banned :p Blizzard seems to be more inclined to send an email when the account is already banned, temporarily or permanently so the content of the mail is fairly different

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Well, to my knowledge there's no official mail that asks you to visit a website and enter credentials in order to stop an account from being banned :p Blizzard seems to be more inclined to send an email when the account is already banned, temporarily or permanently so the content of the mail is fairly differentThe point is, they could use most of it and only need a few extra lines, making it look much more legitimate than the gibberish posted by the OP.

[wyofiddler]

So I just looked at the spam email again and found a link in my yahoo mail browser to show the full header, this is what I got:


World of Warcraft account disable notification

Thursday, May 13, 2010 2:17 AM

From billing@blizzard.com Thu May 13 07:17:23 2010
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blonde hubbard @hotmail .com????? That has me rolling on the floor laughing!

[Souca]

Blizzard of fraud and abuse department

I love that. It's like they are telling you who they are.

I really wish Blizzard would add a key or digital signature to their official emails or a way you could log into your account and check that the email you got was valid. I'm sure half the people would ignore it, or just go the scammers "validation page", but there isn't even a way to confirm that a real Blizzard email is really real. I mean I got some emails from Billing recently and I have no way to validate them even though I am positive they are real (they are replies to my emails).

Simple solution, add a correspondence tab to the Battle.net page that lets you review all the account related emails Blizzard has sent to you in the last 60 days.

- Souca -

[Tonuss]

Or just go look on the blizzard US forums and find someone who posted a REAL blizzard email and just cut & paste that into an email.

The more this stuff happens, the more I'm reminded of our old saying when watching "Cops" here in the US: "Criminals is dumb." :p
I always wonder that myself. On the other hand, they probably realize that only the dumbest people fall for such a badly-worded scam attempt. And when you are looking to scam people, who do you prefer to deal with? Yeah, the dumbest ones.

[kate]

I always wonder that myself. On the other hand, they probably realize that only the dumbest people fall for such a badly-worded scam attempt. And when you are looking to scam people, who do you prefer to deal with? Yeah, the dumbest ones.

Well, the dumbest ones are also the ones who'll take up the most support time complaining when their stupidity gets them in trouble. And, if the official WoW forums are any guide, I'd say about 90% of the WoW playerbase is functionally retarded, so that's a LOT of dumb people whining to Blizzard...

[Hivetyrant]

Good thing Gmail can tell which ones are real and which are fake, though if you want a good laugh, i'll let you have a look into my super secret spam folder so you can see how much trouble I am apparently in with Blizzard/facebook/Turbine/Mod chips?

Sorry about the size, but it makes for easy reading!


http://img534.imageshack.us/img534/6811/spamv.jpg

[Tonuss]

Well, the dumbest ones are also the ones who'll take up the most support time complaining when their stupidity gets them in trouble.
Unfortunately, this is not a concern to a scammer. Having idiots tie up Blizzard's support staff and slowing the pace at which they can resolve issues just works further in their favor. It's a win-win situation for the wrong people.

And in response to Hivetyrant's screenshot, all I can say is that "Fransisca Justin Yak" is an awesome name. She should be a singer, everyone would rush out to buy the debut album from "Frankie Yak."

[Hivetyrant]

And in response to Hivetyrant's screenshot, all I can say is that "Fransisca Justin Yak" is an awesome name. She should be a singer, everyone would rush out to buy the debut album from "Frankie Yak."
Yeah, she's a pretty cool chick. I sent her my life's savings so she could come over and meet me (She comes from a war torn family, etc, etc)

I'll post some pics if she ever gets back to me :P

[kadaan]

I got a great one recently too:


Olá,
This is greetings from the World of Warcraft in preparation for accession to the World of Warcraft: The disaster of the beta test, come on! Azeroth world turmoil coming, and you certainly do not want to be forgotten in the cold winds of Northrend , unable to enjoy the pleasant sun Corzine on the island.
To ensure the participation of the application to the candidate in order to verify your identity, please visit the following http://www.***************.net/ From World of Warcraft account information for all the other games you are interested click series. Since your participation.
you will get a large disaster closed beta Blizzard Entertainment Gift Pack for eligibility. Features such as mount / weapon. Thank you for your participation in the Blizzard team will continue to bring great catastrophe the most informative piece of information fast information.
Only 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.

Blizzard Entertainment Inc Account Administration Team
P.O. Box 18979, Irvine, CA 92623
Blizzard Entertainmen

2010.5.15


Sincerely,
Account Administration

[drevil]

scammers harvest lot of wow fan/forum/guide/goldseller/ebay/etc websites for email adresses.