Are people this desperate

Ok hmmm scam in my mailbox from someone trying to get my account first time go figure. Well lets see what gave it away they want my pw my account email secret question anything else lol. Heres the email below go figure. Im going to forward this email to blizzard so they can deal with it.

Greetings!
It has come to our attention that you are trying to sell/trade your personal World of Warcraft account(s).
As you may or may not be aware of, this conflicts with the EULA and Terms of Agreement.
If this proves to be true, your account can and will be disabled. It will be ongoing for further investigation by Blizzard


Entertainment's employees.
If you wish to not get your account suspended you should immediately verify your account ownership. If the information is

deemed accurate, the investigation will be dropped.
This action is taken because we at Blizzard Entertainment take these sales
quite seriously. We need to confirm you are the original owner of the account.
This is easiest done by confirming your personal information along with concealed information about your account.

You can confirm that you are the original owner of the account by replying to this email with:

Use the following template below to verify your account and information via email.
* First and Surname
* Date of birth

* Address
* Zip code
* Phone number
* Country
* Account Original e-mail address
* Account Now e-mail address
* Account name
Account password
* Secret Question and Answer-Or-WoW CD-Key
Show * Please enter the correct information

If you ignore this mail your account can and will be closed permanently. Once we verify your account, we will reply to your

e-mail informing you that we have dropped the investigation.
We ask you to NOT change password until the investigation is fully completed.
Blizzard Entertainment Inc
Account Administration Team
P.O. Box 18979, Irvine, CA 92623

Regards,
Account Administration Team
Blizzard Entertainment

I've never got one of these. The thing I wanna know tho, is how do they KNOW you are playing wow? What WoW website is selling email address >.>

Like my gf's brother said its the chinese farmers. They get your account change everything then make real life money off it. But meh w/e oh yea theres no email addy to send your info to as well but blizzard just got this email addy and message sent to them so they can deal with it.

I got that mail on April Fool's Day :/ They didn't even bother to blind cc to me. There were thousands and thousands of recipients.

I just got 5 new accounts the other week, classic and TBC only.

I bought my from a site that sells product keys online.
4 days ago i get 5 of basiclly the same letter as you presented here + 3 x5 gold spammer sites at the same time. (with in 2h all in all)

At least i was stupid enough to use my work mail.

DOH!

This is not something you should not even think about, I got an email 9 months ago where i had to confirm how many accounts i was paying for and i had to say the account name and that was it... But they didnt need any personal information or PW or anything. Only the account names and an email from me saying they where all mine

So dont trust that :)

Friend of mine now loves chinese farmers. Since i am coming back to wow to multibox, he decided to see what happened to his account. Turned out he's had a key logger on his system for ages and someone had got a hold of the account, even transfered it off. So, he calls up blizzard and, in a few questions, has the toon back to where it was supposed to be with the information back to normal. However, the farmer that got the account hadn't sold the gold yet...

It's not just Chinese farmers. These phisher e-mails are the bread and butter of US and Canadian and European players, as well. A simple google search for "Wow exploits" will lead you to most of the popular sites where they discuss this kind of thing openly. They trade fake websites as packages to use, and they copy and paste the same e-mails from each other, and one of the more notorious sites even sells e-mail hosting to send the spam out.

Just yesterday, i was reading on one of the more blatant sites about a script a guy was sharing that mines lists of guild sites, and even shows where to get the addresses, including the wow forums. They get thousands that way. They also script for e-mails off sites like mmo-champion, WowInsider, you name it. I'll bet they've tried here, stealing 5+ accounts at a time would make them very happy. Check your sigs, and make sure your e-mail isn't easily read. I also read on a different site that they set up a banner generator site, for people to make banners of their character for forums like this, so they could use the e-mails. Free banner, just sign in with a working e-mail, you get a banner, they get your e-mail.

If you've used the e-mail you set your accounts up with anywhere else on the web, odds are good they'll dig it up eventually.

I used an account I don't use anywhere, I have an earthlink account I've had forever for non-crucial stuff, I don't care if they spam the bejeezus out of it, I don't check it very often. I've yet to get one of these e-mails.

It's THE #1 way accounts are stolen now, by the farmers, and fellow players. That's why Blizzard is even putting it in the yellow log in chat text now. The ONLY way this kind of thing can be defeated is if every player is made aware of them, but with millions of players, there will be enough gullible or naive enough to believe the fake e-mails.

They also figured out how to use the new battlenet merge feature to steal accounts, merge them with their account, and move characters. Not sure if they've plugged that hole yet, but they were all over it within an hour of it being released.

Keyloggers are still #2, but those are most definitely farmers from foreign lands, they're expensive to get working ones made, and getting them out there is challenging, and most of the PhishKiddies are lazy and ignorant and just copy and paste what everyone else does.

my gmail marked it as spam hah

The ones that really make me laugh are the pathetic little phishing vids they make and put on places like Youtube. Seriously, do people actually fool for this crap? Honestly, if you're naive enough to believe it then more fool you!
I would love to get hold of these little shits though! It would give me great satisfaction wringing their necks! ;)

I got an email with the same text in it. I just scrolled back a few pages on my email and saw that blizzard uses noreply@bliz... and these guys were trying to use donotreply@bliz.... and they also asked for all kinds of stuff blizz would not ask for. The funniest part is they tell you not to change your password until they finish their investigation... What a bunch of ass hats!

I hope no one fell for this.

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-Fur

since one of our mboxers got banded for playing several accounts from China, I would assume it's kind of locked down. They play on chineese servers for the most part, I know the guy that wrote in about being banned from there said that is what he does now.