need email translation please:

[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."

[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."

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.

[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 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 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

The 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
X-Apparently-To: icefire308@yahoo.com via 68.142.201.87; Thu, 13 May 2010 00:27:01 -0700Return-Path: <blondehubbard@hotmail.com>X-YahooFilteredBulk: 65.55.116.34Received-SPF: pass (mta109.mail.sp2.yahoo.com: domain of blondehubbard@hotmail.com designates 65.55.116.34 as permitted sender)X-YMailISG: GN4q4pIcZArgqzlRgv1GFVVA6rTbAPOljcGP9Bk8qBJCOllX0X v8e2W_Jn02fz.DC7JEzxOlAgdJ4fnKKYLF5jxbpxr0IMo7tP4I Z5tvB0reEUnKma.1Pibo.qh_QS.Qop36IwqTR7V7dBYiwNhIZC kZdTsMELNPs5SP9._m.Rncvhmg5KDhK.F7BWniw00p2Qt88mUK vFH.Q2MTp2czDPyKuLIdmnp.vMukkRnluFq_AzoC.SFzXPu2jP TOiYbWk3CecDbyynRNfw40HqDYE2LtdPT6kBPBYyq9W7QTwgZT m4aZT81Fgb7HB24.vNrD1fV_kvmvzPeqPC3EkVhFRbiyMN8z89 ARqB5orwFwKbCF1eze7pjYa7Gb.5u8rdJ.ysbuS2L2WIaGBFqy qSflJ8PDUUdJHi0oUHSDfVHGmCG7QllTgq5llnNNNmUBOlAOSa jA8x6nIkEnQiqf8pWV.hBwXVQzVC.2_.hfIR717A5rufgdAigp Pi4HUAIwi1mdHvfNdN50S3GM1HILnKPMhPdhKbDm.Dt8X-Originating-IP: [65.55.116.34]Authentication-Results: mta109.mail.sp2.yahoo.com from=blizzard.com; domainkeys=neutral (no sig); from=blizzard.com; dkim=neutral (no sig)Received: from 127.0.0.1 (EHLO blu0-omc1-s23.blu0.hotmail.com) (65.55.116.34) by mta109.mail.sp2.yahoo.com with SMTP; Thu, 13 May 2010 00:27:01 -0700Received: from BLU0-SMTP7 ([65.55.116.9]) by blu0-omc1-s23.blu0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Thu, 13 May 2010 00:26:43 -0700X-Originating-IP: [115.210.53.79]X-Originating-Email: [blondehubbard@hotmail.com]Message-ID: <BLU0-SMTP71F5BE7F6AA908C3C75D1ABFC0@phx.gbl>Return-Path: blondehubbard@hotmail.comReceived: from zdfl ([115.210.53.79]) by BLU0-SMTP7.blu0.hotmail.com over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Thu, 13 May 2010 00:26:37 -0700From: "billing@blizzard.com" <billing@blizzard.com>
Add sender to ContactsTo: <icefire308@yahoo.com>Subject: World of Warcraft account disable notificationDate: Thu, 13 May 2010 15:17:23 +0800MIME-Version: 1.0Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_043B_016F938D.1EA44E00"X-Priority: 3X-MSMail-Priority: NormalX-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5512X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5512X-OriginalArrivalTime: 13 May 2010 07:26:41.0818 (UTC) FILETIME=[A215DFA0:01CAF26D]Content-Length: 2527



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."

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!