Unexpected Message from Blizzard

[JoeBattisti]

I got a message from Blizzard, stating that there are accusations about me trying to sell my World of Warcraft account, and that I need to confirm or risk termination of my account.

The strange thing is... I don't have a World of Warcraft account, nor have I ever registered for one in my e-mail.

Does anyone know what's going on?

 

[Kae]

No but I had to delete mine a year ago cause someone was using it and I had not used it (or payed it) since the end of 2006.

 

[JoeBattisti]

I see. I'm just really confused is the problem. I've never even played the game.

 

[Singularly Datarific]

I got a message from Blizzard, stating that there are accusations about me trying to sell my World of Warcraft account, and that I need to confirm or risk termination of my account.

The strange thing is... I don't have a World of Warcraft account, nor have I ever registered for one in my e-mail.

Does anyone know what's going on?

Reply saying "NEVAAAAARRR!!! You can't impose on my selling of an account!!! You can't shut me down! You can't even find me!! YOU NEVER WILL!!!"

Yup. Do that.

 

[JoeBattisti]

I got a message from Blizzard, stating that there are accusations about me trying to sell my World of Warcraft account, and that I need to confirm or risk termination of my account.

The strange thing is... I don't have a World of Warcraft account, nor have I ever registered for one in my e-mail.

Does anyone know what's going on?

Reply saying "NEVAAAAARRR!!! You can't impose on my selling of an account!!! You can't shut me down! You can't even find me!! YOU NEVER WILL!!!"

Yup. Do that.

Haha. I'm pretty tempted to. "YOU WILL NEVER BRING ME DOWN!"

 

[JezebelinHell]

It is a phishing scam. They are trying email addresses that they have farmed from somewhere in order to get account info from people. It is not from Blizzard and any of the links will go to some other site most likely made up to look official but it isn't. Just ignore it.

 

[Frotality]

hehe...i get the same messages, have for years. i actually had an account, but its cancelled; still get the messages. dozens of them, from different email addresses.

obvious spam; always says i need to 'confirm' account information (read: credit card numbers). just block/mark as spam what-have-you.

 

[Singularly Datarific]

I got a message from Blizzard, stating that there are accusations about me trying to sell my World of Warcraft account, and that I need to confirm or risk termination of my account.

The strange thing is... I don't have a World of Warcraft account, nor have I ever registered for one in my e-mail.

Does anyone know what's going on?

Reply saying "NEVAAAAARRR!!! You can't impose on my selling of an account!!! You can't shut me down! You can't even find me!! YOU NEVER WILL!!!"

Yup. Do that.

Haha. I'm pretty tempted to. "YOU WILL NEVER BRING ME DOWN!"

You'll never shut down my illegal operations, OR my drug business!

 

[JoeBattisti]

It is a phishing scam. They are trying email addresses that they have farmed from somewhere in order to get account info from people. It is not from Blizzard and any of the links will go to some other site most likely made up to look official but it isn't. Just ignore it.

Yeah, I looked over it some more and found that out. Thanks.

 

[sizzle949]

Yeah I get about 5 of these a day. It's just spam as mentioned above. In all reality unless you are expecting a message from blizzard, it's a trap.

 

[Burningsok]

I got this in chat while playing WoW many times. It was just some dumb hacker trying to trick me into giving him my account.

Wait, you don't even have a WoW account... that is weird. Is the hacker that retarded.

 

[Danceofmasks]

This is the method by which account "hackers" steal stuff.

I put these "hackers" in quotation marks 'cos it's not hacking at all, but social engineering.

 

[JoeBattisti]

I got this in chat while playing WoW many times. It was just some dumb hacker trying to trick me into giving him my account.

Wait, you don't even have a WoW account... that is weird. Is the hacker that retarded.

I guess he was just sending it to random e-mails. Hell if I know.

 

[Nouw]

I got this in chat while playing WoW many times. It was just some dumb hacker trying to trick me into giving him my account.

Wait, you don't even have a WoW account... that is weird. Is the hacker that retarded.

I guess he was just sending it to random e-mails. Hell if I know.

Good on your for being the smarter man!

Now for every 1 person that ignores it and does the right thing...5 people have a worse fate >.>
[sub]Not a real statistic =P[/sub]

 

[El Poncho]

It's a scam/virus, I get tonnes saying they are blizzard, but the only blizzard emails I open now are the ones that are sent to me when I change my password etc.

 

[Signa]

My Hotmail Spam box is filled with those. I've never played WoW and I never will.

 

[MetallicaRulez0]

It's an account theft scam. Basically they tell you to enter your account information to "confirm you still have ownership" or something along those lines, then they take all of your stuff and sell it for real currency. I get them literally every single day.

 

[likalaruku]

It's that WoW Email Scam. I got one early 2010. I almost fell for the eBay & Amazon scams, but I don;t have a WoW account.

 

[TiefBlau]

I got one, and I never played the damn game.

 

[Omikron009]

It is a phishing scam. They are trying email addresses that they have farmed from somewhere in order to get account info from people. It is not from Blizzard and any of the links will go to some other site most likely made up to look official but it isn't. Just ignore it.

This man speaks the truth. EVERY EMAIL YOU RECEIVE IS A PHISHING SCAM. BE AFRAID. PARANOIA IS YOUR ONLY REFUGE.