Fraudulent E-mail from fake Starcraft/Diablo III Blizzard Entertainment

I thought I should warn people about an E-mail that has probably been sent your way if you own Starcraft 2 or Diablo III.

I knew this E-mail is BS even before I checked in with the real Blizzard Entertainment because I don't own Diablo III! They should have checked before trying to con me :P I do own Starcraft 2 though.

I know some of you will know about this, but I remember when I didn't so this is for our honoured noobs.

Here is the E-mail:

Greetings!

It has come to our attention that you are trying to sell your personal Diablo III account(s).
As you 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.

You can confirm that you are the original owner of the account to this secure website with:
[I DELETED THE LINK BECAUSE IT'S DANGEROUS (If you have an updated Norton it'll be blocked anyway)]

Login to your account, In accordance following template to verify your account.

* First and Surname
* Secret Question and Answer
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.

Regards,

Account Administration Team
Blizzard Entertainment
[Another deleted link (spoof sending address)]
Diablo III , Blizzard Entertainment 2012

I am getting a few of those everyday, and a few rare horse blizzards too.

Just check the spelling, the china men always make loads of grammatical errors and misspellings.

i know i use to keep getting one about the WoW beta.

didn't really buy them.

I get them for a bunch of MMOs as well as online banking.

I got some for Guild Wars and ToR even though I never even bought them.

I get over 50 fake wow/blizzard emails a week its been that way for many years. I even get fake runescape ones tho ive never played the rune.

I got one just last night, though about WOW, which I haven't played in about 2 years.

But I contacted Blizzard to be sure, (not through the link provided in the email)

They assured it was fake, I have an authenticator on my acct, plus a decent password. As long as you can still get into your acct around, I would change your password if you don't have an authenticator.

I get like 4 of these every day, not really news, I also get them from MMOs I don't even play like Run-Escape.DanielDust

ITT: TC discovers water is wet

Eh. Not a threat for anyone who pays attention. You pretty much can't have any real contact with Blizzard without them reminding you that "a real blizzard agent will never ask you for any account information". Which makes sense, because a real blizzard agent has access to all the information they could possibly want about your account, and if they're talking to you, they probably have all that information right on their screen in front of them.

My Yahoo filter has blocked all but one spam email for the past few years, it's better than I ever expected it would ever be.JohnF111

They also just gave away all your password hashes.