Hi all,
I haven't been around much lately as my job responsibilities have increased and are requiring more hours. The additional work is actually a blessing, I've been promoted and my boss is seeing value in keeping me around.
That aside I've received a couple of these emails in the last week and wanted to warn people about them. They *seem* legit as they come from noreply@blizzard.com, but any one can fake the from address of an email. In fact all of the listed email addresses in the email are legit, but the links in the email are dangerous. If you get an email like this DO NOT click the links and more importantly do not fill in personal information on pages that those links lead to.
The domain those links lead to is:
www.battle.net.notice-safe-wowaccountadmin.SOMETOPLEVELDOMAIN
(SOMETOPLEVELDOMAIN is there to replace the real domain so people dont copy it and go there not reading the rest of this email)
that domain equals bad, like stand in the fire bad.
Cheers,
Steve aka Lorthis
Heres the text of that email--
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Hello,
This is an automated notification regarding your Battle.net account. Some or all of your contact information was recently modified through the Account Management website.
*** If you made recent account changes, please disregard this automatic notification.
*** If you did NOT make any changes to your account, we recommend you log in to Account Management review your account settings.
If you cannot sign into Account Management using the link above, or if unauthorized changes continue to happen, please contact Blizzard Billing & Account Services for further assistance.
Billing & Account Services can be reached at 1-800-59-BLIZZARD (1-800-592-5499 Mon-Fri, 8AM-8PM Pacific Time) or at billing@blizzard.com.
Account security is solely the responsibility of the accountholder. Please be advised that in the event of a compromised account, Blizzard representatives will typically lock the account. In these cases the Account Administration team will require faxed receipt of ID materials before releasing the account for play.
Regards,
The Battle.net Support Team
Blizzard Entertainment
www.blizzard.com/support
Online Privacy Policy
I haven't been around much lately as my job responsibilities have increased and are requiring more hours. The additional work is actually a blessing, I've been promoted and my boss is seeing value in keeping me around.
That aside I've received a couple of these emails in the last week and wanted to warn people about them. They *seem* legit as they come from noreply@blizzard.com, but any one can fake the from address of an email. In fact all of the listed email addresses in the email are legit, but the links in the email are dangerous. If you get an email like this DO NOT click the links and more importantly do not fill in personal information on pages that those links lead to.
The domain those links lead to is:
www.battle.net.notice-safe-wowaccountadmin.SOMETOPLEVELDOMAIN
(SOMETOPLEVELDOMAIN is there to replace the real domain so people dont copy it and go there not reading the rest of this email)
that domain equals bad, like stand in the fire bad.
Cheers,
Steve aka Lorthis
Heres the text of that email--
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Hello,
This is an automated notification regarding your Battle.net account. Some or all of your contact information was recently modified through the Account Management website.
*** If you made recent account changes, please disregard this automatic notification.
*** If you did NOT make any changes to your account, we recommend you log in to Account Management review your account settings.
If you cannot sign into Account Management using the link above, or if unauthorized changes continue to happen, please contact Blizzard Billing & Account Services for further assistance.
Billing & Account Services can be reached at 1-800-59-BLIZZARD (1-800-592-5499 Mon-Fri, 8AM-8PM Pacific Time) or at billing@blizzard.com.
Account security is solely the responsibility of the accountholder. Please be advised that in the event of a compromised account, Blizzard representatives will typically lock the account. In these cases the Account Administration team will require faxed receipt of ID materials before releasing the account for play.
Regards,
The Battle.net Support Team
Blizzard Entertainment
www.blizzard.com/support
Online Privacy Policy
