My WoW account is being sold? :roll:

[Mytical]

This is an email I just received

Greetings,

It has come to our attention that you are trying to sell your personal World of Warcraft 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:
http://us.battle.net/login/en-gb/log...pp=bam&cr=true

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

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.

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The problem? I don't HAVE a current account with WoW. Haven't for quite some time. Years in fact. I am still laughing.

[Kanalah]

Oh I get one of those at least once a week...the only problem is that they're sending it to the wrong email account.

[draggar]

Sounds like a phishing attempt to me - hover your mouse over the links (in your email) to see where they really go.

[MoonCat]

Hmm..I haven't heard of this scam. I get "warnings" from banks, Western Union and other entities that I've never had an account with...first time I've heard of this one.

[Bardmaiden]

I've had that email and several variations upon it. I just forward them to hacks@blizzard.com. The one thing they always get wrong in my case...the "links" go to a US site I'm EU.

[Kogarashi]

Hmm..I haven't heard of this scam. I get "warnings" from banks, Western Union and other entities that I've never had an account with...first time I've heard of this one.

My bet? Phishing attempt to gain access to the target's WoW account so the phishers can then turn around and either sell it or use it to farm or whatever and sell that. But yeah, kind of weird to see it on something that isn't a bank account or related.

[KiaKat]

Interesting. I just forwarded an authorization email to Blizzard - someone put in my email address to sign up for Battle.Net, and it wasn't me. Even funnier is that the name of the signatory was "zhang."

Goldfarmer much?

Yes, I've changed my email password. Again. >.<

[Kittish]

I get these and variants all the time, and yes, it is absolutely a phishing attempt. Some of the ones I've seen were just absolutely pathetic, you could tell that the author had only the most rudimentary grasp of the English language and no clue at all about proper grammar or punctuation.

[Sapphire Silk]

My bet? Phishing attempt to gain access to the target's WoW account so the phishers can then turn around and either sell it or use it to farm or whatever and sell that. But yeah, kind of weird to see it on something that isn't a bank account or related.

I agree with everyone else; textbook case of phishing. If Blizzard really thought you were doing something dodgy, they'd suspend your account and ask questions later.

And it doesn't surprise me to see this on a WoW account. Online gaming is big money for gold farmers. What some gamers will pay for magic items or gold in the game is unbelievable.

[taxguykarl]

My money is on a phish. Forward that to the WOW management and FTC.

[Mytical]

Oh it has been forward, and is no doubt a phishing attempt. As mentioned, yes years (and years, and years) ago I had a WoW account. It was not with that email account, however. Me not dumb enough to click linkies.

[firecat88]

I just got one of these this morning. The funny part- I do not now, nor have I ever played WoW.

[Salted Grump]

I get them daily (clean out my junk folder of ten of 'em every day) plus Runescape. neither of which I've ever played, nor have any desire to play.

Had a few for Aion, too, but that stopped fast.

[Kaylyn]

Interesting. I just forwarded an authorization email to Blizzard - someone put in my email address to sign up for Battle.Net, and it wasn't me. Even funnier is that the name of the signatory was "zhang."

Oh wow, I got the exact same thing. With the exact same name. I had originally used that email for WoW, then set up another email that was only for WoW and transferred my account to the new one. I still get phishing attempts at the old address. Then last week I got this authorization email. I wound up calling Blizzard and explaining the situation to them. They cleared my email...so I just set up my own Battle.net on that email, so it wouldn't happen again. I don't even remember the password I used...I have no intention of using the account.

[AccountingDrone]

I haven't had a WoW account [active] in over a year. I get eve online account fishing all the time, and banks for which I never have had accounts at [and some in states I have never visited and countries I have never visited]and spam in english, french , german, danish, russian and chinese.

I once got one of the help I have been mugged and need plane fare emails from one of my accounts to me at another of my accounts from me ... I was apparently mugged and stuck in London.