Diablo III beta Email scam

ak22 · 6 Sep 2011 at 18:37

Received this email, lol stupid idiots might as well ask for my bank details while there at it.

Greetings from Blizzard Entertainment!

We’re gearing up for the forthcoming launch of Diablo III and would like to extend you an invitation to participate in the beta test. If you are interested in participating, you need to have a Battle.net account, which you can create on our Battle.net website.

We will flag you for access to the Diablo III beta test when we begin admitting press. You do not need to go through the opt-in process.

To secure your place among the first of Sanctuary’s heroes,Please use the following template below to verify your account and information via email.

* Name:
* Battle.account name:
* Password:
* Country:
* E-mail Address:

Thanks and see you all in the Burning Hells!

orderoftheflame · 6 Sep 2011 at 18:38

You do not need to go through the opt-in process.

How convenient! I'll take six!

LiE · 6 Sep 2011 at 20:32

lol fail email

CaptainRAVE · 6 Sep 2011 at 20:40

The Blizzard scam emails always make me lol.

Xaero Tolerance · 6 Sep 2011 at 22:55

It might as well say that they know a Nigerian Prince that has £230,000,000 tied up in his country.

seandog · 6 Sep 2011 at 23:15

You mean I WONT be getting into the beta? But why???? I replied to both the e-mails I got to double my chances, oh well guess i'll just go back to my crayola

Neil79 · 6 Sep 2011 at 23:16

Blizzard will ban you if you cheat in single player of SC2, yet this Blizzard scam is allowed to go on, it's been going on for about two years and Blizzard have done **** all about it.

seandog · 6 Sep 2011 at 23:17

i hope your not suggesting (looks around conspiringly) that they're in on it :eek:

Evilsod · 6 Sep 2011 at 23:53

Neil79 said:
Blizzard will ban you if you cheat in single player of SC2, yet this Blizzard scam is allowed to go on, it's been going on for about two years and Blizzard have done **** all about it.

Probably on the basis that anyone stupid enough to fall for it deserves everything they get and its not worth the effort to stop it.

Though they seriously ban you for cheating in SP? ><

Neil79 · 7 Sep 2011 at 00:43

http://www.pcgamer.com/2010/10/11/blizzard-bans-starcraft-2-single-player-cheaters/

ak22 · 7 Sep 2011 at 00:51

Thats harsh lol, guess its another way to make money

Dist · 7 Sep 2011 at 01:23

Evilsod said:
Probably on the basis that anyone stupid enough to fall for it deserves everything they get and its not worth the effort to stop it.

Though they seriously ban you for cheating in SP? ><

I have to agree, Blizzard say in many places on their battle.net website, their game websites and in the games themselves to never give out your login details. Anyone stupid enough to do deserves what they get, sometimes it takes a mistake like losing your bnet account to learn your lesson.

And to those who havn't already I recommend using a bnet authenticator, its free on some smart phones or costs money for a hardware authenticator but it means it will be almost impossible for your account to get stolen through these sort of scams.

As for the banning in SP, although I disagree with it, the EULA does mention about using 3rd party applications that effect the game and that it can get you banned. A little harsh maybe for SP, but its their game and thats their rules.

Caffrey · 7 Sep 2011 at 01:36

You can already download the beta client here. Good luck getting access though

iviv · 7 Sep 2011 at 01:45

Neil79 said:
Blizzard will ban you if you cheat in single player of SC2, yet this Blizzard scam is allowed to go on, it's been going on for about two years and Blizzard have done **** all about it.

Yeah, why aren't Blizzard reading and filtering all my emails to make sure that I don't get any spam messages like this!

:rolleyes:

'Wes · 7 Sep 2011 at 06:24

All fake Blizzard emails i've received always seem like a child formulated the email.

Tefal · 7 Sep 2011 at 06:57

Neil79 said:
Blizzard will ban you if you cheat in single player of SC2, yet this Blizzard scam is allowed to go on, it's been going on for about two years and Blizzard have done **** all about it.

what are they meant to do about people sending emails? :confused:

Wait does Blizzard run ECHELON? :eek:

orderoftheflame · 7 Sep 2011 at 07:29

Neil79 said:
Blizzard will ban you if you cheat in single player of SC2, yet this Blizzard scam is allowed to go on, it's been going on for about two years and Blizzard have done **** all about it.

What do you expect them to do exactly? :confused:

They put plenty of warning all over their site about scams, have implemented an authenticator system (and a pretty good imo)

How exactly are they supposed to police emails sent from one person to another? They can't just send in a crack team of Rogues and Ghosts to infiltrate the spammers HQ and break some kneecaps exactly.