Are These Scam Blizzard Emails

Kosmiche · 21 Jul 2012 at 12:08

Received 22 emails, all with the same content from 12:44 to 1:07 last night.

They all claim my account has been locked and I need to change my password.

I have just logged into my battle.net account on the battle.net website and everything looks normal, all my game statuses are active (d3, d2, sc2).

So everything looks fine with my account from what I can see, are these emails scam emails?

I have been having problems with my email address, forwarding spam emails to different email addresses. So wondering if theres a connection there.

Thanks

Barbie · 21 Jul 2012 at 12:09

Easiest way i've found to tell; Blizzard emails will always be addressed to your name. Fake ones will be "Dear Customer".

Checking via battle.net is a good way too, but always go to the site manually, never from a link in an email.

Kosmiche · 21 Jul 2012 at 12:10

Doesn't say either, first line is "Due to suspicious activity, the Battle.net account [email protected] has been locked. To restore access to this account, please follow these steps:"

Talon · 21 Jul 2012 at 12:11

Hover over the links in the email and see what the actual URL is in the status bar, some scam site phishing for your password.

Never follow links from emails :-)

dfarrall · 21 Jul 2012 at 12:12

Unless your account is actually locked, it's scam.

feck199 · 21 Jul 2012 at 12:12

Blizzard wouldnt sent that many emails out in a short space of time!

Kosmiche · 21 Jul 2012 at 12:14

The links look legit when I hover over them :|

I guess these are actually emails from blizzard.

Doomedspeed · 21 Jul 2012 at 12:14

I got one (in my junk mail folder) saying my Diablo III account was locked.

I don't have that game or an account. That was a scam.

Also it stated "greetings" not very professional.

Kosmiche · 21 Jul 2012 at 12:15

So could it be someone has been attempting to login on a blizzard game using my email address?

King Damager · 21 Jul 2012 at 12:16

Eames said:
The links look legit when I hover over them :|

I guess these are actually emails from blizzard.

Seriously? Did you not read the topic..

If you can log into your account, it's clearly a scam..

kd

Kosmiche · 21 Jul 2012 at 12:17

But how do you scam people with legit blizzard web addresses.

Eh?

King Damager · 21 Jul 2012 at 12:17

You don't. There will be small changes, something you wouldn't notice.

Also, get an Authenticator. Problem solved

kd

olivier renault · 21 Jul 2012 at 12:20

Eames said:
But how do you scam people with legit blizzard web addresses.

Eh?

It's not a legit blizzard address. Either it spoofs to another fake site, or the actual address is slightly different (like capital 'I' instead of 'l'). Really cheap ghetto way to scam, but it happens

Kosmiche · 21 Jul 2012 at 12:23

theres a url for a battle.net security page, but its http shouldnt it be https?

i see how they do it now.

yeah i cant find the matching url when browsing the battle.net website. damn.

ok i'll dismiss this, thanks guys.

Edrof · 21 Jul 2012 at 12:24

You can phone Blizzard up, too.

oxygene · 21 Jul 2012 at 12:26

most of the ones I get have battle.net/something as the link name, but hovered over says something like battle.net.somethingelse.somethingweird/accountsomething
Its pretty easy to tell. The best you can do is what you did, DONT follow any link in the email, just go to battle.net manually and log in and check. Simple.

Swi1ch · 21 Jul 2012 at 12:53

I get one or two of these a month for my World of Warcraft account.

I've never played or registered an account for WoW.

The__Malteser · 21 Jul 2012 at 12:56

Eames said:
The links look legit when I hover over them :|

I guess these are actually emails from blizzard.

LOL!

I get these, and never played a blizzard game.

That should tell you enough no?

Aston998 · 21 Jul 2012 at 13:15

Its Fake. plus normally buzzard said log into your account not click on a link.

Hope this will help you. Any Question. Free feel to message me.

Daichin · 21 Jul 2012 at 13:43

Blizzard themselves don't tend to send you links.
If you don't know, just don't click on it and go check on battle.net manually.