How can my account be hacked when i havent played it in years?
Greetings,
We have determined that your World of Warcraft account has been accessed/compromised by someone not authorized to do so by the World of Warcraft Terms of Use (http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/legal/termsofuse.html).
To protect your privacy and security, we have temporarily disabled this account. Any recurring subscriptions have been suspended to prevent further monetary charges. In order to regain access to the account, you must complete the steps below to secure the account and your computer.
Please keep this email for your reference until the account recovery process has been completed.
STEP 1: SECURE THE ACCOUNT, YOUR COMPUTER AND YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS
Account compromises most often occur when a player shares login information with an unauthorized third party or plays on a computer that has a virus, Trojan, or key-logger. We recommend following the http://us.battle.net/security/checklist.html on our Account Security site at http://us.battle.net/security/index.html.
STEP 2: RECOVER THE ACCOUNT
We now provide a secure website for you to verify that you have taken the appropriate steps to secure the account, your computer, and your email address. Please go to this site and follow the instructions:
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We will contact you with further instructions once we have received and processed your submission. If you do not receive a reply within 48 hours of submitting this form, please resend it from the address listed above.
Please be aware that if unauthorized access to this account continues after the recovery process is complete, it may lead to further action against the account.
Regards,
Neil G.
Game Master Bahrdrak
Customer Services
Blizzard Entertainment
I got the same and I don't even have an account with them.
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Blizzard says that all is fine, don't you believe them?
And yes that probably is a phishing email and could be phished from your battlenet email address. If you can go to either their technical or customer support forum there is a thread listing all the submitted phishing emails that people have forwarded to them.
I wouldn't be surprised if Blizz sold everyone's email addresses for profit and somehow the hackers all got the lists. Or they just mass spam all yahoo and gmail accounts, hoping to get hits.
I agree. I have recived many emails like this and others from them saying that Im in the cata beta as well. There all bs and yes Blizz needs to get off there arses and do somthing about this.
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they mostly seem to be using hotmail to send the scam mails fortunly I have SPF enabled and blizzard publishes a SPF record so a ton of stuff is getting marked as spam and dev nulled
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