Interesting email in my in-box today. : Othor Games

» Sat Aug 18, 2012 6:33 am

Email sent with the title "Diablo III" from an email called diablo at email.com

Greetings
It has come to our attention that your account is involved in illegal transa_ctions. As you may not be aware of, this conflicts with the EULA and Terms of Agreement.
Terms of Use: -------------------------Link removed-------------------------------
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 must complete the steps below to secure the account and your computer.
STEP 1: ACCOUNT INVESTIGATION
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.
Click on the link below to verify your e-mail address of the Battle.net account:
------------------Link removed---------------------
If you can’t click the link above, copy and paste the entire URL into your browser.
STEP 2: VERIFY YOUR SUBMISSION WAS RECEIVED
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 s_ubmitting this form, please resend it from the address listed above.
Please be aware that if unauthorized access to this account, it may lead to further action against the account.
We understand that these policies may seem harsh, but they are in place to ensure that every player is able to enjoy their time in game. Thank you for respecting our position.

Please do not reply to this email as you will receive an automated response.
Regards,
Thary
Account Administration Team
Blizzard Entertainment 2012

It's interesting since I've never had anything to do with Blizzard's games, not a single one of them. In addition, the " _ " things in the middle of the text is a bit weird.

So there's two options: This is a BS email containing links to unspeakable horror (which I've removed from this post, just in case) or someone has used my email to create an account. Which is the most likely scenario? Either ways, I will be manually changing some passwords with my accounts around the internet, but with nothing to do with this email. I will not click the links

What's the best way to proceed, and the worst outcome of different actions?

Note: I'm truly sorry if this is against forum rules, as I'm unsure if it is or not. I will, just in case, insta-report this for a moderator to see so they can delete it if it's not allowed.
Thanks,
Gorbad.

» Sat Aug 18, 2012 8:45 am

Ever had a battlenet account? If not then it's probably a poorly targetted scam.

They probably just used your email from there. It's a phishing attempt.

» Sat Aug 18, 2012 8:02 am

Sorry man, it was me.

» Sat Aug 18, 2012 2:04 am

Ever had a battlenet account? If not then it's probably a poorly targetted scam.

They probably just used your email from there. It's a phishing attempt.

Never heard of battlenet before. I do have a gamebattles account though.

Sorry man, it was me. :tongue:

I knew it!

» Sat Aug 18, 2012 10:39 am

Question: Do you think that a large corporation like Blizzard would be sending that kind of emails from sites like email.com, hotmail.com, gmail.com or yahoo.com?

Answer: No. They have their own domain(s).

Conclusion: Ignore it. It is a pretty blatant attempt to cheat you into clicking those links, serving all kinds of malware to your computer, or trying to get you to enter personal information, like, say information on your bank account.

» Fri Aug 17, 2012 11:24 pm

A phishing scam. Just Google "It has come to our attention that your account is involved in illegal transactions." and you will see.

Trash it and forget it.

» Sat Aug 18, 2012 11:33 am

It's a scam. I had one of those directing me to a site in India. Interestingly, it was sent to my old Elder Scrolls address that I used to register here back in 2006, which was presumably amongst those lifted in the Anonymous hack a few months ago.

» Sat Aug 18, 2012 12:13 am

It looks like a poorly targeted scam. If the links are a bunch of stuff with "battlenet" or "blizzard" at the beginning but end with ".somerandomsite.com" it is obviously a scam. I got something like that the other week in my fly-paper email account that pretended to be from pay-pal (my pay-pal account is not associated with the email in question) that wanted me to verify my account and the the url in the mouseover preview was secure.paypal..healthfoodscentral.com. Needless to say I didn't fall for it and deleted the email.

I've also gotten the occasional message that I supposedly made a Battle.net account but those get deleted immediately now.

The random dashes and underscores are just spam-filter avoidance tactics.

» Sat Aug 18, 2012 3:11 am

Most likely a scam. Blizzard games are so popular that they can send those to anyone and they got a pretty good chance that person plays a blizzard game.
Personally i hate blizzard as a company. The only good games they ever made was starcraft 1 and 2 and warcraft 1 and 2. Everything else by blizzard is just garbage imo.

» Fri Aug 17, 2012 10:28 pm

Can't you check the email of the one who sent it?

Eg. BlizzardAdministration@yahoo.com

» Sat Aug 18, 2012 11:58 am

Deleted and forgotten.

» Sat Aug 18, 2012 5:48 am

You're not gonna believe this, but I actually got an e-mail from a Nigerian prince who said...

» Sat Aug 18, 2012 5:52 am

You're not gonna believe this, but I actually got an e-mail from a Nigerian prince who said...

"... I am the reincarnation of Leon Trotsky, and so is my wife."

» Sat Aug 18, 2012 2:41 am

Closed by request of the OP. :smile: