Ok, my account isn’t actually hacked, but I hope it got your attention. :) There is a new salvo in the war between wow players and those wonderful guys from China. You know… those guys who farm and steal accounts and generally making our lives hell so we can't get our daily fix of uber pwnage.
Geeon sent word to me this morning about a wonderful email ploy to help you out with your account troubles. Especially those who recently started transferring their accounts to Battle.net. If anyone wants to mess around with these guys, feel free to flood their inbox with any and all info you would like. I’ve also included the email Geeon received so be on the look out and remember Blizzard will NEVER ask for any of this information.
If you would like to reach out and touch these creeps feel free to email them @ wowaccountadmin@blizzardbattle.com
Greetings
Here is an important notice about battle.net accout
In virtue of the official website’s revision in the recently, the website was not well improved ,and there are a little vulnerability exsited , a few of hacker organizations took advantage of the network's vulnerability,and made the illegal access accounts to reset some player accouts' information by using the web vulnerability.For the accounts' safety,we have to close most of the accounts. Furthermore, there may still exists misclose and misfreeze in our investigation process. we apologize for this.If you find your account exists the unusual circumstances, please visit our new site:
https://us.battle.net/login/login.xml?ref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldofwarcraft.com%2Faccount%2F&app=wam&rhtml=true
We need to confirm you are the original owner of the account.
This is easiest done by confirming your personal information along with concealed information about your account.
You can confirm that you are the original owner of the account by replying to this email with:
Use the following template below to verify your account and information via email.
* First and Surname
* Date of birth
* Address
* Zip code
* Phone number
* Country
* Account e-mail
* Account/battle.net name
* Account/battle.net password
* Secret Question and Answer or Cd-Key
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.
We ask you to NOT change password until the investigation is fully completed.
Blizzard Entertainment Inc
Account Administration Team
P.O. Box 18979, Irvine, CA 92623
Regards,
battle.net Account Administration Team
Blizzard Entertainment
Domain Registration Information
Domain Name: BLIZZARDBATTLE.COM
Registrar: HICHINA ZHICHENG TECHNOLOGY LTD.
Whois Server: grs.hichina.com
Referral URL: http://www.net.cn
Name Server: DNS29.HICHINA.COM
Name Server: DNS30.HICHINA.COM
Status: ok
Updated Date: 22-mar-2009
Creation Date: 22-mar-2009
Expiration Date: 22-mar-2010
--Grexis
5 comments:
I can't believe people actually reply to these kinds of e-mails. Just reading it it's obvious that it didn't come from a US company. The e-mail looks like it was written in Chinese and dropped into Google Translate.
Not to mention you should never give out your passwords to anyone via any medium. (side note: I about flipped when I heard our IT HelpDesk ask for someone's password over the phone)
My friend Richard (Dick) Head over at Advanced Ink sent them a reply. :) I wonder, with how bad their engrish is, if they will actually take it seriously and try to login with the account.
RE: battle.net of Blizzard Entertainment
From: Richard Head (dhead@advink.com)
Sent: Tue 3/24/09 2:40 PM
To: wowaccountadmin@blizzardbattle.com
Bcc:
* First and Surname: Richard Head
* Date of birth: 12/23/1970
* Address: 567 FuqU Lane
* Zip code: 45674
* Phone number: 217-382-5968
* Country: USA
* Account e-mail: dhead@advink.com
* Account/battle.net name: Upnya
* Account/battle.net password: Ch0k30n17
* Secret Question and Answer or Cd-Key: Why am I here? To make fun of you.
Please don't lock my account!!!!
Regards,
Dick
You know, now that I think about it, I could probably get into one of those publicly available botnets and flood that email server with millions of randomly generated bogus emails. :)
True, but if for some reason you got caught "controlling a botnet" we would have to find us another tank for the next few years while the US justice system tries to imprison you for longer than they do most muderers.
On a side note, one of my coworkers came up with an amusing password when he sent one of these to our security team to blackhole the reply-to address.
Im@m0ron
When the grammer is worse than mine you know it's a scam.
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