Dear felllow WOWI members,
this might be the 9.999.999.999th post about this sort of stuff, but i was wondering if this one was legit.
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Greetings
An investigation of your World of Warcraft account has found strong evidence that the account in question is being sold or traded. As you may not be aware of, this conflicts with Blizzard's EULA under section 4 Paragraph B which can be found here:
WoW -> Legal -> End User License Agreement
and Section 8 of the Terms of Use found here:
WoW -> Legal -> Terms of Use
The investigation will be continued by Blizzard administration to determine the action to be taken against your account. If your account is found violating the EULA and Terms of Use, your account can, and will be suspended/closed/or terminated.
In order to keep this from occurring, you should immediately verify that you are the original owner of the account.
To verify your identity please visit the following webpage:
<for noob reasons link has been removed>
Only Account Administration will be able to assist with account retrieval issues. Thank you for your time and attention to this matter, and your continued interest in World of Warcraft.
Sincerely,
Account Administration
Blizzard Entertainment
Then after reading it for the 2nd time, it struck me, blizzard would never refer to the game as WoW. But nevertheless it keeps me wondering, is this a legitimate email? Or yet another scam because either the scammers learned to use grammar and spelling correctly, or someone is indeed trying to sell my account somewhere.
It looks kind of strange that blizzard makes me login to make sure i'm an owner of an account instead of just banning my ass for something like that. I mean, i got hacked once and i was banned instantly so why not now? But even blizzard works in strange and mysterious ways.
Anyway, the only reason i showed the email here, was because the link itself made me wonder. They didn't try and conceal anything but just pointed me to a long URL for logging in. And my browser was so nice to tell me that the site had been reported ^^. Besides, if it was a true blizzard mail, it would've directed me to login to Battle.NET.
Scammers are everywhere, and thank god they don't get smart ^^. I mean making a lot of gramatical and spelling errors and use a legit looking link, thats dumb. Using correct grammar and spelling and using a long strange link thats dumb too.
Thank god they don't combine to two as of yet ^^.
So fellow WOWI members and guests, beware of mails like these and only take action the moment your account actually gets banned. Then contact blizzard throught he apropriate channels mentioned on the official blizzard website.
Golden rule to avoid a lot of nasty stuff: don't follow a link you didn't ask for unless you know its 150% trustworthy, when in doubt delete.