Before I went total a couple of years back, I used to play WoW and after they got their mail database compromised, I would start getting loads of PHISHES, spam and other mails. So, I made a new gmail account specifically for WoW and changed the email in WoW to reflect this. I still get spams and malicious mails purporting to be from blizzard, even though I haven't been in the game for slightly longer than 2 years. That WoW only gmail address? still empty after all this time. between this and the authenticator, my account was fairly secure. BTW, anyone want a WoW account with a bunch of inactive level 80's sitting there? I never did go into cataclysm and it seems a shame to have the authenticator sitting here unused. Blizzard was kind enough to send me the proceedure by which I could give the account to someone else (I still have that email).
-eric On May 13, 2012, at 8:44 PM, Dazed_75 wrote: > The one such message I got from google was real. The person also got into > and stole my Blizzard account before I got an authenticator. > > On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Matt Graham <[email protected]> wrote: > > On May 13, 2012, at 5:57 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > >> This is the second message I've gotten from them telling me someone > >> broke into my account. [...] Is google just filling us with paranoia > >> or is someone really hacking me? > From: Alex Dean <[email protected]> > > Are you sure that message is from Google? Could be more phishing. > > Phishing attempts are usually totally obvious if you look at the full headers > of a message and/or the href= attributes of any links within the HTML portions > of a message. So: Take a look at the message's raw source and find out. > > (If this *is* phishing, I fully expect to see about 20 mails like this in my > work account tomorrow morning, since whoever's in charge of mail filtering > there seems to miss a lot of stuff....) > > -- > Matt G / Dances With Crows > The Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress/ > There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > -- > Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry > > Please protect my address like I protect yours. When sending messages to > multiple recipients, always use the BCC: (Blind carbon copy) and not To: or > CC:. Remove all addresses from the message body before sending a Forwarded > message. This can prevent spy programs capturing addresses from the recipient > list and message body. > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
