"I need to stop playing at work (W.O.W. phish)" Topic

I got this in my generic departmental e-mail account at work. I know my work knows I surf TMP, but I really did start playing World of Warcraft, I wouldn't be here much longer. I'm posting here to announce this kind of phish.

Greetings,
We are writing to inform you that, unfortunately, we have had to temporarily suspend your World of Warcraft account and place a final warning on it.

We have had a problem in our database, it is possible that it is an error, in this case enter in the following link and follow the form:

[dummy link removed by CLDISME – actual link went to wjco.kr where ever that is]

Investigation Concluded: 09/01/2008
Type of Violation: Involvement in online trading activities
Consequences for Account: Account suspended for 72 hours, Password Reset and Final Warning issued.

It is with regret that we take this type of action, but it is in the best interests of the World of Warcraft community as a whole, and for the integrity of the game. After your suspension has expired, you will be able to access the World of Warcraft servers again.

To protect the account security, we have also reset your password and issued you with a computer generated one, which you will receive in a separate e-mail. You will be able to change this password at your leisure, using the Account Management feature on our web site, located at: wow-europe.com/en

Your password will be sent from noreplyeu@blizzard.com. If you do not receive it after one hour, please add this address to your email address list so that it is not rejected by any spam filter you are using, and reply to wowaccountrevieweu@blizzard.com informing us that you have not received the password.

Please do not disclose your new password to anyone, including Blizzard staff, or change it back to one of your previous passwords as this could result in your account becoming compromised.

Please note that should any further violations of our Rules and Policies occur, this will almost certainly lead to the permanent closure of your account.

We strongly suggest you review our current Rules and Policies to avoid further action in the future, they can be found at:
wow-europe.com/en/policy

Regards,

Account Administration Team
Blizzard Entertainment Europe

Have you forwarded it to Blizzard?

I second the comment to foward it to Blizzard to let them know.

Have you tried logging into WoW to ensure it's not a trick? I find it hard to believe thatpeople would be so stupid as to try to phish you like this when you can test this so easily.

More importantly, is your account actually suspended? Seems like a scam like this would be mighty easy to check up on, without using the scammer's links at all.

They know that their scam is bogus. What they are counting on is the shock factor. Send out enough of these, some wow player will be thinking, my wow account is closed, they panic. Same thing with bank scams. Someone low on funds or expecting a windfall. Gets an email about their account being frozen. Panic time.

Either that or it's some nasty bastard in the odffice trying to drop you in the .

At the moment, I'm going through a phase of getting PayPal ones. About 4 in the last week. I've reached the point of just not bothering to forward them to PayPal.