01-31-2011, 09:53 AM
Take a look at this:
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I received that mail earlier today, addressed to the email address associated with my WoW account.
Looks pretty official, doesn't it? I know I was a bit startled to hear that I was trying to sell my account, and clicked on the link to respond ASAP.
Turns out the link that is actually coded into the page isn't what the link text says at all - it actually takes you to <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://us.battle.net.account.reset.warcraft-battle.net">http://us.battle.net.account.reset.warcraft-battle.net</a><!-- m --> - which is a hacker site, controlled by the bad guys (the server is actually in Henan province, China, if you're curious).
I was using Firefox, which automatically detected the hack, and stopped me - but I'm sure that if I hadn't been using a browser with malware detection built in, I would have landed on a very official-looking website that would have tried to steal my passwords.
Once my guard was up, I noticed that the language in the note was just a little bit off - but it was enough to get me to click.
Beware! Blizzard will never ask you for your password!
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I received that mail earlier today, addressed to the email address associated with my WoW account.
Looks pretty official, doesn't it? I know I was a bit startled to hear that I was trying to sell my account, and clicked on the link to respond ASAP.
Turns out the link that is actually coded into the page isn't what the link text says at all - it actually takes you to <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://us.battle.net.account.reset.warcraft-battle.net">http://us.battle.net.account.reset.warcraft-battle.net</a><!-- m --> - which is a hacker site, controlled by the bad guys (the server is actually in Henan province, China, if you're curious).
I was using Firefox, which automatically detected the hack, and stopped me - but I'm sure that if I hadn't been using a browser with malware detection built in, I would have landed on a very official-looking website that would have tried to steal my passwords.
Once my guard was up, I noticed that the language in the note was just a little bit off - but it was enough to get me to click.
Beware! Blizzard will never ask you for your password!