Why get an authenticator? Cause it's SOOOOOO easy to fall for a hacking
Aidin — Sun, 06/21/2009 - 10:02
I wake up this morning to an email that LOOKS 100% OFFICIAL. I click the link and it takes me to a log in for battle.net and asks me to put in my username and password. I did log in with my user name and PW (hope this doesn't bite me in the butt) but got ZERO REQUEST for an auth code....so immediatly left the site.
I then noticed the slight discrepencies which would not be noticilbe to someone upset and paranoid about losing their account:
GET YOUR AUTHENTICATOR NOW OR GET FUCKED IN THE ASS WITH NO VASALINE AND NOT SO MUCH AS A KISS.
that folder is actually
Grasen — Sun, 06/21/2009 - 17:15that folder is actually really old and contains info pertaining to my divorce from my first wife, Nothing to see here, move along.
which reminds me, care for
Derchlon — Mon, 06/22/2009 - 08:37which reminds me, care for some pasta tonight Grasen? :P
LMFAO ... I think I'll cook
Aidin — Mon, 06/22/2009 - 08:44LMFAO ... I think I'll cook spaghetti for dinner tonight Derch!
divorce crap.!!!!
h4mm32 — Sun, 06/21/2009 - 15:19OH NO GRASEN!!!!!!!!
forward this email to
Ardea — Sun, 06/21/2009 - 10:48forward this email to em000@hotmail.com... I am having a hard time getting my other accout hacked...
of course I could just go to the website in the screen print...
if anyone gets any of these emails please forward them to me... I think the people who were hacking my accout caught on.
Well techinically this is a
saedo — Sun, 06/21/2009 - 10:16Well techinically this is a Phishing attempt. There are no hacks involved. They're trying to trick you to give you info.
Though the site itself could be unsafe and you download something (voluntarily) that'd be unwise.
Another thing to be aware is Blizzard ain't nice and is willing to give you a benefit of a doubt to allow you to verify your account by clicking links logging on. They shut it down fast and permanently. You have to go through the whole email them, phone them, fax them, hand jobs, etc to get your account back.
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Another thing is AN AUTHENTICATOR WILL NOT HELP YOU IN A PHISHING ATTACK. You're lucky that the site you got didn't ask you for an authenticator code. The more sophisticated ones nowadays WILL ASK, and when you give all 3 pieces of info, they will immediately unhook your authenticator and BAM, you're done.
Lesson is, NEVER TRUST EMAIL LINKS. DON'T PANIC. Even if it were real, the extra few mins to carefully look over the emails, the links, the url, etc won't effect anything.
Edit: I also don't seem to see NoScript running on Firefox. In that case, there could've been hidden javascript goodies delivered to your computer. Run full scans now. And get NoScript.
Edit 2: Reading the email more carefully, the first sign that it's a fake is that it does not have any indication of who you are. Blizzard emails will mention either your Account Login Name and possibly your First Name too. Not your battle.net login email, they still use your old WoW Account login to refer to you.
My girlfriend got one of
Prime8 — Sun, 06/21/2009 - 13:12My girlfriend got one of these emails back when she was playing. She was smart enough to call me before doing anything though. Easiest way to avoid this stuff is if you get an email like this, don't use the links in the email. Go the the official blizzard site yourself and log in there. If there were in fact any flags on your account you'd see them there.