WoW Mail Scam...Use Copied Blizzard Email
- Ways of finding emails
1) This method finds people that are part of the WoW selling/buying account community, so it makes much more sense in reference to the letter.
2) Click the 'Search' button on the top of the epvp navigation bar, and search for something like 'email scam' in the 'WoW Scams' section. This will give you many ways of finding email accounts to attempt to scam. You can certainly develop your own ways of finding emails of people that play WoW, simply BE CREATIVE.Quote:How to find people: (this works for EU as well)
-Go to markeedragon.com
-click search on the top(ish)
-find the forum that you want to be searching in the list (either WoW account buy/sell EU or US or WoW account trading EU or US) and search for "email"
-this will come up with a load of threads with "email" in it.
-More likely than not these are in the original post, with contact information in it, to contact the owner of the account
-Now that you have your email address for your victim, now its time for the letter
- Making a Legit Email Address
This will allow you to make your email address
Here is the post (Credits to tcxred) on how to do this with a account
Quote:1) Make a new hotmail account, if you are setting up this account to use with the wow scam, First name should be Blizzard, last name Entertainment (or something of that sort). I suppose Account for first and Support for last would work as well. Your windows live ID can be anything you want, the recipient of your email wont be able to see what it is anyway.
2) After your account is activated, go to your inbox. Then click the New button to begin writing a new email. Than go to where it says From:. There you will notice a drop down menu, open the drop down menu and click add an email address. Than click the gray button that says add an address to send mail from.
3) This is where you choose the email address the person who receives your scam email will see. Choose whatever you want here, just hope it isn't a real address that someone at blizzard uses (or else it won't work). Than click send verification email.
4) Go back to your inbox (I'm hoping you all know how to do this ). Now wait for a while and eventually (Don't worry, you probably will) you will receive an email from with the subject Delivery Status Notification (Failure). Open up that up, scroll down to where you see Please click on the link below to claim ownership and activate this e-mail address, then just click the link below that.
You should see:
Send and receive mail from other e-mail accounts
You have successfully verified (whatever you entered)@(wherever.com)!
5) Click go to inbox again, and click the new button to begin writing a new email. Now go from, and open that drop down menu. Under that drop down menu, you should now see the email address you just added! Select that and now write & send your scam message to the email whose account you want. - Email Scam
-Make an account from hotmail/gmail/something more convincing, that is something related to 'Blizzard support' or 'Blizzard' or 'Blizzard.investigations'. Something that people will believe is legitimate.
-Send the people emails (Separately, do NOT send them as a big list) and make the subject something official and convincing, and put this image as the only thing in the email:
Here is a larger size that you can use:
And here is the smaller one:
-Do this to quite a few different email accounts, and you should get some back with the information.
-A version of the email that is in German can be found here:
-Do not abuse.
New Developments
-Blizzard has, rather recently, changed the way that they send out emails. Now, they are all done in simple text rather then with pictures. This makes the scam MUCH easier, as it can now be done without the complicated pictures. However, some people likely do not know about this change that Blizzard has made, so sending the picture might still work.
New Email:
-The above email was done by Tuxified, I will post another one once I learn more about how Blizzard formats their new emails.Quote:Greetings!
It has come to our unfortunate attention that you have been participating in online trading activities. Blizzard Entertainment takes these violations very seriously. In an effort to protect the integrity of the game we are forced to conduct an investigation on the matter.
Investigation Launched: <Enter Realistic date here; DD/MM/YY>
Type of Violation: Involvement in online trading activities
Consequences for Account: Account suspended permanently.
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. To prevent this action from taking place, we will need to verify your account immediately. We will request that you send the following information from the template below to our administration alias, <INSERT "SWITCH" EMAIL HERE>.
* First and Surname
* Address
* Zip code
* Phone number Daytime
* Country
* Account e-mail
* CD-key, alternative a photograph of your CD-key that is located on your manual for World of Warcraft.
* Account name
* Account password
* Secret Question and Answer
This is the first step taken to verify your account. We request that this be done in a timely fashion.
Blizzard Entertainment Inc
Account Administration Team
P.O. Box 18979, Irvine, CA 92623
Ok, I am making a new document that is much more believable (The one above has grammar mistakes, but it should still fool people). When I am done I will post it here.
