New? Phishing Beta Test E-mail

Received this e-mail today

Greetings,

After much anticipation Blizzard has opened the StarCraft II Beta opt-in. In the beta test you will get an opportunity to provide your feedback on the overall experience, including units, maps, aesthetics, and more. We would also appreciate reports on any bugs you may encounter during your game-play experience.

We will be selecting account holders of Battle.net and World of Warcraft accounts who opted-in at random to participate in the much anticipated StarCraft II Beta. To opt-in for the beta test go to the opt-in page found here. Please be prepared to enter the current retail World of Warcraft or Battle.net account name and password you use. To be eligible to participate in the beta tests, you must have a valid retail World of Warcraft or Battle.net account active and in good standing as of July 17, 2009.

In the event you are selected to participate in the beta test, you will receive an e-mail informing you of your acceptance in the coming months and directing you to Battle.net Account Management. From there, you will be able to obtain a Starcraft II beta key and download the beta client. If chosen, you will also need to agree to the StarCraft II Beta Agreement prior to installing the client.

We look forward to working with you in the StarCraft II Beta.

Thank you,
Dustin Browder,
Starcraft II Lead Designer
Blizzard Entertainment

It links you to this URL ---- http://www.worldotwarcaft.net/Starcraft2-Beta/Index.html ----

Seemingly legit Starcraft 2 beta login, in fact it's probably copied from an actual e-mail, but if you look closely at the URL it's worldOTwarcraft and not worldOFwarcraft. It wants your information so it can steal your account. I put in fake information to see if it would let me proceed and it just redirected me to the Starcraft 2 homepage and said I would get an e-mail in a few weeks letting me know if i was accepted. Just be careful with any e-mails you get from anything starcraft 2 beta related because it's probably fake. Scammers search through guild websites and whatnot to try and find WOW players' e-mails to dupe them. Just wanted to warn everyone. Make sure you are careful and verify anything WOW or starcraft related it legit before you put any account or personal information in.

 

We arn't stupid you know.
Maybe you guys wanna try out my WoW 60-day-gamecard generator?
For free! Just give me your accname and password.

9,9

jkz.

 

World ot warcraft

Really?

REALLY??

/fail

 

Dude. Read.

I'll try and remove the hyperlink.

 

Thanks that helps we dont need people randomly clicking that link.. who knows what its supposed to do.

 

I know, I removed the hyperlink.

But seriously guys, this really is a useful reminder. Don't just blindly go after every single Beta key opportunity you see. Look into it first, see if it's legit. StarCraft2 Beta isn't so important to your lives that you enter every single remotely realistic-looking opt-in.

 

So glad a nice gesture is met with all this kindness..... <3 internetz

 

Even if it was world of wacraft its obvious fake.

 

rofl GREETINGS FROM VLIZER ENTURTAINMENT

 

An amusing side-note to this particular bit of information. Have not received such emails personally. However I do apparently know 3 people who had their wow accounts stolen with a similar email. Something about WoW movie trailer only available to WoW subscribers. So you have to -log in- to view the trailer *sigh. I'm really beginning to question why I associate with these people.
Also, same address was used in that email apparently. So i guess...it SHOULD go without saying but please, to those who don't know better... check those links fellas.
And aside from the hyperlinks(whatever nature that was) thanks for the heads up.

 

The hyperlink was just the automatic link to the website posted. Any URL's posted are automatically made into hyperlinks, but can be avoided by placing code tags in the middle.

For example, ignoring the space in [ /B]:

Code:

www.starcraft2forums.com

...and...

w[B][ /B]ww.starcraft2forums.com

...Comes out as:

...and...

www.starcraft2forums.com

 

Or surround it with a code tag:

Code:

www.starcraft2forum.org

 

Oh yeah, it's .Org. Code tags are a bit bulky for a simple URL. Adding tag's is the best way to simply remove the hyperlink, in my opinion.

 

thats why you must keep a low profile when you hoover teh inzernetz

 

oh ok. I didn't get to the post before the hyperlinks were removed so i didn't know what he linked to exactly. I was thinking "great a post about a phishing scam wherein he attempted to link to said material." Was thinking nothing shy of epic troll if it succeeded. Hopefully that was an accident. Thanks for the update Itza.

 

The hyperlink was merely in the URL he posted, just as any URL becomes a hyperlink when posted. I didn't actually remove any content. The URL is still there, which he specifically tells you is the link he was sent, and specifically describes what is wrong with it and why it's a phishing scam.