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    firung's Avatar Master Sergeant
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    Just another E-mail scam, or is it for real?

    Greetings!

    When you take to the skies astride a blazing, eagle-winged lion, your comrades will know you mean business. Serious business. So saddle up, because this flying mount will travel as fast as your riding skill will take you, and it can even travel at 310% speed if you have at least one other 310% speed mount.

    Once activated, this World of Warcraft in-game pet key applies to all present and future characters on a single World of Warcraft license.

    we will be complimentary seat to the 5,000 players. You can log Web site application, we will be lucky players randomly.
    Please click this link to apply

    https://us.battle.net/account/suppor...17128F9A3D76E3

    If your account passes the check successfully, we will send a code for the Winged Guardian flying mount to you in the form of e-mail.


    The World of Warcraft Support Team
    Blizzard Entertainment

    Just another E-mail scam, or is it for real?
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    Well, it's a weird email. The link leads to the legit battle.net site, but they don't send out emails like these, and the link is US (Considering you're EU).
    The link is broken though, and the grammar isn't that good.

    we will be complimentary seat to the 5,000 players. You can log Web site application, we will be lucky players randomly.

    Abra su mente a la realidad.
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    firung's Avatar Master Sergeant
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    Ohh that sucks.
    Just Clicked the link and entered my Email and pass... Think i need to chance my pass now;(

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    It's strange, it looks like a scam, a bad one. But the URL is an actual battle.net URL. See how that goes.




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    It's very weird. I'm guessing he copy pasted the email, and the editor automatically made the URL a link out from the text, and that the link was actually a different and hidden link in the email.

    Abra su mente a la realidad.
    Do NOT contact me about trading section stuff. Contact a section MOD instead.

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    It's very weird. I'm guessing he copy pasted the email, and the editor automatically made the URL a link out from the text, and that the link was actually a different and hidden link in the email.
    This.

    OR it could be an attachment you downloaded (keylogger), or some other malicious program. (Run a virus scan to be sure)
    OR it could be the scammer forgetting about something (lol)

    Thread moved to WoW Scam Help

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    Saw it in the bawx, was gonna say, didn't someone already post that?! :P

    I'd put my money on forgetting about something lmao.

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    Fraud link is the most likely option imo. Doing this in HTML is something almost anyone can succeed at
    <a href="http://www.enterurinfoandiscamuhehelol.com/giefinfo.php/">http://www.battle.net/</a>
    which will display Battle.net but take you to http://www.enterurinfoandiscamuhehel.../giefinfo.php/
    instead. Looking at the browser status bar often reveals this type of scam, but there are exceptions.

    Always look on what site you are before entering any personal information!

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    firung's Avatar Master Sergeant
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    OKay, No Keyloggers or anything tho... Gues it was a scam e-mail but it was pure fail...

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