Phishing Scam - Great Spelling/Grammar - US ONLY!

[Verye]

Alright, so there's a good chance most of you have seen or heard of the fairly famous WoW e-mail phishing picture scam. Instead of asking for the password by typing it, it's in a fancy-ish Blizzard layout, in the form of a picture.

Pro:
It looks MUCH more legit. If you've seen it, you know what I mean.

Con:
Some e-mail service providers automatically filter pictures as spam. Some show the picture as a link instead, which makes it seem less legit (but still passable). And sometimes, the e-mail is blank (very rare...that's if they have some bizarre e-mail provider no one's ever heard of).


I'd say it's the best way to do an e-mail phishing scam. It's vital that you embed this into the body of your e-mail though. Some e-mail providers let you simply copy and paste the picture directly into the e-mail, which is what you want. AOL, Hotmail, and Gmail work perfectly.

Basically, I took the original picture (which I do not take credit for...credit to whoever made it) and edited it greatly. It had a lot of grammar mistakes and spelling errors (I'm assuming the person who wrote knew English only as a second language). Well, I'm American, and I edited it to sound more professional, with less grammar and spelling errors. Unfortunately, I was unable to edit all of it, so some of it still sounds a bit...awkward...to those who know English as a first language, but it still looks better.

The original one was also for WoW EU. This one is for WoW US. I changed the address at the bottom to Blizzard's US address, located in Irvine, California.

Any European MMO members (most of you, probably) have permission to edit this and change the bottom address to the Blizzard EU HQ, which I think is located somewhere in France. Just please give me credit if you decide to post it here or on some other site.

Anyway, I highly suggest you make an AOL domain with a Blizzard sounding name. Just go to AOL.com - Welcome to AOL, find how to register an e-mail address domain for free. They need a cell phone number, so either use your own (not suggested...if you send tons of these e-mails, and by tons I mean hundreds, then AOL may shut the domain down and give the cell phone number to the authorities) or use someone else's. They send you a text message, and you just have to respond to it.

And finally...here's the actual scam picture!

[Igzz]

too bad its in .jpg cuz it shows blurs around the letters...

[Verye]

True. Changed it to png. Although, there will still be blurs when you send it. In theory, if Blizzard were to send you a picture e-mail (which they don't), you'd see a bit of blur there, too.

[Igzz]

aight +rep :P lol

[jcako]

blizz dosent ask for passwords

[Tehvit]

Bah the grammar/spelling is not that good, you/someone forgot to put commas lol, and the email in the first paragraph should be written all over the same way, don't you think? I am not flaming, I'm trying to help, so the next time it could get better .

[Verye]

You see, I couldn't replicate the original font of the e-mail. So the only thing I could do was copy/paste/swap letters in it. I know it still sounds awkward, but it's much better than it was before.

And jcako, you'd be surprised how many people don't know that Blizzard doesn't ask for your password. I've actually scored about 15 accounts just on a few waves of sending these e-mails out on MarkeeDragon.com. I ended up securing only one of them, though. His WoW pass was the same as his e-mail pass. =p