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Windows Whoo hoo Diablo 3 beta invite... uhmm.. no.

Discussion in 'Gaming' started by chrisdj, 24 Oct 2011.

  1. chrisdj

    chrisdj What's a Dremel?

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    Ha, had this email into my inbox this morning. All looks legit, valid Blizzard address, etc, but why do I need to reply back when the email says noreply, and why do they need my password??? Surely they know its 123456? And small punctuation errors... damn I am getting cynical. So watch out kids, the scammers are out there. Play safe.


    From: diablo3<noreply@blizzard.com>
    Greetings from Blizzard Entertainment!
    We’re gearing up for the forthcoming launch of Diablo III and would like to extend you an invitation to participate in the beta test. If you are interested in participating, you need to have a Battle.net account, which you can create on our Battle.net website.

    We will flag you for access to the Diablo III beta test when we begin admitting press. You do not need to go through the opt-in process.

    To secure your place among the first of Sanctuary’s heroes,Please use the following template below to verify your account and information via email.

    * Name:
    * Battle.account name:
    * Password:
    * Country:
    * E-mail Address:

    Thanks and see you all in the Burning Hells!
     
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  2. Journeyer

    Journeyer Minimodder

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    I don't know; this sounds legit...
    In the same way as the message I received the other day in which they informed me that I had won a million euros in an italian lottery...
     
  3. stefan442

    stefan442 Minimodder

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    poor attempt tbh.
     
  4. Sketchee

    Sketchee Suddenly, looters! Hundreds of 'em!

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    Naughty :nono:
     
  5. stefan442

    stefan442 Minimodder

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    I am a billionaire in Ireland and Italy.
     
  6. Blazza181

    Blazza181 SVM PLACENTA CASEI

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    I'm a billionaire in Zimbabwe.

    Seems fake.
     
  7. Jedra

    Jedra Supermodel

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    Sadly, some people will reply to this. My nephew got done a few weeks ago with a CoD scam just like it. It was his PS3 account and it was hells own job to get Sony to change his password as the scammers changed it immediately!

    He gets his brains from the 'other' side of the family!
     
  8. Draksis

    Draksis What's a Dremel?

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    Had one of the usual "This is Blizzard - u didz broken WOw, givz us password or bees banning!" the other day.

    On a side note: Is it not Blizzard.NET, not .com. Stand corrected.
     
  9. Zurechial

    Zurechial Elitist

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    It's Blizzard.com or Battle.net.
     
  10. Draksis

    Draksis What's a Dremel?

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    of course! :duh: :blush: My bad
     
  11. Kiytan

    Kiytan Shiny

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    I got an email the other day telling me that my aion account had been hacked, and I risked loosing it unless I gave them my details. However considering I have never (nor intend to get) an aion account i was rather curious as to how :p
     
  12. TheKrumpet

    TheKrumpet Once more, into the breach!

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    I get the same for WoW all the time. Usually something along the lines of 'We have detected that you are trying to sell your account! OMG you need to log into it RIGHT NOW and sort this!'

    (Well, not in so many words, but you get the gist)

    But yeah, never played WoW, never had an account. No clue how I'm selling it. When do I get paid?
     
  13. Chris1554

    Chris1554 What's a Dremel?

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    I never believe e-mails from blizzard, I always log onto my account and check it without clicking any links. Sadly scammers are getting rather good at impersonating.
     
  14. rollo

    rollo Modder

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    A lot of scam emails around

    Blizzard.com battle.net

    The two real ones

    Delete block ban everything else
     
  15. ccxo

    ccxo On top of a hill

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    I get this alot, same situation as well be gd to get paid though.
     
  16. Tribble

    Tribble Steals Avatars

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    i get a few of those a week and i do have a wow account, just report delete.

    as for this one below, guys you forgot the link to put said login in, fail :clap:

     
  17. Sloth

    Sloth #yolo #swag

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    You guys really must have the worst luck, I'm not sure I've ever recieved a single spam email pretending to be Blizzard. In fact, I hardly ever recieve mail from the real Blizzard!

    RuneScape on the otherhand... some Chinese account stealing site seems to really believe that I have an account and that said account is in grave danger.
     
  18. joolz1

    joolz1 What's a Dremel?

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    BT Yahoo is the worst in the world !
     
  19. TheKrumpet

    TheKrumpet Once more, into the breach!

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    Oh! Look what I got today!

    Erm.... Nope.
     
  20. Chris1554

    Chris1554 What's a Dremel?

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    Yeah, nice link they have there. Think they can make it anymore suspicious? Honestly though, they have been doing this for years and they still haven't learnt to copy and paste a blizzard email and change the links. So many mistakes in there I don't see how people could fall for it.
     

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