E-mails masquerading Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft (WoW), an American video game developer and a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) are currently in circulation on the air with an aim to target innocent users, as published by softpedia on December 19, 2011.
The spoofed e-mail opens with the message that "It has come to our attention that you are trying to sell your personal WoW." The subject line begins with the message "World of Warcraft - Account Management". It claims that the selling of WoW is contradictory to End User License Agreement (EULA) and Terms of Agreement. As such, through the mail, account user is informed that their account will be disabled. The employees of Blizzard Entertainment will be verifying and carrying on with the investigation process. However, it also warns the user to carry on with the verification process if the user wants their account to be safeguarded from getting suspended and disabled.
For carrying forward with the verification process, the user is required to provide all the personal information pertaining to the account name, password, name of the account holder, and also provide the answer to the secret question. It also claims that in case if the recipient ignores the message, the account will be automatically closed permanently.
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