If you get this in your email, don’t follow through on it. These fakes are getting better and better.
Note: You can usually tell by the “To” field. This one wasn’t sent to my registered WoW email address.
There are a lot of folks out there that think being in charge, or in a leadership role, of a guild is a big fun thing. You get to set permissions, invite, kick and all that other cool stuff! Truth is, at least for me, it’s another job. Being in charge means that, like at … [Read more of this article]
Managed to score Heroic Morchok on Tuesday. Ended up using 6 healers. Another classic 22% wipe, then a 16% wipe, then a 13% followed by an 8% then a kill. Actually, the numbers aren’t precise. But that’s what it seemed like anyway. How to Land 3 Healing Spells in Under 2 Seconds It seems impossible, … [Read more of this article]
Additional details about the Monk was released a few days ago on. Ghostcrawler fielded the answers to several of the questions that I’m sure were on most people’s minds. The Monk healing spec (Mistweaver, a catchy name) is designed to rely heavily on punches and kicks. You get to DPS while you heal (or… heal … [Read more of this article]
This mutt has been available on the PTR for some time. He had way too much health on 10 man during my initial times with him. He’s much more manageable now. You’ll find that this fight is a slight DPS check and skill check. When you first engage the encounter, the tanks will need to … [Read more of this article]
In a word, probably not. More and more players are finding themselves on Twitter and Facebook. Guild members are adding each other as friends to all these other social networks and their thoughts are then broadcast which expose themselves to even more players. There is always an inherent risk though. Much like the way companies … [Read more of this article]
It’s been 2 and a half years since Conquest has been formed. We’ve had our shares of victories and defeat. I figured a situation like this would come one day. I never imagined it would come from a main tank. Least of all from a main tank. I knew he wasn’t having much enjoyment out … [Read more of this article]
With all the changes to healing between the expansion’s release and subsequent patches, restoration shaman have kind of gone in a bit of a circle almost. We started out the expansion with the inclusion of a few new spells that really set the tone. Healing Rain was an absolute power-house addition to our healing, and … [Read more of this article]
Note: That’s actually Lodur’s kill screenshot. How he heals with raid frames that small, I have no idea =). Healing from World of Logs Conquest is officially 2/13 in the hard mode 25 progression. It was nice getting the kill and getting the monkey off our backs. It had been weeks since our last progression … [Read more of this article]
Unless you missed it, Blizzard has announced an idea that they wish to implement in an attempt to shorten queue times and address the tank and healer shortage that has been plaguing the LFD for a while now. Here’s the actual blue post for you, Source In patch 4.1 we’ll be introducing Dungeon Finder: Call … [Read more of this article]
Image courtesy of leonardobc This week the crew has been hitting our heads against a progression boss, and the talk around the campfire has a decided air of frustration to it. As a leader, you need to be aware of your team’s motivation levels when tackling new challenges. Encounters surpassing your raid team’s ability level … [Read more of this article]
If you get this in your email, don’t follow through on it. These fakes are getting better and better.
Note: You can usually tell by the “To” field. This one wasn’t sent to my registered WoW email address.
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Wow this is some serious work behind making this like the real thing.
Very nasty and tricky. This is a new approach for sure evil bastards!
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Haven’t gotten the email yet myself.
Personally, I don’t believe any WoW-related emails unless I see Blizzard themselves advertising it on the launch screen.
.-= Psynister´s last blog ..Alt’ernate Universe =-.
Wow, that is a very clever spam email. No doubt it will take you to some site with an obscure URL but styled like the official Blizzard site, asking you to log in so they can capture your log in details.
I’m surprised they managed to send using “email.blizzard.com”. I would’ve thought Blizzard would’ve had that locked down tight.
.-= We Fly Spitfires´s last blog ..The RMT Industry – What I’ve Learnt =-.
“from” addresses are trivially faked in email.
There is nothing in the SMTP (mail transport) RFC preventing incorrect from addresses being used. Nor anything in the transport chain that demands the sender actually have the rights to send mail from that address. Some systems are trying to put such things in place – but that’s a much larger issue and this comment is not really the best place to talk about how mail servers work, and what sort of options are around to deal with this sort of thing
Matticus isn’t sharing full email headers, so we can’t see the chain of the mail, which likely doesn’t pass through any valid/typical blizzard servers, and if Blizzard declares SPF records it would certainly fail an SPF test. A test and check that is totally optional.
The last one of these kinds of mails I got were also not to my Battlenet email address and I believe they’d farmed it out of a comment or post on a wow forum or perhaps from epicadvice.
I get spam e-mail to my blog’s e-mail address, however my battle.net e-mail is NOT the same as the one I post on my blog.
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On the splash screen when logging into WOW last night the tip I read was that Blizzard will only send emails from blizzard.com and battle.net. This tip seems fairly useless if the hacking of the from address is ‘trivial’
E-mail header has never been a reliable security mechanism. And with commercial interest from big names like Microsoft and other legal obstruction (like the US munitions export regulations) standing in the way, there’s still a long way to go before email security come to the average user.
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