over 1 year ago

One email talks about the way the peer to peer patch downloader has been slow. You're encouraged to download the attachment and do the installation into your World of Warcraft program folder to be able to make your patch downloads much faster. While this sounds nice, it's a scam. This attachment is some kind of malware. No-one is 100% by what it does, but almost certainly it's a keylogger that may steal your login and password once you type it into your computer. Note that Blizzard won't ever send an attachment in a email. All the downloads and improvements come through the game and not during your email account.

Another new email that's out covers a 3 hour suspension on your own account. It goes into detail about how precisely you'll need to log into your account and settle the situation on the account so that more suspensions will not happen. This makes it seem like in the event that you don't act immediately, you may get locked out from the game for quite sometime. There is a link that's provided to login to your account and settle the issue. This really is nothing more than a vintage phishing scam. It's built to trick users so as to truly get your login and password. There's another similar email about a password issue that Blizzard must verify. Don't utilize this link either.

Email scams are every growing, and increasing almost as quickly as financial institutions have the ability to handle them. One of the ways email scams are tricking vulnerable users who may not know about the nefarious users out there simply phishing (pretending to be from the state site inorder to steal login details) for their details is always to pretend to be the official email from their bank.

First of all the scammer has to acquire the e-mail address of the potential victim, there are various ways scammers obtain these, by the end of it, the potential victim may have taken care of immediately an email advert or their email has been passed from another scammer that this is a potential victim, or they only just harvested email addresses; whether bought or scraped the end game is mass emailing all potential victims for the few that may fall for it.

Obviously if you don't bank with the financial Att Email Login institution stated in the email you'd know something was not right, however should you choose bank with said bank, perhaps you are only a little alarmed, to get the title of the e-mail over the lines of "Warning your login details have already been compromised. ...login to said site to recover them", the website under consideration may look like the official site of the financial institution detailed with bank logo, even yet in the email, however the hand out is if you were to right click on the link on the e-mail you'd view it redirects never to the official site of the bank, but to the scammer's phishing site, where they hope you'd be naive enough to fill out your account details, for them to save and utilise at their convenience. A sample email is below: