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Anywho, what's even better is that these phishers send emails to all of my email accounts in regards to WoW... but my WoW email.

Due to a lot of issues with my emails getting a bunch of spam, I've resorted to having a separate one just for WoW. Seems to help so far.

But you're right, it does seem pretty professional compared to previous ones.

I got a Cataclysm Beta invite that really looked good, much better than any other phishing email I've seen. The link was not blizzard.com else I would have clicked it.

Am I the only person who has never gotten one of these things? I''m starting to feel left out :(

for the longest time I never got one. And then one day on an email that had no linkage to my WoW account say an email from "Blizzard". The English within was so mind boggling that I felt myself getting stupider the more I tried to read it.

I've now had a few of these.

I kind of wish I had been left out, if Blizzard REALLY wanted to contact you while you still played the game, one would think a GM would send you a GM Message in-game. Not a in-game mail or fake emails.

This is actually a valid question. I was ready to start raging about Bnet forcing me to use my e-mail as my account log-in, but you've just reminded me that it can't be that - my other completely wow-unrelated e-mail adress also gets these mails.

That said, as a reminder to everyone, the last Cataclysm beta mail batch seems to say something along the lines of "you wouldn't want to be left out in the cold of northrend when you could be enjoying the sun on a Kezan beach!". If your 'beta invite' looks like that, I can give you a 99% guarantee that it's a phishing mail.

Was the lack of capitalization and punctuation intentional as well? =P

Unfortunately, there's still those select few that fall for it, and with their messages getting more believeable (such as the above), it'll be harder for more people to catch them.

My suggestion is that if anyone is uncertain about something, just go to the main site yourself and check from there instead of going through the link provided.

They send them out at random. My friend has never played WoW and he's getting these scam emails as often as I am. I've even had a couple of scam emails for Age of Conan and, on one occasion for Lord of the Rings, and I've never played either of those.

This. The only reason why it seems like they're targeting WoW players' emails specifically is that people who don't play WoW aren't posting here about their phishing emails, obviously.

What I was saying was that I know quite a few people who aren't native speakers in English and are still better at it than most native speakers.

The same goes for German; two of the people with the best knowledge of and 'feel' for the German language I've ever met started learning it as adults.


I acknowledge that you're more likely to be good at a language as a native speaker but I see far too many people making it sound like non-native speakers all fail at it badly on here.

Back in high school when I was taking Spanish I easily got A's and my grammar was excellent while the native speakers in the same classes often struggled to get C's. When learning a second (or third, 日本語 for me), people generally pay more attention to the rules that govern the language than they do for the language they speak natively.

That said, by being exposed to the written language (I'm talking books here, not text speak as a previous poster mentioned) I feel that I have developed an at least somewhat reliable intuition about general spelling and grammar mistakes. Naturally, the more obscure things will sometimes slip by, and I make minor mistakes just as much as anyone else, but I usually have a feeling that something isn't right even if I don't necessarily know exactly what the correct usage is.

Also, languages are totally sweet. I wish I had been able to start learning multiple languages at a much earlier age (first Spanish class in 10th grade is less than ideal...).

It's the extra butter that does it.

Nope, in 5 years of WoW I've never received scam emails. I've only recently started getting /w goldsellers too.