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Waky
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"Free 7 Days" Scam Warning

I just recieved an e-mail from "Blizzard" that managed to get into my inbox rather than spam with the title "Return to World of Warcraft with 7 Days of Game Time".
It looks relatively convincing, but upon further investigation I found it to be fraud by looking at the full e-mail header:
From Blizzard Entertainment Thu Jul 7 04:29:56 2011
X-Apparently-To: [MY-EMAIL] via 98.137.26.146; Thu, 07 Jul 2011 04:29:54 -0700
Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Received-SPF: fail (domain of blizzard.com does not designate 112.175.245.48 as permitted sender)
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X-Originating-IP: [112.175.245.48]
Authentication-Results: mta126.mail.ac4.yahoo.com from=blizzard.com; domainkeys=neutral (no sig); from=blizzard.com; dkim=neutral (no sig)
Received: from 127.0.0.1 (EHLO blizzard.com) (112.175.245.48)
by mta126.mail.ac4.yahoo.com with SMTP; Thu, 07 Jul 2011 04:29:53 -0700
From: "Blizzard Entertainment" <[email protected]>
Subject: Return to World of Warcraft with 7 Days of Game Time
To: [MY-EMAIL]
Content-Type: text/html;charset="GB2312"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 19:29:56 +0800
X-Priority: 3
X-Mailer: Foxmail 4.1 [cn]
Content-Length: 28707
There are also a few clues in the e-mail itself such as the "Der" instead of "Dear." Also, it claims 4.2 to be "Rise of the Zalandari"

If you actually click the link it takes you to a site with a domain of ".tk" which is completely fake.

I hope nobody falls for this!

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Last edited by Waky : 07-07-11 at 08:01 AM.
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