Security Awareness Notice: Spoof Emails

Nebu from the World of Warcraft posts this:

We have recently seen an increase in the number of "spoof" emails players are receiving that are attempting to steal account information. These types of emails often appear authentic and usually request your login name, security question/answer, AND password. Please keep in mind that official Blizzard Entertainment emails will always come from a blizzard.com email address and will NEVER ask for your password. For further details on this issue and an example of a recent spoof email that we've seen, please visit our forum post.

The email that I recieved was like this.


World of Warcraft Account Review WOW


Billing@Blizzard.com accountreviewadmin@gmail.com <--- Blizzard email I think not.
Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 2:32 AM


Greetings!
It has come to our attention that you are trying to sell/trade your personal World of Warcraft account(s).As you may or may not be aware of, this conflicts with the EULA and Terms of Agreement.If this proves to be true, your account(s) can and will be disabled. It will be ongoing for further investigation by Blizzard Entertainment's employees.

If you wish to not get your account suspended you should immediately verify your account ownership. If the information is deemed accurate, the investigation will be dropped.This action is taken because we at Blizzard Entertainment take these salesquite seriously. We need to confirm you are the original owner of the account.This is easiest done by confirming your personal information along with concealed information about your account.You can confirm that you are the original owner of the account by replying to this email with:

Use the following template below to verify your account and information via email.
* First and Last name
* Address
* Zip code
* Phone number
* Country
* Account e-mail
* Account name
* Account password
* Secret Question and Answer

If you ignore this mail your account can and will be closed permanently. Once we verify your account, we will reply to your e-mail informing you that we have dropped the investigation.We ask you to NOT change password until the investigation is fully completed.

Blizzard Entertainment Inc Account Administration Team
P.O. Box 18979, Irvine, CA 92623.

Regards,
Account Administration TeamBlizzard Entertainment Inc

I was never trying to sell my account. I wasn't really thinking that much about Wow in my (127 day) Wow break. One of the main reasons I took a break from Wow was, because my account was hacked. And they banned my account for Gold farming. To tell you the truth I spent gold as fast as I ever got it the most that I ever saved up was for Epic mounts Ground/Flying.

When I finally got my account back every item was broken (Red). Repair bill was like 80g which came from the 1500g they left on my toon. When I play I think of other people so I shared my gold that the farmer left on my account with my guild, and friends.