Recently I received this e-mail

Greetings!

It has come to our attention that you are trying to sell or trade your personal World of Warcraft account.

As you may or may not be aware of, these actions conflict with the EULA and Terms of Service (TOS) of Blizzard Entertainment and World of Warcraft.

The investigation will be continued by Blizzard administration to determine the action to be taken against your account. If your account is found violating the EULA and Terms of Use, your account can, and will be suspended/closed/or terminated.

If you wish to not get your account suspended you should immediately verify your account. 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:

* First and Last name
* Address
* Zip code
* Phone number Daytime
* Country
* Account e-mail
* CD-key
* Battle.net account name
* Battle.net account password
* Secret Question and Answer

Only Account Administration will be able to assist with account retrieval issues.

Thank you for your patience and anticipated cooperation in this matter.

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

Regards,

Account Administration
Blizzard Entertainment
http://www.blizzard.com/support/wowaa/
World of Warcraft , Blizzard Entertainment 2010


I figure since it is from Blizzard, I better do it, eh? I mean who would pretend to be Blizzard to just get my accont info so they can change the account to themselves and rape the bank? Really, who would do such a thing?

What's the reply email? I'm just curious

Uh-oh... a phisher who planned well enough to get an actual English-speaker to write their e-mail. I wonder how many will get snagged as a result. :)

Yeah, that one is actually pretty good.

Greetings random person

We believe you are selling your account, but we don't actually know what your account is. Because of that, please send us allllll of you details. We still think you're selling your account, and will ban you if you don't tell us what your account is.

Love

Blizz


I love it 8D

Greetings random person

We believe you are selling your account, but we don't actually know what your account is. Because of that, please send us allllll of you details. We still think you're selling your account, and will ban you if you don't tell us what your account is.

Love

Blizz

And yet, people will probably do it. :doh:

I'm still rolling around the "This is easiest done" phrase in my head, because it's giving me that I-want-to-grind-my-teeth bad grammar feeling. I can't quite pinpoint the issue though.

"Easiest" is an adjective, but it's being used to modify a verb; proper grammar would be "This is most easily done." Is that correct, Euls?

"This is easily done by"

Oo, a test! :P
This one: "If you wish to not get your account suspended" also makes it rather clear that this isn't a professional inquiry. It's way too informal.

Although honestly... how many times and how many different ways does Blizz really have to say "We will never ask for your account name / password"???? really... I'm beginning to believe in the idea of "devolution".