Alert! Be cautious about this spam e-mail apparently from Yahoo!

I pay for email too ... I don't get spam with Yahoo mail plus :)

Wishmaster said:

If I failed to do so, my WOW account would be banned.

Welcome WM.
Thanks for adding, we may start a total thread on these things, it will be a reference for scams (still now Yahoo! answer (LOL) is the main reference).

There is another :

"Your parcel cant be delivered by DHL" (gives address such as postmaster@xyz...). Its dangerous. It contains a file as attachment (saying details are in the attachment). And that contain a virus.

Its look almost real, infact, the real DHL does not look that gorgeous LOL

Jacee said:

I pay for email too ... I don't get spam with Yahoo mail plus :)

Thanks for the info Jacee

Wishmaster said:

Thanks for this. This type of stuff seems quite common, and appears to be real at first glance.

I seen something similar to this twice last week.
Window Live mail did flag it as SPAM however.

The mail looked legit. From Blizzard.

In a nut shell, my Battlenet account may have been compromised and I needed to follow a link to verify my personal details and talk to a rep. about it.

If I failed to do so, my WOW account would be banned.


I found this odd because I have NEVER had a World of Warcraft account, nor have I even played the game.

So I guess they'll just need to ban my account that never existed in the first place.

Don't feel bad...I get the same crap from PayPal and Bank of America.
Never used either one of them and have no intention of starting now.

The Howling Wolves said:

Don't feel bad...I get the same crap from PayPal and Bank of America.
Never used either one of them and have no intention of starting now.

Me too

Others are:

1. Orchard bank

2. Counsel Notice - Lost a job due to the oil spill. (Very realistic looking)

3. Kaplan University (have thousand IDs, I dont know why they love me )

4. Most popular "Need your help...from Nigeria" (Nigeria scam mail)

Foot note:

Code:

I will NOT say the details, but, there is a website, 
that provides to send email to any email address 
from any e-mail address. Cant get it?
Say, Arc's personal email is Arc@example.com 
and that of Dennis is dennis@xyz.com.
Now say, a third person CAN send a fake mail 
from Arc's email to that of Dennis. 
How to catch it? check the full header. 
You will get the i.p. The sending server will 
not be of example.com. If members need detailed 
screenshot (without that site address), I can post it.

I use Yahoo as my Junk e-mail address. I have multiple accounts with my ISP. One is for my important financial dealings, another is for my friends. I use Yahoo for all those sites that want an e-mail address to access them and its all junk anyway. If it gets to bad I just kill it and get another one.

Jim

We can easily make this is not from Yahoo since the E-mail address "centercustomeralert@yahoo.com.hk" and as far as my knowledge non of the E-mail, Banks will ask for your Password by E-mail.

- Captain

Capt.Jack Sparrow said:

We can easily make this is not from Yahoo since the E-mail address "centercustomeralert@yahoo.com.hk" and as far as my knowledge non of the E-mail, Banks will ask for your Password by E-mail.

- Captain

100% right.

It should be "centercustomeralert@yahoo.co.hk" , to be a valid Yahoo mail. Though I dont know whether .co.hk is actually present (like .co.in).