Hilarious Diablo III phishing email

[Jackolantern]

I have seen some really decent, well-written attempts to phish Blizzard game accounts. And then there is this. I was flagging an email as spam and looked into my spam folder only to see this gem. Since it was flagged not to download anything, show any images or anything, I checked it out, and this is what I got:

From: noreply@battle.com //should be battle.net. They can't even spoof an email address right!

Dear customer,

Because you are involved in the trading of gold and equipment.
legitimately means playing with an unaltered game client.
Doing otherwise violates our policies for Battle.net and Diablo III,
and it goes against the spirit of fair play that all of our games are based on.
We strongly recommend that you avoid using any hacks,
cheats, bots, or exploits.

Suspensions and bans of players that have used or start using cheats and hacks will
You can confirm that you are the original owner of the account to this secure website with:
http://us.battlle.net.long.owkladb.inf/ ... pp=bam&t=1

Login to your account, In accordance following template to verify your account.

* Account name
* Account password
* First and Surname
* Secret Question and Answer
Show * Please enter the correct information

If you ignore this mail your account can and will be closed permanently.
Account security is incredibly important to us, and we hope that it's important to you,
too. If you have any additional security recommendations to add to this list,
please feel free to share them in the comments!

Account Administration Team
Diablo III World of Warcraft , Blizzard Entertainment 2012

The bolding was added by me for emphasis. Beyond all of the grammar atrocities that are being committed here and all of the sentence fragments, they begin the email by telling me that because I am buying and selling gold and equipment in D3 legally, I am using an unaltered client, and it comes off as a notice not to ever start using cheats. Then the last paragraph changes over to a "you have been using cheats" ban letter. Keep your story straight! And then that ghastly URL (I did change some letters in it to ensure no one's curiosity gets the best of them, but that is basically it since I changed it letter for letter lol)!

I just thought some people may get a chuckle out of seeing this one, as it is the worst I have ever seen.

[Callan S.]

A real one would ask for your credit card number as well. Pff, everyone knows that...

[Jackolantern]

A real one would ask for your credit card number as well. Pff, everyone knows that...

Why not live large and just ask for credit card, social security number, a faxed birth certificate and unfettered access to your bedroom at night?

[Callan S.]

That's just silly!

Merely a sex tape submitted will suffice for 'verification purposes'.

[hallsofvallhalla]

haha good stuff. Thanks for the laugh everyone.

[Sharlenwar]

What amazes me, is if people aren't careful, they will simply click and continue with it. I don't understand why this would work, but you wouldn't see these if it didn't work on some level.

[leruman]

I do get lot these mails, do not eve look in them in detail.

I get most business offers how get lot millions of dollars in some Africa country. Sad. I was thinking for a joke just to try once to actualy contact them to see what they are asking from me to get that amount of money.

[OldRod]

Nah, if you respond to one, then they know they got a good email address... then you get on "the A List"

[Jackolantern]

Oh, that reminded me, I got one of those "You won a European lottery" emails, for...wait for it... 2.....TRILLION Euros! While it was a pretty basic typo, it is just funny that any remotely official organization would make a typo in the amount of money they would be giving

[OldRod]

But maybe you really did win... you could be rich