Sliconera has spotted a scam email that is doing the rounds.
The email is a basic phishing scam, and is similar to the countless Standard Bank/ABSA/Nedbank/lottery scam emails that we are subjected to regularly. It offers you a free StarCraft II CD key; all you have to do is supply your Battle.net details.
The emails comes from [email protected].
The email reads as follows:
Hello, thank you for shopping at the Blizzard Store!
StarCraft II®: Wings of Liberty™: 2775298057033043807536803
To use this key to activate the game, simply follow these instructions:
1. Create a Battle.net account (or if you already have one, log in) at<malicious URL removed!>
2. Verify your e-mail address. (If you have previously verified your address, skip this step.) From the main Account Management page, click the ‘verify this e-mail address’ link. Then, check your e-mail account for a verification e-mail. Click the link in this e-mail to verify your e-mail address.
3. Return to the Battle.net account management page, then click on ‘Code Redemption’.
4. Enter the above CDKey in the code field.
5. Once you have successfully redeemed this code, you will be able to play the game.
NOTE: If you have previously chosen to gift your digital purchase, attaching this key to their Battle.net account will prevent you from being able to redeem this key with your Battle.net account.
Remember, when receiving suspicious looking email it is usually easy to determine whether it is a scam by looking for a digital signature, and mousing over any contained URLs. This causes the real target site to pop up, and is a straight forward way of protecting yourself from dodgy URLs.
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