Battle.net Account Verification Email Spam Continues, More Users Compromised

More spam is lighting up for Battle.net account users, Diablo, and World of Warcraft members. The latest spam update is below, where once again, the spammers are using a fake email account (diablo@email.com) as the sender, and stating that you are trying to sell your Battle.net account and need to verify it so it will not be suspended.

However, the link it gives looks real, however, it is fake.

Here are the technical details:

Return-path (email address the email actually came from): ab[at]vlrpc.com

IP address: 112.65.228.185 belonging to an unknown/private user (WHOIS states the IP master’s name: yanling ruanof) China Unicom, a telecommunications company governed by The People’s Republic of China. They seem to either ignore abuse reports, or do not know much about their users’ activities. We know a private user sent this spam, because the message header clearly states the application used to send the email: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5512.

Known blacklisting: Spamhaus.org (listed as “Illegal 3rd party exploits, including proxies, worms and trojan exploits”), abuseat.org, barracudacentral.org, uceprotect.net

Now, it’s believed that the recent spam outbreak (like the one above, for example) is a result of the latest Blizzard lawsuit. However, spam like this has happened before (also look in the comments for a user who posted about Diablo 3 spam).

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