I got a message from google this morning.

[Technomage Hawke]

Before I went total a couple of years back, I used to play WoW and after they got their mail database compromised, I would start getting loads of PHISHES, spam and other mails. So, I made a new gmail account specifically for WoW and changed the email in WoW to reflect this. I still get spams and malicious mails purporting to be from blizzard, even though I haven't been in the game for slightly longer than 2 years. That WoW only gmail address? still empty after all this time. between this and the authenticator, my account was fairly secure. BTW, anyone want a WoW account with a bunch of inactive level 80's sitting there? I never did go into cataclysm and it seems a shame to have the authenticator sitting here unused. Blizzard was kind enough to send me the proceedure by which I could give the account to someone else (I still have that email). 

-eric

On May 13, 2012, at 8:44 PM, Dazed_75 wrote:

> The one such message I got from google was real.  The person also got into and stole my Blizzard account before I got an authenticator.
> 
> On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Matt Graham <danceswithcrows at usa.net> wrote:
> > On May 13, 2012, at 5:57 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
> >> This is the second message I've gotten from them telling me someone
> >> broke into my account. [...] Is google just filling us with paranoia
> >> or is someone really hacking me?
> From: Alex Dean <alex at crackpot.org>
> > Are you sure that message is from Google? Could be more phishing.
> 
> Phishing attempts are usually totally obvious if you look at the full headers
> of a message and/or the href= attributes of any links within the HTML portions
> of a message.  So:  Take a look at the message's raw source and find out.
> 
> (If this *is* phishing, I fully expect to see about 20 mails like this in my
> work account tomorrow morning, since whoever's in charge of mail filtering
> there seems to miss a lot of stuff....)
> 
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