Suspicious activity? Hmm..

[Deleted]

Just got e-mail saying that "Due to suspicious activity, the Battle.net account account@account has been locked. To restore access to this account, please follow these steps:"
wondering is that sorta random thingie blizz throwing on to players, or they didn't like me playing my 10 lvl80's on my account? I lold honestly

[Kaldriss]

i have gotten that email before, its a hoax dont go to the link

[Dekki]

Sounds like a scam.
Go to battle.net and check it out.

[Deleted]

probably a scam mail, still get spam mail sent to the wrong email address :c
would probably ignore it till you actually get suspended in game

[bunnytrail]

Never click on a link in an e-mail from "Blizzard". Real Blizzard will always give you the steps to do it yourself.

Also, Blizzard has fancy stationary stuff for their e-mails. :]

[conscript]

Go to battle.net, and not by clicking the link, or simply log into wow. If you can do those things then it is a fake email.

And if the email actually says account@account as the account name then you are an idiot if you even possibly considered that it was real.

[Duncanîdaho]

Ignore it and check if you can log in like normal. If you can log in like normal, it was a scam.

[Maeleena]

Sounds like a scam.
Go to battle.net and check it out.

Or easier, just try to login to the game itself. You will get a message stating the account is locked if it is indeed locked.

[Abstieg]

Just log in. That kind of tells you whether or not the email is legitimate.

[bak00777]

i got that once, when my account was frozen, and i have an authenticator so i knew some1 didnt steal my account and messed around

[Zarleck]

Actually, I got the same e-mail a few weeks ago, and this one was actually from Blizzard and not some scam e-mail.
Now, trying to log in to the game told me my account had been locked...
Funny thing was, I hadn't been online for 4-5 days.

"Hey, this guy's been offline for more than 4 days.. He must be plotting against us, quick! Ban his ass!"

[Moozart]

Just log in. That kind of tells you whether or not the email is legitimate.

^ this

[Vongimi]

Yeah i have gotten a real one of those before, but they only send it to you AFTER a failed login attempt due to locking the account. So just try and login, if you can, its fake.

[lyom]

As Kaldriss said, be careful, it may be a scam, don't click any link, go to blizzard's site manually and try to log in there.

That said, I've received a similar e-mail which was not a scam:

Due to suspicious activity, the Battle.net account XXXXXXXXXX has been locked. To restore access to this account, please follow these steps:

Step 1: Secure Your Computer

[...]

Step 3: Choose a New Password

You must change your password in order to resume using this Battle.net account. Please click this link to choose a new password:

https://us.battle.net/account/suppor...=XXXXXXXXXXXXX


The ultimate reason for this was that my account was accessed from different IP addresses at the same time. My (alas, sucky) ISP assigns IPs from 2 class A blocks, so my IPs may look very different after my ISP randomly DCed me.

[teh_anarchist]

/ignore tbh. i get about 5-10 of these a day and have for months and i ignore them all

[Deleted]

Actually, I got the same e-mail a few weeks ago, and this one was actually from Blizzard and not some scam e-mail.
Now, trying to log in to the game told me my account had been locked...
Funny thing was, I hadn't been online for 4-5 days.

"Hey, this guy's been offline for more than 4 days.. He must be plotting against us, quick! Ban his ass!"

Haha yes basicaly i've tried to log in game and some thing poped out saying that your account locked I was liek "Oh well good that they didn't smacked me with banhammer" xD

[the kins man]

I don't know what it is, I got hacked about 6 months ago, and now whenever I check my school email (which I made the mistake of tying my wow account to) I have literally 5+ emails about how my account has been compromised. Just remember, the email will always be sent from a battle.net account if its actually from blizzard

[Intoeternity]

Its possible it could be real, they implemented new security where if someone from a different location from your normal login location attempts to log in, itll lock your account and ask for security information

[Deleted]

Actually, I got the same e-mail a few weeks ago, and this one was actually from Blizzard and not some scam e-mail.
Now, trying to log in to the game told me my account had been locked...
Funny thing was, I hadn't been online for 4-5 days.

"Hey, this guy's been offline for more than 4 days.. He must be plotting against us, quick! Ban his ass!"

Thanks for the sig.

EDIT: Wait... how to make quotes into sigs? ;/

[Faion]

I get 2-3 of those a day. their just spam emails ignore em