Archived Fake gift card texts

[TheWanderer]

Some of them are still pretty bad, though. Here's one I got recently.

"Greetings!
When attacking from the air, it's best to advance from the angle of the sun so as to blind your foes... Or just ride a luminous dragon that glows like a thousand suns. The Heart of the Aspects flying mount will travel as fast as your riding skill will take you, and it will travel at 310% speed if you have at least one other 310% mount.
Once activated, this World of Warcraft in-game pet key applies to all present and future characters on a single World of Warcraft license.
less than 10 minutes to complete. No account information is required to participate in this survey.
we will be complimentary seat to the 200,000 players. You can log Web site application, we will be lucky players randomly. Please click this link to apply: [link to phishing website]
If your account passes the check successfully, we will send a code for the Heart of the Aspects flying mount to you in the form of e-mail!
The World of Warcraft Support Team"

It's fairly passable until you get to that bolded part. I'm sure more than a few people fell for it, nonetheless.

 

[commiecorvus]

This was one of my favorites from back when I beta tested Cataclysm.
Not sure why I saved it.

Dear players,big disaster has arrived.
We are closely watching the development of the game.
In this beautiful moment to thank all the deep players.
We have to do a surey to obtain some information used to adjust some details of the game in order to obtain much very better service. please sign the following links:
/standard sort of looks ligit but not really phishing site/
survey of vote after the vote we will adjust the information for statistical details of the game.
You work hard with our playres, please, thank you.
After the questionnaire had the palayers to vote will receive a mystery gift of much value.
The Battle.net and World of Warcraft team.

 

[pzychopopgroove]

I get that text several times a day

 

[AssetsProtection]

I get a phishing WoW email once a day

 

[mrknownothing]

Reminds me of the Viagra spam I used to get on my school e-mail. They always linked to .cn sites.

 

[TheWanderer]

They need to start including this kind of thing in high school or something. Just a section on basic Information Security in a typing class or something. As big a role as computers and phones now play in our lives, people need to be made aware of how to avoid scams.