Emsisoft is reporting that there’s a new email phishing scam going around, and it specifically targets World of Warcraft players anxiously awaiting the upcoming release of The Warlords of Draenor expansion pack.


Unlike earlier phish attempts that dangle invites to test the expansion pack’s beta, this latest scam promises free skill upgrades and gold, which players can pre-install with a complimentary Game Key and which will apparently be activated upon The Warlords of Draenor expansion pack release.



Like many a phish, the email also includes a link to a malicious website. In this case, the website is a mock-up of Blizzard’s official Battle.net log-in page that uses the same design as the real one. The pretense of this phish is that players must log-on to cash in on their complimentary Game Key and all of its cool gifts, but in reality log-in credentials are sent to the scammer. With username and password in hand, scammers can then log on to their victims’ actual accounts to glean personal and financial information.

Reports have indicated that one website involved in this scam is located at blizzardentertainmentfreeactivitiese.com. Fortunately, major browsers such as Chrome and Firefox have already flagged the site as malicious.