If unsuspecting users input their credentials it will definitely result to account theft. The phishing URL tried to add some credibility by adding the string Mist of Pandaria abbreviation (MOP) to the domain name. The phishing URL in the in-game email goes to a phishing website that closely resembles the actual website. The Dragon Turtle Mount was previously announced by Blizzard as the racial mount for the Pandarens, the new additional playable character race available in the Mist of Pandaria expansion. In this phishing try, the scammer entices would-be victims to join the Mist of Pandaria beta testing and win an exclusive in-game item, the Dragon Turtle Mount, by visiting and registering in their website. In this phishing attempt, the malicious URLs are sent via in-game mail and are received by players in their in-game mailboxes. In these new rounds of phishing attempts, scammers are trying to abuse the WoW’s in-game mail system. TrendLabs researchers started seeing increased phishing activity inside World of Warcraft after Blizzard started the closed beta testing for Mists of Pandaria last March 2012. It was first unveiled to the public last October 2011 during the BlizzCon 2011 conference in Anaheim, California. World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria is the fourth expansion for the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) World of Warcraft.
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