The former sent me an email, telling me that the authenticator app which I am using, is going to be discontinued as it is considered to be the legacy version. However, I am using the Battle.net app which to my knowledge was the recent one.
The email also contains links to the play-store, nevertheless, I avoid clicking links and navigate to these things manually through trusted sites instead, if they don’t exist that way, it is most likely a scam. I removed my authenticator, to install the one on the play store officially from Blizzard, however as you launch it, it tells you there is a new one and that was the one I was using originally. So I installed it again and set it back up.
The confirmation emails that I get on the other-hand are those from noreply@battle.net, which is why I am now wondering if noreply@te.battle.net is trying to scam people to install something that is no official in an attempt to obtain information from the accounts?
Anyone know of anything?
It is just weird that it is telling me that I am using a legacy version of their authenticator, when I am in fact using the newest one so I shouldn’t be getting this email. I am also familiar with these types of attempts in other games, so I’m just being extra cautious.
Don’t click on it! I don’t know if that email you received is legit or not, but I know that I’ve used the same authenticator app for at least 10 years and I never received a notice that it would be discontinued.
So it seems to me that the email is spam, phishing or worse. I would delete it.
However, i agree i wouldnt click on the link of the mail either, as the mail adress seems kinda weird. So its correct that you need to change your app, but i wouldnt use the links in the mail and do it manually.
The authenticator app is being discontinued. But if you suspect that email is not legit there is no need to interact with it. Just go to the authenticator app and it will walk you through what you need to do.
That it is clear that te. battle.net is not a legitimate webpage of Blizzard.
Blizzard does not have any “te” in the address.
You can even try opening: te. battle.net…this page doesn’t exist.
Ignore this mail and put it in spam.
Only trust pure addresses links like: battle. net, google. com, etc.
te.battle.net is a real battle.net subdomain used by Blizzard to send mass e-mails through the SparkPost mail service. (I don’t know if that’s specific to this e-mail campaign, or if it was an unrelated recent change.)
You can’t open it in your web browser because it only exists as an MX record, which mail clients/servers use, but web browsers don’t.
I transitioned to the new app authenticator and it works, even to log into these forums but still keep getting emails saying the old authenticator is on my account. I removed that before setting up this new app so no idea why I keep getting emails saying I have to transition.
Its legit, i checked the link it brings you to the google play app store or apple store to download official blizzard program, even said i had it installed allready on my phone.