Basically long story short, a couple of hours ago, my friend received a text message allegedly from Blizzard with a link to click within the text. I told him do not click the link, and log into his account from the website to check his account first, which he has, and found nothing wrong with his account, but he seems pretty convinced the text message is real. I have showed him the support article about Phishing Scams, and told him what he needs to do, but yeah…
Just needing advice on how to convince him that it is what it is, and to not click on the links within the text message.
We also have my Spotlight on: Phishing, if you friend wants more to read. 
We don’t whisper folks with links or try to get them to go to other sites.
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I’ll send him that link. Thanks for that Vrakthris.
Just don’t want to see anything happen to his account because of suspicious links.
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Wasn’t there an ingame warning popup when you click on a link? It’s been awhile I last clicked but…
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I think so, but I am not 100% sure on that either. But he received it by a text message, so wouldn’t get that pop-up.
Tell them to right-click the name. If there is an option to report the name, do it. You can’t report a legitimate Blizzard employee using right-click. It has the added benefit of hiding the text and removing the temptation.
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It was via a text message or SMS.
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If it was via phone, then his phone is likely going to be infected with a Trojan malware that can take information for anything that he uses it for. Banking, Blizzard, even Email and Text messages. Clicking random links has various negative effects in general.
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I was caught by one of those for the MoP beta, I knew I had access but didn’t know how to use it. The link went to a login page, then once credentials were entered, it went to a support type page “thank you for your feedback” and I knew I was boned. I immediately changed my password, but kicked myself for forgetting what I should have done-----ALWAYS ENTER YOUR INFORMATION WRONG! Blizzard will know it’s wrong, but a phisher won’t.
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Idk, that ßlizzard guy is always super convincing when he whispers me in game with a link to a site with threats of account closure if I do not.
But yeah, OP. Tell your friend to never click unsolicited links.
I like going to phishing links in a secure browser and giving them Homer Simpson’s login information. The more fake info they have to sort through, the less time they will have to use the real info people give.
You have to know what you’re doing with security to do this safely though.
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Even with secure browser and firewall it still wouldn’t be that safe to do that. If your anti virus software has a link to report a phishing site do that. I know that Trend Micro has that feature