My BlackBerry ID account has been locked twice in the last 2 days by BlackBerry.  They did this because of numerous failed attempts to guess the password.  The messages were  a complete surprise to me because I haven't even attempted to log in for over a month. 

Every time this happens I get an email telling me the account is locked and a link to BlackBerry's web site to enter my email and request a reset of the password.  That results in a second email with the link to actually reset the password.

At first, I thought that these password guessing attempts are really stupid.  Perhaps some 'script kiddie' randomly guessing or trying out email address and password combinations nabbed in the Gawker Media leak   After thinking about it for a few minutes I realized that they might be about to try a very clever scam.

The scenario I envision is this: after multiple times of trying to hack the account and me being forced to reset the password, I'll receive an identical looking email with the same message - but this one will be a 'phishing' email designed to trick me into revealing my password.  The email will look the same, the web page will look the same, but it will be BrackBerry.com or some equally inane domain to try to trick me.

Time will tell if my suspicions are correct.  I will update this post either way in the near future.

UPDATE - 7 Sept:

I have not received the anticipated 'phishing' email.  Of course, it's likely that gmail filtered it out as spam.  No proof either way.