I recently found an email on my personal account, in the spambox (I check it now and then in case something legitimate got caught) that made me giggle and shake my head and I thought I’d share it with all of you.
This is the email I received:
From: wowaccountadmin <wowaccountabnimn@yahoo.cn>
Subject: World of Warcraft – Potential Risks
Greetings!
Some evidence indicates that you are trying to sell your personal World of Warcraft account(s).
As you may not be aware of, this conflicts with the EULA and Terms of Agreement.
If this proves to be true, your account can and will be disabled.
We will gather more information through further investigation.
If you wish to not get your account suspended you should immediately verify your account ownership.
You can confirm that you are the original owner of the account by providing the following information:
* First and Surname
* Date of birth
* Address
* Zip code
* Phone number
* Country
* Account e-mail
* Account name
* Account password
* Secret Question and Answer Or WoW CD-Key
Show * Please enter the correct information
www.worldofwarcrcraft.com
If you ignore this mail your account can be closed permanently.
Once we verify your account, we will reply to your e-mail informing you that we have dropped the investigation.Regards,
Account Administration Team
Blizzard Entertainment
Somehow, I think if the mass email accounts listed in the To: field (which I omitted here to protect the other innocent potential victims) didn’t give them away, the Yahoo! email address might also have been a tip-off. And note the extra “cr” in “Warcraft” they used in the URL they provided.
Your petty scare tactics won’t work on me, gold farmers! I’m too wily for such trickery! But thanks for the laugh, anyway.
Note: Blizzard employees will never ask for your password. If you’re contacted by someone supposedly representing Blizzard Entertainment and they ask for your password–it’s a scam. Be sure to report all such falsified contacts to Blizzard directly so they can respond accordingly to protect the interests of their players.
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Lol that awsome. People sre sooo stupid.
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Its amazing how persistant these worms are. I even recieved an in-game whisper from a “blizzrrdmastr” telling me i won a prize from blizz and to go to their website which was something like “war-craft-acct@blizzerd.com”.
(simular, slight mispelling or hyphens where blizzard doesn’t use them).
And I disagree with Lagan “People sre sooo stupid” (which ironically he couldn’t spell corrrectly), it’s not their fault the uninformed get duped by this crap. Ultimately I feel the blame is on the gold buyers that create this market to begin with. And blizzard for allowing this market to continue.
Obviously gold buyers must make a large percentage of their playing “population” otherwise they would have taken more steps to counteract these gold hacker methods.
Otherwise the cycle will continue, account compromised->gold sellers sells gold->buyer gets gold->blizz restores account= happy acount because they got their account back, happy gold seller, happy gold buyer with no resolution….
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I’ve felt for a long time now that the best way to stop gold buying and selling is for Blizzard to just offer it themselves. Now, of course, mass amounts of gold available for purchase could potentially unbalance the game. The simple solution to that would be for them to just put restrictions on how much you can buy and how often. Allow the purchase of just enough to satisfy the itch, but not so much that people are just swimming in the stuff.
At this point in the game, it seems easy enough for many people to acquire mass amounts of gold on their own, to the point where, to some, the currency has become meaningless. That being the case, why not just nip this whole problem in the bud and offer it themselves? By doing so, Blizzard would generate additional revenue for themselves and cut down drastically on the man hours they’re currently spending on dealing with account theft and the prosecution of major gold sellers they find.
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I got that mail several times now, and what is quite interesting in that, I got it to a mail address that was never used for any official WoW and Blizzard related stuff, so how they got it I don’t know…
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I have received an email from some joker site saying I need to confirm my password change to my WoW account.I was like WTF I have not played in a few weeks,never mind changing the password.So I went to the “official Blizzard account”management and changed it anyways just to be on the safe side.But I thought I’d share that little juicy tidbit.
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This may not be the best place to post but I’m posting in regards to your sister site. I was following your paladin AOE guide (excellent guide by the way!) and was bummed to discover that the site appears to be broken:
http://priest.thehuntersmark.net/2009/06/05/paladin-aoe-grinding-guide-part-1/
I just wanted to let you know.
Thanks
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Yeah, it’s been having some issues lately. The pages all exist, but for some reason they’re throwing 404 errors, and I haven’t been able to figure out why. Been trying to repair the db, etc, but no luck so far.
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i got the same 1 a while ago
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In relation to the gold article, giving away in game gold to new players(not to often!) or helping them to learn how to make gold will also cut down on the gold buying. If you are nice to someone and explain to them in game how to do something it will make their playing experience more enjoyable and it usually only takes a few minutes of your time. Then they aren’t going out and wasting money on guides that tell the same thing they could have figured out with a little help.
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Some great information here, thanks man. The release of Cataclysm is driving me crazy, at 1 point it was supposed to be released in Feburary 2010, currently it’s supposedly Nov 2010!
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I have been getting these for a couple of weeks now. I never click on the links but go to the official WoW website (That is saved as a favourite) and log into my Account just to make sure.
Dem Dare Trickers are tryn to Trick me. (And anyone else that they can.)
To no avail thou
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