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And this is how I nearly got my WoW acc scammed...
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| Taranis |
I've been vaguely thinking about selling off one of my acc's for a while, so I registered on a forum for buying/selling/trading accounts and posted an add last night. Got home tonight to find this in my inbox:
| quote: | From : Blizzard Entertainment
Sent : Monday, 21 May 2007 11:43:17 PM
To : <**********@hotmail.com>
Subject : Account Issue
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Greetings!
It has come to our attention that you are trying to sell/trade your personal World of Warcraft account.
As you may or 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. It will be ongoing for further investigation by Blizzard employee's.
Blizzard might consider taking legal actions against your crime, if it seems too be of an extreme nature.
If you wish to not get your account suspended you should immediately verify your account.
This action is taken because we at Blizzard Entertainment takes these sales
quite serious. We need to confirm you are the original owner of the account.
This is easiest done by confirming your personal information along with concealed information about your account.
You can confirm that you are the original owner of the account by replying to this email with:
Use the following template below to verify your account and information via email.
* First and surname
* Address
* Zip code
* Phone number Daytime
* Country
* Account e-mail
* CD-key, alternative a photograph of your CD-key that is located on your manual for World of Warcraft.
* Account name
* Account password
* Secret Question and Answer
If you ignore this mail your account can and will be closed permanently.
We ask you to NOT change password until the investigation is fully completed.
Blizzard Entertainment Inc
Account Administration Team
P.O. Box 18979, Irvine, CA 92623
Regards,
Account Administration Team
Blizzard Entertainment Inc |
At first I was like 'wtf, they found out somehow'. Hit panic mode, and started messaging the friend I originally got the acc off for SQ/A and CD-Key. It was only after he replied 10 minutes later that I realised that Blizzard had said that they NEVER request passwords in emails. So I checked the address it was from, and realised how close I'd come to getting scammed.
It's really quite ingenious, they get emails from people they KNOW are selling accounts, email them, person panics and perhaps doesn't check that the email is legit. Sends out details, thinking they've just averted a banning, and loses their acc.
Needless to say, I felt like a ing tool after realising how close I'd come to getting scammed.
Watch out for this if you've been trading acc's.
Also received this other email a couple moments later, but it's so dumb I don't consider it a serious scam attempt:
| quote: | From : [email protected] .
Sent : Tuesday, 22 May 2007 2:22:08 AM
To : <*******@hotmail.com>
Subject : Starcraft II winner
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Greetings!
Congratulations
You are 1 of 20 World Of Warcraft players who have been randomly selected off our servers to win a free copy of Starcraft II.
As of yet Starcraft II is still to be released and in beta development. You will be one of the first to play Starcraft II in the world .
We have added a new security verification to stop game piracy until we have the game shipping please read below.
To access the Starcraft II you must first verify you are indeed the owner of the World of Warcraft Account.
Use the following template below to verify your account and information via email.
* First and Surname
* Address
* Zip code
* Phone number Daytime
* Country
* Account e-mail
* CD-key, alternative a photograph of your CD-key that is located on your manual for World of Warcraft.
* Account name
* Account password
* Secret Question and Answer
On retrieval of your Wow account information we will then send you a direct download link to Starcraft II you will then be required to enter your WoW account and password to download the installer until the Game is released you will be required to log on to verify you are indeed the Strarcraft II owner.
Please view attachment for photo of the login for download page.
All winners will be posted on The World of Warcraft Homepage.
Please reply NO if you would like to forfeit your prize and we will randomly select a new Account
Terms And conditions:
All content and Private information will not be shared with anyone but blizzard and is kept as a reference and proof of purchase.
This is the only time blizzard will ask for account info During this Promotion
Blizzard Entertainment Inc
Account Administration Team
P.O. Box 18979, Irvine, CA 92623
Regards,
Starcraft II Administration Team
Blizzard Entertainment Inc
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Needless to say you'd need to be a total idiot to fall for the second, but they nearly had me with the first. |
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| babyvsrhino |
| Ah man, that would have sucked. It's a pretty crafty scam they're running there. |
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| nfekted |
| well, being that I play a lot of online games, as soon as I would've finished reading that letter I would've laughed my ass off. Right off I can tell it bs. |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
| There were so many grammatical errors in that first email... lol |
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| Yan |
noob :p
Good that it didn't get scammed, though. :) |
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
| quote: | Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
There were so many grammatical errors in that first email... lol |
precisely. |
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| Taranis |
| quote: | Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
There were so many grammatical errors in that first email... lol |
Yeah if it had turned up at any other time I would have laughed and ignored it. It was the timing, the fact that I 'knew' I'd been doing something that I could get banned for and didn't have the details (which funnily enough saved me) that threw me off enough that I didn't recognise it for what it was until afterwards. |
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| Spam |
I like the part where Blizzard might, just might, take legal action against your act, rather than YOU.
Honestly... Maybe it's just because I've been online playing MMORPGS and such for 11 years, but I don't understand how a person could even 'almost' be scammed.
These scam mails are always filled with so many grammatical errors, or unprofessional sentence-choices that I have a hard time believing people actually fall for it. |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
| quote: | Originally posted by Taranis
Yeah if it had turned up at any other time I would have laughed and ignored it. It was the timing, the fact that I 'knew' I'd been doing something that I could get banned for and didn't have the details (which funnily enough saved me) that threw me off enough that I didn't recognise it for what it was until afterwards. |
Ahh, haha. Makes sense. |
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