Has anyone seen these idiots?

Bane82

OK, I know this is stupid, and it might even be out of date. But I just found out today and I couldn't help but laugh.

I was reading a thread earlier about dumb e-mail scams and I started looking on Youtube for that commercial where a bald guy tries to pull off the nigerian e-mail scam in person to a woman in a bus (it was pretty funny) then I saw on the related topics that there were some videos on scamming and hacking WoW accounts.

Well the curiosity got the best of me and I saw these videos. At first I thought it was real and I was about to report it to Blizzard (I hadn't finished watching the whole video at the time). But then I watched it again and I ended up laughing when I saw that the e-mail that the scammer was asking you to send your account information. (it was usually something like BlizzardRetrieval@HOTMAIL.com)

/sarcasm
I didn't know that Blizzard used hotmail, yahoo or gmail accounts to retrieve sensitive information lol!
/sarcasm off

But you know what was even sadder than these idiots trying to scam you out of your account information? the fact that there were idiots who fell for it. Some of the comments saying the scame worked were obviously fake (friends, double accounts etc.) but some of them seemed genuine because they said "I've been waiting for X amount of days, when will I get my free account?" or (and this one made me laugh) "I haven't gotten it yet, man blizzard e-mail is so slow"

None of these so called "hacks" work and there are videos on youtube proving it. Oh sure, they work for the guy posting the video, but that's just because he scammed YOU out of YOUR account information.

Funny thign to note, when people asked the person who posted the youtube video if the scam would work on a trial account, they always said no... wouldn't that be a very clear sign that it was a scam? oh well, as a famous american entrepeneur said "There's one born every minute"

Simmus

lol at blizzardretrieval@hotmail.com

 

that stupid...

or im waiting for x day...LOL

my answer:you never get an account ,nice try.

 

send me the video please i want to laugh !.:)

Bane82

Just type in WoW account hack on the Youtube search box and you'll get tons of them.

Isoman

I suppose the old saying "There's a sucker born every minute" applies to this topic.

Minsc

Well out of any MMO out today WoW is certainly the place to go to find the gullible and common sense challenged.

Omicron099

Youd think that PC gamers were smarter then the people that normally get scammed ( i read it on digg once, so it must be true)

I think by know if you give out information like that to a random email you deserve to lose your account.

Czzarre

Well, as much as I want to laugh at someones misfortune. Ive seen what hacking can do to a player, and the guild he/she is in. Its nothing to laugh at. Now, those Nigerian ones are obviously a joke. But Ive seen what viral keylogging did to some of my guildmates in WoW. They lost everything, We lost key members for our raiding, Blizz couldnt get them back up for weeks, They got pissed and left the game, the guild lost a lot of important players.

All these scams are driven because of the MMORPG gold market. That gold market wouldnt exist if we (the players) didnt support it. If you ever buy gold, and then in some future game lose one of your accounts  to a hacker, you have no right to be angry.

Torrential

todeswulf

Wow Players are PC gamers...and honestly the average IQ is about 84, and I'm not the one that came up with that observation Tesric  from Blizzard made that statement to me and a couple guild mates at the first Blizcon when we were talking about all of the idiocy on the Official WoW forums.  Blizzard employees remind me of  James Hetfield, from Metallica, he will get on stage  play the music and bond with the audiance...but down deep he loathes his fans and wishes all of them would die in a fire...after they buy his latest album of course. But the cluless masses still adore Blizzard and fight to shove money in their pockets.

Aseenus

sigh some people are just dumb...thats the way the cookie crumbles

boognish75

ROFL this reminded me of my friend, and his wow buddies, they would call stores and act as a representative of blizzard and fib up some baloney about the possible defects in gtc and to verify everythings fine by please read me a couple of the cards numbers so i can rucn a check on our system to make sure the cards are not defective, ....they get a lot of gtc numbers lol.

marowit

I have hacks for the best epic gear ever..GM GEAR just send me an email with you account and password at

blizzard@some.mail.site.com or vissit www.keylogger.cn and download this-will-steel-u`r-password.exe and run it!

LOL!

 

Classicstar

First of all nobody have any saying in what brain he wants when you are born you have to do with it untill you die so when your not so smart its NOT YOUR FOLD you think your so superior to others hey.

Well get this the way you talk about this or reply say more about you guys, in a way your the stupid ones:P

Instead of helping that kind peeps with your socalled supperior intellect only thing you can come up with is calling them retards or dumbs or laugh becouse there not so smart your pathetic try not to make offspring world would be going down the drain:P

There are plenty of guys on net who try scam peeps they should be called retards not the ones who are not smart enough or just cant resist to take offers they cant refuse.

arcdevil

u cant stop that happening. the only way would be forcing to take an IQ test...like >80 to use the net.

i that case said scams wouldnt happen .

on the other hand there wouldnt be any single WoW player allowed to play.

patrikd23

The smart people are there  to help idiots

daelnor

I actually saw that in DAOC several years back. Someone once went so far as to make a dummy website that asked for your account info.

it was like www.thecamelotherald.com instead of www.camelotherald.com

Something like that. It got enough people that mythic had to call it out so people would stop giving up their account info.

D.

SonofSeth

Originally posted by patrikd23


The smart people are there  to help idiots

But, but b bbut...  that's not fun!   

Briansho

These guys idiots? Who's the real idiot here. These guys or the people who think its real?

Bane82

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Originally posted by forest-nl
First of all nobody have any saying in what brain he wants when you are born you have to do with it untill you die so when your not so smart its NOT YOUR FOLD you think your so superior to others hey.
Well get this the way you talk about this or reply say more about you guys, in a way your the stupid ones:P
Instead of helping that kind peeps with your socalled supperior intellect only thing you can come up with is calling them retards or dumbs or laugh becouse there not so smart your pathetic try not to make offspring world would be going down the drain:P
There are plenty of guys on net who try scam peeps they should be called retards not the ones who are not smart enough or just cant resist to take offers they cant refuse.

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So you're saying I'M the idiot for pointing out what should be an OBVIOUS scam? When these people have been told over and over NOT to give away their account and password. You're saying I'M the idiot because of these greedy and blind people that CHOOSE to violate the EULA terms by not only giving away their account information, but also for the intention of trying to hack and steal other people's account, something considered incredibly Illegal, and yet, I'M the idiot right? Talk about a case of passing the blame to someone other than the perpetrator. They knew what they were trying to do was considered illegal and they were stupid enough to end up being bamboozled. It has nothing to do with "what brain they were born with."

Yes there are scams around the world and people do get scammed. But at least a lot of the scams are well prepared and better performed (like say, the United Nations). This scam is about as silly as the "your great great uncle from africa died and he left a big fortune for you, but we need a check from you for $250.00 along with your bank account information" some scams are just too stupid and obvious and the only people who fall prey for them are people who feed off their greed and don't use their heads.

Rrevan

It's pretty pathetic really. Someone with an account worth scamming won't fall for it, so what's the point really. N00b Kids with LvL 40 mages and a few gold aren't really worth the effort imo, and even they won't fall for this, most of them, anyway. Realistically, it's 1 born even hour or so, and i'm not sure if they would play WoW.

Those born once an hour kids probably are proud they smelled the scam where you're paying $15 each month to play a GAME (lol), that buys you access to 1/2 a porn site, and those got titties!

Scriar

Originally posted by arcdevil


u cant stop that happening. the only way would be forcing to take an IQ test...like >80 to use the net.
i that case said scams wouldnt happen .
on the other hand there wouldnt be any single WoW player allowed to play.

There wouldn't be many people on the internet at all tbh. Seen as how the average IQ of an adult is 73. One of the useless bits of information I learned in college.

jimmyman99

Originally posted by forest-nl


First of all nobody have any saying in what brain he wants when you are born you have to do with it untill you die so when your not so smart its NOT YOUR FOLD you think your so superior to others hey.
Well get this the way you talk about this or reply say more about you guys, in a way your the stupid ones:P
Instead of helping that kind peeps with your socalled supperior intellect only thing you can come up with is calling them retards or dumbs or laugh becouse there not so smart your pathetic try not to make offspring world would be going down the drain:P
There are plenty of guys on net who try scam peeps they should be called retards not the ones who are not smart enough or just cant resist to take offers they cant refuse.

While there is some logic to you post, some people are just so dumb, you wish there was a force sterilization law to stop them from spreading the stupid gene on earth. I work as a CSR, and I deal with stupid people everyday. Sometimes it gets so depressing that I lose hope for the humankind altogether. I mean, why would any1 pour hot oil into floppy drive A to get the floppy disk out??? Explain that?

jimmyman99

Originally posted by Bane82


OK, I know this is stupid, and it might even be out of date. But I just found out today and I couldn't help but laugh.
I was reading a thread earlier about dumb e-mail scams and I started looking on Youtube for that commercial where a bald guy tries to pull off the nigerian e-mail scam in person to a woman in a bus (it was pretty funny) then I saw on the related topics that there were some videos on scamming and hacking WoW accounts.
Well the curiosity got the best of me and I saw these videos. At first I thought it was real and I was about to report it to Blizzard (I hadn't finished watching the whole video at the time). But then I watched it again and I ended up laughing when I saw that the e-mail that the scammer was asking you to send your account information. (it was usually something like BlizzardRetrieval@HOTMAIL.com)
/sarcasm

I didn't know that Blizzard used hotmail, yahoo or gmail accounts to retrieve sensitive information lol!

/sarcasm off
But you know what was even sadder than these idiots trying to scam you out of your account information? the fact that there were idiots who fell for it. Some of the comments saying the scame worked were obviously fake (friends, double accounts etc.) but some of them seemed genuine because they said "I've been waiting for X amount of days, when will I get my free account?" or (and this one made me laugh) "I haven't gotten it yet, man blizzard e-mail is so slow"
None of these so called "hacks" work and there are videos on youtube proving it. Oh sure, they work for the guy posting the video, but that's just because he scammed YOU out of YOUR account information.
Funny thign to note, when people asked the person who posted the youtube video if the scam would work on a trial account, they always said no... wouldn't that be a very clear sign that it was a scam? oh well, as a famous american entrepeneur said "There's one born every minute"

HEH, im sure "BlizzardRetrieval@HOTMAIL.com" will get spammed by retrieval requests now.

Zorvan

Originally posted by patrikd23


The smart people are there  to take advantage of the idiots

Fixed