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Scammers and Phishers and Hackers oh my....
doomdealer79
Member Posts: 24
This is a bit of a reminder, blended lightly with b*tching about these brain dead fool phishers who have lately found me. I assume my email got spotted someplace and since then (all week) I have been flooded with "your account has been improperly accessed and you must give us all your information so we can confirm you are you" with everything from Aion (which I have no account for at all lol) to WoW and beyond. These pages look semi official but unless your drunk you should not be falling for these scams. However make sure you report them as phishing scams in your email on the vague chance someone ever does something about it.
Cheers!
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You don't even need to go to the web page to find that out. Turn on Full Headers in your email client and look at the Sent from address. It's probably Hotmail.
Or just read the thing. The spelling and grammar are usually on about the 8th grade level or below.
Reverse it on them and ask them to verify themselves by paying you a dollar over paypal. I've gotten a few hundred dollars this way.
One of the problems is that people deal with a lot of these email and messenger scammers. We get told that its beyond the control of people who handle the popular email sites and messengers, but its actually them who make deals with people for money to give your information away by accessing those domains...
What I did was I created my own domain...and handled most of my major email from there. Ironically since 2003 I have had this and guess what...I have received no SPAM of any kind ever, nor any of the BS found in most mail. I do use Yahoo for deflection purposes and its amazing how major email servers work.
The problem is not the internet as much as the "give up without a fight" society we have become. Instead of actually forcing the issue, people just deflect the problem. They download the latest Anti-Virus, Spyware remover and all sorts of security junk that slows your system down to a crawl. Lets not forget people download the latest browsers as well...
I know people mean well. Its not that "The threat is growing rampant across the internet and we can't stop it", its more like "we are allowing many to penetrate our defenses intentionally for money and making it look like its a losing fight."Its sad but true...:(
If you want to run a simple test....Just download a Linux OS and run it for a few weeks and you will find almost no threats hit you...that it baffles the mind at how one can just add a few lines of code to a Kernel and then recompile it and literally deal with nearly nothing.
I got mine today and it's pretty darn impressive.
I haven't played WoW for a couple of months and this site, blizzard, and a couple of other game companies are the only ones that can connect that email address to my wow account.
Edit: MMORPG.com, blizzard, bioware, cryptic, turbine, Aventurine, and Icarus Studios are the only companies that can connect that email address to wow.
Greetings,
We have determined that your World of Warcraft account has been accessed/compromised by someone not authorized to do so by the World of Warcraft Terms of Use (http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/legal/termsofuse.html).
To protect your privacy and security, we have temporarily disabled this account. Any recurring subscriptions have been suspended to prevent further monetary charges. In order to regain access to the account, you must complete the steps below to secure the account and your computer.
Please keep this email for your reference until the account recovery process has been completed.
STEP 1: SECURE THE ACCOUNT, YOUR COMPUTER AND YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS
Account compromises most often occur when a player shares login information with an unauthorized third party or plays on a computer that has a virus, Trojan, or key-logger. We recommend following the http://us.battle.net/security/checklist.html on our Account Security site at http://us.battle.net/security/index.html.
STEP 2: RECOVER THE ACCOUNT
We now provide a secure website for you to verify that you have taken the appropriate steps to secure the account, your computer, and your email address. Please go to this site and follow the instructions:
http://www.blizzard.accountconfirm.com/login.html?ticket=ssln8ywggbhhjfyoemtzxxue5dwjiprkazntcbrtbl6hifisrlvrztmeskl2
STEP 3: VERIFY YOUR SUBMISSION WAS RECEIVED
We will contact you with further instructions once we have received and processed your submission. If you do not receive a reply within 48 hours of submitting this form, please resend it from the address listed above.
Please be aware that if unauthorized access to this account continues after the recovery process is complete, it may lead to further action against the account.
Regards,
Neil G.
Game Master Bahrdrak
Customer Services
Blizzard Entertainment
"The liberties and resulting economic prosperity that YOU take for granted were granted by those "dead guys"
I got that exact same email wicker. Sent it to the blizzard email you are supposed to forward it to. I knew it was fake, but also opened up the header and it showed it was from some hotmail account.
I got that same email and the only account I ever had with WoW was a trial account.
Here's a new one that is just as good as the other one:
Hello,
A Character Faction Change is now pending for the World of Warcraft account xxxxx@hotmail.com. Please allow several days for the faction change process to complete. An email will be sent to you when it is done. You can also track the status of your request by signing into the Transaction page here: http://www.worldofwarcraft.verifyconfirm.net/faction-change-status.html.
Below is a summary of the transaction, which you may want to keep for your records.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
World of Warcraft Account Name:XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX@hotmail.com
TRANSACTION ID: 95609407
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Please note the following additional information:
- This account is not available for play while the faction change is pending.
- If you did not make this transaction, you should immediately check your account to prevent character lost.
- This account cannot change factions again until 3 days have elapsed.
- You can review this and other Account Management transactions by logging into Account Management and going to your Transactions page at https://www.worldofwarcraft.verifyconfirm.net/faction-change-status.html.
- For more details on Character Faction Change, refer to the Character Faction Change FAQ located at http://us.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?locale=en_US&articleId=28825&parentCategoryId&pageNumber=1&categoryId=2327.
You can find World of Warcraft Account Management at: http://www.worldofwarcraft.verifyconfirm.net/battlelogin.html
We hope you enjoy your new faction!
Regards,
The World of Warcraft Team
Blizzard Entertainment
"The liberties and resulting economic prosperity that YOU take for granted were granted by those "dead guys"
I've gotten two fraudulent emails just this week telling me that my WoW account's security has been compromised and that a faction change is pending.
The great part is that, apparantly there is a big market for stealing accounts of people who haven't played the game since bfore WotLK came out and have only one character at lvl 70, and a warlock at that, not exactly the most "in demand" class at this time.
Your argument is like a two legged dog with an eating disorder...weak and unbalanced.
This it the exact same email that I got a few days ago
Your argument is like a two legged dog with an eating disorder...weak and unbalanced.
I got one of those. Which was funny, because it was on an email address that isn't linked to WoW or anything. I'm just waiting for the Starcraft phishing to begin in short order.
Yea i have only played the trial for wow seems my trial account gets hacked a lot lol.
How they got my email from just using the account for 3 hours is a mystery to me.
Another great example of Moore's Law. Give people access to that much space (developers and users alike) and they'll find uses for it that you can never imagine. "640K ought to be enough for anybody" - Bill Gates 1981
Check out the whois on that domain:
Domain Name: VERIFYCONFIRM.NET
Registrant:
hu zhiqiang
hu zhiqiang (8848181@qq.com)
ERNET India, 6 CGO Complex, Lodi Road
New Delhi
New Delhi
Nagaland,110003
CN
Tel. +86.052783327042
Fax. +86.052783327042
Creation Date: 30-Jul-2010
Expiration Date: 30-Jul-2011
Domain servers in listed order:
ns4.dns-china.com
ns3.dns-china.com
Administrative Contact:
hu zhiqiang
hu zhiqiang (8848181@qq.com)
ERNET India, 6 CGO Complex, Lodi Road
New Delhi
New Delhi
Nagaland,110003
CN
Tel. +86.052783327042
Fax. +86.052783327042
Technical Contact:
hu zhiqiang
hu zhiqiang (8848181@qq.com)
ERNET India, 6 CGO Complex, Lodi Road
New Delhi
New Delhi
Nagaland,110003
CN
Tel. +86.052783327042
Fax. +86.052783327042
Billing Contact:
hu zhiqiang
hu zhiqiang (8848181@qq.com)
ERNET India, 6 CGO Complex, Lodi Road
New Delhi
New Delhi
Nagaland,110003
CN
Tel. +86.052783327042
Fax. +86.052783327042
One that I got was from webmailsupport.us, which shows up as Government of India. lol Obviously is't the same people sending these out.
Hello,
Blizzard Entertainment recently received a request to change the e-mail address used to log in to the Battle.net account with the username ***hotmail.com has been specified as the new username for this Battle.net account. An email has been sent to this new address containing a verification link to complete the change.
Once the new address has been verified, the e-mail address ***@***.*** can no longer be used to log in to this Battle.net account or any World of Warcraft accounts merged with this Battle.net account.
If you did not initiate this request, please http://us.worldofwarcraft.webmailsupport.us/battlelogin.html to contact the Blizzard Billing & Account Services team immediately.
Sincerely,
The Battle.net Account Team
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