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- Stigg
- Justin
This kind of thing annoys me
First off, do not click any of the links in the body content that will be below. I cannot assume responsibility for any harm that may come. And if you're the Google bot, you should be crawling the net, not playing World of Warcraft ...
Okay, so what has annoyed Tan? A fright on a miserly 4 hours of sleep. I'm so jacked up on caffeine I'm trembling at the moment and this type of shit is liable to scare me out of my fundament. Yes, I have been dabbling in Auctioneer lately. And yes, I have what is to my mind, been making rather large transfers of gold and suchnot between my characters. I even paid 1000gp ... to a trainer. To the untrained eye I would most certainly look like a dodgy individual.
Moreover, when looking at the email header you see it comes from accountinfo@blizzard.com. And that not only got my goat but sacrificed it to the dark gods of filthy keyboards and dust bunnies. This is by my best recollection the year 2010 and while I understand that we must support the overweight, misty eyed fappers that are so in love with their *nix incarnations that they can't bear the thought of updating a mail server that's been running since 1943 without a reboot, isn't it high time that we designed a fucking secure email protocol?
Who in their right mind thinks that being able to substitute a sender tag is somehow a good idea?
And who in that other dimbulb goopher's right mind thinks that NOT having email clients that don't try to trace the path back to validate this is an even better idea?
For reference, here is the chunk of email that so annoyed me.
Greetings
An investigation of your World of Warcraft account has found strong evidence that
the account in question is being sold or traded. As you may not be aware of, this
conflicts with Blizzard's EULA under section 4 Paragraph B which can be found here:
WoW -> Legal -> End User License Agreement
and Section 8 of the Terms of Use found here:
WoW -> Legal -> Terms of Use
The investigation will be continued by Blizzard administration to determine the
action to be taken against your account. If your account is found violating the
EULA and Terms of Use, your account can, and will be suspended/closed/or
terminated.
In order to keep this from occurring, you should immediately verify that you are the
original owner of the account.
To verify your identity please visit the following webpage:
DO NOT CLICK THIS LINK!!!!
www.worldofwarcraft-account-wows blah blah blah so you don't die blah ecurity.com/account/support/login-support.htm
Only Account Administration will be able to assist with account retrieval issues.
Thank you for your time and attention to this matter, and your continued interest
in World of Warcraft.
Sincerely,
Account Administration
Blizzard Entertainment
Right. Now that I'm all shaky, I'll get on a bike and go check what happened to my auctions, I think.
Comments
I got the same email. I lawled when I read the link provided. If you check bluetracker on a regular basis there are about ten posts a day asking for verification that the email was legit. I have yet to have any game try to contact me via email so I tend to just disregard them all.
I get reminders from Blizzard about my subscription. So, email from *.blizzard com gets moved to a Blizzard folder. This popped up in there. Fook.
How'd ze auctions go?
Okay, I still have loads to sell but don't want to flood the market. Annoys me when somebody undercuts too massively though (Like more than 50%). Undercut, by all means, but don't lower the prices too much. Nobody profits from that.
Nobody but the buyers..
I got a mail like that a few months ago. It crashed hard against the Wall of Deletion.
What annoys ME more is the occational ingame whisper I get from these morons named "Blizzstaff", "Blizzardmember" or "Blizzgms" that spam some nonsense along with a link.
How stupid do they think I AM? Blizzard would NEVER contact me ingame about "a suspicion of real money trading" with a bogus link like www.blizardaccount.bu/login and about 50K typoes to prove my point.
If they DID suspect me of it I would quite simply find my account temp-banned with a mail notice stating they would investigate the situation, with NO reference to logging in.
That last paragraph does seem to be standard operating procedure for them.
In addition, they tend to mention your name in the e-mail section, so Greetings Mr. Mistoffelees,
bla bla bla.
Plus, if you have any doubt, contact account services through the valid links on the Blizzard/actual WoW site which you have bookmarked.
Never click anything in an e-mail.
The number of these things I get, even when I wasn't playing anymore is somewhat ridiculous, I tend to report them for phishing scams.
Let M$ handle it.
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