Clever scam...almost...
- MaximumOverdrive
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Clever scam...almost...
Anyways, as you can see in the pic, it looked pretty good...but hover over the link provided gives an obvious other link to another site that wasn't the actual battle.net site (tho I did look at it, and quickly scanned my comp afterwards, but it looks exactly like the bnet site.) If you copy-paste the link you obviously get the actual battle.net site, but clickable link goes to a copycat. Anyways, keep yer eye open for this one...another thing was the crappy grammar, heh.
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Re: Clever scam...almost...
http://us.blizzard.com/support/article. ... ake+e-mail
I'd love to say that getting Blizzard e-mails in your spam folder is a sure sign of it being fake but I got a few legitimate Blizzard e-mails in my spam folder too. At this point, it is better to use an e-mail for forum and public stuff exclusively while maintaining another one for financial and private stuff.
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- MaximumOverdrive
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Re: Clever scam...almost...
Not much makes it's way into my spam folder...Blizzard's stuff never does for me anyways.
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- Sukurachi
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Re: Clever scam...almost...
They've said it themselves.
A bit of palindromic wisdom:
"Step on no pets!"
Casual player.. don't raid, don't PvP. Suffer from extreme altitis
I love pets - combat or non.
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Re: Clever scam...almost...
wow, just wow.... like they would put that threat in a email. Like Suku said, they would just put a block on your account entirely and then wait for you to call them directly.
- Sukurachi
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Re: Clever scam...almost...
how exactly would it "come to their attention" that you were planning on selling your account?
I highly doubt Blizzard monitors Craig's List or Ebay for WoW accounts up for sale.
If they thought you were selling your account, they wouldn't hesitate to just lock it down. They certainly wouldn't send you a nice warning first. Don't we consistently read about Bliz locking accounts for trivial matters on the various forums? That sort of indicates that they never take the time to "warn" anyone. They just do it.
A bit of palindromic wisdom:
"Step on no pets!"
Casual player.. don't raid, don't PvP. Suffer from extreme altitis
I love pets - combat or non.
<That Kind of Orc> guild on The Scryers, small, casual LGBT and friends guild, join us Horde-side.