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by r1ky

World of Warcraft - Account Verification‏
From:	wowaccountadmin@blizzard.com
	You may not know this sender.Mark as safe|Mark as unsafe
Sent:	04 July 2008 02:02:47
To:	(blocked out)@hotmail.co.uk

Greetings,

It has come to our attention that your World of Warcraft account has been involved in a trade or has been sold. Selling/Trading World of Warcraft virtual property is against Blizzards EULA under section 4 Paragraph B which can be found here:


http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/legal/eula.html


Your account has been investigated thoroughly and has been flaged for an account vertification process. If you feel that your account has been flaged improperly please read bellow:


Your account may have been compromised using a Key Logger or Trojan virus which can be used to obtain the account name and password of World of Warcraft accounts used on that computer. We therefore need to verify that your computer is secure before asking you to confirm the account’s ownership.

Please make sure that you are using the most current routines for your anti-virus software.

If your virus detection software is not able to detect or clean the infected files, or if you do not have any virus detection software, then please try one of the following web-based virus scanners:

Windows:

- Panda ActiveScan
- Trend Micro Housecall
- McAfee FreeScan

Mac:

- McAfee FreeScan

Please note that Key Loggers and Trojan viruses send information about your passwords to other people and should be considered a serious threat to the integrity of your account. If steps are not taken to remove any possible programs from your computer, it is highly probable that your account will become compromised once more.


Once you have performed the above steps, please use the webform to finish your account vertification process:

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If this vertification process is not completed within 5 days of the e-mail being recived the account will have the appropriate action will be taken:


Account Closure

Accounts are closed when a player has excessively and/or grossly violated our policies. When an account is closed, the player is no longer able to access the account. Account Closures are rare and represent a player who is unable to abide by our rules and insists on negatively affecting other players' enjoyment of the game or harming the service itself.

Most serious account penalty
Very rare
Permanent service revocation


If you are experiencing difficulties finalizing this request, please call our Billing and Account Services department at 1-800-592-5499 between 8:00am and 8:00pm Pacific Time, Monday-Friday.


Regards,

The World of Warcraft Support Team
Blizzard Entertainment
http://www.blizzard.com/support/wowindex/
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Looks genuine, right?

Wrong.

Click the link for account verification link, and then DON'T DO ANYTHING, but look at the address bar. Hmm, not WoW, is it? Nevertheless I don't even play WoW.

Be careful guys.

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NOTE: shaman123 work

Hello realpoor, I wanted to post this before however I didnt have much time and this may not be the right place to post this, but I could not make an article.

So a couple days ago, I was playing my warrior when I suddenly got dc and when i try to log, It said that this account is no longer available for play. so I checked my email and saw that my account got susspended and 10 secounds later i got another email for my other account, 10 more secounds my other account, so after one minute all 6 of my accounts got susspended. and this was not just me many of the people i traded with before faced the same problem.

This is just mostly down to luck, everyone now and then blizzard would check all the accounts that emails have been changed on, and they also check the IP pattern to see if its changed, they then randomly ban accounts, unfortunate for me, all my accounts were affected.

As we all know trading is never safe, however blizzard will get more nasty and this will not stop.

The only way to avoid this is to trasnfer what ever your trading with to a new account, which you make so it starts off with your IP and there wont be any changes to it.



As you can see I got 4 emails for 4 accounts, talk about a bad day ey.

The secound topic i'd like to bring up is, As we all know the new exansion is around the corner, and the beta is also out, and the opt-in is also available in the account managment, which gives great oppurtunities for scammers.

couple days ago i got a email, and i went along with it with a susspended account ;D, they can have fun with it. it is from noreply@blizzard.com.

However dont fall for it, still a scam, an email from blizzard would include the key and wont require you to sign up again, you did that from your account managment.



Quated from the blizzard official site, im sure you all are aware of it, doest hurt to make sure.

a Blizzard Employee will NEVER ask for the password to your account or email address.

account information, such as your Secret Question/Answer and CD key will only be requested if your account is suspended, or if you have contacted us for assistance.

a Blizzard Employee will NEVER contact you via MSN or any chat program.

Tak a look at, the following link will explain it all to you much better then i can do.

http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=2111545639&sid=1

Anyways thats about it, you may not see much more of me anymore as I'am left with nothing now. Good luck guys.

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I myself in college studying and working on computers and scams are not careless and want to help people find these sort of things out

becareful!