BEWARE Fake Cataclysm Beta E-mail Scams! UPDATED

Сообщение от Starkie

We've had a few reports of fake @blizzard.com e-mail accounts sending out information regarding a Cataclysm beta, these are fakes and usually contain an extra letter or symbol within the name. Be wary of this and do not open them!

Anything asking you to send a username and password by e-mail is no good, you should know by now that Blizzard would never ask for such information in an e-mail.

Also, be on the look out for any e-mail asking you to log into a website—there is a good chance it will be a very convincing knock-off of the Blizzard homepage. This is a common tactic implemented by scammers.

Anyone who *does* find an e-mail asking for your username/password, or leading to fake warcraft homepage, please be sure to shoot Blizzard an e-mail at hacks@blizzard.com. If you think everything in the website looks legitimate, close it, and try to locate the same page, but navigating from World of Warcraft's official website. If the page is not there, then you've been sent scam, and Blizzard will be delighted to read your report.

Be sure to check out MasterOfDisguise's blog on the rise in hacked accounts, as it has some useful information on safety!

We understand the announcement about Cataclysm is very exciting, but it should be known that any Cataclysm beta is a long ways off, and the last thing we want is you guys losing your accounts. :)

UPDATE: Here is some information on how the Cataclysm beta is going to work, so I'd give it a look through.

UPDATE v 2.0: There's a simple rule to follow if you receive a suspicious link in a suspicious e-mail, that I just learned from Malgayne about 2 minutes ago. A domain name is determined by the last words in the list, so, if you receive an e-mail telling you to QUICK OMG FIX UR ACCOUNT HAX CLICK HEAR and you hover over the link and it says http://blizzard.wearn'thaxswear.com then it's actually www.wearn'thaxswear.com. If it's something along the lines of http://Account.blizzard.com then it's actually a Blizzard.com website, but still be on the lookout for people do things like BlIzzard and Blizz4rd and what have you.(##RESPBREAK##)8##DELIM##Starkie##DELIM##

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Сообщение от Gnoktish

yes every realm has people who daily spam people asking you to go to a false website of WoW saying you can get a beta key for new mounts, i got in a conversation with one. ill put as much as i can remember:

Fakeblizzman: Hey Blizzard is testing out a new brand of mounts check out Worldofwarcraft.euo.com
me: why are you suddenly advertising me this?
Fakeblizzman: Wanna test them out?
me: umm dude why would i wanna test this out! your a lvl 1 orc, you dont have the Blizz icon when talking to a gamemaster, plus do you ahve any idea what the mounts look like?
Fakeblizzman: thats what i been hired to do here in Blizzard and the mounts are like a bear
Me: dude theres plenty of bear mounts i'll stick with my Black War Bear also if i were you i'd stop trying to steal peoples accounts
Fakeblizzman: im not i been hiried to do this.
Me: WHATEVER YOU DAMN THEIF!
Fakeblizzman is ignoring you...

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Сообщение от DSitC

And, I use my mom's email so I would appreciate it greatly if you gave me some great tips about which web site is the best for e-mail. I mean things such as hotmail or yahoo.

I can recommend Google's mail accounts. Their spam filter is very efficient and the web-interface is smooth enough to let you forget that it's just a web-app.

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Сообщение от fsngnshiekfan

I gots an authenticater, ill be find even if i do fall for it

Сообщение от Kailhun

I noticed that 'Beta-keys' are also being offered on youtube in the reactions with video's. Guess what. These aren't real either.

Сообщение от faia

I noticed that 'Beta-keys' are also being offered on youtube in the reactions with video's. Guess what. These aren't real either.

NO WAY! YOUTUBE IS NOT THE BETA KEY GIVE AWAY?

back to topic
blizzard will never give out key's before they even done with alpha + will be posted by blizzard them self when it happens on official site's and when they throw around key's
and i bet it will go the b.net account way since they made a sign up for beta key there ect and you will find key's there if you got any at all

for cat beta key's they will not even close to start to come before atleast SC2 and D3 is out in store

Сообщение от Blackboy0

Heh, I had a couple friends of mine who got scammed by this.

I had a friend have their Account hacked and they sent me an E-Mail saying they had 3 Beta Keys and they were going to give me one for $5, and all I had was to send it to some PayPal Account I had never heard of before.

Scammers just never know when to quit, eh?

Сообщение от Profits

Scammers just never know when to quit, eh?

People are stupid, and fall for it. That's why scammers never give up. Blizzard needs to put it more clearly that they'll never ask for account details. The only places I've seen it are in the MOTD (which is usually moved up in the chatbox because it's too long) and in the loading screen Tips.

Сообщение от Blackboy0

People are stupid, and fall for it. That's why scammers never give up. Blizzard needs to put it more clearly that they'll never ask for account details. The only places I've seen it are in the MOTD (which is usually moved up in the chatbox because it's too long) and in the loading screen Tips.

I see it on the Loading Screen and whenever you logon the WoW Site, which is like... Once a month =X

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Сообщение от Blackboy0

I want play World of Warcraft: Catalysm T_T

Best place to post that, IMO.

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Сообщение от Mavirick

yeah some friend of mine had another friend who fell for there trick and lost his account.

"new mounts in new patch! Free Mount testing www,blizz(something).com"

The Same thing appeared on my screen wilst I was doing Archimonde so I reported him.

No doublt Blizzard would want to hear about someone going around saying there Blizzard and there letting people test mounts.

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