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If you did get the expansion beta e-mail from Blizzard, with the new and improved “anti hacker trick” system where you use the provided attachment instead of the unsecure Blizzard pages, then don’t frickin’ open it!
As I was so surprised and happy when I got the e-mail today, which was both sent from the official Blizzard domain, and had seemingly correct links in it about a beta account for the Lich King Beta, I momentarily lost thought of facts such as that Blizzard won’t be starting the beta before WWI Paris (but we know they’ll start at the WII, don’t we?), Blizzard would never make an e-mail with a Lich King logo that wasn’t pristine, and they would never call hacker deeds “tricks”.
Luckily, the worst outcome of this whole fake mail was Maticus lol-ing at my gullibility for 10 minutes straight. This in itself was bad enough, but loosing my account again for opening the attached file would have been a lot worse.
Blizzard has recently officially warned us about hacks and its causes, we have mentioned how this has affected the community, and this image is a really good example of how sophisticated the people who want to steal your account really are.
So, a word of warning goes out to all WoW-players:
- Only, EVER, use your account details on the official domains (not “wow.cz/http//wow-europe.com” for instance).
Being hacked feels terrible, besides the loss of items/gold. Believe me. Never expose yourself to any such dangers. If a Lich King Beta is starting, you will be able to read about it from WorldofWar.net within minutes.
There are plenty of people who know this already, and kodos to you (pun intended), but even if you think you have seen it all, you should still be careful. You never know what new things these WoW-phishers might come up with a month or a year from now.
