Atlantic Roleplay Community Boards

[Kaelthir]

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[Xana]

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When I very first started playing UO on someone else's account, someone they knew lost their account over a site. I don't know if it was supposed to seem official or what, but the purchase of something was involved. Since then I've always avoided anything UO gold or item related like the black plague could pop up at me instead of a trojan. For years I wouldnt go anywhere that was not UO.com. Period. So surprising about Guide. Even still how many days later?

Yes. I now that sounds naive or whatever. But still. When a trusted site not only fails but puts you at certain risk, you feel a little betrayal. Or something.
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[Ceinwyn ab'Arawn]

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Goona, those in game phishing things threw me off when I first got one. They usually try to make themselves sound like a legitimate GM by making a name similar. I ended up looking up the warnings on it. You still see the more inexperienced people in trade chat asking if it is legit. I mean look at that one in your post, that is exactly what gets people, when they pose as GMs telling you your account is in danger. Sometimes it's very obvious, but every now and then they manage to make one that looks legit enough to fool a more unsuspecting player.

The bigger problem I face with WOW, is that my email receives quite a few messages from people claiming to be Blizzard. They copy the email name and use it, and the whole page usually is a very nice and official looking form either warning that your account is about to be shut off or that you are under review for something or your account information was changed, so "go here" to the URL they give you in the email. It's so ridiculous, I can't tell them apart from the real Blizzard emails half of the time.

I think my own WOW account was hacked from one of those false Battlenet pages. I don't know how I got a bad link to it, as the only time I had used it was during the merge, but it happened anyway. There was also no virus on my PC after scanning. There is just no other possible reason. Now I only link off the community page or the log in for the game itself. Thankfully, no one has ever wanted my UO account that badly.

[Dealthagar]

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And this is why i bought a Wow Authenticator.
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[Tari]

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[Kaelthir]

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Yeah, I ordered an authenticator the day my account nearly got hacked.


A lot of the engrish spam is really awful. If you took a second to read it, you'd realize it's not legit at all. The only one out of all of those that looks the least bit legit is the GM one. My favorite is the unicorn zebra one though, even the website it sends you to makes no sense, and the username of the person isn't even trying to impersonate Blizzard staff.

[Cal Hurst]

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