EU Extended Maintenance, Scam alert

[Waggeren]

For all kinds of "mean bots" theres a simple way to get rid of them. For example, if a gold seller whispers you he says something like: "Hey friend. You got a minute?" Then /who him and if its a 1lvl orc/human/anything like that, just invite it to a group, count to 14 and /who it again. Its gone!

/goes back to see tha hamster..
Look at it go.. om nom nom..

[lsk91]

i fell for it....its raining otuside and its daz 3 since i am w8-ing for Blizzard to reply to my webforum complaint. Anyone know how long it will take till they finaly reply????

[kaojinn]

I remember that article. On WoW.com, they even interviewed the guy. He'd do a WTS for a spectral tiger code, then he'd have you open trade and enter 5000 in the trade window, and cancel, just to confirm you had the money. You cant type out a value you dont actually have. Once he knew that you had over 5000, he'd give you a link and the code (This scam is just sloppy in comparison). He'd have an account management login page ready to do, and the instant you entered in your user/pass/auth, he'd have em entered into the actual Blizzard account page and disable your auth key and change your password. Then he could take his time robbing you.

But he said he wouldnt vendor your gear, just take your money. Swell guy, eh? Even better was that the numbnuts told everyone how he did it in the interview. Thank goodness for boastful criminals. The old addage still holds true. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

[Phreeze]

anyone else see that he actually typed out "eleven" and just shook their head about how stupid/pathetic this guy in..

i did. it's because on german keyboards they have to hold shift while pressing "1" to type an "!" therefore after many !! there can be an 1...it's used by kiddies and has sadly become a manner to type a real eleven in it...
(can be that the layout is the same on a us-board or sth else..)

[yohomies]

i did. it's because on german keyboards they have to hold shift while pressing "1" to type an "!" therefore after many !! there can be an 1...it's used by kiddies and has sadly become a manner to type a real eleven in it...
(can be that the layout is the same on a us-board or sth else..)

Yes , I think pretty much everyone knows that.
Thanks for stating the obvious, and its all qwerty keyboards not just german ones.

[pissedoldman]

lol this is new. I bet its that same guy who scams people across every server. He never gave his name, but he was actually spotted and interviewed on another WoW site about his "tactics." Pretty smart guy but what a cruel way to play the game.

He stated in the interview that he uses the "WTS spectral tiger mount code, PST" approach and since it went public this might be his, or his other fellow thieves, new tactic to get accounts.

I fell for the WTS spectral tiger mount my account got hacked and i got a keylogged cant log in ='(
any good suggestions on how to get rid of this keylogger? They have both the password and account name. =/

[kaojinn]

If you're the account holder, you can call Blizzard and they will reset your password. Or you can use the forgot password link on the login page for your account settings. that will at least get control of the account back. From there, try a free antivirus/antispyware scanner like AVG. A lot of trojans wont be picked up by an antivirus, but spyware/malware scanners can pick em up. Thats why its good to use a scanner that will check for both.

For really persistant ones, you may need to make sure its not launching itself at startup. You can see whats launching at startup by opening a RUN command from the start menu and putting in MSCONFIG. That will show you everything thats launching. Some of the really nasty ones will have a service that launches a randomly named executable, which will relaunch the service if its not running. Fun stuff, eh?

[pissedoldman]

If you're the account holder, you can call Blizzard and they will reset your password. Or you can use the forgot password link on the login page for your account settings. that will at least get control of the account back. From there, try a free antivirus/antispyware scanner like AVG. A lot of trojans wont be picked up by an antivirus, but spyware/malware scanners can pick em up. Thats why its good to use a scanner that will check for both.

For really persistant ones, you may need to make sure its not launching itself at startup. You can see whats launching at startup by opening a RUN command from the start menu and putting in MSCONFIG. That will show you everything thats launching. Some of the really nasty ones will have a service that launches a randomly named executable, which will relaunch the service if its not running. Fun stuff, eh?

oh god...

[Spronny]

OK, I posted earlier but now, a few days later, I've read and talk to alot of people in game recently who seem to have had their accounts hacked.

How stupid are you people?

It is not hard to keep your account from being hacked. You really don't need to have a bunch of anti-spyware, anti-virus programs running just to keep your account from being hacked. I guess you do have to have some understanding of how to work your computer but I expect most people who know how to install an addon for wow to know enough. Don't download a bunch of crap to your computer. Don't go to a bunch of sites that clearly try to download stuff to your computer.

The most likely reason for you to even end up at those types of sites is because your trying to do something illegal(keygens or .iso that you don't have permission to) or look a porn or something. If your gonna do crap like that in the first place you should be expecting something bad to happen. Then having a good anti-virus/spyware program would be smart. Other then that, just don't be stupid.

Oh, and if your running vista and having problems with things being downloaded without you knowing, stop turning off crap that's there to protect your computer. By default vista/IE7 will notify you 2-3 times before anything you download will run. Even once its running it is highly unlikely that vista won't find a problem with it and notify you before it does damage to your computer.

If your gonna use a computer please learn something about it first and don't complain after you do something stupid.

[Sarpanti]

I Think i know what your talking about they said like making new mounts sign up for a free one or something

Yeah, I got pst'd with that one too (amongs't a mountain of gold sellers, the pricks). I stared at it incredulously for a moment before psting him (i'm assuming it's a dude 'cause, as we all know, there are no girlz on the interwebz. M.M.O.R.P.G = Many Men Online Role-Playing Girls, after all xD) back and telling him that, even if Blizz was making new mounts, I could either wait for them to go live for try to get on the PTR. Then I lol'd at him with my guildies at the stupidity of it.