This guy freaked me out

[pkm]

Some dude was advertising in chat lf1m h scenario and i whispered invite. For no apparent reason he tells me who is my alt and i say i dont have any (dont want randoms to know about my toons....) and he persists on wondering who is my alt character. Then about a minute later he whisps me and says that i have about 6...


Now i dont know how he found out about how many toons i have but being accurate on saying that i have 6 lvl 90s kinda scares me. How can any Tom Dick or Harry find out about how many toons someone has? I dont really know anyone and never seen him before...

[Nab]

3 options.

1, lucky guess.
2, one of your friends is fucking with you.
3, A GM.

[Consata]

http://www.wowprogress.com/character...-skull/Consata

Bar around the top where all my alts are listed

[Heartattaq]

guildox, can list your alts based on matching wow achievemant data it mines from the wow armory

[Hyve]

Why does that scare you? He guessed the number of characters you have in a game ... Not your National Security Number, Date of Birth, and Salary.

Chances are he knows you in some way, knows the guild(s) you're in and guessed by a similar naming convention used on all your other characters?

[normallyinsane]

He used wowprogress

[Kisho]

The new account-wide achievements has made it much easier to find out who your alts are. For example, see my WoWprogress page: http://www.wowprogress.com/character...wn/M%C3%A9ixiu

Look at all them alts! Of course, there's a lot of doubling up because I transferred servers a few months back, but I know for a fact I haven't added my alts to that page. WoWprogress must've added them automatically, but I can confirm that it's accurate.

So that's probably how the guy knows. Yeah, he's being a creeper, but he's using widely available information due to account wide achievements.

[Greed001]

I think Guildox has an option to find alts or something.

And Wowprogress.

[Vargur]

Guildox, why do you care?

[Deleted]

the info might not always be right, but guildox.com for example, when you type in your char and find it, there's a list of your alts (90's)

[Gimlix]

there are loads of ways to find someone alt, it's nowadays not a secret. Or that it ever was.
And why would you be scared, He probably only wants to know your alts so he can do them with your alts too, for the reward.

[pocky_rin]

wowprogress shows most of mine but it misses like 3 85s of mine, not sure why.

[Krolikn]

There are far worse stalkers online I assure you.

[Promark]

Is this you? (names withheld)
Gundrak

• undead mage 90
• blood elf paladin 90
• night elf druid 90
• tauren shaman 90
• pandaren monk 90
• tauren shaman 90
• blood elf warrior 90
• blood elf hunter 90
• night elf priest 90
• human deathknight 90

Frostmourne

• undead priest 90
• human deathknight 87

It's pretty easy to find and can be quite helpful for a quick background check.

Wowprogress does allow you to hide alts, although I wish they didn't. Not sure about other sites.

1. Go to profile settings and set "Hide my alts" checkbox.
2. Confirm at least one of your characters:
Go to your character page and click "[edit]" link. After confirmation, all alts of this character will be hidden

[Inval1d]

As others have said Wowprogress and guildox may have your alts on record.

[Asmekiel]

Go to armory > search for the character's name > go to guild page > go to roster > sort by achievement points > look for characters with (nearly) the same amount of points.

This only works if you have most of your alts in the same guild though.

[Aqua]

Oh no..he ...found your in game character names?

What are you doing that requires you need explicit privacy on your alt characters? That a simple ignore/report won't fix if it grows bothersome?

[FearXI]

So you can only find alts on one server?

That's good I capped out on alt across all servers.

[Lyrax]

lol i stalk people's alts on wowprogress alt the time :P. Anytime i join a pug i wow progress the guild/armory them to see their progression just to make sure i'm not wasting my time. You can find alts on all servers btw

[Thelxi]

With current 3 pets displayed on your armory it is extremely easy to make out who is who's alt.