My WoW account is being sold? :roll:

[EricKei]

I wonder how "zhang" got my e-mail address...

All it takes is for you to have ever: a- submitted your email address, anywhere, whether it be for a contest, or a website that turns out to sell the names (even some legit sites do this, you gotta go over their TOS with a fine-toothed comb to find out for sure), or b- been a member of AOL or similar service with laughable security, c - even just been one of the squillions of recipients of a chain email, d- been on the address list of ONE person, ever, who went to a website they really shouldn't have been at. Places sell email lists all the time, and confirmed REAL addresses -- especially those linked to accounts where money might change hands -- are worth BANK. Also, if your email is....er...less than original, a dictionary attack could figure it out. I've seen many spam emails with "send to" lists of 50 or hundreds of names where each one is just one letter off from the one before. If your email has been published on a website/forum/workplace, ever, it's out there, as well.

The guy on the phone suggested I sign up for an account so my address would be safe. I might do that.

That's exactly what I did -- then again, I also wanted in on the Diablo 3 beta ^_^ -- My suggestion? Do that, and then ALSO set up the account security protocols in there such as the one that has their system call you if any attempt to change your password or email address is made.

[Rine]

I just got off the phone with blizzard entertainment because I was signed up for a battle.net account...and don't remember doing it. "Zhang" strikes again. Since I don't have an account with blizzard, I had to call them to get the e-mail removed. I wonder how "zhang" got my e-mail address...

The guy on the phone suggested I sign up for an account so my address would be safe. I might do that.

[RayvenQ]

I've gotten a couple, and I don't even have a WoW account, let alone play it.

[Gravekeeper]

Use to get 2-3 of those *daily* when I played WoW. >.>

[ShadowBall]

I've gotten similar things from PayPal, eBay, and my email providers. Thing is I have the official emails from all those sites marked as "not junk." At least once a week, I get something from PayPal saying something about suspicious activity occurring with my account and I need to log in and reset my password. And the email from which it's been sent is an incoherent jumble of letters. Sometimes the scammers don't even spell the name of the site/company right.

[Kogarashi]

Hubby and I recently got scam phone calls (or so we figure). I got it first (while trying to nap one morning), then Hubby got it the next day in the evening.

Strike one: prerecorded message rather than live caller.
Strike two: not addressing us by name, despite supposedly calling us about our credit card.
Strike three: opening with the message, "There's no problem with your card, but we would like to talk to you about lowering your interest rate."
Strike four: calling me about our card, when Hubby is the primary cardholder on the account, and his phone number is the one on file.

So yeah, we both hung up when we got the call because we didn't feel like staying on the line, wasting cell phone minutes, in the faint hope that there'd be a live rep to tell to leave us alone.

Seriously, if you were affiliated with our card provider, you'd call us by name (with a live person, not a recording), you'd identify yourself instead of launching into a spiel about interest rates (or a "reassurance" that there's no problem), and you'd have the sense to call the primary cardholder, not his wife.

[EricKei]

someone put in my email address to sign up for Battle.Net, and it wasn't me. Even funnier is that the name of the signatory was "zhang."

I got one of those, as a "you updated your account info" emails -- via 'zhang' -- a few weeks ago. Soooo...I went to blizzard's actual site and dug up their customer service phone number. Within *ten minutes*, including hold time, they had cleared out the account and made me a new one which I was able to log into and set up security protocols on. Note that the last time I used battle.net was in the Diablo II days >_>

Mega-kudos to the Blizzard rep, as this was shortly after the asscrack of dawn on a weekend

[Evandril]

I got one for Rift that amused me...since the site it told me to go to was one of the fake WoW ones Did amuse me that 'Blizzard' wanted to verify my Rift account!

[Kogarashi]

I once got one of the help I have been mugged and need plane fare emails from one of my accounts to me at another of my accounts from me ... I was apparently mugged and stuck in London.

That's funny. My best is getting e-mails from the webmaster of my domain name telling me that my account has been compromised and will be shut down unless I log in on some "secure" site. The only problem is that I am the webmaster of the site.

[LillFilly]

This reminds me of someone from a phone number calling me about a half-dozen times a day, never leaves a message, but I finally called back and they said they wanted to verify something on my checking account debit card activation and could I verify my info. Riiiiggghhhttt..... I called my bank to make sure everything was kosher with my account, and they had no clue where that number was from!

[Eisa]

I keep hearing about this happening all the time on Gaia Online as well, but no one ever sends them to me. I feel so unloved.

[AccountingDrone]

I haven't had a WoW account [active] in over a year. I get eve online account fishing all the time, and banks for which I never have had accounts at [and some in states I have never visited and countries I have never visited]and spam in english, french , german, danish, russian and chinese.

I once got one of the help I have been mugged and need plane fare emails from one of my accounts to me at another of my accounts from me ... I was apparently mugged and stuck in London.

[Kaylyn]

Interesting. I just forwarded an authorization email to Blizzard - someone put in my email address to sign up for Battle.Net, and it wasn't me. Even funnier is that the name of the signatory was "zhang."

Oh wow, I got the exact same thing. With the exact same name. I had originally used that email for WoW, then set up another email that was only for WoW and transferred my account to the new one. I still get phishing attempts at the old address. Then last week I got this authorization email. I wound up calling Blizzard and explaining the situation to them. They cleared my email...so I just set up my own Battle.net on that email, so it wouldn't happen again. I don't even remember the password I used...I have no intention of using the account.

[Salted Grump]

I get them daily (clean out my junk folder of ten of 'em every day) plus Runescape. neither of which I've ever played, nor have any desire to play.

Had a few for Aion, too, but that stopped fast.

[firecat88]

I just got one of these this morning. The funny part- I do not now, nor have I ever played WoW.