WOW New Email WoW "Phishing" Scam : World of Warcraft General Discussions

Posted: January 9th, 2007, 7:34 pm

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Gamespot editors are reporting a new 'phishing' scam targeting WoW players and Steam members:

The inboxes of GameSpot editors are regularly bombarded with spam, but a handful of shady missives that slipped through the junk-mail filter this week show that at least one spammer is trying to trick World of Warcraft players and Steam users into handing up their account information through a practice commonly known as spoofing or phishing.

Posted: January 10th, 2007, 5:29 pm

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Any one stupid enough to give any kind of account info through an email deserves to have the account stolen, so I don't feel sorry for any one who falls for it.

Posted: January 10th, 2007, 7:31 pm

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Any one stupid enough to give any kind of account info through an email deserves to have the account stolen, so I don't feel sorry for any one who falls for it.

Agree very much with klemmbob on this one. Sure phishing is nasty stuff, buy you do have to be responsible and look after yourself to a certain degree too. It's hard to sympathize for someone who willingly gave the information away...