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There are unfortunately regular attempts at stealing World of Warcraft players' game accounts. For your account's safety, please read the following article on our Support Site, and keep the below tips in mind.
http://eu.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?locale=en_GB&articleId=37473

• Never give your password to anyone.
  
• Always verify that you are accessing an official Blizzard website whenever submitting account information. (wow-europe.com, worldofwarcraft.com, blizzard.com, battle.net, diablo3.com, starcraft2.com)
  
• Official Blizzard emails will always end in @blizzard.com or @battle.net. (Verify the address on your reply before clicking 'send'.)
  
• Free programs are available that will allow you to schedule regular scans of your machine for malicious software and key-logging programs.
  
• For additional features and functionality, merge your World of Warcraft account into a Blizzard Battle.net account. (This also prevents an account thief from merging your account into his battle.net account.)
  
• Using a Blizzard Authenticator or Battle.net Mobile Authenticator will help protect your World of Warcraft account from theft.
  
• To avoid account theft, do not login to World of Warcraft on a computer that is shared with the general public. These machines can be infected with malicious software.
  
• Be wary of unofficial sites advertising for paid World of Warcraft services. They often contain malicious software that can lead to account theft.
  
• To avoid account theft, do not use browser add-ons or features that allow scripts to be run in the background.

Creating your Battle.net account: http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=9941977333&sid=1

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THank you for the heads up.

Also.

there are fake people going about saying people have won a prize please visit this website....

looks like wows website account log in when u go the page.

first do not go to the website

second all gm will have the trade mark GM tag and open a new window with you !

remeber this its something new going around and i have had friends that fell for it

Dumb so so's

Very useful info indeed =)

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Using a Blizzard Authenticator or Battle.net Mobile Authenticator will help protect your World of Warcraft account from theft.

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I'd love to use it but I've yet to find a way how to get that little thingy in Estonia. Anyone has any idea where could I order one for me? Blizzard store doesn't ship things here for whatever weird reason.

Im on the first page ! :D

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I'd love to use it but I've yet to find a way how to get that little thingy in Estonia. Anyone has any idea where could I order one for me? Blizzard store doesn't ship things here for whatever weird reason.

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If you're lucky, you can get the authenticator for your phone.

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I'd love to use it but I've yet to find a way how to get that little thingy in Estonia. Anyone has any idea where could I order one for me? Blizzard store doesn't ship things here for whatever weird reason.

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Ebay? You may find someone willing to ship to you though be sure to pick a Seller with a good reputation.

You sir, win.

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Very useful info indeed =)

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What you mean the exact same info that's been around since release?

ITT: Common sense.

hehe yes account security thats funny especially when its now possible too log on account manegtment with email address so now its much easier for every 1 too get uninvited guests on their accounts.. so high five too this thread tbh.u lowered our safety on our accounts by adding the option too login with emaill address instead of account name wonder how many knows peoples email address many i guess but in my case only i know my account name but many knows my email address lets say 1 gets kicked out of the guild in bad staniding and he logs on guild page and look up guild masters email now he goes too account manegtment and start too try hack in on his account.i wonder what the next will be.. would have added a signature but then i have too type my email address(1 more place)so sry no signature,atleast not for now
ye and sry i cant spell too manegtment sry

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Official Blizzard emails will always end in @blizzard.com or @battle.net. (Verify the address on your reply before clicking 'send'.)

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Receiving mail from such an address doesn't mean the mail is authentic. It's really easy to spoof the senders e-mail address. Everyone can do it in any mail client.

So if you get a mail from an e-mail address ending in @blizzard.com and doesn't ask you to respond by mail, but asks you to go to a website, the senders e-mail address says absolutely nothing about the authenticity of the mail.

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ITT: Common sense.

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Again Blizzard is going far beyond what could be required from then in effort to keep game fun and safe for all players. Many thanks for awesome customer support at in-game and at forums.

Now I would like to add that if people really want to get rid of these pests among us, we can do it but it may need us to change from something that we are comfortable with : Microsoft windows as operating system. WHY ?

Because I have been using Ubuntu linux for some time now and recently did upgrade to 9.04 and I did find that atleast they take safety of our personal information and emails and such very seriously.
After system install there comes tools to create and manage keys and passwords which you can use to create key to sign emails and files you send to your friend, as long as they do have key you made in first place.

I dare to say that I will use that to verify all the critical files and email I will ever send to my friends.

So I do advice that everyone who likes about better safety, try out Ubuntu linux 9.04 and be warned it may charm you with improved security, and there will always be helpful community to help in case something does not work as indented.

Just my 0.00.02 gold coins.

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hehe yes account security thats funny especially when its now possible too log on account manegtment with email address so now its much easier for every 1 too get uninvited guests on their accounts.. so high five too this thread tbh.u lowered our safety on our accounts by adding the option too login with emaill address instead of account name wonder how many knows peoples email address many i guess but in my case only i know my account name but many knows my email address lets say 1 gets kicked out of the guild in bad staniding and he logs on guild page and look up guild masters email now he goes too account manegtment and start too try hack in on his account.i wonder what the next will be.. would have added a signature but then i have too type my email address(1 more place)so sry no signature,atleast not for now
ye and sry i cant spell too manegtment sry

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Er...at what point do you get to even blink at another person's e-mail address? I admit, perhaps logging in with your e-mail address isn't exactly the safest route to go when having an account considering how often e-mail is used these days, but I can't exactly see how someone'd even manage to get the e-mail address from someone's account to go play guessing games with their password - not to mention risking their own account if Blizzard catch wind of someone playing guessing games with someone else's account password.

At worst, your theoretical hack would gain access for a few hours only to have Blizzard realise the location they're logging in from is drastically different - or possibly a double-logging - and have the account shut down for a few days while they clean the mess your guy left behind. At best they'd be lucky to find the e-mail address, let alone make it to the screen to guess the password - which I'm sure the Blizzard team would laugh at for a few moments as they feebly attempt to get into someone else's account before IP banning them from all of WoW. Long story short, I have complete faith in what Blizzard are doing and I /applaud them for keeping people informed of these real-life Rogues.

And yes, I might be a bit too trusting to some of you. But you know what? You think that. In over 5 years of using the internet I've yet to have any account I've ever created get hacked into. Forums, chat sites - even entire games have died before my accounts ever got stolen. Secure passwords, discretion with personal information and keeping an eye on what's going on around you all helps in preventing any sort of hack to get a whiff of 'juicy information' which they can reap the rewards from. And there's one key principle even the Blizzard team haven't pointed out for this protection against scammers:

"If it's too good to be true...it usually is."

Hi ,
Didnt realy know were to place this but i just had my account hacked not best pleased as you can imagin.
Never thought it would happen to me as i never write account details any were.
I will be super strick on my account security in the future .
But the main reason i have posted is
i would just like to thank blizzards support for being very helpfull and swift with recoving my account.
A 5 star service and is a credit to the gaming world

Thanks again :)

Thanks