P.S.A. Blizzard will not ask to verify your account

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Just a friendly reminder to all that Blizzard will NEVER ask you to visit a website to verify your account.

I bring this up because I just had a person with a form of Blizzard in their name whisper me saying "Your Account has been flagged for fraud please visit this site to verify you are the account holder.
If you do get a whisper report it via the spam report method.

Be smart if someone whispers you. Blizzard will NEVER whisper you and ask you any account info let alone to go to a site.

The only time you will get anything from Blizzard is via email, unless you have submitted a ticket then a GM may hit you up in game but you will be able to tell that is a GM and they will NOT ask for ANY account info.

Just a heads up for the new folks out here in WOW.

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Believe me. If you get whispered by an actual GM, you’ll know.

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I just messaged as well. So be careful. It is odd, I have not seen this in a while. [quote=“Åbãlam-khaz-modan, post:1, topic:84640, full:true”]
Just a friendly reminder to all that Blizzard will NEVER ask you to visit a website to verify your account.

I bring this up because I just had a person with a form of Blizzard in their name whisper me saying "Your Account has been flagged for fraud please visit this site to verify you are the account holder.
If you do get a whisper report it via the spam report method.

Be smart if someone whispers you. Blizzard will NEVER whisper you and ask you any account info let alone to go to a site.

The only time you will get anything from Blizzard is via email, unless you have submitted a ticket then a GM may hit you up in game but you will be able to tell that is a GM and they will NOT ask for ANY account info.

Just a heads up for the new folks out here in WOW.
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Also of note, though its been years since I’ve spoken to a GM …

Blizzard employees sending you a message have a unique WoW icon by their name. One that cannot be replicated in game. And if they need to ask anything more than a couple of questions they open a unique chat window that ONLY Blizzard employees have access to.

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Literally no legitimate business would ask you to “verify” your account info.

If they did, I’d stop doing business with them immediately because that would mean they suck at security and should never be trusted with personal info.

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It’s this:

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Should correct that to where they only ask you to verify your email when making an account or changing your email address on your account as a form of making sure that email exists and that it is your email. If you get it any other time that you have not done anything involving with said account, then it is likely a scam.

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Yep!
And, all the GMs I’ve ever interacted with had “WoW character” names, something that might be generated by the name thingy, even. Never is their name any form of “Blizzard” with accents or umlauts or anything like that.

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The scam whispers usually come in the form of extremely broken English as well.

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I vaguely remember getting one of these whispers back in Wrath and then proceeded to badger the poor guy about gm stuff and if he can turn my character into animals.

I was a bit nooby and watched gm videos on YouTube, so.

…He never whispered me back sadly.

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lol i’ve had these horrible scammers whisper me too, does anybody actually fall for it?

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I doubt they’d still be doing it if it had a completely zero success rate. Which is sad, really.

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I wonder if people fall for that scam?

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When they want to talk to you, a separate chat box pops up saying a blizz person wants to talk to you, please click this bubble to begin chat.

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Plenty of people fall for it, otherwise there wouldn’t be any point them doing it.

Unfortunately effectively zero of those people are going to read this thread.

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Just like the Nigerian Prince bank scams. Yes, they do.

I commented to my sister about one I got recently. I found it funny as the guy tried to blackmail me, but had several flaws in his threat (he made claims about recording me doing stuff with my webcam, which is rather hard since my webcam is almost never plugged in).

She works for a BANK. She said that I’d be surprised just how many people fall prey to these scams.

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Sometimes they try to get you with prizes “You’ve won a Swift Spectral Tiger! Enter your account info at “shady web site” to claim it!”

And other times they try to get you with fear. “Your account has been flagged, enter your account info at “shady web site again” or you will be banned.”

Just report them and move on. Don’t visit the web site even out of curiosity, it might put some bad voodoo on your computer.

Remember: Stay away from the voodoo.

Edit - had to fix stuff.

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I think I’m going to try something like that out if I ever get a whisper like that :rofl:

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Give the wannabe scam artists some to do. Type in false info. Imagine if everyone did that.