Lets not jump to conclusion and blame it on a bigger issue then ur making it man in the middle is incredibly rare but not impossible lets stick to facts.
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Blizzard canāt āplugā social engineering. Thereās nothing they can do, aside from education, to prevent a person from being tricked into willingly giving the bad actor everything they need to dismantle their account security and compromise the account.
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Um, no, that isnāt passably. Unless theyāre able to break into where the servers are, they aināt compromised. Blizzard canāt mind read and know beforehand when someone is gonna go to a phishing site.
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It was pretty clear from post 1 that some successful social engineering had taken place. I donāt think we really need to worry about the sky falling here.
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Itās not Blizzardās security thatās the problem. If someone goes to a phishing site and provides their info thereās nothing Blizzard can do about that. Other than trying to educate.
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Problem is too many people can be fooled and tricked into going to random sites that will steal there info. Only so much you can do to stop this, How many people they do message sooner or later they will get people who will fall for it.
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Yepā¦if it didnāt work they wouldnāt do it.
I recently found out something about phishing emails, they often contain obvious grammar and spelling errs. What I found out is, this is intentional. They want to weed out people that are smart enough to not fall for it. They donāt want people that are smart enough to not fall for it to contact them, because they will waste the phisherās time, and the misspellings accomplish that.
I recommend looking up the Youtube channel āKitbogaā. Heās a professional scam-baiter. He contacts tech support scammers and wastes MASSIVE amounts of their time by making them think heās an elderly grandma with a lot of money (a few others too, but granny is his most famous character - loosely based on his real grandmother, who got scammed by some of these people, so he decided to dedicate his life to shutting down scammers). He also works with fraud departments in banks and tech companies to get the people that are doing this shut down.
You can really get a lot of info on how scammers work. They donāt just scam people in online games, they do it in pretty much all facets of life.
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^^ this is actually something Iād recommend to everyone.
On both Twitch and Youtube there are dozens of scambaiter channels. Itās quite the education.
There are many common denominators - no matter what the scam is.
The most common:
A sense of URGENCY - do this NOW, a threat - should always, always be a red flag.
Donāt tell anyone - this is confidential.
Asking you to lie about something.
A promise of something too good to be true - or something thatās impossible for anyone but THEM to do.
At itās heart, no matter what the scam, no matter how tactics change, you are normally going to have at least one of those - if not all of them involved.
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