Wow movie teaser site?

#0 - Aug. 6, 2009, 8:35 p.m.
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Well, I wasn't sure if this was material to bother a GM with, so I decided that perhaps here would be the best place to do so.

Today, at 2:45PM EDT I believe, I was bothered on my main by a "player" called "Wowmovie." He whispered one line to me, so I'll quickly copy it from my chat log:

"14:45:51 [Wowmovie] whispers: Check out the new WoW Chronicles Movie Trailer Now At <removed>!!"

I don't know who it was, when they logged off, and I don't paticularly care. Yet the website... intrigued me. First thing that came to mind, "He's a spammer." I didn't recognize the name, and I dont care much for spammers. Yet the movie... hmm... So i checked it out, but with the mental attitude that they were after my account and my wallet, not my attention.

I was greeted with a page that looked exactly like worldofwarcraft.com. Many of the side bar links took me to world of warcraft, surprisingly enough. So in the real site, I took a look around... and found NOTHING related to the Warcraft film. Huh?

So after a little snooping, this teaser site was a fake, intened to rip me off. So, in an act of reverse-ripping, I went to the bottom of the teaser page and clicked the "Login" button, only to be greeted by a page that looked like I was goign to be logging into my World of Warcraft account. And instead of putting in my real information, I went with an account name and password that I highly doubt exists. this led me to a highly suspicious page where it wanted all of my information, including name, address, phone #, security questions, CD-Keys, and other info related to the WoW account.

I went ahead and inputted faulty information. Vulgar words for a names, cd keys that were both too long and didnt seems to fit the format of wow cd-kets, etc. Sure, it was probably a bad idea to do this, but i was careful not to put any real world information. Heck, the phone number had 30 digits or so. And it all went through, of course. It didnt check the email adress that didnt even have a "@something.dot.com" at the end or anything. It simply took me to another page.

"We're sorry, but this page is under construction?"

Followed up 10 seconds later with a quick boot from the site to the legitimate Worldofwarcraft.com.

I don't recommend do it, anyone, unless your willing to be extra careful. I'll be changing passwords, running both anti-virus and spyware software, and I've already got one of those fancy new key-chain security devices (Blizzard authenticator) on the way.

The reason I'm putting this on the Forum? I expect some of the heads over at Blizzard will be... interested in handling something like this. And if their not, then at least trolls on the forums will have had atleast one lead from someone else.

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#5 - Aug. 6, 2009, 8:47 p.m.
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This is not an official site, Orugachino, nor was the in-game message provided by a Blizzard representative. Your instincts were correct, so thank you for the report. :)

Should you ever receive such a message again, please go ahead and right-click the author's name and select the "Report as Spam" option. This will alert our staff immediately and allow you to ignore all characters on the author's account for the duration of your login session.