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Ridiculous. Just simply ridiculous.
Also, thank you for using your credentials to back up a complete guess.
well here is MY credentials. My wife is a supervisor for a contracted call center whose contracts include major corps. Nearly once a year one scheme or another is busted up where several employees have either been caught selling personal info, altering friends and families accounts, or some other nefarious undertaking. If you really believe that people working for blizzard making ten bucks an hour doing customer service haven't at least thought about it.....well you are naieve indeed.
It is a guess, I said as much. It's either that or a flaw somewhere on Blizzard's end, like in their forums, the armory, or maybe the account database server itself. Or maybe the hackers working in the farmer sweatshops are really that good.
Or... you were keylogged without knowing it? Someone got into your email?
No, it could never be user error.
If you don't see why account information for major corporations such as credit card info and social security numbers is worth considerably more than a WoW account, then... "well you are naieve indeed."
Edit: I would also like to say that the assumption that $10/hour Blizzard customer service reps have access to passwords is also naive.
According to a lot of people here, its always user error. Soon as anyone makes a topic about their account being hacked it HAS to be user error. Hacked accounts are simply to common to ALWAYS be user error. Like someone said, Blizzard employes have most likely thought about selling account information. Its Blizzard, a very succesfull company. Someones going to try it and i bet someone has/is.
Hacked accounts can be user error, in most cases are. The amount of WoW accounts being hacked is just to high and common for it to be user error all the time. If it was, then i would expect Blizzard to be taking much more action against it.
I went to SUNY (State University of New York), was a basic Computer Sciences major but I took intro through advanced programming courses (C++, Java and VB) as well as the A+ Ceritifciation courses (that's tech support FYI), in addition to classes like Networking and Web Design.
Well there are probably over 30 million WoW accounts, so to think luck has nothing to do with is more absurd IMO. However, has your account ever been inactive for over 6 months? As I would think active or recently active accounts would be less ideal for farmers since the owners are more likely to notice activeity and stop it. It makes sense long time inactive accounts would be targeted.
Buddy not a single one of those emails is a valid blizzard email. Sorry you got scammed by friend
Yeah I questioned that when i read that too. None of those even look anything like a Blizzard email.
I would say they have access to a lot more than you give them credit for. Plus, something doesn't have to be uber vaulable to be stolen. I would turn the table on this and say that if people are willing to commit something as serious as identity theft for a few extra bucks why on earth would someone not consider selling your log in info.
Look this guy is clearly a troll or simply refuses to believe in the idea that people at blizzard might not be trustworthy. There is nothing you can argue to this guy that's gonna make a difference I'm afraid.
why should they acrtually "make up reasons" to ban you?
they could just ban you for whatever they want, it's THEIR server, that's what people often forget.
you actually have no rights at all but to stfu
"I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!"
Why would a company whos making close to a billion dollars a year, scam items off characters to make a few extra bucks? Doesnt make much sense to me.
I know you're from the United Kingdom, so I can understand if English is not your first language, however in saying that your whole argument is destroyed by your poorly worded title for this thread.
Full Sail University - Game Design
I belive it should read: "am bliizard behind hacked account."
Another tool gets phished......
Maybe it was an addon? I don't play WoW anymore, even when i did i was only a casual player but my account got hacked.
Recently got an email from "Blizzard" via a gmail address. Plus if you hover your cusor over the hyperlinks it will show the website address. Like www.woweublizzardaccountrecoverynateamblah.com.
ive got to to laugh at all these ive been hacked it not my fault it blizzard this it gonna tickle you . ive bought gold from the same site since at least 2005 . when i first started playing wow i think i even had the same pass word on the site as wow . never been hacked once .some times ive taken for 6-7 months off at a time.
only last year i changed my email address to a safer one after my m8 got hacked and i was on his pc . one rule i ve all ways stuck to never open any thing from blizzard . . once you click on them emails your screwd . .why come on here and rant about it if your not that botherd quick phone call to blizzard and might got account back
People have decided to change the argument.
Now, instead of saying that it's Blizzard that is stealing their accounts (completely ridiculous), they are saying specific low level employees are stealing the info and selling it to gold selling companies.
Which is likely untrue. But even if it were true, the rate at which that happens is likely to be seen in every MMO company that has currency.
look some random blizz customer service guy doesn't care. trust me. he listend to us call and bitch all day so to him if he's gonna hear it anyway and assuming this guy has no morals why not sell your info for a quick buck
Because you can go to prison.
"Wii b4NNd h1m cuz h3 wuz a n00b" is bad PR, lol
even Blizzivision / Actizzard wouldn't go that far. Besides, how hard is it to type a lie.
AND it IS thier server, not the customers, that's the problem. They are notorious for doing things that piss off huge percentages of thier players, monthly.
They own it, run it and play it. If they didn't like you, why wouldn't they ban you? For your $15 a month? Not much weight to throw around is it? What if i worked there and hated your guts, and i also knew someone who COULD terminate your account "by mistake", how hard would it be to make it happen? Few poeple can answer that, we can all guess.
I'm sure it is seen in every mmo that has currency. Blizz has more employees and more accounts so its more prominent here, but you can't deny the possiblilty you just can't. I mean I guess you can but logically its not far fetched. Hell its not even a conspiracy theory. I'm not saying that there is an underound orginization within blizzard doing this i'm saying that at random different blizz call centers ...different employees decide to make a little extra money.
true but it doesn't stop it from happening. and believe me I know first hand for a fact that it happens in other call centers so why not blizzards?
blizz employees cannot check or lookup your acc data (login / password).
actually no GM or support worker can, no where. no game. never everrrrrr...
if you think so, you should adjust your medications again :P
paranoia can be a bitch hehe.
"I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!"