Account care and management
November 6, 2009
Trojan Horse
In the light of YET another hacking problem, we have a few updated advice to give to the guildies.
1. Do NOT buy gold OR power leveling services. Using such services requires you to give your account information to the sellers. Also, you’re breaking the Blizzard Terms of Conditions, and are paying huge amount of real life cash for game gold. Isn’t that a bit pointless? That money is better spent on this or this.
2. These game scammers have found new ways to trick players for their account information. They pretend to be Blizzard GMs whispering to you about a cool website where you can get free items. Do NOT fall for these tricks, do NOT visit those sites, and most importantly, do NOT give them any of your account info! Some of these fake Blizzard sites look exactly like the real one. So whatever you do, don’t even think of going to those sites whispered to you. REMEMBER that Blizzard GMs have a special chat box to talk to you with, and does not use our standard chat interface.
3. Change your password for your account & email regularly. This is considered a general way to practice good internet security, especially in the midst of countless scams and hacks that have plagued the internet since its popularity began.
4. Get a Blizzard Authenticator from here, or download one for your phone or iPod Touch here. It uses the same technology used for secured online banking, and is currently the best way to secure your account.
5. In case you do get hacked, you might want to alert any of the officers about it so they can demote you, especially because your rankings allow you to withdraw items from the guild bank. So to preserve the integrity of the items, we highly recommend you to alert us as soon as possible. You can leave a comments in any of the posts, as those comments get sent to the officer’s email, which is read regularly.
That concludes our account safety update. Safety first!
