World of Warcraft Blog
There is a new World of Warcraft email update feature on the account management on www.worldofwarcraft.com. The new email update feature allows the owner of the account to update his or her email without having to click a confirmation link in the email currently registered to the account. This is a great improvement for any players that loose access to the email registered to their World of Warcraft account.
Step-by-Step instructions
How to use the new World of Warcraft email update feature.
Go to www.worldofwarcraft.com/loginsupport.
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Click on the change your email icon, shown above.
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Type in the current email address registered on the World of Warcraft account or the last six characters of your World of Warcraft CD-Key code. Type in the secret answer for the World of Warcraft account.
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Type in the new email address that you would like to be registered to the World of Warcraft account.
Keeping Your World of Warcraft Account Safe
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World of Warcraft General Security
We will always do our best to make your gaming experience enjoyable, If you ever need assistance please let us know.
No, buying WoW power leveling is not safe. Many gamers every day are mislead into purchasing power leveling services due to the low cost and high gain. Power leveling is very inexpensive as the entire industry is based off of the employment of cheap labor from overseas countries such as China and the Philippines.
Many power leveling services claim that all of the leveling is completed in the U.S, this is false. There are two reasons why this statement is always false.
1. The Fair Labor Standards Act in the United States sets the federal minimum wage at $6.55 per hour.
2. It takes a minimum of 7 days to reach level 80 from level 1. That is 7 days played for a total of 168 hours.
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Some power leveling services are charging as low as $138.00 USD for power leveling from level 1 to 80. These companies can charge these low rates as they are employing people from third world countries that can and will work for pennies an hour.
The problem? Blizzard Entertainment has security systems built in place to easily detect game logging from these countries. When you send your account to a power leveling service you are sending it overseas, to be logged into from a computer and IP from an overseas country most commonly China. If you share your account login with a power leveling service your account will be disabled, suspended, or banned. We do not recommend power leveling to any player.
We want to hear from you! Have you used Power Leveling services? Did you have a good or bad experience?
Yes, the majority of the time. However we have heard from industry insiders that Blizzard Entertainment does monitor the delivery of gold to players when a gold mule is detected. Rather then disabling the gold delivery account, Blizzard Entertainment monitors the delivery of the gold to the players who are purchasing it. Over time a large list of players making the gold purchases is developed and all of those players accounts are disabled all at one time. Blizzard Entertainment usually does not disable accounts on the spot when an infraction is made, there is a list of player accounts scheduled to be disabled all at one time, commonly coined as a “ban wave”. If you are buying gold, you are not the only one, below are traffic stats for two of the top gold selling sites.
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We want to hear from you. Have you purchased gold? Was it delivered safely? Leave a comment, let us know.
Web sites posing as World of Warcraft or Blizzard Entertainment are a real threat. It is important that you as an internet user can easily identify a spoofed “phishing” email.
What is a “Phishing” Email?
Phishing is the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.
Here is a very common example of a World of Warcraft phishing email
Subject: Warning : World of Warcraft Account Notice
From: donotreply@blizzard.com
To: you@youremail.comAn investigation of your World of Warcraft account has found strong evidence that the account in question is being sold or traded. As you may not be aware of, this conflicts with Blizzard’s EULA under section 4 Paragraph B which can be found here:
WoW -> Legal -> End User License Agreement
and Section 8 of the Terms of Use found here:
The investigation will be continued by Blizzard administration to determine the action to be taken against your account. If your account is found violating the EULA and Terms of Use, your account can, and will be suspended/closed/or terminated.
In order to keep this from occurring, you should immediately verify that you are the original owner of the account.
To verify your identity please visit the following webpage:
World of Warcraft Account Management
Only Account Administration will be able to assist with account retrieval issues.
Thank you for your time and attention to this matter, and your continued interest in World of Warcraft.
Sincerely,
Account Administration
Blizzard Entertainment
How to identify this email as a phishing email
1. The email does not contain your World of Warcraft account name. When Blizzard Entertainment sends an account notification, the email will ALWAYS include your World of Warcraft account name.
2. Do not click on any of the links in the email. Move your mouse over the links in the email. Look at the Status Bar on your computer, the status bar will display the URL of the link. In this case the links in this email point to: 206.178.567.1/local/account.php. As you can see the link is pointing to an IP address and a directory on that IP’s domain, not an official www.worldofwarcraft.com domain. Blizzard Entertainment will only direct you to official domains those being www.blizzard.com or www.worldofwarcraft.com.
This is the most common way World of Warcraft accounts are compromised. There is one rule to live by when identfying phishing emails.
