This happened to one of my guildies tonight.
While we were chatting about random things in guild chati she suddenly said that a GM was talking to her and that she was reported for scamming people. She said that then the GM was asking for her password to make sure that the account really belonged to her. We told her not to give out her password and that a Blizzard employee would never ever ask for her account details. Sadly she said that she had already given her CD key, e-mail address and username. Then we advised her to change her passwords into something more complicated and change her password questions as well. And also contact the costumer support of course.
So please.. Under no circumstances, do not give out your account details to anyone no matter if he has a GM tag in your chat log or not.
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Good advise. Uprate.
As far as I know, it states in several places that GMs will never ask for your ID or password at any time, for any reason. GMs do not need these things to do their job, anyway.
This is a built in Blizzard loading screen tip =) Also, anyone else see the irony of a scammer scaming someone by claiming they were scamming =p
Where is that story of a scammer getting scammed himself in a turbine chat room?
Wow, just wow... On the one hand, I hope your guildy didn't loose anything and changed everything asap. But, on the other, there are warnings all over the place that GMs wont ask for any personal info like username or password, they don't need that. Not to mention GMs have a special chat tag to mark them as a GM, which can't be made by players. Although i've heard of GMs contacting people from alts so as to not let people know they are under investigation, though I find that hard to believe personally because of scams like this.
Phew, I'm glad your pal is ok, but I just cannot credit that anyone would just hand out info like that, just for the asking! There's even a Daily Tip which specifically states NO Blizzard employee will ever ask for these details.
It pisses me off when people try to scam others. Personally, I'll be glad when the line between real life and virtual crimes blurs further, and people can suffer real world consequences for in game crimes.
The warning is stated explicitly on the loading screen. It's a good thing your friend didn't lose anything.
So the "GM" wanted to ensure that someone who was logged in actually had their password? Doesn't the fact that they're logged in show that they know the password?
The best thing to do would be to report the person who tried to scam her for imitating a GM.
The best thing to do would be to report the person who tried to scam her for imitating a GM.
When someone asks you for personal information, take a screenshot and buy some time, stalling him. Open a ticket calling a GM asap regarding this and they'll be able to track the scammer and ban him for good and forever.
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Also I think this goes for someone claiming to be a GM asking for gold or items. I think there is a tool tip on that also. Basicly a blizard employee will not ask for a password, items, or gold. These are scammers. Please report them.
It's things like this that make me thankful I've always been a cynical *******. Better than naive!
Edited, Dec 19th 2006 11:06am by RPZip
Edited, Dec 19th 2006 11:06am by RPZip
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Wow, just wow... On the one hand, I hope your guildy didn't loose anything and changed everything asap. But, on the other, there are warnings all over the place that GMs wont ask for any personal info like username or password, they don't need that. Not to mention GMs have a special chat tag to mark them as a GM, which can't be made by players. Although i've heard of GMs contacting people from alts so as to not let people know they are under investigation, though I find that hard to believe personally because of scams like this.
She didn't have any problems till now. She also mentioned that those people also had GM tags but as <gm> instead of <GM>. She still wasn't certain that they were real GMs or not when she told about it so I told her to try to /ignore them since you can't basically ignore GMs ;) But no matter what kind of a chat exploit those scammers are using, they're still players so they can be ignored.
And then she reported them and some time later a real GM responded telling that they had around 20-25 tickets from people getting scammed by those bastards in the past 2 days. Who knows how many were too nervous when they were accused of scamming and gave all their account details?
hmmm I keep double posting today....I need to quit or something.
Edited, Dec 19th 2006 3:02pm by Vallock
Edited, Dec 19th 2006 3:02pm by Vallock
I ignore everyone claiming to be a GM...unfortunately I pissed off a real GM one time by talking **** to him cause I thought it was a scammer.
Oh well they cant ban ya for being a rude ***. hehe well you know what I mean.
Oh well they cant ban ya for being a rude ***. hehe well you know what I mean.
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Where is that story of a scammer getting scammed himself in a turbine chat room?
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