by Byron Mudry on Sep 06, 2006
Blizzard posted a warning today that there is a new rash of scams out there attempting to steal your World of Warcraft account information. This appears to be yet another attempt from the gold farmers to get easy items and gold to sell. Good thing we don't support the evils of the secondary market!
We'd like to make the community aware of a recent account-theft scam that is being circulated through email, game forums, in-game chat, and other mediums. This scam involves fake URLs, or hyperlinks, that once clicked will install harmful "keylogging" software intended to steal your World of Warcraft account name and password. After the creators of these keyloggers steal this information, they log into your account, immediately change your password to lock you out, and then sell all of your items and transfer all of your gold.
Check out the complete message from Blizzard here.