(PRBuzz.com) September 8, 2009 -- RMT industry leader gives tips on how to avoid scammers when going to buy world of warcraft accounts, wow accounts, or aion accounts.
Every has received the emails that they won the UK lottery, or some African Princess is direly in need of your few hundred dollars to unlock millions in diamonds. Or any variation of those email scams. Hard to think they actually work, but they must if people keep sending them out.Scammers targeting wow accounts, World of Warcraft accounts, and Aion accounts are no different. Utilizing the same mass emailing techniques that are so effective for other scams, millions of emails are sent to unsuspecting WoW accounts customers. These emails, apparently sent from WoW's publisher, Blizzard Entertainment, offers wow accounts customers the chance to "alpha test" their upcoming expansion title.
The link enclosed sends WoW accounts customers to a professionally designed login page that is almost identical in design to the official WoW accounts login site.
WoW accounts customers are then asked to type in their username, password, email address and their security question for their wow accounts. This information is then being used to steal wow accounts and take in-game gold and other assets which are worth real money.
The fix to this is very simple. The urls (www.xxx.com address), does not match the game publishers true web address. Checking this on every link you click is quite easy as it is located right at the top of your browser. If you find yourself the victim of one of these emails, simply leave the site and report these actions to the game publishers.
"These actions wreak havoc on the internal game system. When customers wow accounts are comprimised, the scammers then sell the gold to overseas companies to retail right back to wow accounts customers. This stolen gold then is sold to another unsuspecting customer, who in turn runs the risk of having his wow accounts closed for these actions. These scammers are causing additional work for the game titles publisher, the consumer, and additionally other gamers who are not really involved in any of these actions, but simply purchased something from a less than trustworthy source. This causes all kinds of problems for everyone who owns wow accounts." said Kenneth C. Pierce spokesperson for TheGameSupply.net a leading selling of developed wow accounts.
Media Contact: chadwick575@thegamesupply.net
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