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06-12-2009, 02:03 PM
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We have a lot of reports of scams (http://www.wow.com/tag/scam) coming in to our tip line (http://www.wow.com/tips/) and many of us are receiving the same phishing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing) emails you are. Even Scott Kurtz from PvPOnline (http://www.pvponline.com/) was tweeting about getting one the other day. These scams can be initiated via email to any one of your email addresses. Or they may start in game. Regardless of where they attack you, most of the scams require some form of social engineering (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_engineering_(security)) to get your info and therefore access to your in-game valuables.
What is social engineering? Social engineering is manipulating victims to volunteer personal information about themselves in order to perpetrate a con, scam, fraud, etc. If you have seen the movie Groundhog Day (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107048/), then you have seen a very good example of it. Phil, a television weatherman, is living the same day over and over. One iteration of his morning, he asks an attractive woman her name, where she went to highschool and her English teacher. The next iteration of his morning, he "accidentally" runs into her and pretends to know her from highschool, resulting in her going to bed with him.Continue reading Popular scams and how to avoid them (http://www.wow.com/2009/06/12/popular-scams-and-how-to-avoid-them/)
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We have a lot of reports of scams (http://www.wow.com/tag/scam) coming in to our tip line (http://www.wow.com/tips/) and many of us are receiving the same phishing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing) emails you are. Even Scott Kurtz from PvPOnline (http://www.pvponline.com/) was tweeting about getting one the other day. These scams can be initiated via email to any one of your email addresses. Or they may start in game. Regardless of where they attack you, most of the scams require some form of social engineering (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_engineering_(security)) to get your info and therefore access to your in-game valuables.
What is social engineering? Social engineering is manipulating victims to volunteer personal information about themselves in order to perpetrate a con, scam, fraud, etc. If you have seen the movie Groundhog Day (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107048/), then you have seen a very good example of it. Phil, a television weatherman, is living the same day over and over. One iteration of his morning, he asks an attractive woman her name, where she went to highschool and her English teacher. The next iteration of his morning, he "accidentally" runs into her and pretends to know her from highschool, resulting in her going to bed with him.Continue reading Popular scams and how to avoid them (http://www.wow.com/2009/06/12/popular-scams-and-how-to-avoid-them/)
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion (http://www.wow.com/category/analysis-opinion/), Account Security (http://www.wow.com/category/account-security/)
Popular scams and how to avoid them (http://www.wow.com/2009/06/12/popular-scams-and-how-to-avoid-them/) originally appeared on WoW.com (http://www.wow.com) on Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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