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01-15-2010, 10:25 AM
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First things first: the correct address for the WoW Armory (http://www.wowarmory.com/) is wowarmory.com. Bookmark it. Memorize it. But don't ever, ever search for it again. We've talked before about how misspelling searches (http://www.wow.com/2008/05/01/how-misspelling-might-get-you-keylogged/) can get you into trouble. But even if you spell WoW Armory correctly when Googling, the first sponsored site that shows up is a phishing site -- and it's a really good one.
Update 1:10pm: Google seems to have removed the site from their sponsored listing in the short time since I wrote this post. Kudos! Nonetheless, there are and will be more sites using the same technique, so the warning remains valid.
Do not go to the following site: armory-worldofwarcnaft.com/wowarmory/, it is evil. Notice the n in warcnaft? You may not when you are clicking on it in your search page or when it shows up in your address bar. And that's what they are counting on. Because the rest of the site looks authentic. When you type in what you want to search for, you get asked for your Battle.net info. Then, no matter what you type in, it gives you a password error. (I typed in profanity. It was fun.) They have stolen all of the elements of the actual Blizzard pages, so that if you want your login page in other languages, just a click of the button will get you there. But don't. It's evil (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v60-qRvmzKA).
Continue reading Beware of WoW Armory phishing scams [Updated] (http://www.wow.com/2010/01/15/beware-of-wow-armory-phishing-scams/)
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First things first: the correct address for the WoW Armory (http://www.wowarmory.com/) is wowarmory.com. Bookmark it. Memorize it. But don't ever, ever search for it again. We've talked before about how misspelling searches (http://www.wow.com/2008/05/01/how-misspelling-might-get-you-keylogged/) can get you into trouble. But even if you spell WoW Armory correctly when Googling, the first sponsored site that shows up is a phishing site -- and it's a really good one.
Update 1:10pm: Google seems to have removed the site from their sponsored listing in the short time since I wrote this post. Kudos! Nonetheless, there are and will be more sites using the same technique, so the warning remains valid.
Do not go to the following site: armory-worldofwarcnaft.com/wowarmory/, it is evil. Notice the n in warcnaft? You may not when you are clicking on it in your search page or when it shows up in your address bar. And that's what they are counting on. Because the rest of the site looks authentic. When you type in what you want to search for, you get asked for your Battle.net info. Then, no matter what you type in, it gives you a password error. (I typed in profanity. It was fun.) They have stolen all of the elements of the actual Blizzard pages, so that if you want your login page in other languages, just a click of the button will get you there. But don't. It's evil (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v60-qRvmzKA).
Continue reading Beware of WoW Armory phishing scams [Updated] (http://www.wow.com/2010/01/15/beware-of-wow-armory-phishing-scams/)
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion (http://www.wow.com/category/analysis-opinion/), Account Security (http://www.wow.com/category/account-security/)
Beware of WoW Armory phishing scams [Updated] (http://www.wow.com/2010/01/15/beware-of-wow-armory-phishing-scams/) originally appeared on WoW (http://www.wow.com) on Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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