We made one WoW scam site go away

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WoW Fashion Guru
Published: March 30, 2009Posted in: Info, Security, TomtailorTags: ,

Update April 6th: Letter from Blizzard

Phew. One World of Warcraft scam site less on the Internet. I know, it doesn’t sound like big deal, but if we saved one poor WoW player from humiliation of being hacked, and process of proving his true identity and account ownership to Blizzard; it was worth it.

Few moments ago, mail from Copyright guys at DOT.TK service arrived (which is lol, cause we’ve sent mails both to Abuse and Copyright dpt. but I guess Internet abuse costs less money on court than copyright infringement), in which they informed us that warcraftservices.tk is no more. Well it is still there, cause they (I’m guessing it was them) have replaced original scam site with some promo and commercial materials.  Which is nice for them, cause scammer made all the work inviting people to that page :D

Anyway, scam site is down, scammer is probably plotting new scam, Blizz is occupied with PTR, and you guys have fun and play safe!

Copy of the mail from DOT.TK:

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Re: FW: World of Warcraft – Account Notification‏
From: Ross Pooley (copyright@dot.tk)
Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 5:01:21 PM
To: xxxxxxxxxx@live.com
Dear Sir/Madam,

Dot TK is the exclusive registry for the
Country Code Top Level Domain for the island
of Tokelau (also known as “ccTLD”).

Dot TK (.TK) registers domain names globally,
through our services Free Domain and Paid Domain.

As your email alerts us to
unacceptable content by a holder of a Dot TK domain, I
have researched the case. The user is in
fact a Free Domain registrant, therefore
because of the violation, the domain has
been cancelled and the registrant has been
removed from our database.

Thank you for your assistance & I apologise for any
offense or inconvenience caused.

With Kind Regards,

Dot TK Support

http://www.dot.tk

Renaming The Internet

The majority of support questions and answers
are available on Dot TK’s Wiki at http://www.wiki.tk

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Thank you!

/bow

UPDATE:

Here is  from Bizzard. I didnt expect miracle;

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from donotreply@blizzard.com
to XXXXX@XXXXX
date Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 4:17 PM
subject Blizzard Entertainment Europe Customer Support request

Hello XXX,

Thank you for contacting Blizzard Entertainment Europe. The email you have received is a scam email and is designed to steal your account details.

Blizzard will never ask for your account or email password and will only contact your from addresses ending in @blizzard.com. You can find further information about identifying scam or ‘phishing’ emails in this post on our Technical forums:
 http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=35983697&sid=1#12

If you have already replied to the email and can still access your account, please log into your account on our website and change your email and password:
 http://wow-europe.com/account

Any missing items or gold should be reported to a Game Master in-game, after changing your email address and password.

If you have replied to the email and you can no longer access your account, please report this matter to our Account Administration team:
 http://eu.blizzard.com/suppor t/webform.xml

NOTE: After choosing World of Warcraft, select Account Security/Compromise/Hacked in the Category menu.

Once our Account Administration team have investigated your account, they will reply to your email with further instructions.

If you haven’t yet replied to the email, please ignore and delete it.

Best regards,

Blizzard Entertainment Europe
Laura G.
Billing Support
 http://eu.blizzard.com/support

Phone Numbers:
 http://eu.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?articleId=23210

Please retain all history if you reply to this e-mail.

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