March 17th 2010 05:55 am
RACHEL’S ACCOUNT HACKED AND BANNED Plus Interesting WoW.com Post
I am reposting parts of my MySpace blog which I published several hours earlier. Before I write a full tirade post, I need to get more details and help jog Rachel’s memory as to what she could have done that got her into that nightmare. I’m also too angry now to think and write straight.
HACKED. THEN BANNED. WTF.
Kids, I am still alive. Just been really ill then busy with a million things.
I have bad news:
My friend and guildie Rachel, the latest member of my WoW Gold Facts team, lost her account to a hacker. And while she managed to get her account back, she lost a lot of her beloved toons, including her super duper mega elite shammy who served as our raid healer.
The thief (or thieves) got all her frost emblems, vendored her epics, sold a lot of her frozen orbs at the AH, then deleted many of her toons….basically did everything to drive her insane.
And I feel really guilty.
Why?
Because her working for my site entails exposing her account to all sorts of potential risks. Risks I was willing to take because I have four WoW accounts and even if one of them got hacked or banned, I still have the three accounts where I keep my uber leet toons.
What happened was Rachel noticed that her password had been changed. She did a password retrieval, but it was too late. She got an email notification from Blizz saying how she was exploiting the economy.
That was bullshit. The last several test orders we made for WGF were all sent to my accounts.
However, Rachel did admit to chatting with a few gold spammers in the game, trying to extract certain info from them, and even checking out their sites plus this one site where one can ostensibly get a freebie in connection with the new patch.
Only one word comes to mind: keyloggers.
I’m going to write that much promised post about Rachel’s experience. In the meantime, why don’t you read this very interesting article in WoW.com about this hypothetical scenario where Blizz sells gold to keep the Chinese gold sellers at bay . Food for thought, kids. Food for thought.
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3 Comments »
Stanley on 17 Mar 2010 at 11:54 am #
First, I would like to say I feel bad for Rachel (and yeah, I spelled her name wrong in the mail and many apology for that) for her account incident.
Happened to me once, where I tried to sign on my WoW account but I need to ‘authenticate’ with 6 digit-code. So I went around site to site to find out what was going on while I logged on my roomie’s account to ask my guildies what the hell had been going on. Found out that I got hacked, as soon as I saw my own character that was unaccessible to me as online. These a-holes keylogged my laptop. (They even had guts to reply back to me when I pm them with my bud’s toon! >:( Grrrrr.. )
But I am pretty sure who’s behind the hacking…
TPMT!
The reason is:
Their greed overwhelms their service, and they treats all customer as some scamable suckers with all their lies. Therefore, when some kid at her/your realm bought like 10k gold from them, they thought instead of even farming some gold, they decided to hack one of people who used to buy from them, because in that way, they can make easy gold, and Rachel is one of those unfortunate soul who got chosen.
No Thanks on 26 Mar 2010 at 7:08 pm #
You are an idiot who has zero understanding of the ToU and EULA you agreed to, and how gold sellers work.
Why do gold sellers hack accounts??? To sell the gold that account had. So who’s gold are you buying when you buy gold? OTHER PEOPLES, people like your good friend Rachel. If you had any compassion for your fellow player, you would not be encouraging people to buy gold, or buying it yourself.
If you can honestly 100% say that you would not want to punch the person who bought all of the valuables that were stolen from Rachel’s account then please continue your work. Just make sure you do so with the realization that you are supporting spammers, botters, and hackers.
Oh and FYI her account was most likely banned cause the hacker was using her account to bot/hack.
jordan on 07 Aug 2010 at 2:11 am #
hey guys i went to play my wow account the other day for the first time in a few months and sadly found that it has been banded cause of some gold seller f*cking b*stard :’( :’( i just wanted to know is there anyway i could get it back