Banned – Blizzard Doesn’t Like You To Speak Your Mind

The “Black Project” sounds pretty far fetched but, someone selling email address lists, you bet. I made a brand new http mail address to register my account to when I 1st began playing wow. I’ve never used it for anything else and, it is not my default address and none of my own mail programs have the address in them.

When I started getting emails from gold sellers I was furious and “Blizzard Support” was downright rude to me. Insisting it was impossible when it is the only explanation.

To answer your post i think its a little from column A and little from column B..

honestly , your theory makes alot of sense . and just the fact that ur post was deleted and banned sounds like theres something even more fishy going on and they are trying to hide it . i have a theory also , they could possibly be hacking accounts themselfs in order to meaby sell more of those authenticator

i belive anything is possible this days, a scam like that would not suprise me…
But whats the point of stealing gold from players when some one inside blizzard could acess to some sort of in-game gold generator ( or even a programer himself!!) ??
Do u honestly think blizzard would risk a payment failure from a player that quited wow because of gold stealing, when in fact a player payment generates more money than gold business or even blizzard products/services… an account means current payment!! every month! every year!!

This is actually pretty similar to what my friends and I have been discussing for about a month now. People getting hacked is absolutely constant. Not a week goes by that there isn’t -someone- in my guild being hacked.

I was hacked as well and I never visit suspicious sites or acknowledge spammers (I report spam and ignore immediately upon getting a whisper from one). Not to mention I’m paranoid and keep my computer completely locked down. After I was hacked I couldn’t find a single malicious scrap of software anywhere on my system.

I really do think the hacking might be propagated by Blizzard. Maybe its just a rogue employee selling account info, maybe its a total upper management plot to make more money and make sure everyone has an authenticator (an extra 6 bucks per player would actually net a decent amount of money.)

Either way… definitely something to wonder about…

You guys are absolutely insane if you think that this is what is happening. You either fell prey to a phishing scam or were the victim of a keylogger. If you’re unable to keep your account information safe, get an authenticator.

I don’t use an authenticator and my account has never been compromised. I’ve been playing since November 2004.

I never had any problem with my account, never got hacked ,just changed the password for the first time in about one year few days ago and don’t have an authenticator.
I use a mail addres only for WoW stuff, never use it to anything else, and never received any mail from gold seelers. But honestly, I consider the fact of never being hacked, pure luck.

But this “rogue emplyee” theroy really makes sense.

I live in Brazil, and is pretty common here in some places, to see data that was meant to be confidential about government employees , like fone numbers and address in hands of insurance brokers and the like.
And I really doubt that this kind of “data leakage” happens only here, or only in governmets.
Why not in Blizzard, from the hands of the supposed rogue employee or the “black project” theory?

This isn’t “insane”, I think is a real probability.
I really hope not, but for now, it is.

Wow.
That is stuipid.

IF Blizzard wanted to sell gold – they would just make it with a blizzard superuser function.

Blizzard spends MILLIONS on technical support helping people get thier hacked stuff BACK. It would be a loosing proposition for them to waste time hacking your account in order to steal your gold when THEY COULD JUST MAKE IT!

This is not insane, and it is far from stupid.

How obvious would it be if people are buying gold and no-one is being hacked? Where is the gold coming from? Thin air perhaps? Gold from thin air = created by Blizzard = not so covert an operation.

If you haven’t read about how greedy the CEO of Blizzard really is, maybe you should,

http://www.teamliquid.net/foru....._id=128252

I have considered this same idea actually. Three different friends who let their accounts expire got hacked after leaving the accounts inactive for a while.

Two of them happened to get caught immediately because their toons were left in the guild and people saw them log on, knew it could not actually be them because they did not respond when messaged (and definitely would have), so we contacted them in real life and they were able to stop it before much damage was done.

The other was my son, and it was not caught until the following day, and it is banned permanently “for violation of the terms of agreement”, even though my son proved who he is and that he was not the one on the account while it was gold farming. Blizzard refused to restore the account to him.

The interesting thing is that in all three cases, the accounts were reopened with credit cards and had authenticators put on them immediately upon activation. None of the account owners found key loggers, viruses, or any evidence of email hacking, and in fact, the logins for the accounts were not changed, just had authenticators put on them to keep the actual owners out.

This seemed weird the first time, but by the third time the same thing had happened, I really had to wonder. These were all people I have known for a very long time, who never, and I mean NEVER, gave their info out, and one of them even had an authenticator already on his account before letting it go inactive. To the best of my knowledge, to remove an authenticator requires either to have the authenticator to log into blizzard, or a blizzard tech who can remove it from their end. The account owner was told “he must have disabled it at some point and forgotten.”