I used to play World of Warcraft. It was a time-killer for about a year and then I stopped. I got my primary character up to level 40, which is about the point where you really need to dive into the online social aspects of the game full-time, join and be active in guilds, get Team Server and go on raids with large groups of other people with no lives. I liked playing WoW — casually. All the rest of it seemed like a poor substitute for real life and, since I had a real life, I decided I’d rather participate in that than pay $14.99 a month to participate in a fake, pixel-based one.
I stopped playing when the first expansion pack came out what, three years ago now. Recently, I started getting these WoW account notification emails claiming to be from Blizzard Entertainment, the developer of WoW. They are phishing emails, obviously. I have no idea how they got my email address or even if the idiots wasting my bandwidth sending me these things even know I did play the game. Most of the time, they’re pretty good examples of a quality phishing email, with all the telltale signs being pretty subtle. The one I got today, however, is just blatantly stupid. For your reading and mocking pleasure, I give you:
Dear World of Warcraft fans, because your server is there a large number of illegal transactions, and other server players were a large number complaints to your account. The To World of Warcraft, we conducted a detailed analysis and review. After this analysis, we draw preliminary conclusions: Your account has been participating too many the illegal transactions, we will permanently ban your account. At this moment we are to understand your feelings, if you have any questions please visit
[the evil phishing link]
Blizzard of fraud and abuse department
Usually, I’m annoyed at having to deal with these things, but after reading this one, I just had to share.