Today with KJ!

Blizzard Entertainment creators of record breaking online game, World of Warcraft has issued a severe warning to all of their subscribers.  Just as iTune’s, their are scammers out there sending spoof emails to get subscriber log-in and passwords.  Blizzard released a statement saying that email from them will come as blizzard.com and they will NEVER ask for password information.

Are these scammers stupid?  Of course they are and how long did they think it would take for blizzard to find out?  The most important thing is that someone had to have fallen for the scam.  Come on people after all these years of being online, you should know not to send your personal information over to anyone.  but it kills me how blizzard can try to solve issues that are not in the game, but can’t do anything about the gold sellers.  If selling gold on WOW was illegal then why don’t someone from Blizzard crack down on the websites selling their gold and power leveling?  It seems ok to suspend their paying subscribers account, but when it comes to the people selling the gold - they always keep selling.  It’s just not fair - I sometimes wonder if they are blizzard employees selling gold.  Does anyone else think that?

You have to think about it a little more - all you have to do is search in google for WOW gold and hundreds of websites show up to get your money for in-game gold.  However if you get caught buying the gold then your account will be suspended.  It’s sort of like the liquor store concept - It’s OK to go to the store and buy the alcohol, but you buy to much then you could get in trouble for possession, bootlegging or attempt to deliver a alcohol substance.  To top that one you can live in a DRY COUNTY and they don’t sell liquor, but you can drive 15 miles to get it and bring it back into the DRY county. So it’s OK to drink alcohol in the county, you just can’t buy it there.  So why not just make the county WET and get the tax dollars from it and help put computers and books in schools?  It’s just a dry concept to me.

Now you all know that I am a BIG fan of Blizzard Entertainment, but that does not mean everything they do will make sense - and allowing the selling of gold on or offline is just outrageous.  But the issue today is - DON’T give out your PASSWORD to anyone.  If you are receiving illegal email from someone attempting to get your password and log-in information - forward it to  the Federal Bureau of Investigations and they can put a stop to those harassing and scamming emails.

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KJ

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