Seeing a lot of these whispers from
Bilzzard or blzzard or other dodgy spellings.
Get a chat filter addon and add ‘www.battle-support’ (I think is the only 1 atm).
Also take the hit and accept the 4 extra bag slots and use the app for 2 step authentication.
Also, should blizzard be adding something like this to the default game? Filtering whispers that contain web addresses?
the default game does not support links in the chat so if you do go to a site through a scamwhisperer then its on you imo.
these whispers have been going on since the start on classic (on gehennas atleast)
There’s only so much Blizzard can do without adding to much censorship to the way we communicate with one another.
I played Runescape back in 2005 when Jagex tried to hold everyone’s hand. I don’t want to ever have to deal with that level of censorship again.
Spam whispers are annoying, but as Sanlow said; you have to be REALLY dumb to fall for them at this point.
What if instead of censoring they just added a popup message or add something to the message to warn it might be dodgy?
Not to be rude, but when a level 1 warrior named bilzzard, blizarrdd etc whispers your with rubbish, its pretty obvious. This scam is basicly the Nigerian prince email just in wow. Sadly, some will and always will fall for it, or else this scam would have died out.
Warnings or not, people still smoke even though it’s pretty obvious it’s bad. I have even seen smoke packages with human lungs showing the damage. Yet they puff.
I agree 100%
Even ~16 years ago when I was a mere level 9 undead mage running around in Tirisfal and accidentally moving into Western Plaguelands only to be smashed a few times by ?? level mobs that came at me from miles away I instantly recognized that kinda whisper as being fake. The character was called something like Bilzzadgm.
Even to a complete and utter WoW (and MMO’s in general) noob like myself it was painfully obvious to me that it was a scam since the whisper in question asked me to submit my account name and password followed by a link.
If someone’s gonna fall for that the authenticator can at least protect them I guess, but once you design an idiot-proof ‘security’ feature for an account or anything else, the universe will invent a better idiot.
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