Scamming attempts - does anyone at Blizzard look at reports?

For several months now, my friends, raid group members and I have been getting scamming whispers from a misspelled “Bliizard” account FOR MONTHS now. The same character name on the same server. It is the usual impersonation stuff, with a phishing URL included.

We have all reported the name and the whispers over the past several months, but nothing is being done, we still get these whispers on a daily basis.

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They do ban waves, not individuals. Does ignore not work?

It would hide the whispers, but it wouldn’t address the issue that apparently scammers can be active for literally months before any action is taken. This individual has been doing this for at least four months now on the same account.

I didn’t ignore this scammer because I want to see how long scammers can do this on the same account before something is done. I’m just perplexed that reports even for very clear-cut scamming aren’t processed, not even by an AI. (And that “Bliizard” and other variations aren’t blocked.)

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They probably rely upon you using the ignore function as they gather evidence for their next ban wave. There simply aren’t going to be enough people in Blizz to ban every single person needing it everyday. If there is a game that does, I’d love to know how.

But you realise it is actually:

They generally get squelched after receiving a large amount of reports for their obnoxious scamming attempt and then recreate a variation of the name to continue doing this. Once a GM comes to it and bans the account they just create a new account and continue doing it again.

This type of scam was already here since the dawn of WoW btw. I recommend the badboy and/or extended version to filter and one click report them.

Do you know other live service games where you can try to scam players in a large scale fashion like this, with an URL for a phishing site that has been set up quite a while ago and that actually has “blizzard” in the domain name, for months on the same account, before something happens?

My expectation isn’t that every individual report is manually looked at, even though I’m relatively sure that back when we still had real GMs most reports were actually read by humans. But this scamming account has probably been reported hundreds of times over the course of months, and that should get a timely response.

I feel the ignore command is a good tool for social conflicts or the occasional spammer, but in a case like this it’s a bit like just shoving the smelly garbage under the couch and pretending the house is clean. A bit of a pacifier.

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I know other MMOs have spammers and scammers but I report and ignore as with anything. I don’t know the ins and outs of how it works and I’d certainly like it to be faster, it’s definitely frustrating especially with the bot farms… I just don’t know what we can do about it really. I’m clearly not helping the situation though so maybe someone else will come along with a better idea.

Apparently wow has 7 million active users.

Imagine how many of them are bots or scammers.

Then consider why it might make more sense to ban them in waves rather than jumping on each action instantaneously.

It would basically be a full time job if they did this .

Been a while since I’ve actually seen a fake Blízzurd whisper actually… Just keep reporting them and know that they do get actioned but you never get told about it.

Still prefer this scam over the guy that kept chasing me even with dragonflight flying mounts to beg me for gold… 100k gold like wth… and it had that blue owl everyone has, just buy a token then and don’t bother ppl…

Are people still falling for that…? Loading screens raise such awareness, are people that dense?

Can’t say I’m surprised experiencing LFR, and people dying to mechanics after numerous explanations…

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Phising is still the number one vector world wide. Sure some people are just “dense” but many phising emails are quite well written.

I’m talking about Official PMs off a GM having their logo and it being its own window. Literally looks nothing like a regular PM.

Ah yeah,my bad.

Agree on that!

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Install BadBoy.

Thats kinda the point. There must be someone policing game.

Just remember as well that whenever Blizzard contacts you, you will get a window appearing saying that a GM wishes to speak to you.

Also, all Blizzard accounts that speak to you will have the “Blizz” icon next to their name.

If people fall victim to this scam, sure it sucked. But it’s also about keeping yourself updated on account security (authenticators) and not using the same password for every single account on the interwebs.

My password of 123456 has never failed me yet.

My brother has a different encrypted password for everything he uses and he memorises them all.

But then he cant remeber what he done 5 mins ago.

I guess it is where all his brain power is going.

There we have him again, the official blizzard simp. On every topic for the most inexcusable crap.

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I havent seen them for a while, but now they begin to whisper again. I think it is because they know blizzard arent doing against it.

Remember when blizz wrote that they will ban players who made wts groups? 2 days after that blue tread noone dared to make wts groups, now look what happend.