WoW wat?

OK, so, I cancelled my WoW subscription and uninstalled the game maybe 1.5 years ago. Done with WoW forever. Tonight I get an email notification that my account has been closed because of "exploitative activity," presumably gold selling/buying, etc. I've scoured the email thoroughly and it does NOT look like a phishing scam (ie, phony Euro URLs, bad English, directives to provide my account info and password, credit card info, etc). It's gotta be legit.

I will admit that I bought gold......probably the year WoW launched. And I fully admit what I did was wrong. Shame, shame, shame, on me. Did it once, will never do it again.

But does Blizzard seriously have nothing better to do (other than rake its piles of money into tidy mountains) than to investigate and then close the account of an already-cancelled subscription for something that happened four or five years ago? If they don't, that's kinda scary. Look out, bad guys.

Somebody probably got access to your account and sold off all your stuff.guynamedbilly

Interesting. But how? A keylogger doesn't seem to be the culprit since I haven't played in months and month. Some kind of brute-force dictionary attack on the account password? In other words, should I be concerned about a larger security issue?attirex

If you haven't logged in for a year and a half, they probably just guessed your password so you might want to change your password for anything else that uses that same username.

Either you were hacked or it's a phishing scam. Not sure if you've contracted a key logger, I know lot's of really careful people that have gotten their **** stolen.

It could be a fake email as well. I've gotten a few that seemed legit where they used the real Blizzard email address, but the links were actually redirects to fake websites.

Naw, I've tested all the links, they're definitely legit. No biggie, since I'll never play WoW again. Hope they enjoyed my stuff. :-)attirex

All the sites look exactly like the battle.net the only difference might be something hard to notice like battel or blizzrard.

Blizzard doesn't ever contact you for that, like that. It's a phishing scam, do not, under any circumstances click the links.

I delete any and all blizzard e-mails concerning wow UNLESS I am actually expecting one from them.

Naw, I've tested all the links, they're definitely legit. No biggie, since I'll never play WoW again. Hope they enjoyed my stuff. :-)attirex

they emptied your bags and were probably farming on it and got busted for goldselling

and dude blizzard acting strangely and behaving poorly is the stopry of my life..

Blizzard doesn't ever contact you for that, like that. It's a phishing scam, do not, under any circumstances click the links.

I delete any and all blizzard e-mails concerning wow UNLESS I am actually expecting one from them.

GummiRaccoon

Blizzard don't have the right to get your Credit card info except when you want to buy something from them. I got alot of that kind of e-mails but I never have a WoW account, so just delete it. If you ever get a e-mail that need your Credit card info then you know its a scam.

Most likely fake i get 5 off those everyday and i dont even play anymore, call them to be sure and change the Email.

I changed the Email, so any mails from blizzard reaching me on the old Email are fake.

Its an easy fail system.

2nd blizzard never sends those mails, if you get banned they will just ban you, then its up to you to ask them what happend.

i once got a 24 hour ban, never got mail aswell for it.

My account simply got stolen recently and I lost five Blizzard games.

2nd blizzard never sends those mails, if you get banned they will just ban you, then its up to you to ask them what happend.

i once got a 24 hour ban, never got mail aswell for it.

redsoull

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Blizz does not ever ever ever send those mails under any circumstances. If they close your account they just do it, then you call them to ask what happened.

Btw, by clicking on the links in your e-mail, you now have a high likelyhood of having installed malware.

Same thing happened to me. They got ahold of your account info and used your account for illegal activites.

Same thing happened to me. They got ahold of your account info and used your account for illegal activites.

Wasdie

wasdie be speaking the truth

you only get thsoe e-mails because someones HAS termi'ed your account and its either bogus and from the thieves themselves.. or its legit and its from blizzard.

if an account is ended unexpectedly they inform you but this is the only reason for it

dont just assume an e-mail is bogus folks ebcause there are a hundred of them out there.

some are legit

Same thing happened to me. They got ahold of your account info and used your account for illegal activites.

Wasdie

No that e-mail is fake. I get those e-mails. I have an authenticator. I have not been banned for illegal activities.

To prove it to yourself that it is a fake e-mail, log into battle.net.

It'll list the status of your account right there, no need to even bother with e-mails.

To prove it to yourself that it is a fake e-mail, log into battle.net.

It'll list the status of your account right there, no need to even bother with e-mails.

GummiRaccoon

But don't use the link in the email.

is legit as stated