ALERT: World of Warcraft In-Game Scam (COD E-mails)
A quick warning. On Kil’Jaeden (where I play) there is a new scan going on and I expect it is probably happening on other servers as well.
You get an ingame mail from the Argent Dawn saying something like:
Thank you for all your hard work killing demons for the Argent Dawn, please accept this gift as a small token of our appreciation.
The mail will claim to be from some Argent Dawn figure and will have an attached package - typically one of the various gift wrapped items (like the reward from those grudge-covered objects in Gnomeragon).Â
The scam is that it is COD and it’s easy to fall for because it looks like you are getting a present and 100g/300g (whatever they send). But really you are getting a present for 100g/300g COD gold. So when you click you lose the gold. Boom!
I got one of these for 300g and fortunately didn’t fall for it. I’ve seen several people sending warnings about the scam in general chat. So be careful, it would suck to have some random scam yank hundreds of gold from you.
/Alert
