You are not invited to the Cataclysm alpha
by Eliah Hecht 
Jan 10th 2010 at 9:00AM
In the wake of yesterday's rumor that the Cataclysm Friends and Family alpha will be starting this Tuesday, January 12, we should expect an increase in scammers trying to get your account details by offering phony alpha invites. We saw a lot of these for both Burning Crusade and Wrath of the Lich King as well, and some of them were very well crafted.
At this phase of Cataclysm's development, though, it will be comparatively easy to keep yourself safe. Since this is a friends and family alpha, if you don't have friends or family that work at Blizzard, you will not get an invite. Therefore, anyone offering you one is trying to pull a scam. Basically, everyone who's going to be getting legitimate access to the alpha should know who they are already. Everyone else, sit tight and stay tuned to WoW.com for the latest on WoW's next chapter.
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm will destroy Azeroth as we know it. Nothing will be the same. In WoW.com's Guide to Cataclysm you can find out everything you need to know about WoW's third expansion. From Goblins and Worgens to Mastery and Guild changes, it's all there for your cataclysmic enjoyment.Filed under: Expansions, Account Security, Cataclysm
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 4)
Voidheart Jan 10th 2010 9:04AM
You want beta? NO BETA FOR YOU!
Twilit Soul Jan 10th 2010 9:09AM
lol
Dinger Jan 10th 2010 11:57PM
YOU CANT HANDLE THE BETA
Cyonisper Jan 13th 2010 8:22AM
YOU NO TAKE BETA!!!!!
catharsis80 Jan 13th 2010 3:46PM
I always preferred VHS anyway.
insideandout2006 Feb 16th 2010 12:36PM
OMG, LIVE IN THE FUTURE GUYS!. blizz gives away FREE authenticators, and the itouch/phone ap is also FREE, making any account 99.9% un hacakable by any outside source no matter what links you click.
uncaringbear Jan 10th 2010 9:06AM
And for the love of god, when you get one of those inevitable scam emails for an invite to the alpha, DON'T CLICK ON ANY LINKS IN THE EMAIL!
Knob Jan 10th 2010 9:51AM
Well, people who fall for those are doing the community a favour anyway by having their accounts lost and removing themselves from the game.
Eudeyrn Jan 10th 2010 11:49AM
No, they're just creating a massive workload for Blizzard, who has to go through the investigation and restoration process. This increased workload directly impacts the quality of the game for everyone else, because resources that could be spent elsewhere are spent on that.
Dragundam Jan 10th 2010 11:52AM
No. No, they aren't. Their stolen accounts are then used to spam up everyone else even more. :/
Graham Jan 10th 2010 8:32PM
Wow, Knob. That's Social Darwinism taken to a whole new level of awful.
No one deserves to be scammed, and no victim deserves to be blamed.
Mr. Tastix Jan 10th 2010 10:39PM
+1 for being a knob, Knob.
Lupius Jan 12th 2010 1:16PM
We need to keep the idiots in the playerpool so Social Darwinism doesn't force the scammers to evolve and scam the brightest of us.
Snowskull Jan 26th 2010 9:52AM
"We're all just victims in a PERFECT world" lol
Zanathos Jan 30th 2010 7:40PM
Social Darwinism doesn't work too well when failures cause a loss for everyone.
Arednel Jan 10th 2010 9:09AM
you mean, I won't get an invite if I don't know someone.
damn ;)
My first time waiting on news about testing but I'm not sure if I want to be spoiled or not anymore, decisions decisions!
Eddy Jan 10th 2010 9:11AM
Hm, I wonder if all the Blizzard security crackdown posts around here were just a coincidence, or they were preparing themselves for the inevitable deluge of hacked accounts once the fake alpha invite emails start floating around?
Aeltyra Jan 10th 2010 9:12AM
Hopefully those scam mails won't involve "we have learned that one of your family members or friends works at Blizzard" or I bet there would still be people that fall for it.
elstor Jan 10th 2010 10:31AM
Nice job telling the scammers/hackers what to do now.
Josh Jan 10th 2010 10:53AM
@elstor They already know what to do.