I’ve noticed a very peculiar coincidence. And I’m quite convinced it’s a pure coincidence.

I have 3 WoW accounts. One is on EU servers that I created back in 2006 when I first started playing. My Enhancement/Restoration Shaman has still not reached level 80 for a variety of reasons. One of which being that I didn’t reactivate that account until just recently after closing it down in 2007. It’s currently hovering at level 65 as I have yet to bother levelling it or.. buy Wrath of the Lich King for that account…

My two other accounts are on US servers. My main account there is with my toons in specific, obviously. The other account is with M’s toons that he levelled. He sadly got massively burned out and started playing Age of Conan instead. The traitor…

The coincidence I’ve noticed are as following, because of these three accounts I have three different emails attached to them obviously. NONE of these three emails receives any kind of “Blizz Spam”. And by “Blizz Spam” I mean those fake emails regarding upcoming expansion, betas, account suspensions and whatnot. My OTHER email account however, that is not signed up for any of that stuff just recently over the past week received no less then 15 emails telling me that

1) My account has been banned for 3 hours for buying digital gold, please click link to appeal.
2) A Faction change on a character is pending, please click link to confirm.
3) Blizzard has chosen YOU to participate in the Cataclysm Closed Beta, click link to confirm.
4) Blizzard has picked YOU to receive a new shiny pet no one else wants, click link to retrieve pet.
5) You have been banned for 72 hours from Aion (wtf, I don’t play Aion) for buying digital gold, click link to appeal.

It should be mentioned I found all of these emails in the one email account I have that does not have any wow accounts connected to it, and they were all located in my Spam-Folder were Gmail had been kind enough to automatically ditch them.

I did not click any links, I only hovered the mouse over to see which specific link it would REALLY take me to. And none of it belonged to World of Warcraft, Battle.net or Blizzard at all.

To never click any links should always be rule one when dealing with emails you’ve received. Even if Blizzard WERE to send you an email asking you to log in, you should always type in the address yourself in your web browser.

That being said, I bought an authenticator from the BlizzShop. I’ve attached it to both of my US accounts. It’s fully possible to have multiple accounts connected to the same authenticator. I remember this being something I was concerned about when I first purchased one. I didn’t really want to buy three seperate ones.
The further good news is that even if you’re in Europe playing on US servers you can still buy it from the EU-shop and use it for your US accounts and vice versa.

I’ve never been hacked though, and I’m quite happy for that. Not that my toons are superawesomely geared or anything. I’d just be very sad if something happened to my favourite hobby that I spend a lot of time on.

And to finish off, Magdeline is finally a Kingslayer. Congrats!