We Feel Like Paris Hilton
Ahem.
ZOMGWOTLKBETAANDBRKFTW!!
Edit: fake? really? no… why does it hurt so much
/sniff
OK, these are the links in the email:
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/wotlkbeta
http://wowtlk-beta.awardspace.co.uk/index.html
Fakes? Cr@ppola? What’s the deal?
October 3, 2007 at 4:38 pm
Oh…oh I’d hate you if you didn’t deserve it. All I can say is, I expect reports EN MASSE.
October 3, 2007 at 4:42 pm
Wow, Congo-rats! Enjoy the beta and make sure we get some Hunter love thrown in there.
October 3, 2007 at 4:47 pm
Wait huh? Grats to you Mr BRK, but how comes Paris Hilton gets WotLK beta? /confused
October 3, 2007 at 4:50 pm
fake?
October 3, 2007 at 4:50 pm
Aiiii my eyes they look at you with the daggers of hate and red hot stabs . I would hate you to infernal hellworld if I could.
But, asides, well done. Did you do anything special to get that, or do they just luuuuurve you?
October 3, 2007 at 4:51 pm
“Worlf of Warcraft”??
Are you sure this isn’t taking you to a keylogger-type site? Be real careful about where you’re typing in your account info.
If it’s legit then mucho grats, and look forward to hearing about it.
October 3, 2007 at 4:51 pm
Um.. this is great and all (and uber cool for ya BRK), but Worlf of Warcraft? Are we sure this is not a phisher? Tread carefully.
October 3, 2007 at 4:58 pm
Oh gawd… If BRK starts spamming my realm forums “The Most Sexy Woman” I’m gonna’ flip!
Grats bro! I’m refreshing my inbox expecting to get an inv, too, but all I see are Nigerian Trust Fund opportunities.
October 3, 2007 at 5:01 pm
/warily eyes glaring typo
We live vicariously through you, so let us know how it pans out!
/slacks at work
-Macc
October 3, 2007 at 5:02 pm
Yeah.. I’m guessing this is just the latest phishing scheme to steal your gold and account.
October 3, 2007 at 5:02 pm
Oi! I guess I should use my Blizzcon beta key, then. >_<
October 3, 2007 at 5:02 pm
That sounds very suspect, I would definetly double-check with Blizzard before I enter any information on that site.
But grats if it’s real, proper hunter feedback for the beta is always nice
October 3, 2007 at 5:03 pm
Fake,
http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html;jsessionid=886749804713CCC26F4AC044C4604A8B.app09_05?topicId=771168200&pageNo=1&sid=1
nuff said
October 3, 2007 at 5:07 pm
Curse Gaming has also tagged the fake. They got an email themselves.
Be careful BRK …
http://wow.curse.com/articles/details/3273/
October 3, 2007 at 5:15 pm
you should go to dnsstuff.com or equivalent and check ownership for the domain name or reverse ip addr lookup if no domain. wait, you use a mac on obsd, just use nslookup or dig to get that info.
October 3, 2007 at 5:16 pm
Bummer!
October 3, 2007 at 5:17 pm
yea, I think Blizz would use a spell check…
October 3, 2007 at 5:19 pm
NOO!!!! NOT FAKE!!!!
OMG Please no…
Really?
/sniff
October 3, 2007 at 5:24 pm
sorry BRK!
Maybe next time! We’ll all petition blizz to give you a real invite when the proper time comes.
October 3, 2007 at 5:25 pm
Yep, THAT’s how Paris Hilton feels like.
A fake
Sorry BRK
October 3, 2007 at 5:27 pm
Sorry BRK =( But at least your account is safe!
October 3, 2007 at 5:33 pm
the second link — htty://wowtlk-beta…. etc has a copyright date of 2008. Makes one suspicious. I’m feeling your pain BRK!
– eustacius & Rak’shiri (ner’zhul)
October 3, 2007 at 5:34 pm
my heart bleeds for you
-Cynddl & Mugu
October 3, 2007 at 5:35 pm
Server: wowtlk-beta.awardspace.co.uk
IP Address: 82.197.131.52
Organization: Belgium/Netherlands Backbone Region
Country: Netherlands
City, State: ,
yikes, be careful out there everyone
October 3, 2007 at 5:38 pm
i’m curious if just going to the site will trigger spyware/keyloggers/etc. to automatically download.
October 3, 2007 at 5:49 pm
Using Firefox with noscript, I went there. Didn’t get anything downloaded, its just a phishing form. Fill in your account name and password. Then takes you to a page to fill in name, address, phone, email, answer to your secret question, etc etc.
Very nicely presented. Good english for a phisher. The website isn’t even Blizzard, so anyone who falls for it, well, they are born every minute.
October 3, 2007 at 5:57 pm
Not only a fake, but you should notify Blizz so they can contact the ISP, have it taken down, try to find out who did it, have extraordinary rendition carried out on them. Fargin bastiches.
October 3, 2007 at 6:01 pm
Why not us all go there and do what I did? Fill in absolute cr@p for the data they ask!
If enough people do, then they will have a huge amount of work to sort through all those and get only the “legit” ones! 
Of course, don’t make it “too” obvious that your data is fake! Make up real-looking data!
October 3, 2007 at 6:11 pm
And shouldn’t it be “Haris Pilton?”
October 3, 2007 at 6:11 pm
I just got hacked this morning. and no not by this email or any phishing ones. I DL’d an addon and boom thats it lost it.. this is the 2nd time too.. they moved one of my toons to another realm.. bastards.
October 3, 2007 at 6:15 pm
Scan all addons with AVG or other free anti-virus!!!!
Sorry to hear that
, thats why I only use curse.com, they claim to check all addons posted.
October 3, 2007 at 6:24 pm
Sorry to read that sev, but if it’s the second time, you should have known better by now… Play it safe: don’t use add-ons that are not “self-contained”, i.e., add-ons that either come with “installers” or require the use of an external program.
Of course, there are exceptions to this rule, but having been burnt, you should really play it safer now…
October 3, 2007 at 6:38 pm
You know, when you sit and think about it, there is one rather large and semi-obvious mistake in the entire thing.
If Blizzard was inviting BRK into the WotLK beta… why would they send the invite to the e-mail that he has on his blogging site here? The one he most likely set up AFTER he had been playing for a while, and has, for the most part, just for e-mails from people that want his advice and all?
Unless BRK has made that the e-mail for his WoW account, then it wouldn’t be so tricky.
October 3, 2007 at 6:50 pm
I contacted the host and got a reply that they have a 0 tolerance policy for this sort of site and have shut it down. The URL now redirects to a sales page for them.
October 3, 2007 at 7:07 pm
gg
gj dc
October 3, 2007 at 7:10 pm
Yeah I clear of hacks for a year now and it happened again.. What is ironic is that I posted about my first hack on my blog a week ago.. irony is mean…
October 3, 2007 at 11:42 pm
I’m astonished you didn’t spot it as the obvious fake it is right away.
c’mon, the dev’s are still trying to work out how Death Knights are going to work. There *is* no beta yet.
I also spotted http://wowtlk-beta.awardspace.co.uk/index.html (I reported it to a GM, it’s since been closed down).
Expect LOTS of these in the coming months.
Remember kids, it it’s not an official blizzard URL (www.worldofwarcraft…) it’s a phishing site…
October 4, 2007 at 11:04 am
“Worlf of Warcraft:”
October 4, 2007 at 1:07 pm
yeah, faker than fake. You should be ashamed.
Better change your PW by the way, if you actually bit.