How to Spot a WoW Phishing Email in Gmail

An increasing number of phishing emails are getting sent out asking people to verify their World of Warcraft credentials. The sad thing is that more people are falling for this every day resulting in forum posts like this:

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How to Increase Performance in WoW and other Online Games

Because I’m located in New Zealand, I got used to playing World of Warcraft with a ping of around 350-450ms. This means that there is usually around a half a second lag between when I hit a key and when the server acknowledges the key press. The performance tends to deteriorate when I’m in larger encounters such as raids.

As I’ve now got to a point where I need to raid to get better equipment, this has caused me a lot of pain. Even though I’m on ADSL2, I used to get frequent disconnects when the WoW servers thought I was not responding.

This post is to help people who:

• Frequently disconnect on every large encounter.
• Suffer from significant frame loss on large encounters.
• Suffer from random disconnects even when doing nothing

There are various things that one can do to improve system performance. I’ll detail out the five main things I did to ensure that I remain connected and can respond in a timely fashion during my play sessions.

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