An investigation of your account....Follow

It started as a normal day waking up, taking a shower, letting the dog out, all was going well until I decided to check my email and this is what I found >_>


An investigation of your World of Warcraft account has found strong evidence that the account has been accessed by someone who is not allowed to use it. The account has been disabled, so that you can regain sole and secure access. If you use a credit card to subscribe, it has been removed so you are not charged while the account is disabled. Please keep this email until you have regained account access.

Only two people know of my username and password, myself, and one of my friends. We have been leveling this new alt putting in atleast 12 hours a day on this guy so he can be 70 and help the guild in progression we usally rotate he does 6 hours and I do 6. I leveled Saintshortty by myself but to level the alt faster I asked my friend for help and what I think happened he probaley bought power leveling services as I have been working more hours lately (Being 16 and working at taco bell doesn't give much money) and not being able to help him. I don't know how to reactive it it has instructions but the links don't work and I had to ask for the attachment to be sent which would take several days and my laptop just decided to crap out on me so I have to type this on my mom's laptop im all confused and need clarification it would be most appreciated.

They sure do.

1. Fix laptop
2. Start new account
3. Don't provide your friend with account access
4. Learn lesson

Why do people thing it's intelligent, in any means, to share their account information? Even with their best friend who's "co-leveling" a toon. Blizzard flags accounts like these because they notice access from numerous IP addresses, which is the first sign of power-leveled accounts.

Hell...I don't even let my wife know my password

After what she did to get her epic mount he is lucky she is still his wife.

Go get yourself a new account and don't give out your freaking account information to anybody. You idiot don't you know you can't let ANYBODY on to your account or it can get banned? That includes your friends! Your buddy didn't even need to hire a powerleveling service, him logging on got the account flagged and investigated. So go get yourself a new account and play by the rules, or don't get all butt hurt when your account gets banned. But before you do that, go make me a taco!

= loser. Not even good enough to become an epic loser.

Sounds more like it was one of the phishing scams to me.

Wow this sucks, no sucks to be you. You should have known better, you are old enough to understand the punishment that fits the crime, and you did it anyway. The fact you are on 6 hours and your buddy 6 hours, is basically a leveling service. And if he actually paid someone, then you need to kick his ***.

Did you even try to log in to your account or you just believed the e-mail?

What you or your friend did wrong was tell someone that you were account sharing, and that person was a ******* and reported you for it.

I'm going to get massively lambasted for this but account sharing is extremely common, in the past I have known at least 2 or 3 guildie's account details (mainly to do "maintenance" like dailies and such while they were on holiday) which I have since lost! Many of the officers in the three serious raid guilds I have been in know each others passwords and have raided on each others characters when circumstance required it. Never let anyone get my pass though, i'm not stupid.

If doesn't really hurt anyone, but you have to be careful who you give it to and don't go advertising it or you'll get reported.

Not likely. Unless you have a static IP address, your IP address will change ever so often. Plus, there are people who like to play on their laptops with wireless from many different locations - school, work, coffee shops, hotels, etc. They way they would catch power-levelled accounts *is* likely through IP verification, but based more on the location of the IP address, not how often it changes.

IP address for a US or EU account is suddenly from SE Asia? Account is being power-levelled or has been stolen. Flag it.

Well then, I'm sorry to say but we've flagged your account and we're going to have to come over to your house just to make sure you haven't been hacked. Please have your laptop on and be in skimpy clothing when we arrive, thanks.