Re:Namecheap live chat social engineering leads to loss of 2...
by ryanlol on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @11:28AM
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>Very easy? I'd say "possible" at best.
I think you are a little confused here. There's no way for Blizzard to authenticate those pictures, you can take literally anyones passport and just swap the name on it.
> Took a heck of a lot more work than asking someone for username/pass in a live chat
This might be true in a world without photoshop, but that's not the world we live in.
>I'd be surprised if ever a Blizzard account was compromised by someone sending in a false picture.
In my personal experience, they'll very rarely insist upon receiving those photos. My battle.net account isn't even under a real name and despite that I've had the authenticator added and removed several times.
I think you are a little confused here. There's no way for Blizzard to authenticate those pictures, you can take literally anyones passport and just swap the name on it.
> Took a heck of a lot more work than asking someone for username/pass in a live chat
This might be true in a world without photoshop, but that's not the world we live in.
>I'd be surprised if ever a Blizzard account was compromised by someone sending in a false picture.
In my personal experience, they'll very rarely insist upon receiving those photos. My battle.net account isn't even under a real name and despite that I've had the authenticator added and removed several times.