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The World of Warcraft online game has over 10 million players around the world.World of Warcraft also has hundreds of phishing websites targeting it, trying to steal end-user login credentials.Like these:The domain names for most of these phishing sites are easy to spot (wor1dcfwarcraft.com? give me a break), but others are a bit trickier (worldrofwarcraft.com – yes, there's an extra "R").So, why are these accounts being stolen? For fun? No, they are stolen for the virtual gold and weapons. A stolen account gets emptied quickly and the goods are put for sale for real money online.But who would buy virtual goods for a game with real cash? Well, based on the amount of sellers, quite a few.

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