Halifax Blocks World Of Warcraft Subscriptions

Although they “may have a current account that will blow you mind” it seems Halifax are not at all too friendly with Blizzard and World of Warcraft, as they have blocked all payments to the game through them. The ban applies to Halifax subsidiary, the Bank of Scotland as well. The company cites the constant use of stolen credit cards to pay for the game’s subscriptions as they main reason behind the decision.

“We have seen a significant number of fraudulent transactions through Blizzard’s gaming sites. We have, therefore blocked the majority of Visa/Mastercard transactions we receive from there in order to combat this,” comments Halifax. “We do not believe the fraud is anything to do with Blizzard themselves, their sites or the integrity of their billing systems, rather it is site users utilising stolen credit card details to pay for subscriptions. If a customer does want to subscribe to a game site operated by Blizzard, using a Halifax or Bank of Scotland credit card, we can arrange for the payments to be processed for them if they contact us.”

Regardless of all this they still have the best advert ever, so can’t say anything bad about them – although we can think of lots of things!