DO NOT accept gold from strangers

[Syegfryed]

the exact enough to buy the new mount? Kappa

[Deleted]

Besides, if you really received gold without having paid for it you can appeal the ban and prove you got it for free - which isn't a bannable offense. It's not like sending Blizzard bank/credit statements is that much of a problem.

There isn't any proof you can provide that will prove you got it for free. Blizzard won't accept bank statements because you aren't limited to one bank. That's just a silly idea.

If you get accused of buying gold in this scenario there is nothing you can provide to help your case.

Seems like an efficient way of getting you enemies banned.

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So we are to take it that someone is spending $15 a pop to scam strangers into being banned. Sounds unlikely.

That's exactly what I'm suggesting. People using this method to get someone they really dislike banned. 15 dollars is nothing compared to the hundreds/thousands of dollars spent on the other person's account.

This is a form of ultimate trolling. People pay 15 dollars just to troll trade chat. Why wouldn't they pay 15 dollars to get someone's account perma banned?

[arel00]

There isn't any proof you can provide that will prove you got it for free. Blizzard won't accept bank statements because you aren't limited to one bank. That's just a silly idea.

If you get accused of buying gold in this scenario there is nothing you can provide to help your case.

Seems like an efficient way of getting you enemies banned.

Beside the fact that Blizzard takes your history into account, and I have a clean slate 15 years long. If you didn't commit a bannable offense, you get out of it, simple as that. It may take some time communicating, but you will get clean. If you did buy thew gold well, sucks to be you.

[Projectmars]

There isn't any proof you can provide that will prove you got it for free. Blizzard won't accept bank statements because you aren't limited to one bank. That's just a silly idea.

If you get accused of buying gold in this scenario there is nothing you can provide to help your case.

Seems like an efficient way of getting you enemies banned.

Efficient? You have to buy an account, scam up a ton of gold, and then manage to give it to a specific person before your account gets banned. Doesn't seem to be anything close to efficient about that.

[Harry Botter]

Either your guild mate is lying or you are. He bought gold and got hit afterwards. There's no way you are telling the whole story here.

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Efficient? You have to buy an account, scam up a ton of gold, and then manage to give it to a specific person before your account gets banned. Doesn't seem to be anything close to efficient about that.

Neither of those are as difficult as you think they are.

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Either your guild mate is lying or you are. He bought gold and got hit afterwards. There's no way you are telling the whole story here.

I don't understand what's so implausible here? Are you implying that if this situation happened to you that you wouldn't be banned for it? Of course you would. When GMs look at the logs all they see it a large sum of scammed gold being traded to another party. The only explanation they will come up with is exploitation of the economy/ gold scamming, there is no other reasoning.

[Senistian]

Neither of those are as difficult as you think they are.

you really expect us to believe someone would, 1. pay money to buy the game. 2. scam up that amount of gold. 3. give it to someone just to get them banned. Really? Are you really this gullible?

[Deleted]

you really expect us to believe someone would, 1. pay money to buy the game. 2. scam up that amount of gold. 3. give it to someone just to get them banned. Really? Are you really this gullible?

You really believe that there aren't any low lives out there who take pleasure in having other people suffer? You think everyone is a saint? Who is really gullible here.

[SirCowdog]

If your account got banned due to randum influxes of large sums of gold, chances are good its because your account already has a history of suspicious behaviour.

[Harry Botter]

Neither of those are as difficult as you think they are.

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I don't understand what's so implausible here? Are you implying that if this situation happened to you that you wouldn't be banned for it? Of course you would. When GMs look at the logs all they see it a large sum of scammed gold being traded to another party. The only explanation they will come up with is exploitation of the economy/ gold scamming, there is no other reasoning.

I wouldn't accept gold from someone I don't know.

[Cæli]

I know you can get banned if you accept gold from strangers because blizzard will assume you bought the gold.

Blizzard have terrible decision makers, hopefully it'll change.

[RoKPaNda]

As others have said I don't think this is a true story, I think we're only getting half of the story if that. More likely your guildie did something exploitative and got caught.

Whenever I read such stuff it awfully sound like an excuse from someone who got legitimately banned for buying gold on a website and doesn't want to admit it.

You don't get banned for buying gold. If they banned people for buying gold you COULD literally aim the ban hammer at someone you don't like. If you end up with bought gold on your account and Blizzard actually notices they just remove the gold. You'd be surprised how many people are very open about their gold buying. You probably have guildies that do it, unfortunately. I personally don't see any reason for it, but people do it and those services keep on existing. Though, thankfully, Blizzard did take a huge bite out of them with the WoW token.

[Deleted]

You said you have prove. Talk is cheap, prove it.

[ablib]

The OP is incredibly guillible, naive, daft, or trolling. Either way this thread is nothing more than spreading FUD.

[Iliena]

Sounds like the sort of BS excuse a 12-14 year old would attempt to use...

[Puri]

What a bullshit, no one spends money (even if it is just a miniscule amount) and hours pointlessly farming or scamming gold just to possibly get some single random stranger banned.

[Deleted]

What a bullshit, no one spends money (even if it is just a miniscule amount) and hours pointlessly farming or scamming gold just to possibly get some single random stranger banned.

It really just takes 15 dollars and an hour of effort during peak hours during big times sale periods (end of expansions, pre patches etc) to destroy hours and thousands of dollars worth of effort on whomever. Most of the time it's not a stranger, it's someone or a group of people/guild who's been targeted.

[Sosua]

So, what you are saying is, Blizz can see that your toon had a large influx of gold, but, magically can't see that at the same time the other toon went down that much, not very plausible....

[SherriMayim]

Man. 15$ and an hour of effort to be the most vindictive bitch possible to someone who pissed me off?

That is... Definitely a great revenge play.

[Dellis0991]

I give gold to people all the time, mostly new players or guildmates....I never heard of this scam. People show do know how to fuck up shit for the next person.