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WoW Money Laundering?

Today I want to share you a spam comment which was submitted some days ago. (I modified the comment and removed all external links. SPAM won't pay on this blog)

It seems that WoW has some reached some money laundery scheme, at least with "virtual money." I'm not playing the game, but it could also be that they (gold traders?) Use some victim as money mule to hide traces? Anti-Cheat detection prevention (you know, buying gold is considered cheating). I don't know, but I think it is an interesting development, and it might make sense to use caution. Especially if this is a way to launder real money, this can cause you real trouble (this could send someone to jail, worst case. IANAL! )

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer! This is not legal advice!

Entire guild got wow gold . So did 5,000 other people. We got a good laugh out of wow gold.

Then reported the idiot.Over a billion Chinese, a good percentage of them I’m sure with enough creative juices to come up with something better than this crap, but I guess the good ones chose not to work for the RMT industry, so only the quasi-bots whose sole talent is copying-and-pasting are left to generate this laughable excuse of content.Well, you know the drill, kiddies.

Don’t buy wow gold from the above seller. Visiting their website might give you the keylogging booboo-jeebies.This isn't about any particular wow gold -selling site. It’s about a common denominator - a complaint that’s cause for concern - in the several emails I received from different readers who have ordered wow gold from different sites.

In fact, it’s a scary pattern that I think all legitimate and professional gold sellers should address; otherwise their reputation could be ruined.Here’s what’s been happening:1. Customer buys wow gold from seller.2. Seller delivers. Customer gets the goodies.3. Minutes later, customer gets a tell in-game to return the wow gold. Why?

The reasons vary, ranging from "Blizzard has seen the transaction and you better give us back the gold so your account won’t be banned" to "Sorry I gave the gold to the wrong person, you are not my customer, please give me back the wow gold or else I will tell Blizzard you bought from us" (probably the lamest excuse in the book). What’s scary is that the toon name of the scammer telling the player to return the wow gold bears a near-resemblance to the delivery toon. Example: genuine delivery toon is named Justin…and scammer toon sending the tell happens to be a Jüstin - with an umlaut accent.

Pretty tricky and difficult for the player to spot the difference.I’m just wondering how the hell the scammer could know about the transaction quick enough to create a character mimicking the name of the delivery toon and in a matter of minutes, launch their attack on the poor buyer. Have those scam artists started planting spies in the usual meeting places like Ratchet and the banks of Org and Stormwind? Aion gold sellers, you better do something about this shirt.

(The text above is Comment received. It is verbatim quoted with just the external links changed to a local hook. It does not necessarly reflect coldtobi's opinion.)

 

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer! This is not legal advice!