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You can't get your account stolen if all you do is buy gold. My guess is you give them your CC, and they come to you on some shady toon, probably a rogue and hand you some gold. (of course they may keep charging your CC forever, but any merchant can do that)
When they say you are violating terms of agreement, they say that they can punish you as severely or lightly as they please. They don't want to be held to a specific punishment, because there may be special circumstances (lets say a kid buys gold because he's a moran, and they ban him. Lets say that kid is suicidal, so they may un-ban him so they don't have to deal with bad publicity).
Assuming you're a grown up and want to buy some gold, the decision is entirely up to you. You may get banned, but maybe that's the risk you're willing to take.
Of course the people who sold you gold may want to extort some more money. If they feel that you're weak and will give in if they threaten to tell blizzard you bought gold, they can do that.
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As the Terms of Use Agreement clearly states
"8. Account Suspension/Deletion.
BLIZZARD MAY SUSPEND, TERMINATE, MODIFY, OR DELETE ACCOUNTS AT ANY TIME FOR ANY REASON OR FOR NO REASON, WITH OR WITHOUT NOTICE TO YOU."
I'm not directing this at anyone in this thread, but I seriously wonder how many people agree to this while never having read it.
This is in the license agreement for almost all software. A company needs to always reserve its right to revoke your license to its product... This way you can never bring them to court.
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Maddroxx
i thought of this the other day. what about those pre paid visa cards you can get at places like walmart? theres no way the gold sellers can exploit those. i came across an add that promises in game delivery. if thats the case and they dont try and get your account info, there would literarly be no way to get hacked that way. right?
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@ Maddroxx
Considering most of the sites you'd to go to actually purchase the evil seed are loaded with viruses and key loggers....yes there would be tons of ways to get hacked.
quick example:
I buy my prepaid visa. I go to buygoldyouidiot.com (I didn't check to see if that exists but I'm assuming not, don't go to it if it does lol) I buy gold (and get a key logger I'm not aware of)
Later that evening I order a pizza online using my check card.
Two days later I'm hit with over limit fees and 2000 charged on the interwebs. I try to get on to WoW to whine to all my guildies when I find that my account has been banned
What joy what luck! But it's ok that gear was worth it..
yikes, think people
Hmmmm..... thats good.. but I got one better..
Grab a Prepaid visa.. go to some Internet Cafe, then go to omgyouranidiotgettinghacked.com (again, really hope this site don't exist either.. :P).. Buy some gold.. Grab a 10 day Guess pass key and create a Dummy WoW account, and have the gold delivered to That account.. Transfer the gold you purchased from your dummy account to your real account.
Later that week, blizz finally catches the gold farmer you received your gold from, and tracks all trade its done with that toon. they see that one of the toons it traded with was on a guest pass key, so they go and check the history of your dummy toon to see who it traded with, and find your real toon. That night you log onto your toon and find its been Banned.
A couple days later.. you get a call from the local police dept. who is currently investigating a security breach with the network of the internet cafe you used to buy your gold. They discover that it was you that logged onto the website which downloaded the trojan onto the Cafe's network, and you end up getting arrested for computer fraud or violating the internet cafe's license agreenment or some other such bull.
One month later, you find yourself in jail awaiting trial.
Weee.. Wasn't that worth it? :P
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wigg1es
Or you could just use an anti-virus program like AVG with active internet scanning and web shield... O.o (which you should be using anyways)
And who orders pizza online anyways?
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Or you could just use an anti-virus program like AVG with active internet scanning and web shield... O.o (which you should be using anyways)
And who orders pizza online anyways?
Just because you have such a software does not mean it catches all keylogger.
and i order pizza online, but they deliver it and i pay the delivery guy.
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Hmmmm..... thats good.. but I got one better..
Grab a Prepaid visa.. go to some Internet Cafe, then go to omgyouranidiotgettinghacked.com (again, really hope this site don't exist either.. :P).. Buy some gold.. Grab a 10 day Guess pass key and create a Dummy WoW account, and have the gold delivered to That account.. Transfer the gold you purchased from your dummy account to your real account.
Later that week, blizz finally catches the gold farmer you received your gold from, and tracks all trade its done with that toon. they see that one of the toons it traded with was on a guest pass key, so they go and check the history of your dummy toon to see who it traded with, and find your real toon. That night you log onto your toon and find its been Banned.
A couple days later.. you get a call from the local police dept. who is currently investigating a security breach with the network of the internet cafe you used to buy your gold. They discover that it was you that logged onto the website which downloaded the trojan onto the Cafe's network, and you end up getting arrested for computer fraud or violating the internet cafe's license agreenment or some other such bull.
One month later, you find yourself in jail awaiting trial.
Weee.. Wasn't that worth it? :PThis is funny because that would never happen. Ever. "omg u put virus on r compz! jail 4 u!elevensies!" Internet cafes that have public access computers run some pretty good virus protection, and their TOS are almost always of the "use at your own risk" variety in case something does get infected and some jackass who just can't wait until he gets home to do his online banking gets keylogged.
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