WoW Gold Facts

This isn’t about any particular 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 gold from seller.

2. Seller delivers. Customer gets the goodies.

3. Minutes later, customer gets a tell in-game to return the 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 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 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?

Gold sellers, you better do something about this sh*t.

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