Alright, little tech lesson time.
Alright, so stolen credit cards, you pretty much think that someone goes out and basically steals a credit card out of someones wallet. That’s not really the case anymore! What I’m talking about is that they don’t use their own personal credit card or bank account details. What they do is they purchase multiple text files which contain hundreds to thousands of individuals credit card information which has been stolen, digitally. And the thing is, they pay pennies per piece of information. This is very well known information, if you go ahead and do the research yourself you can see how crazy it is.
The way the system works is that the bot person will go ahead and buy a account with the stolen credit card information. This was normally done well in the past anyway because Blizzard never had a lot of restrictions in place. They could have used that 24 hours to 72 hour timeframe to do a lot of stuff, hence the reason all these restrictions are now in place.
Now in most situations when it comes to credit card theft. The banks hopefully have been notified pretty quickly to inform them that this credit card stolen and then once Blizzard goes ahead and request the money from that bank account, it is automatically rejected because the card’s been stolen. Unfortunately, I would say 20 to 30% of the time. It’s not the case. So you for example could be doing your day-to-day activities and then at the end of the month you get a credit card bill with a purchase of two WoW subscriptions and then that’s where you go ahead and you report the information stolen. Then that card gets replaced.
But for people who are using the spamming of their services, like the boosting, trading, whatever it may be, some of them are pretty much using actual currency to buy game time, be it WoW tokens, or whatever it is, because the gold they’re getting from people from boosting is being sold to other people for money. So, they get more gold from people, overall so they make a lot of money per week, per month to continuously keep those accounts running.
And all I’m mentioning or I should say what I’m suggesting is that there should be more restrictions applied to accounts to kind of combat the amount of excessive spam that’s going on and that being, you know, higher level caps to be able to use the service channel to begin with. You know, something to kind of mitigate the amount of people that are stuck around in the main central hub cities. If you go to your city right now and you go to where the bank, the auction house, you’ll see a crap ton of level 10 death knights and now a ton level 1 monks. It’s insane right now.
And yes, I am very much know how leave the service channel by using the chat settings. You know, I’m not a newbie when it comes to these type of things. I’m very well versed in how a lot of these systems work.
(Word Dictate is such a nice feature, no more having to type it all out manually 
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Exactly, but of course those gold farmer companies, which do take part in this illegal activity, don’t really care. They just hope that payments sneak through, so they can use that account for as long as possible to use as a transfer account for gold.
But on a plus side, at least people aren’t getting their game accounts stolen as much as they used too. I remember the amount of bot whispers you’d get from the “jkdlfjks” character names saying to go too their website to buy gold, which was a website full of keylogger trojans xD
