There is a new technique blizzard is doing to stop account selling. They are randomly changing the password on suspicious accounts (flagged with multiple IPs, too many info changes, etc.) and making you recover your password. For those who don't have SQA or email, the account is lost forever.
They do this because they know a whole lot of traded accounts don't have correct SQA with the present user. This effectively locks up the account forever and takes it out of the game.
I have had this done to many accounts. The ones that I had full info I was able to recover the password through email and keep playing fine. The one's where I didn't have SQA, the accounts were lost an no one ever played them since the day I played them last (armory shows this).
It has happened on weekends as well, so no one could have recalled. I have talked with other people about this and many of them have had the same thing happen.
Blizzard not only takes the account out of circulation, but they also create negative opinions in the trading community where people think the other party is a scammer. This is exactly what blizzard wants. Everyone accusing each other of scamming, making people hesitate to trade or buy accounts. Of course there are enough real scammers, but what this does is makes the legitimate sellers look like scammers. Plus it starts the big chain of "recalls" that we always see. One person suspects his account was recalled, so he really recalls the account he traded. And it starts a chain reaction. Blizzard is smarter than you think.
They do this because they know a whole lot of traded accounts don't have correct SQA with the present user. This effectively locks up the account forever and takes it out of the game.
I have had this done to many accounts. The ones that I had full info I was able to recover the password through email and keep playing fine. The one's where I didn't have SQA, the accounts were lost an no one ever played them since the day I played them last (armory shows this).
It has happened on weekends as well, so no one could have recalled. I have talked with other people about this and many of them have had the same thing happen.
Blizzard not only takes the account out of circulation, but they also create negative opinions in the trading community where people think the other party is a scammer. This is exactly what blizzard wants. Everyone accusing each other of scamming, making people hesitate to trade or buy accounts. Of course there are enough real scammers, but what this does is makes the legitimate sellers look like scammers. Plus it starts the big chain of "recalls" that we always see. One person suspects his account was recalled, so he really recalls the account he traded. And it starts a chain reaction. Blizzard is smarter than you think.
