Recently quit wow and am selling my level 70. Found this website and have posted the sale on the USA Wow Accounts forum.
So far, I have gotten 12 ims from kids that obviously are scammers trying to send stolen paypal funds which will in time be reversed by the original paypal holder's bank/credit card and therefore be reversed out of your account. I have already been through this once this week and had to call blizzard to get my account back.
But now I know what to watch out for when trying to sell my account on here.
Here are some of the signs of a scammer with paypal.
1) They im you from simple aim screen names or email addresses screen names. (examples: wowgamer123,thedragon899,[email protected] etc..)
2) They speak very poor english.
(scammer: may i know more about account)
(scammer: how many the gold and honor in ur account)
3) They will offer MUCH more then your account is worth.
4) They will try to make the transaction fast.
5) They send the paypal payment from a verified paypal account that usually is old (5+ years) and under a female's name.
How to avoid these scammers?
1) Ask them to goto www.whatismyip.com and to give you their ip. then goto this link and check out their location. If it says (AKANOC Solutions) they are using a proxy and are most likely scammers.
2) Ask for their paypal email address. Now, ask them to send you an email from this address. If they cant, then they are NOT the owner of the paypal address, dont listen to their excuses "its my parents email"...
3) Now if you do feel your buyer is legit, request the paypal payment to their email. Now once he pays , print a shipping label and send a package to the address with nothing in it to satisfy paypal.
I hope this helps as iam getting COMPLETELY sick of the massive amount of ims ive been getting from these scammers. I dont know what country their from, but its starting to piss me off and i really would rather people know about these scammers and better protect themselfs.
So far, I have gotten 12 ims from kids that obviously are scammers trying to send stolen paypal funds which will in time be reversed by the original paypal holder's bank/credit card and therefore be reversed out of your account. I have already been through this once this week and had to call blizzard to get my account back.
But now I know what to watch out for when trying to sell my account on here.
Here are some of the signs of a scammer with paypal.
1) They im you from simple aim screen names or email addresses screen names. (examples: wowgamer123,thedragon899,[email protected] etc..)
2) They speak very poor english.
(scammer: may i know more about account)
(scammer: how many the gold and honor in ur account)
3) They will offer MUCH more then your account is worth.
4) They will try to make the transaction fast.
5) They send the paypal payment from a verified paypal account that usually is old (5+ years) and under a female's name.
How to avoid these scammers?
1) Ask them to goto www.whatismyip.com and to give you their ip. then goto this link and check out their location. If it says (AKANOC Solutions) they are using a proxy and are most likely scammers.
2) Ask for their paypal email address. Now, ask them to send you an email from this address. If they cant, then they are NOT the owner of the paypal address, dont listen to their excuses "its my parents email"...
3) Now if you do feel your buyer is legit, request the paypal payment to their email. Now once he pays , print a shipping label and send a package to the address with nothing in it to satisfy paypal.
I hope this helps as iam getting COMPLETELY sick of the massive amount of ims ive been getting from these scammers. I dont know what country their from, but its starting to piss me off and i really would rather people know about these scammers and better protect themselfs.
