Why do people get banned when sharing their accounts or buying gold in WoW?

[kugogizo]

I'm aware that account share or buying gold is against the TOS and bannable but I have been involved in account share for too long and I have never get banned for this. I don't think that Blizzard cares about where you are playing from and bans you just like that.... I think there is something more going on with the sharing account banwaves. Can someone elaborate on this? I want to buy some services and gold but I'm kinda worried now. I don't want to lose my investment even if the chance is low to happen. Is there really a risk regarding this? why does this happen and what are the mistakes that the victims do? Also, do you get banned permanently?

I don't even think that it's a VPN thing. Blizzard does not care where you log from I believe but I could be wrong. Can someone explain?

 

[LAKERBAN]

Havent played on retail for years ( since cata) ,but i guess if something is against the TOS , it can leads to a ban..
If it looks suspicious to their eyes (lets say you are login now from Greece..after an 1 hour from US etc etc),they'll investigate it more and probably ban yo (72hours i think,not sure tho) for Account Sharing

Now,for the gold thing, dunno how blizzard can detect that you bought gold,but the most obvious (to me) way ,is that they check their logs,get the accounts that they've sent some amounts of gold to like 4-5 different accounts.They ban him for Gold selling ,and all the accounts that he sent the gold for gold buying.. OR they just dont give a **** lol..

 

[doomedtofail]

Was a botter for many years and sold/bought a lot of gold, and theres a few mistakes people make.
Gold:
1)Trading with level ones with no attempt at a real name. No item of value being traded. Buying a million gold from a level one with a key board smash name and trading greys is not good.
2)Buying/selling on accounts that aren't played. You are a lot less likely to be investigated and more likely to pass an investigation if account is being played.
3)Having bulk gold on tons of servers and no doing anything with. The only gold account I lost had hundreds of thousands of gold on random servers just sitting banked.
4) Cheap and black listed vpns. Chinese gold sellers used certain vpns to death and theyd get regular users banned.
5)Buying from shady chinese gold sellers. Sometimes they trace the gold from beginning to end.
6) Buying Duped gold or credit card fraud gold.
7) not staying current with what blizzard is watching for. Blizzard sometimes watches specific types of trades and bans users heavily. Sometimes guild bank trades are unsafe, other times auction hall trading was unsafe.

Account sharing:
1) In the old days powerleveling at all was high risk. Now its just some more well known companies are risky.
2) Multiple accounts on one hardware id and ip address at same time. That is far from insta ban but its suspicious if checked,
3) buying from companies that spam trade chat.

 

[Sakura]

Account sharing was a bigger problem in the days of old-school MD days mainly because people were idiots and would just give people their login.

In the 10 years since then it's not really an issue but no reason to change the rules.

 

[kugogizo]

Was a botter for many years and sold/bought a lot of gold, and theres a few mistakes people make.
Gold:
1)Trading with level ones with no attempt at a real name. No item of value being traded. Buying a million gold from a level one with a key board smash name and trading greys is not good.
2)Buying/selling on accounts that aren't played. You are a lot less likely to be investigated and more likely to pass an investigation if account is being played.
3)Having bulk gold on tons of servers and no doing anything with. The only gold account I lost had hundreds of thousands of gold on random servers just sitting banked.
4) Cheap and black listed vpns. Chinese gold sellers used certain vpns to death and theyd get regular users banned.
5)Buying from shady chinese gold sellers. Sometimes they trace the gold from beginning to end.
6) Buying Duped gold or credit card fraud gold.
7) not staying current with what blizzard is watching for. Blizzard sometimes watches specific types of trades and bans users heavily. Sometimes guild bank trades are unsafe, other times auction hall trading was unsafe.

1. If that's true then what kind of accounts do gold sellers use to sell? (if lvl 1 characters are so high risk)
2. Do they buy accounts with max level characters and play/buy stuff occasionally or do they network with players who are willing to sell and sell through them?
3. Also, how many accounts do they use to save their gold or do they save it all on one account?
4. what dictates the best server to buy gold at? is it just popularity? do you get special requests for gold?

I was thinking to create some accounts and practice gold selling/buying with level 1 characters but after reading this again, I don't think it would be that simple to work and the risks are very high.

 

[Dabizzle]

Account bans are pretty unlikely.

 

[DigitalZombii]

Banned - Scammer - https://www.epicnpc.com/threads/almost-scammed-by-digitalzombii.1530793/#post-6543375

Cause blizzard wants money. They don't care about accounts