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WoW Account Theft
Mertzy
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I recently "sold" my WoW account, but it backfired. The guy now has my information and all the money.
What now?
What now?
THE END.
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How exactly did it go down?
Did he say...send me the information and I'll send you the money?
Taking it to Blizzard should be a last resort if you absolutely cannot get the account back, but since you were willing to sell the account it sounds like you don't particularly want to play WoW anymore, so thats fine...if Paypal can't give you your money, at least tell Blizzard.
I guess that'll teach you to violate the ToS.
Damn, WoW is serious business.
This reminds me of the time my brother sold his account, the guy didn't change the password for a couple of weeks, so my brother logged back on, changed the password and reclaimed the account.
My brother is a fucking ass. So yeah, selling and buying characters is pretty tricky it seems.
Since it's against Blizzards ToS to sell accounts they may ban the entire account but hey better that than letting some jerk get the better of you eh.
I know a guy in one of my classes who "sold" his account to a guy, took the money, and then reported the guy to Blizzard for trying to buy the account. Blizzard returned the account to him, and the guy got ripped off.
Yeah, he's an asshole.
Report it to Blizz and get the account banned. Screw him over.
As soon as I asked if the guy confirmed email change, he signed off.
Within 5 minutes, based SOLELY from his email address, I had his name, high school, his mother's phone number, and a youtube video of him bitching about the Dumbledore-gay-thing.
The internet is a wonderful thing. Exploit it, and get your account back. Or money. Don't forget to file a whatever through your paypal dealie. Grievance, bad mark, whatever.
If he says "lol but the dude sold it to me" he'd be in shit himself
Do this, they'll likely restore your characters gear if it's already been sold too.
On the other hand, selling characters is against the TOS, so you might be screwed.
Good luck though, and talk to paypal
I did not call Blizzard, but I e-mailed and opened tickets. I didn't care about the account and wanted it banned so no one would have access to it. This was about 2 weeks ago, and the main on the account, I'm sure, is probably still in Nagrand farming away. I got a form response from Blizzard, and I doubt if anything has been done to the account. I didn't call, as I had a second account I was selling, and since the name/address is the same on both accounts, I didn't want to take the chance both would be banned. I could probably have gotten it locked down if I called, since I had the secret question and all that good stuff, but in the end I said fuck it.
If you get your account back (which you should be able to do by calling in and saying it was stolen, provided you have all the info you need), and you still wish to sell it, you can PM me for what I did to sell my second one. I did that about two weeks ago, and so far so good.
Can that be done?
I guess I really "learned my lesson" but I still can't bring myself to watch this account rot. I'm definitely not going to begin playing again. I'm interested to see if my conscience and/or greed will make me try and sell it again...
On a lighter note this not only gave me a tiny bit more faith in the system, but it also helped the unlucky woman in California whose credit card they used on paypal.
Nifty, eh?