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Originally Posted by RunningDog  I've not heard of anyone lose gold who didnt receive "tainted" gold. Once people realised something fishy was going on with the AH a lot of them put items up for sale at huge prices, and got several thousand gold in the process, followed by an account suspension and loss of all gold upon reactivation. Were they exploiting? Its debatable, since auctioning an item doesnt guarantee it will sell. |
Clearly your hand is on the pulse of every paying customer of Blizz. Drop the "there must be a valid reason for why someone got banned" stance, it doesn't make sense with how quickly this shit spread. One can only assume that it involves "having gold flagged as duped" but who knows what that entails? Is every piece of currency in this game serialized? How can you sort out what exchanged to get under the radar and what was innocent?
The only people you can reliably take out are those who suddenly gained X amount of gold for doing nothing. Any smart duper does it in trace, unrecognizable amounts at large intervals. Another method is to do a massive amount and send half to one person, half to another, each person then sending half to two people. By the end you have this massive amount spread over your 2,000 accounts on chars named Fghjahjjsjsj and can expect some major success rate even considering the bannings of the accounts (that you probably stole via ripping open boxes and gamecards).
By the time you realize duping is happening it has already spread through the econ. Thus the only people who can get nailed with any proof are the script kids who got a hold of it and thought it would be worth the price of admission to blatantly do this.
I have an AH bot, and what, if someone decided to spam buy my tons of marked up enchanting materials ($$$ with the new free epics pvp system, btw) and put a few K gold into my hands I should get banned? Yea, sure. I easily turn over 200-300g daily playing the AH...
pro-tip: people who have duped gold use it to buy things.
