Bans about gold..

[Andreauk]

I have seen 2 forum threads saying they were perma banned for sending their alt or a friend gold.. they can't play bfa either..

Thought I would warn you as boxers. I trade stuff between my team all the time. Think I'm gonna avoid the mail system.

https://eu.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/perm-ban-for-borrowing-50-gold/84294


This one says rmt but they claim at the end they send gold to alt:

https://eu.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/i-got-permaban-for-no-reason/84267

Could be something, could be nothing.. but my account is 12 years old so I will err on the side of caution.

[Dreadone]

Blizz doesnt ban you for sending money to your alts. all those guys on the forums did something else "wrong" and they know it. ive sent millions between my toons and accounts. Also to friends. They got busted and complain in the internet for attention... nothing new to see here...they bought or sold gold. Period. (99,9%)

When you trade money to an account you have never dealt with before.... that looks suspiscous ;)
Also that "friend account" excuse. When the "new account" of your "old friend bob" now is registered to "fred" ;)
People are stupid.

[Andreauk]

Yeah I know that.. the one person says he sent 50 gold to his brother.. so who knows?

Another this time in the US

https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/wrongful-account-banning/294687/7

[Marathon]

Oh Gosh ! I wish I had 50 gold to send to my brother. I feel broke as a joke in classic WOW.

[daviddoran]

I wouldn't be surprised if these people used some sort of anti afk method to avoid the login queues, and got caught.

[Andreauk]

The reason is trading items for real life money though.

[Mercbeast]

I constantly juggle money between my group with EMA.

[The Crowd]

I gave a short time working as a GM back in late vanilla / early TBC (which is where I first saw multiboxing and decided to try it), those sort of bans were also handed out to people who had multiple cross faction accounts on pvp realms if they interacted with each other... even if someone your grouped up with kills your opposite faction account and not you directly. People used to guild farm alt accounts to try and beat the hardcore pvp people who spent 12hours a day in pvp for three months to get to rank 14. Problem they had was it used to track your IP address of accounts not account names, so if your brother had his account you could get false flagged for killing him yourself, and there was a generic (economy/honor) email generated and sent to those players.

[Tin]

Sending a lot of gold from ALT AH toons/bank guild every month - just to buy token is over 2 millions that changes hands every month.

[Andreauk]

This is stuff thats happened in WoW Classic not BFA.

[Tin]

This is stuff thats happened in WoW Classic not BFA.

No diffent there - every sale is done on AH toons and money send back - and thats between two different battlenet accounts, in my name

[Oxii]

I gave a short time working as a GM back in late vanilla / early TBC (which is where I first saw multiboxing and decided to try it), those sort of bans were also handed out to people who had multiple cross faction accounts on pvp realms if they interacted with each other...

Does this include transferring gold to an alt account of the opposing faction via the neutral AH?

[The Crowd]

Yup, if they were on the same IP address when logged in. Abuse of economy again. So it’s likely they did something like that. Remember this was all when you weren’t allowed opposite factions on the same server. Also there used to be people park lvl1’s at bootybay with scanning bots buying items people were trying to smuggle across factions for 1 silver and such forth.

[The Crowd]

No diffent there - every sale is done on AH toons and money send back - and thats between two different battlenet accounts, in my name
Ya, but blizzard would read that as the same as transferring amount your own toons... both accounts would be registered to you. This would only be a problem if the account was registered in someone else’s name.. which is ironically enough how most people who sold accounts in vannila got caught and their accounts banned.
because one thing that always boggled me... you could pay someone in Korea to level a toon on your actual account and only get a 24hour ban and a warning email, but your friend could give you his account when he quit (which happened all the time, one case I remember looking at was a Main tank of a aq40 guild that was passed between about 5 or six people within the same guild so they were always guaranteed to be online) and they perma lock them. We used to just flag accounts, the system auto sends a generic email, then accounts dept which were in the states at the time used to pick up the slack.

[Tin]

Ya, but blizzard would read that as the same as transferring amount your own toons... both accounts would be registered to you. This would only be a problem if the account was registered in someone else’s name.. which is ironically enough how most people who sold accounts in vannila got caught and their accounts banned.
because one thing that always boggled me... you could pay someone in Korea to level a toon on your actual account and only get a 24hour ban and a warning email, but your friend could give you his account when he quit (which happened all the time, one case I remember looking at was a Main tank of a aq40 guild that was passed between about 5 or six people within the same guild so they were always guaranteed to be online) and they perma lock them. We used to just flag accounts, the system auto sends a generic email, then accounts dept which were in the states at the time used to pick up the slack.

The OP did write:

I have seen 2 forum threads saying they were perma banned for sending their alt or a friend gold
Blizz do not just ban you for sending gold, unless you have done something that is against the TOS

[Ughmahedhurtz]

At least one of those threads had some highly suspicious stuff involved, so the moral of this story is: you ain't gettin' the whole story. Lots of us have traded a LOT of gold around our multiboxing accounts with no ill effects. The only warning people need is to not trade gold for anything that could be related (even 3rd-hand) to RMT. Trust nobody. Follow the rules regarding account creation and personal information. Pay attention to your accounts in case a GM does a bot check on you. Don't be a dick in-game. There isn't much more to worry about.

As the book says, Don't Panic.

[Andreauk]

One had it overturned.. so looks like they are getting false positves:

https://eu.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/permaban-for-no-reason-solved-thanks-you-all/85128