I seen raid, M+, and arena carries. Are they legit. How do people not get scammed?
Buy from big head guilds (highest ranking guilds on your server)
Make them say explicitly what the transaction is for in game not in Discord not in Bnet chat, not anywhere but in game chat.
Use gold, buy from people on your server and not a level 1 who will accept gold on your server but will carry you with toons on another server.
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Wait… Does Blizzard enforce carry runs?
Run at your own risk but Kaurmine offers some sound advice if you do plan on dealing with this sort of transaction.
Most reputable communities and guilds do it for gold only and will tell you as such when you ask. Nobody wants to get banned.
If they make you join a voice or some other text medium outside of WoW you’re 100% going to get scammed.
So if I have a person tell me their rate in the game, and the transactions then took place accordingly, I am protected?
Generally, yes. If every single thing can be documented in the game’s chat logs, you should be protected.
Wow… I never knew Blizzard enforce there kind of “services”.
There’s absolutely nothing in the ToS that prohibits in-game services for in-game currency. If it strays away from that, though, then Blizzard can and almost certainly will drop the absolute hammer on 'em.
Or have a son who is awesome at the game and it’s father’s day 
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This just sounds like a drug deal.
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Right… but I thought that it was “do at your own discretion” type of deal. I never knew they would actually protect the buyer at all.
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It’s mostly just that Blizzard doesn’t tolerate scamming of any kind. It’s not particular to carries. If they have logs saying that the two of you agreed to trade a specific service for a specific amount of gold, then they’ll enforce that.
Or at least get you some money back if it goes wrong. They won’t give you the carry if the other guy reneges. 
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It’s not really in Blizzard’s interest to have people consistently scammed out of hundreds of thousands of gold.
Blizz will enforce what is said in chat because they can see that and see what transpired. If they lure you to voice then Blizz can’t do anything, they don’t know what happened, they just see you gave someone gold.
I’m not a Blizz employee or spokesman though and to my knowledge this isn’t mentioned anywhere by Blizzard, so it’s still at your own risk.
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Reputation. The big guilds doing gold carries will not scam you, because if they do it eventually they will have a terrible reputation and it will reduce their gold production.
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I did some searching and found an answer for you
A scam is the act of acquiring items or any other possession from another player through misinformation, confusion, or fraud. Confirmed scammers risk account suspension or closure. Take appropriate measures to protect yourself, as restoration is not guaranteed.
If we can verify a scam took place, we will take action where possible—this may not result in the restoration of lost currency or property.
So you may not get your gold returned but if they confirm you were scammed then that person faces some penalty.
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Hi, I’m a booster for a few communities. I would not follow the advice of the gentleman that said to use some guild on your server, etc.
You’re on stormrage, so that’s a very good thing. There are at least a handful of extremely reputable boosting communities represented selling services in your trade chat. Before buying anything, catch the name of the boosting community (not guild), and ask for their discord link. There you will be able to see just how organized these are. Its actually mind blowing the first time you see it.
The reason you can trust these services is because they literally have support staff out the rear end. Customer experience is extremely important because of how competitive the market is. Word of mouth and repeat buyers are way too valuable to mess up. Any amount of gold you want to spend is a drop in the bucket to a real community
Blizz encourages it… thats why they sell tokens
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It’s easier to just run the stuff yourself in a group. If you can’t get in a group, make one.